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Home / News / India /  Tired of WhatsApp, Facebook chat notifications? Here's how to turn them off Premium WhatsApp recently collaborated with Apple to piggyback its Move to iOS software in order to successfully move WhatsApp data to an iOS device based on the instructions provided. (MINT_PRINT) 2 min read . Updated: 25 Jul 2022, 02:34 PM IST Livemint Does it take some peace away from your daily life, having to constantly be glued to the phone because it just won't stop buzzing? Here's how to solve this  Are you tired of the constant chat notifications on your phone? Does it take peace away from your daily life, having to constantly be glued to the phone because it just won't stop buzzing? Is it your constant WhatsApp chat notification or is it the good old Facebook messenger? The only solution to return some sanity back to your daily life is to mute these notifications and here are the details on how to do just that.  » Read More

Facebook has finally done it: Last week, the company introduced Feeds on mobile, giving users the option to view their Facebook content chronologically. Now, instead of having Facebook feeding you a salad of things its algorithms think you should look at (that's the Home feed), you can switch to Feeds, and see things as they happen, and you can even take it a step further by only viewing content from Favourites, Friends, Groups, or Pages.If you, like me, have been eager to switch to Feeds and give the finger to Facebook's algorithms, you may have initially been disappointed. For me, the content on Feeds was often horrible, with completely irrelevant stuff showing up, including ad-like content from Pages I've followed ages ago and forgotten about, and memes from novelty Pages that ceased to be cool circa 2015. If you've been on Facebook for a long time, this will show you a lot of stuff you no longer care about. Credit: Facebook I suspect this is because I've been treating Facebook's "like" button as a "save for later" button,  » Read More

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A digital image of part of what will be Facebook’s new European HQ in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The tech company has stalled fitout of some offices as it reviews its property needs. Facebook owner Meta has stalled the fitout of its Johnny Ronan-built Dublin HQ as the social media giant reviews property needs globally, according to the Sunday Times. The owner of Facebook and Instagram told contractors recently that work on the newly-built office blocks would not begin on its intended date, according to the report.However, it adds that property sources say that Meta is not seeking to renegotiate the lease nor does it have plans to sublet the offices. In 2018, Facebook signed a 25-year lease on two office blocks that Mr Ronan was building at AIB’s old headquarters in Ballsbridge, Dublin.The multinational also agreed to rent four blocks at the former AIB Serpentine extension for €17 million a year. It plans to house 7,000 workers in what will be its Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters. Facebook continues to renovate the former Serpentine buildings,  » Read More

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. Last updated: Jul 23, 2022 Unlinking your Facebook and Instagram accounts can be important when trying to keep your social media accounts separate — here’s how to do it. Instagram continues to be one of the most popular social media platforms out there, with users constantly sharing new posts, and interacting with other users’ content on the app. Users are given the option to link their Instagram account with their Facebook account which makes it easy to cross-post, and connect with your Facebook friends on Insta. However, you may at some point change your mind about having the two accounts connected, whether that’s because you just want to keep your social media accounts separate in general, or because you’ve stopped being active on Facebook. Fortunately, unlinking the two platforms is pretty easy, and can be done from within the Instagram app. Unsplash: Claudio SchwarzInstagram is still a popular place to go to connect with friends and followers. How to unlink Instagram and Facebook To unlink your Facebook account from your Instagram account,  » Read More

from the do-not-doubt-the-copyright-filter-gods dept It’s hardly a secret that upload filters don’t work well. Back in 2017, Felix Reda, then Shadow Rapporteur on the EU Copyright Directive in the European Parliament, put together a representative sample of the many different ways in which filters fail. A recent series of tweets by Markus Pössel, Senior Outreach Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, exposes rather well the key issues, which have not improved since then. Facebook muted 41 seconds of a video he uploaded to Facebook because Universal Music Group (UMG) claimed to own the copyright for some of the audio that was played. Since the music in question came from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and Bach died in 1750, there’s obviously no copyright claim on the music itself, which is definitely in the public domain. Instead, it seems, the claim was for the performance of this public domain music, which UMG says was played by Keith Jarrett, a jazz and classical pianist,  » Read More

New Delhi: On Feb. 2, when Meta Platforms reported Facebook's first-ever quarterly drop in daily users, its finance chief identified higher mobile data costs as a unique obstacle slowing growth in India, its biggest market. On the same day, the U.S. tech group posted the findings of its own research into Facebook's business in India on an internal employee forum. The study, conducted over the two years to the end of 2021, identified different problems. Many women have shunned the male-dominated social network because they're worried about their safety and privacy, according to the Meta research, which hasn't been previously reported. "Concerns about content safety and unwanted contact impede women's FB use," said the study, reviewed by Reuters, as it detailed the platform's main challenges. "Meta cannot succeed in India while leaving women behind." Other obstacles included nudity content, the perceived complexity of its app design, local language and literacy barriers and a lack of appeal among internet users seeking video content, according to the research, which was based on surveys of tens of thousands of people as well as internal user data.  » Read More

Facebook is launching a new Feeds tab and is renaming its home page to Home on the app. Both of those changes were made at the end of March for desktop, but apparently took four months to implement on the mobile app.The Feeds tab will allow users to curate a Favorites list of friends and Pages they care about and filter out content they don't care about — like, say, Suggested For You posts. Home is simply the new name of the home tab where you can discover Reels and Stories. The whole point of the move is to give users "more options" for seeing and sorting their content, according to the press release."There are times you might know just what you’re looking for — say, the latest posts from your groups — or you may want to encounter fresh, entertaining content," the press release explains. "As Home becomes more of a discovery engine for you to find and follow new content and creators through recommendations,  » Read More

Meta announced major changes Thursday to the Facebook app that will transform its experience into a more TikTok-like selection of algorithmically chosen videos — and shunt off content posted by family, friends and groups into a separate side feed.Why it matters: The move shifts Facebook further from a social network and toward an entertainment and shopping platform like TikTok, which has increasingly challenged Facebook's dominance in user engagement and mobile advertising.Be smart: The shift is happening in part due to regulatory pressure on social media networks to prioritize data privacy and to take more responsibility for misinformation on their platforms, a source told Axios. Policymakers have already introduced a bill that would require tech firms to let users opt out of having algorithms recommend their content to them.The company noted in a statement that the changes are meant to give users more control over what they see and discover on the app.Facebook feed updatesDetails: Beginning Thursday, Facebook's main Home screen will begin to look and feel a lot more like TikTok.  » Read More