Instagram took another page from the Snapchat playbook on Tuesday when it announced that it’s bringing disappearing photos and videos to its messaging platform, Instagram Direct. That means you can now send photo and video messages in addition to text. What’s more, these visual messages are only visible for a short amount of time before …
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Now playing: Watch this: Facebook tools aim to combat revenge porn 1:25 Revenge porn is the scourge of the social internet — emotionally distressing at best and a downright life-ruiner at worst. Facebook is stepping up its game when it comes to protecting victims of the practice. The social network announced a new tool on Wednesday that will prevent people …
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Now playing: Watch this: Facebook clones Snapchat again 1:21 Facebook just made its biggest move in its war against Snapchat. The social network on Tuesday widely released Facebook Stories, a near-identical clone of rival Snapchat’s popular feature, also called Stories. The feature lets people post a string of videos and photos that disappear after 24 hours. If it sounds like …
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Now playing: Watch this: Start using Facebook Stories 1:38 There’s a new way to share your life on Facebook, and you may already be familiar with it. Facebook Stories is the latest Snapchat-like feature to roll out on the company’s main app. Even if you’re not a Snapper, you’re probably already familiar with the concept — these ephemeral stories have …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple Clips makes it simple to craft viral videos 1:41 The first thing you’d think looking at Clips, Apple‘s newly announced video-editing app, is that it’s trying to be Snapchat. Or Instagram. Or Vine. But Clips, which I got a chance to try my hands on in New York, doesn’t have its own social platform. It’s …
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Now playing: Watch this: Your social apps are crushing your data plan 1:20 Curtailing your phone use as you near your data cap at the end of each month is no way to live. A better way is to stop data-hungry apps from using too much data in the first place. The apps that use the most data typically are …
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Snapchat appears to be the social-media app of choice for millennials. College students turn first to the ephemeral-messaging app before Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn, according to data released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing. Fifty-eight percent of college students said they open Snapchat first, compared with 27 percent who chose Instagram, 13 percent who said Facebook …
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As an admin of a Facebook Page, you may be tasked with posting Instagram photos to the page. But how? The Instagram app will always default to posting to your personal feed, both in Instagram and on Facebook. Thankfully, posting to a Facebook Page is a simple process once it’s set up. Here’s how: Enlarge Image Screenshots by Jason Cipriani/CNET …
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Now playing: Watch this: The LG G6’s camera has a few new tricks 2:08 Hello, millennials? The phone world is calling with a bunch of Insta-worthy camera tech that it wants you to adopt right now. One of the quieter themes of this year’s Mobile World Congress, the biggest phone show on the planet, was the phone industry trying to …
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The drudgery of uploading one photo at a time to Instagram has ended! Now you can add up to 10 photos and videos at once. Don’t worry about overwhelming your followers with a slew of photos, though. It’s kind of like a Story. A bulk upload is consolidated into one post. The first image is displayed in your feed and …
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