Social networking site Facebook will be rolling out its Timeline feature to all users in the next few weeks. This means that those who don’t want to change the look of their profile pages to the new feature will have to settle for it as it will become mandatory. Facebook said on a blog post on Tuesday that it will launch the new feature to all users “over the...
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Social network site Facebook has deleted photos of girls breastfeeding and has apologized for the error of removing these photos for violation of policy. Facebook has taken down a page for Express Yourself Mums, a site that promotes breastfeeding, over photos of girls breastfeeding their dolls. The website’s co-owner, Sharon Blackstone, posted a photo of her seven-year-old...
At least seven police officers in the United Kingdom have resigned, two have been sacked and 150 are facing disciplinary action for posting inappropriate comments or photos on social networking site Facebook in the last four years. Police officers used the website to comment on other people’s wives, harass other people and brag about beating up people during protests....
The new look of Facebook is available starting today. The Timeline feature, which was unveiled at this year’s F8 Developer’s Conference in September, offers users a virtual history similar to a digital scrapbook. Timeline maps out each user’s profile as a series of events arranged chronologically. The Timeline, the company’s biggest interface change,...
A new study shows that micro blogging site Twitter is as influential as the judges of X Factor when it comes to how the audience vote on the show. According to a study conducted by media agency Carat, Twitter is more than 42 percent more influential than other news sources in the behavior of deciding voters. The study, which had 13,000 total respondents, is believed to...
Last week, social networking site Facebook has announced that around 600,000 accounts get hacked in one day. The company then decided to add the “Trusted Friends” feature, a new security feature that will help prevent attacks that allows users to choose 3 to 5 friends that they can trust. Now, a hacker group warned that this may actually backfire. The Hackers...
Social networking site Facebook is now planning to build a new server farm up north, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, to improve the sites performance for its European users, company officials said Thursday. The move will mark the first time Facebook opens a server farm outside the United States. UK-based news publication The Telegraph said that the facility, which is...
Those of you thinking you’ve found the holy grail of offers, £500 in free Asda and/or Argos vouchers for Christmas by visiting a Facebook page, we’re sad to say it’s a scam. Facebook scammers have started to exploit Christmas shoppers early this year, with posts on users walls inviting their friends to claim free vouchers. The one which is most common...
After months of waiting, Facebook has finally released its first ever app for the Apple iPad. On Monday, the social networking site announced that users of the Apple iPad will finally have a Facebook app, designed specifically for the device. Today, more than a year and a half since the tablet was launched; iPad users only had to use the Facebook for iPhone app or a number...
Social network site Facebook has quietly rolled out a new translation feature last night, aiming to break language barriers between users from different countries. The new service, which uses Bing Translate, enables users to translate contents from Facebook Pages, like comments and posts, into their chosen language. Any public page that is not in a user’s native...