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HARWINTON — First Selectman Michael Criss wants a public place to have an open forum in the town for discussion on the topic of masking kids in school.That’s why he said he created a Facebook group called Unmask our Kids CT Harwinton. To date, the group has 26 members. Criss said he hopes it will grow. In deciding to create the page, he referenced the statewide group, “Unmask our Kids CT,” which has more than 11,000 members, and said other towns in the state have also started open forums to get information on this topic. “I thought it was a great opportunity,” Criss said, adding the purpose of the forum is to have “a conversation to gauge if people are for (masks) or against it, so we can better relay it to the Board of Education and to the state of Connecticut.” For now, per the state, indoor masking is required in schools. It is unclear whether the governor will extend that order. “In preparation for the upcoming school year,  » Read More

Snap could get surprisingly close -- but only if everything goes right. Key Points Snap and Facebook both have ambitious plans for the future. Snapchat could evolve into an all-in-one super app for shopping, games, payments, and more. Facebook will likely transform Instagram into a shopping platform and expand its ecosystem with new AR and VR devices. Back in 2013, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) reportedly tried to buy Snap (NYSE:SNAP) for $3 billion. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel rejected Facebook's offer, and the company is worth roughly $120 billion today. Snap is still much smaller than Facebook, which recently became a trillion-dollar company. But if Snap continues to grow, could it eventually match -- or even surpass -- Facebook's market cap by 2030? Where will Snap be in 10 years? During Snap's investor event earlier this year, it predicted its revenue would grow about 50% annually over the next few years. The company expects the expansion of its self-service ads, a growing mix of higher-value video ads,  » Read More

We often use emojis on Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp chats to add colours and vibrancy to our conversations. Facebook Messenger rolled out unique 'soundmojis'(audio along with the emojis) in July to enhance the conversation between friends. For instance, if you want to send a laughing soundmoji, it will now come with actual uproarious laughter. The design team of the social media giant has assigned sounds such as laughing, clapping, kisses, drums, farts, ghosts, shock and much more. Soundmojis, next-level emojis, are used to send short sound clips alongside a Messenger chat. Soundmojis have now become an important component of media content users and are used just like animated GIFs, stickers and emojis on Facebook messenger.A quick guide on how to use Soundmoji on Facebook Messenger:Step 1: Open your Facebook Messenger and open the chat where you wish to send a Soundmoji. If you are an iPhone user, go to settings and then scroll down and click on the Messenger app. Then you will have to toggle the Microphone option to 'On'.Step 2: In the chart bar,  » Read More

image sourceGetty Imagesimage captionNottinghamshire Police said a cyclist - who had two of his bikes stolen in June - found them while looking for replacements on Facebook MarketplaceA cyclist has been reunited with two stolen bikes after finding them by chance on online vending platform, Facebook Marketplace. Nottinghamshire Police said he was searching for replacement bikes after the theft on Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, on 5 June. When he went to view two contenders, he realised they were his own. Michael Kirk, 31, of Helston Drive, Bilborough, has been charged with theft and remanded in custody. A spokesperson for the force said: " had been searching on Facebook Marketplace for replacements and when he went to view one of them, he quickly recognised it as one of the bikes that had been stolen."Wanting to know for sure, he checked the bike details against the ones he received when he bought it and confirmed the bike was his."He also arranged a separate viewing of another bike at a different address and again recognised and confirmed it was his."Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook,  » Read More

Mask opponents, school board members spar on Facebook as LPS urges calm LPS elementary school students will once again be expected to wear masks when they return to the classroom Aug. 16. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star file photo Vaccinated teachers and students don't need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines. The changes come amid a national vaccination campaign in which children as young as 12 are eligible to get shots, as well as a general decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. The controversy over Lincoln Public Schools’ mask requirement for students through sixth grade moved from the boardroom to social media, where anti-maskers promised to continue protesting and school board members vowed not to be intimidated.“My biggest concern right now is that the controversy has evolved from a sharing of ideas to intimidation and threats,” said school board member Don Mayhew, who posted a screenshot from one of the speakers at this week’s board meeting.  » Read More

Is the bullish case for Facebook too far-fetched? Key Points Among analysts, Facebook's top price target is $500 per share. The price might not be as aggressive as you think. In fact, there's a valuation argument for Facebook to be a $500 per-share stock. Although shares of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) have advanced nearly 33% year to date, some analysts are concerned about its prospects. The stock's rise has leveled off after the company's second-quarter results in late July, as investors were concerned about a small decline in daily active users in the U.S. and Canada, as well as revenue guidance. That said, the company exceeded analyst expectations by reporting a year-over-year revenue increase of 56% and a rise in earnings per share (EPS) of 101%. Both were higher than consensus estimates. While there are a few concerned analysts, don't count Credit Suisse's Stephen Ju among them. Following the quarterly report, he raised his firm's per-share price target on Facebook to $500 from $480 and maintained the outperform rating.  » Read More

The Facebook Couples platform introduced its new Audio Dates, Match Anywhere and Lucky Pick functions to help you find love, a partner or casual encounters, whichever comes first, get to know them and take advantage of them! Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! August 13, 2021 4 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. To help its users find love more interactively and across borders, Facebok Parejas , the dating app on Mark Zuckerberg's platform, added three very useful functions. One of the novelties is to be able to create audio rooms to chat with your 'match', and the other is that it will already allow you to expand your search abroad. It may interest you: Meet Sparked, the new Facebook speed dating app that is already in the testing phase While not as popular as other dating apps, Facebook Dating is striving to be competitive.  » Read More

The news: Facebook appears to be acknowledging that it needs to fundamentally transform how its advertising business targets consumers, per The Verge.More on this: In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Facebook’s vice president of ads and business product marketing Graham Mudd said that a “meaningful pivot” was happening around its ads business, particularly in how the ads are targeted to users. For one, “hundreds” of Facebook engineers are actively working on how to deliver highly relevant ads to users, without knowing anything specific about those underlying users.The problem: It’s no small feat, considering that this is a fundamental shift in how Facebook’s ad targeting has worked until now.“Access to data will become more limited over the course of the next couple of years,” Mudd told The Verge. “That’s just a reflection, I think, of peoples’ changing expectations around privacy … we’re embracing and trying to build for that future.” Mudd added that Facebook believes that proactively investing in this area will allow it to “help shape that future state of the ads ecosystem.”Facebook’s acknowledgement that its advertising must change is another sign of how fundamentally digital advertising and targeting is being transformed.  » Read More

By Byron KayeSYDNEY (Reuters) -Three Australian publishers of lifestyle content say Facebook Inc used their articles on its just-launched news service after refusing to negotiate licensing deals, and that the country's tough new internet law has failed to protect them.Australia this year passed a law that pressured Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google to sign deals with some of the country's biggest news companies by threatening government intervention.The dispute highlights possible shortcomings in the controversial law. While most of Australia's main media firms have signed deals, some smaller outlets say the law has not stopped their content generating clicks and advertising revenue for Facebook without compensation.Broadsheet Media, Urban List and Concrete Playground, websites which publish entertainment news, reviews and listings, say that after the law was passed in February they approached the social media giant about payment for their content.Facebook knocked them back, calling their content unsuitable for its Facebook News platform and recommending they apply for grants it was offering from a A$15 million ($11 million) fund for Australian regional and digital newsrooms,  » Read More

by AdExchanger // Thursday, August 12th, 2021 – 12:03 am Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For The Insta-Brands Facebook surprised most analysts with a powerhouse Q2, despite the rollout of Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework and new IDFA rules. But Facebook’s diminished targeting and attribution capabilities are having concrete effects on advertisers. A few years ago, many startup product brands built their businesses almost exclusively on Facebook and Instagram. These ecommerce-native brands could practically cut out all marketing org costs and rely on the Facebook site conversion pixel and the app’s look-alike prospecting to bring endless new potential customers. When it worked well – or was successfully paired with content marketing and PR efforts on Facebook – startup brands only needed a snappy or instructive video or two to get the machine going. “Previously, a startup could operate exclusively on FB to reach breakout scale and possibly beyond,” writes Eric Seufert in a worthwhile Twitter thread.  » Read More