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 …
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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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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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Now playing: Watch this: Obsessed with Instagram? LG G6 has an app for you 1:41 LG showed off its new flagship phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday. In addition to high-end specs, the LG G6 ($150 at Amazon) is packed full of new features. One of those features is a new camera app, called Square Camera, that …
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new Status feature to all users. Instead of the text-only status that lets people know whether you’re busy or available to chat, the new Status feature uses photos, text, emojis and sketches to show what you’re doing. If that sounds familiar, it could be because it appears to be inspired by Snapchat. And unlike Snapchat …
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To all those people who can never figure out which photo they want to post from that birthday party or concert, Instagram has a suggestion: Post ’em all. The Facebook-owned app said Wednesday it will let people upload and post up to 10 videos and photos at a time. You’ll be able to swipe through them on your Instagram feed …
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Looks “like” Facebook and Instagram were also big winners of Super Bowl 2017. A combined 108 million users threw posts on the social platforms during Sunday’s big game in which Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to a 34-28 comeback win over the Atlanta Falcons, the first to be decided in overtime. Facebook and Instagram together generated almost 400 …
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