Facebook Community Actions. What is that?

Community Actions, new FB function, allows us to create online petitions. Such petition is a special post with a title, description and tags. Tags serve to, well, tag agency or organization that we want our petition to reach. The support button allows us to share the petition with other people - like a chain letter, only hopefully not as annoying. Discussions ...

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Facebook LOL, or ha, ha, ha

It has been heard for some time now that young people are drifting away from Facebook. The youngsters these days prefer Twitch and Snapchat, reportedly, and they are also getting tired of FB's near constant security and image fiascos. It must be true, since Mark Zuckerberg believes it; and he probably believes it, because otherwise he would not try to do something ...

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Messenger's New Clothes

Both stationary and mobile Facebook Messengers have received a slight lifting. The changes are subtle rather than revolutionary: stationary version has a slightly greater contrast between the white and blue elements and the minimalized chat window lies now slightly higher than it used to; in the meantime, the mobile Messenger now uses black and white ...

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Facebook Messenger is getting Dark Mode

It took them a while, but they have finally done it. Facebook has announced that part of its grand Messenger redesign project, which it dubs Messenger 4, will include adding an optional Dark Mode to the communicator. Hooray for not being blinded by the white background anymore! Sadly, FB decided not to share any other details on the mode, saying that ...

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Facebook Dating, what do we know about it?

- Facebook Dating, new feature of Facebook supposed to be FB's answer to Tinder and such, - FBD is now out in Columbia, - again, it is not a separate app but a function of Facebook, - registration requires completing a test, - FBD works mostly just as any other dating website: pictures, name, age, info about oneself etc, - FBD's connection to Facebook ...

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Facebook is not going to record you, honest

Long story short: according to the British newspaper Metro, on June 14th Facebook has applied for a patent for its invention, a software that allows for remote control over smartphone's sound record capabilities. Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly stated during his hearing with the US Congress that Facebook has never and will never spy on its users. We can feel ...

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