Facebook isn’t the same social network it used to be. A decade ago, status updates had to include the word “is.” Catching up with friends meant writing on their Facebook digital walls. Today’s social media couldn’t be more different. Users are sharing moments of their lives in vertical videos and photos that vanish in 24 hours …
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There’re now more ways to use the questions sticker on Instagram. On Tuesday, the image-oriented social network added features that let users interact with each other in new ways. The popular photo app now lets you use question stickers in Live, and people can respond to questions with music. For example, you can use a sticker question in Stories to …
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Facebook Messenger has a holiday gift for you: new features that rolled out Monday. Boomerang — as hypnotic as ever. Facebook The social network is adding support for Boomerang, which lets you create brief, looped videos just like on Instagram — basically animated gifs. The company also adds a selfie mode that puts you in focus with a little added glow …
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If you take your smartphone photography seriously, it might be time to change your habits. That’s because of improvements to a core camera technology: the raw photo format. Photographers with SLRs and other higher-end cameras have known for years the advantages of skipping ordinary JPEGs and instead shooting raw, which means using the unaltered data directly from a camera’s image …
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Instagram is looking in the rearview mirror of 2018. What does it see? Soap, Fortnite and Disneyland Tokyo. On Thursday, Instagram published a video of its biggest trends from the year. It turns out that in 2018, photos geotagged at Disneyland Tokyo had the most smiley face emoji in their captions. The most-used face filter was Heart Eyes. And the …
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Facebook hasn’t been very fun for the last few years. From political fighting to fake news to privacy concerns, many users are logging on less and others are deleting their accounts altogether. For those who primarily use Facebook today but are looking for alternatives, we’ve put together a list of the best options—from the most popular challengers to a few …
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Special Instagram users may be getting a special form of Instagram. Instagram is reportedly testing “creator accounts” for high-profile users, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The social media platform is filled with a number of these so-called “influencers” who can reach a large audience thanks to their high follower counts. Because of this, brands often turn to influencers to start …
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Tired of the same old, text-based DMs? Good news, then: Instagram now lets you send voice messages. On Monday, the popular photo-sharing app quietly added a feature that lets you share short audio messages with friends. If you’ve ever used voice messaging on Facebook Messenger, this will feel familiar: Hold the microphone button down, record a short message and send …
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Facebook is rolling out group stories worldwide, so everyone can dip into its version of Snapchat. You can use the feature to post photos and videos that automatically vanish after 24 hours. Until now, Facebook had limited to feature to just some users. The social network highlighted the feature’s popularity in the pup-focused Dogspotting group — try not to get addicted to …
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You can finally share that weird Instagram story with just your besties. The Facebook-owned app on Friday rolled out a close friends list feature on Stories that lets you share more personal moments with only the people you choose. Only you can see your close friends list, and people cannot request to be added. You can add people to your list …
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