Facebook’s and Instagram’s newest features? Tools to help you spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. Social networking giant Facebook, which owns Instagram, unveiled new additions Wednesday aimed at letting people better manage their time on the apps. One new feature will let you see a dashboard that tells you how much time you’ve spent …
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Earlier this year, Instagram made it possible to see the last time you or one of your friends was using the app. Recently Instagram added a green dot of those who are online to profile pictures, similar to what Facebook Messenger has. Revealing, to the minute, the last time you were using the app is a bit creepy, to be …
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Facebook and Instagram instructed their moderators to take a tougher stance on underage kids. The social media giant’s reviewers are being instructed to lock the accounts of people they suspect are younger than 13, according to TechCrunch, even if the person’s account is reported for something else. Previously, Facebook only deleted the accounts of children younger than 13 if someone reported …
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Facebook Messenger can now fill out your contact list by syncing with Instagram. You can find the “Connect Instagram” option under Messenger’s “People” tab, and use it to sync up your profile with your Instagram contacts. The addition — first noticed by Twitter user @wongmjane and reported by TechCrunch — makes your Instagram username and account visible to others on …
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At around 3 p.m. ET, photo-deprived Instagrammers headed to Twitter to see if it was just them. Nope, Instagram was down for everyone. About an hour and a half later, it was back up for everyone. You can see the party with the #instagramdown hashtag. Me running to twitter because Instagram is down and can’t survive without social media #instagramdown …
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Without Apple’s App Store, your iPhone may well have just stayed a phone. The App Store has been around so long, it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always a core part of the iPhone concept. The store came a year after the introduction of original iPhone, arriving with the iPhone 3G. It debuted with 500 apps from developers like MLB …
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Social media companies work hard to get us addicted to their services, Silicon Valley insiders have reportedly revealed. Features such as infinite scroll and Likes keep people looking at their phones for longer than necessary and feed on their insecurities, they told the BBC’s Panorama for a documentary set to air Tuesday. Aza Raskin, formerly of Mozilla and Jawbone, created infinite …
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Instagram Lite launched on the Google Play Store without announcement Wednesday, offering users a cut-down version of the photosharing app. The Lite app is just 573KB, compared to the regular Instagram’s 32MB. Users can post photos, add filters, view stories and use the Explore tab. The ability to message friends and share videos will be added later, the Google Play …
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Instagram has been estimated to be worth more than $100 billion if it was a standalone company, according to Bloomberg. The photo app was purchased by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012 and recently reached a billion users a month. Now playing: Watch this: Why Instagram’s $100 billion valuation isn’t so crazy 1:27 Instagram has been drawing in new users …
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