Did the real Justin Bieber just send you a friend request? Now you can know for sure, thanks to a new Facebook feature: Verified Pages. Much like verified accounts on Twitter, verified Facebook pages will now display a small blue check mark beside their owner’s name on the social network. The check mark will also appear beside the individual’s name in search results, as well as anywhere else on Facebook where it appears. Just like Twitter’s verified accounts, Facebook’s verified status won’t be...
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A Palestinian man who clicked “Like” on a Facebook status criticizing a Palestinian Authority (PA) official has been sentenced to six months in prison. Anas Ismail, 29, of Salfit, near Nablus, was found guilty of “libel and slander.” Ismail is the second Palestinian to be imprisoned for Facebook activities in the past few days. He was sentenced to prison...
Timeline profiles and visiting the News Feed. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Instagram already uses hashtags to let users sort photos. Given that Facebook acquired Instagram last year, hashtags could be a way for the company to bring the two services closer together. The hashtag, much like the @ sign, was one of the features that made Twitter difficult to adopt...
Facebook announced Thursday it is giving its venerable news feed a new look and feel. The new news feed represents the first major overhaul of Facebook’s core service since the launch of Facebook Timeline at the end of 2011. “The news feed is one of the most important things we’ve built,” Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the press event. Likening news feed to “the most personalized newspaper,” Zuckerberg added that “the stories around you deserve to be displayed with...
Facebook is rolling out Cards, a new kind of Gift product. Cards are like regular, plastic gift cards, except that they work at a wide range of retailers. (For the initial rollout, the partners Facebook is naming are Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target. Company reps were tight-lipped on what partners may or may not be signing up for Cards in the near future.) And...
Facebook is one of the popular social media sites with more than 1 billion users. So, besides being a powerful medium to stay connected with friends, it is also a great platform of earning some serious money. Yes! Many people have taken the advantage of Facebook and work online to earn decent income. So, how to get started? To get started you have to sign up for a Facebook account if you do not have...
Here’s an interesting human resources decision. Facebook,according toreports,has hired one of the most infamous hackers around to work as a product developer. George Hotz–a.k.a. GeoHot, the kid who hacked the Playstation 3, inviting a lawsuit by Sony, thus inviting a cyber attack on Sony, eventually costing the company an estimated$24 billionin damages–is now sitting pretty under the house that Mark Zuckerberg built. Techmeme founder Gabe Riverasaysthat Hotz started at Facebook in May. Here’s what we know about...
If you’re a follower of the Facebook Messenger application maintain your eye out for an intriguing upgrade coming down the pipeline today for both the iOS and Android variations. The social network is including the potential to send and record voice notifications, up to one moment in size, to your good friends. The objective isn’t to create a voice mail...
