Word this week on the ever-growing messaging service known as Snapchat is that they’ve rebuffed Facebook‘s advances not once, but twice over the past year. While you’ll want to take this whole collection of points with a grain of salt due to their entirely anonymous nature, the Wall Street Journal suggests that “people briefed on […]
Quite a lot of people use the same password for almost all of their online accounts, and while pros and cons of this practise can be debated at length, there’s no denying the fact that if one account gets compromised, all accounts run the risk of being compromised. Recently Adobe was hit by a large scale hack, with as many as 38 million user accounts reportedly being exposed. Facebook has now started to lock out users who have used the same password for the social network as well, user’s can’t access the network until and unless they change their passwords.
Users will also have to answer a few questions to verify ownership of the account before they can change password and finally log in. They’ll be displayed a notification like the one posted above, which clearly states that “no one can see you” on the social network until you finish this process. To ascertain which of its over 1 billion users have been put at risk due to the Adobe hack, Facebook is combing through publicly posted database of the compromised accounts. The hack doesn’t directly affect Facebook in any way, the social network is taking this step to ensure that compromised users don’t run in to problems on the social network as well. [Image via Engadget]
Facebook Requires Users Compromised By Adobe Hack To Change Passwords original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Android owners will probably be very familiar with Facebook’s Android app as there’s an insane amount of people using the social media network on a daily basis. Checking what your friends are up to, updating your friends what you’re doing and sharing stories, photos or videos of interest are among some of the top reasons to use Facebook, but an update to its Android application now helps you catch what’s playing on TV. (more…)
Facebook For Android Updated With TV Show Reminders original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It’s party time, ladies and gentlemen. Exactly one month after announcing the move, Google has updated its terms of service, allowing the company to use your profile information in ads. That means your face, name and personal details will start popping up all over your network. Yay!
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Facebook‘s thumbs-up icon has become near ubiquitous, with parody designs being used to denote the disliking of something, and the thumbs-up being used in many situations both within and outside of the social network to indicate favor towards something. That could slowly change in the future, with Facebook rolling out the first redesign of its […]
Today Twitter begins its journey into the public realm with their Initial Public Offering, seeing a relatively quick rise in price of each share in early hours of trading. The Twitter IPO began with the company offering up 70 million shares with stock priced at a cool $26 USD per share. Soon after the initial […]
Facebook users will most likely be able to recognize the social network’s “Like” button, which has been implemented in a number of websites, ours included, as a way for you to show your support for a story, website or a service. The “Like” button was first introduced back in 2010, and has since not seen much change, but that all changes today as Facebook is debuting a new version of its Like button. (more…)
Facebook Redesigns Its ‘Like’ Button original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Facebook’s "Like" button plugin has become so ubiquitous across the internet that you probably don’t even notice it sitting on the bottom of nearly every single site you visit. Now, though, that little button is going to stand out quite a bit more—because Facebook has unveiled its first new "Like" and "Share" buttons since its 2010 launch.
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Social networking is something that teenagers and many other age groups to participate in with regularity. The most popular social network right now is Facebook, which has recently made an effort to expand some of the features available for teens. A new social network specifically made for teens has been announced called Shots of Me. […]
Currently, there aren’t many dead people on Facebook, which is largely because its user base is so young. But time marches on and death is inevitable, so will there ever be more dead than live people on the social network?
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