Stalkscan: look up public Facebook info
Stalkscan is a free online service that enables you to look up any Facebook user's public information using Facebook's own APIs. Facebook removed, changed, and improved privacy controls several times over the […]
Facebook enables sound for auto-playing Videos
Videos play automatically on Facebook by default, unless you disable the option. We published instructions back in 2014 that walked you through the steps of turning off auto-playing videos on Facebook, and […]
Show tags Facebook adds to photos automatically
Whenever you upload a photo to Facebook or one of the company's other services -- more than 2 billion each day -- tags are added to these photos. One reason for this […]
Facebook Gameroom launches for Windows
Facebook launched Gameroom for Windows, a desktop gaming platform similar to Steam, Origin, uPlay or Gog today. Gameroom provides users with access to a collection of native web games, ported mobile games, […]
Facebook Messenger Lite: what is it, how to get it
Facebook Messenger Lite can best be described as a basic version of Facebook Messenger that is optimized for slower Internet connections. Facebook announced Messenger Lite a couple of days ago advertising it […]
Facebook Marketplace: pro and con
Facebook just announced the launch of Facebook Marketplace that enables Facebook users to buy and sell items in their local communities. The company has been testing marketplace on the site for about […]
Block WhatsApp from sharing (most) data with Facebook
WhatsApp users worldwide will receive a prompt over the course of the next few days that moves the application one step closer to its parent company Facebook. As you know, Facebook acquired […]
Yahoo launches Facebook Messenger bots
Yahoo announced yesterday that it launched four bots for Facebook Messenger that users of the messaging application can interact with. The bots, exclusively available for Android and iOS versions of Facebook Messenger, […]
Facebook: Share and Save extensions for Chrome
Facebook released two new browser extensions for Google Chrome yesterday with the aim to improve the share and save experience for users of the site. Sharing is one of the core features […]
Block Facebook Live Notifications
The following guide walks you through the steps of blocking Facebook Live Notifications for live video streams on the social networking site. Facebook Live is a relatively new feature on Facebook that […]
Facebook Mobile: Your conversations are moving to Messenger
You have multiple ways to use Facebook's chat functionality if you are using a mobile device. You can install the official Messenger application if provided for the operating system your device is […]
Facebook may listen to your conversations
Facebook is in the news again, this time for listening in on conversations or background noise. The store on the News10 website is sensationalist but its core is true. The news report […]
Find out who is streaming live on Facebook
Facebook Live Around the World is a relatively new interactive map created by the social networking service that displays live streams as they happen in the world. Everyone and their mum seem […]
Save to Facebook first look
Save to Facebook is an addition to Facebook's save feature which allows users of the site to save content they encounter on the web to the "save" section of their Facebook account. […]
Facebook Notes, a suitable blogging platform?
Facebook Notes is a re-imagined version of the note taking feature that Facebook launched years ago on its site. Unlike the previous version, it has been designed more like a basic blog […]
Facebook waves goodbye to Flash Video
Facebook announced on December 18, 2015 that it made the decision to switch from a Flash-based video player on Facebook to a HTML5-based media player. The company will use its HTML5 video […]
Facebook's Search FYI makes all public user posts available
Facebook announced the launch of Search FYI yesterday, an update to the social network's traditional search tool that lets users search Facebook's complete index of posts. According to Facebook, it has indexed […]
Everything you need to know about ads on Facebook
Advertisement is one of Facebook's primary revenue sources. You may see ads on your Facebook News Feed, mobile apps and other locations on the site. Businesses create these ads on Facebook and […]
How to set a default quality for Facebook videos
Facebook is one of the largest video hosting websites on today's Internet and while YouTube is without doubt the uncrowned king of recorded videos today, it is catching up fast and benefiting […]
How to share files with Facebook friends directly
You have plenty of options if you want to share files with friends on the web version of Facebook. The two core options the site provides are to share files using Facebook […]
Expose for Chrome gives you quick access to public Facebook photo streams
Even if you take good care of your privacy on Facebook information about you may still leak. A friend may post a photo that you are in without asking your permission, or […]
The easiest way to save videos on Facebook
Facebook is one of the largest video hosting and streaming sites on the Internet. It is held back somewhat by missing options to embed most videos on third-party websites (you can embed […]
How to remove your search history on Facebook
Whenever you search on Facebook, information about that search is saved in a search history that Facebook maintains for all of its users. While you don't get access directly to the storage, […]
How to turn off birthday notifications on Google and Facebook
If you are on Facebook or on Google+ and have at least one friend or contact on the site, chance is that you receive birthday notifications. Birthday notifications are enabled on both […]
Facebook Lite makes a return as a mobile application
Remember Facebook Lite? Facebook experimented with a low-resource version of the website back in 2009 and discontinued the site a year later in 2010 citing that Facebook Lite was not optimized for […]
Find out what Facebook knows about you
Most Facebook users know that Facebook knows a lot about them but most do not know what this includes. Some information are obvious; the things you post online or information that you […]
Block "Seen" messages on Facebook
Whenever you receive a message on Facebook and read it, a notification appears in the sender's chat box that you have seen the message. It states "seen" followed by the time that […]
How to disable interest-based advertisement on Facebook
Advertising companies have various methods at their disposal to display advertisement to web users. The best, from a business perspective, is to know as much as possible about a user to display […]
What is Facebook Saved?
Facebook rolled out Saved a couple of months ago both on the web interface and Facebook apps on Android and iOS mobile devices. The problem is that it is not really advertised […]
Facebook to set post visibility to friends for new users
Facebook is known for its notoriously complex privacy settings that even experienced users have a hard time configuring correctly. One of the things that the company gets criticized for regularly is that […]
You may miss out on Facebook posts, and there is little you can do about it
When a company like Facebook believes that it knows better which updates you want to see than you, and does not make it easy to display all posts of friends on Facebook […]
Facebook Anonymous Login: what is it?
Third-party developers can make use of Facebook's new anonymous login feature as well as an improved Facebook Login feature to provide users with options to log in to their apps or services […]
How to disable auto-play videos on Facebook
Facebook introduced a new form of advertisement recently on the site. While it is not enabled for all users yet, it is enabled for you if you have noticed auto-playing videos in […]
How to modify your Facebook news feed
I do have a Facebook account, but only use it sporadically to see what is going on. I'm not really active on the site, don't play games, don't use chat that often, […]
How is Facebook ever going to make money from its recent acquisitions?
Shortly after Facebook acquired the popular messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion USD it acquired the the company developing the Oculus Rift VR for $2 billion USD. Whenever Facebook acquires a new […]
Facebook's Windows Messenger will be shut down
If you want to chat with your friends or contacts on Facebook, you can either do so directly on the site, or use one of the messenger applications that Facebook has created […]
Facebook improves news feed filtering with new Following button
Your Facebook news feed offers chronological access to posts that your Facebook friends make on the site. Depending on how you use the site and who you have befriended on it, you […]
Facebook asking locked out users to provide Government ID
If you have opened Twitter today you may have noticed an increase in messages reporting that the social media site Facebook was asking them to provide a Government ID to unlock their […]
Adblock Plus blocks some Facebook annoyances now (if you want)
Facebook has been the dominating social networking site on the Internet for the past years. Even Google with all its might did not manage to push its Google+ service past Facebook. While […]
Official Facebook application for Windows 8.1 launches
Good news for users of the Windows 8.1 operating system: Facebook just launched its official application for the system so that users of it can now use the official app instead of […]
