Facebook Update Refined For Better Internet Connection

Facebook’s update was reportedly made to address some of the poor internet connections on several areas around the globe. In India, Brazil and Mexico, the update has isolated the posts which take several minutes longer to load and those that are fast even with an average connection.

The social media king has revealed that the news feed was updated so other countries would enjoy it without harming the loading time on several posts.

According to Reuters’ post, as reported by Yasmeen Abutaleb, “The Facebook app is able to select articles, pictures and videos to load based on the strength of users’ connections. If they have weak connectivity, News Feed will select content that is easier and faster to load, such as text articles or posts.

Facebook employees in India reported slow connectivities that often made the app frustrating to use, said Tom Alison, Facebook’s director of engineering. The company then sent a team to India, dedicated to delivering a faster News Feed experience in areas with weak connections.”

The report stated that the content in the news feed would be impossible to load if the internet connection is already slow, consequently loading several videos at the same time.

Dividing the megabites to different Facebook posts would be beneficial especially when the worst times of loading comes.

Furthermore, people in the Philippines, where the internet service providers charge expensively, and worse, the internet is undeniably slow, could still enjoy the update without getting relative loading time delays, as per the usual.

4 Facebook News Feed Updates You Would Love Completely

Facebook updated its news feed for a better and absolutely convenient platform for businesses worldwide. In lieu to the king of social media growth of 25 percent in February 2015, a very unbelievable milestone for the company, Facebook is now aiming for a larger business-based platform for everybody.

The social media platform unveiled that they are creating this whole new innovation for the betterment of everyone, knowing that they have already less 100 million active users globally. “The goal of News Feed is to show you the stories that matter most to you,” the social media giant states, extending the update to all Android, iOS and even desktop users. “To do this, we use ranking to order stories based on how interesting we believe they are to you: specifically, whom you tend to interact with, and what kinds of content you tend to like and comment on.”

Facebook can now analyze the user’s posts, likes and comments. With this, the algorithm is now adjusted based on whom and which the user is interested in to. According to a report, “Facebook analyzes those patterns, preferences, and behaviors to show you more of what it thinks you’ll like—including particular advertisements.”

Moreover, Facebook is now adding features on its personalization menu. Users can now alter and adjust those posts that they are interested in. An example would be, having a specific user’s posts be on top of all the others. It is like an important person you would wish to check out – something like pinning the person’s latest posts on the active user’s news feed.

Wired reports, “Take the “find new pages” feature. It makes it super easy for you to discover and connect to the artists, news outlets, and businesses you like. Of course, the options you’re given are based on the pages you’ve previously liked to increase your [chances] of liking more pages—and give Facebook that much more insight into your predilections, taste, and interests.”

Previously, Facebook has already changed the feature where people can only hide some users from showing up his/her posts on the user’s news feed. But now, it is a way different game. The user can now unfollow persons or pages that he/she does not want to see. This feature is different from unfriending as it discreetly hides the person’s or page’s posts. Win for all!

Here, Facebook teaches users on how to follow those user’s that people may have unfollowed previously:

You can reconnect with a person, Page or group that you unfollowed by following them again.

Notifications

Only you will see the change. The person, Page or group won’t be notified that you followed them again.

How to Follow

To follow a person, Page or group from your News Feed preferences:

1. Click  Reconnect with people you unfollowed
2. Select a person, Page or group

To follow a Page or group directly:

1. Click Liked (on a Page) or Joined (in a group) near their cover photo
2. Select Follow

To follow a person directly, click Follow near their cover photo.

 

7 Annoying Facebook Posts Seen Everyday

Facebook recently had bug issues where users could not access their accounts. Some users received a ‘Service Unavailable’ response from their browsers. These glitches happen in rare cases, especially when congestion in the social media platform happens.

Meantime, we will be discussing out Facebook statuses are getting really annoying as time passes by. There are so many users who post irrelevant and disgusting posts. Disclaimer: You may shoot your friend after you read the article.

1. Those prayer and faith statuses

Like really? Are you trying to convey religious beliefs or are you just trying to get the attention of people? Those statuses, some have images on in, telling people to either Like or comment “Amen.” To be honest, this is a good gesture of faith. However, considering that many people are just trying to get tons of likes and have their status on top of everybody’s newsfeed, we don’t think that’s a good idea.

2. Like this to get floodlikes

Oh my goodness! Apparently, there are so many skeptics out there trying to overload their Facebook with people they don’t really know personally. Good thing Facebook has controlled people who sends spam of friend requests that eventually result to more likes.

3. Comment and I’ll send you a message

To those people trying to grab the eyes of robbers, this is so perfect for you. Facebook has this feature wherein people can be tracked by the use of Location settings. In this feature, people can be tracked on where they are currently, and where they may be going. If people become too careless of this, many would be dead by the time comes.

4. Like so I know you’re still active or I’ll unfriend you

Even Taylor Swift could not handle the fact that she’s the most followed person on Instagram. So why are you trying to impress people by knowing that you lots of friends? Really, it doesn’t sound good.

5. I am pregnant prank

It may either be real or not, but honestly you’re just trying to win the heart of your ex. When love tries to search for affection, it’s really going to do everything – without minding the fact that you are acting weird on Facebook, where nobody really cares if you’re carrying a baby or just trying to pose for men.

6. Will be on social media break

Is this a joke? People tend to post these on the platform more often nowadays. With all due respect, people still has feelings that they want to share and that they may be leaving because they care for themselves, but really, it’s quite distracting.

7. The politics post

Everybody knows that Clinton and Trump are going head to head on the 2016 Presidential Elections. So don’t be a Cleopatra and try to dominate your friends with your political views.

Facebook Launches Shopping Call-to-Actions, Business Platform

Facebook has recently discussed their plans of renovating the platform. In July, the social media company opened a forum regarding the changes in both iOS and Android FB apps soon to be unveiled. On the second week of September, Facebook has finally introduced the new News Feed.

On the newly updated News Feed, Facebook has diminished most of the spams such as memes and silly videos uploaded on the app. So far, the application has been working well in terms of optimal performance.

Furthermore, Facebook has updated the settings wherein the user can now change customize who are their priority users to check on their news feed, to reach out those who have been unfollowed and check on more pages that are, on record, would be interesting depending on the user’s interests. Basically, Facebook has made innovations on reading their users’ interests.

Meantime, this is also a great news to those who are working on the social media for a living. Business marketers, who eventually have their company pages, shall love the new shopping page feature which was first available in July. Just like the usual Amazon and eBay features, Facebook will now be having the ‘Shop’ button where users and look for their needs and a guaranteed delivery door-to-door, depending on the transaction and terms of the company, is likely. There are brochures and promotional products available on the said feature. It’s eventually like a whole new platform of online shopping – but on the social media king!

Such feature is confirmed by Recode, from the statement of Shomair, as reported on Buzzfeed. Moreover, the platform will be featuring a better and more efficient call-to-action at the top of every shopping page. Such call-to-action bars will be helpful in creating a faster and easier access to the seller, to a customer care chatbox or to the hotline.

There are millions of active users on Facebook, and every day there are people who creates and goes out to reconnect with people. Having this said, it is inevitable to have the company rising as one of Amazon-like or eBay-like online shopping platforms.

Facebook Updates: Building Business, Uplifting Companies

The social media king, Facebook, has unveiled a new feature that allows users to check on several pages of uploads – such as videos, photos and statuses. There are millions of recorded uploads per day, considering Facebook’s abundant population of active users, so their way of innovating the algorithm so that more and more people can be reconnected – depending on the settings, of course.

Facebook has had several new feature releases from the CTAs (call-to-actions), business and promo videos, shopping pages and etc. recently. Now, they have made an advertisement that leads to a landing page where users can check on the page’s posts. It is like the latest feature that Apple has launched for their iPhone 6S – but only on a Facebook format.

The new ads are now better than what they have released previously. According to Recode, “This look isn’t entirely new. Facebook showed off something very similar to advertisers at Cannes Lions back in June, but said the ad was a just a mockup. It’s easy to see why Facebook is headed in this direction.”

“For starters, the ad looks much better than a traditional sponsored post within News Feed; Facebook is working with publishers and brands to generate more high-quality content, and ad material is no exception. Plus, it’s likely that the company can charge marketers more for an ad that includes multiple photos and videos (not to mention a full-screen takeover),” the site says.

This new way of resorting new business posts and to uplift Facebook business ventures shall attract more marketers to build their companies on the application. This will eventually grow the ad revenues and possibilities for Facebook users to connect with the business sites they haven’t been to usually.

Some products that aren’t capable to reaching millions of people in a single week can now feel free to model on a single ad and have its name grow continuously. This section wherein Facebook allows their marketers to promote and sustain their business is what sets Facebook from their social media competitors.

Yes, just like Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, Facebook also involves business and there’s no other social media platform that can reach millions of people on a single posting like it.

The said social media company has updated their terms on who to promote, show longer, and charge less and more. Meaning to say, the large investors or companies have less chances of getting the high spots on the news feed due to the fair terms and conditions for the far smaller companies.

How to Reveal Person’s Personality through Facebook? Hacking Ways Dug

Facebook has gone way far on exposing people’s ideals and interests. The power of posting updates of a person’s daily life to criticizing others’ posts led to the discovery of a new online app to reveal ones’ personality.

A very powerful tool to introduce to the public, the Apply Special Sauce, details a user’s way of thinking through the recorded likes he has done on his/her feed. It is like an EQ Test but replacing the actual test questions.

Michal Kosinki, an assistant professor in organizational behaviour at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, developed an app that could analyse a person based on the ‘likes’. His motive is to let the users check on how distinctive their social media actions can be. For instance, the tool could determine ones’ psychological gender, sexual orientation, personality (i.e. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), intelligence, life satisfaction, political orientation, religious orientation, education and civil status.

These psychometric tests tend to revolutionize how Facebook could become a person’s living storybook, where he/she is the main character of a chaotic yet satisfying world of ventures.

I, myself, had a try and I was surprised seeing accurate results. It is safe to say that the level of how these personality, satisfaction and psychometric tests are carefully interpreted in the way the takers could understand and accept fully.

How to Take the Test?

First is you have to go to University of Cambridge The Psychometrics Centre’s AMS official website and click “Predict My Profile.” The description, as displayed on the site, says:

“Click on Predict My Profile to receive an instant prediction of your psycho-demographic profile based on your Facebook Likes. Our models were built using actual psychological data and social media profiles from over 6 million people, allowing us to accurately predict a range of traits without asking you any questions. We share anonymised samples of this data with academics in order to support high-quality research into online behaviour, resulting in over 40 journal publications since 2011.”

There, you will be transferred to a follow-up site where you have to log in to submit your Facebook Likes so they may view the API output. According to the side, “This is a prediction of your psycho-demographic profile based on your Facebook Likes. It uses a snapshot of your digital footprint to visualise how others perceive you online and therefore may not be an entirely accurate picture of who you really are.”

Facebook Hacking: A Crisis inside Social Media Details

Many of the Facebook users nowadays tend to set their posts to public viewing – meaning, everyone can see it without any security. The fact that these some details are visible to strangers who might review the user’s file could not just destroy personal accounts, but to also end lives.

Reza Moaiandin, a software engineer, has acquired details, photos, locations and even mobile numbers of strangers with the use of algorithms and search engines. By the use of inserting mobile numbers on the search bar, a person could possibly be found together with the pieces of information available for public viewing.

How It All Started for Moaiandin:

“A few months ago, I discovered a security loophole in Facebook that allows hackers to decrypt and sniff out Facebook user IDs using one of Facebook’s APIs in bulk – therefore allowing them to gather millions of users’ personal data (name, telephone number, location, images, and more). This post is an attempt to catch Facebook’s attention to get this issue fixed.

Through this, a hacker can then communicate with Facebook’s GraphQL to get as many details as possible, by passing the hashed ID.

By using a script, an entire country’s (I tested with the US, the UK and Canada) possible number combinations can be run through these URLs, and if a number is associated with a Facebook account, it can then be associated with a name and further details (images, and so on),” according to Salt Agency blog post; citing source.

Social Media And How It Affects Us

Social media has drastically affected our lives since its inception. It has changed how we pass and receive information, how we communicate with people in our inner circles (and those outside of it) and how eCommerce works.

We’ve heard ample stories of how online shenanigans work, but little did we know, social media usage has more effects on us. You might have noticed that itch to check your Instagram, Facebook or Twitter feed after an hour of not doing so. You think that’s nothing? It surely isn’t.

 

PHOTO. Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

In an article published on CBS Atlanta website, it was noted that a new study suggests that frequent social media use could have serious implications on young people’s mental health. Furthermore, the report says “teens who use social media sites for two hours or more daily are at risk for poor mental health, psychological distress and suicidal thoughts.”

Frequent social media use could have a negative impact on young people’s mental health, according to a new study.

For many teens, going even an hour without checking Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter is a struggle. Twenty-four percent of teenagers go online “almost constantly,” according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

But more alarming than the time spent are the negative consequences that young people may suffer from due to too much screen-time.

The study, from Ottawa Public Health, suggests that teens who use social media sites for two hours or more daily are at risk for poor mental health, psychological distress and suicidal thoughts, as reported by Huffington Post.

Researchers looked at data from 750 students in grades seven through 12 who took the 2013 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey. The study found that 25 percent of students surveyed reported spending at least two hours a day on social networking sites. These same students were categorized as reporting more poor mental health issues, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and suicidal thoughts.

“It could be that teens with mental health problems are seeking out interactions as they are feeling isolated and alone,” Dr. Hugues Sampasa-Kayinga, the study’s lead author, told The Huffington Post in an email. “Or they would like to satisfy unmet needs for face-to-face mental health support.”

Sampasa-Kayinga notes that the link between social media and mental health issues is complicated, and that simple use of sites like Facebook and Twitter “cannot fully explain by itself the occurrence of mental health problems.”

Researchers are now investigating how this issue might be fixed, and in some cases turning the problem into the solution.

“We see social networking sites, which may be a problem for some, also being a solution,” Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold of the Interactive Media Institute in San Diego said, as reported by Huffington Post. “Since teens are on the sites, it is the perfect place for public health and service providers to reach out and connect with this vulnerable population and provide health promotion systems and supports.”
Experts also suggest parents pay attention to how much time teens are spending on these sites and its possible link to mental health issues.

The research was published online on July 13 in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

One way social networking sites, like Facebook for one, have drastically changed us is how we communicate with peers.

One article making rounds in the cyberspace this week is Facebook’s sms notifications. In this instance, it ridiculously sends out an sms reminding you of someone’s birthday. It then asks you to reply with 1 if you want to send a greeting to that person. Too ridiculous it makes me wanna receive one.

Aaron Miles shares his insights on this new development from Facebook in the article below.

If There’s No Thought, It Doesn’t Count: Facebook Drains the Meaning From Happy Birthday

Alex Hern of The Guardian has a weirdly disconcerting article up, “‘Happy Birthday!’ is dead, and it’s all Facebook’s fault,” about how Facebook’s efforts at creating convenience for its users is just leading us ever further into a techno-dystopian cyber-future where all our interactions with other human beings are nothing but an unending series of robotic button presses completely detached from anything resembling actual emotion or thought. (Okay, I’m exaggerating. A little.)

Here’s the thing: Facebook users have long been able to use SMS to interact on the site by posting via text messaging. As Hern reports, a new feature being rolled out by the social network allows users to reply to a birthday notification text with just the number ‘1’ to automatically post “Happy Birthday!” to the wall of the person celebrating the fact that they didn’t die partway through the year. As Hern states: “Birthday wishes are finally meaningless.”

Friend shared a text from @Facebook where to say “Happy Birthday!” You just reply “1” – which is nuts. pic.twitter.com/8FrIBufsrY

— Peter Knox (@peterknox) July 28, 2015

Call me a curmudgeon (because I am) but this feels strange and ominous. Facebook has now spared us from the seemingly overwhelming labor of, you know, even typing two words. I like to think the idiom “it’s the thought that counts” still has some meaning, especially in a world where, for years now, all the things we should put be putting effort into remembering on our own, like birthdays, anniversaries, etc., are now handled by automatic reminders and smart calendars.

But at least those reminders and calendars called us to action. We might get a little beep telling us it’s someone’s birthday, but, up until now, we’d still have to call them, or email them, or post an original message on their social network of choice. Now, we get the message automatically, and can reply automatically. Oh, sorry, we still have to type a single digit, but I’m sure we’ll find a way to automate that one small bit of effort soon. As Hern says in his article, “it would be more heartfelt to send ‘Wibble!’ to your friends.” Wibble indeed, Mr. Hern, wibble indeed.

Anyway, I look forward to the days when wishing someone a real and sincere happy birthday will by necessity end with the note, “*This message is original and not generated by any algorithm or other automated service.”

Now if you’ll excuse me, there are other issues of great importance that I must address.

New measures are now being looked upon to address these concerns. Some have already gained grounds, just like this new bill that would regulate social media interaction of students.

Full details on the video below.