Snapchat has warned its users against using third-party apps that let you save photos and videos, saying they ‘can’t be trusted’. The company has been in the headlines over ‘The Snappening’, which saw a file containing 90,000 photos and 10,000 videos of Snapchat users – many of whom are teenagers – being posted online. The
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Social media makes many things in life a whole lot easier. Staying on top of the news. Finding out what your friends are up to. Following Harry Styles’ every move. But it also complicates stuff, too. According to a brand-new study, an eyebrow-raising 52% of people between the ages of 13 and 17 believe their
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A California teen who gained internet fame as ‘Instagram’s richest kid’ is now living the down and out life in jail for committing the lowly act of selling a stolen iPhone online. While 18-year-old Param Sharma’s Instagram antics often included him showing off his multiple iPhones, he claims it was someone else’s that he listed
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Over the next few days, Facebook users will see a ‘Privacy Checkup’ appear when they log in. The tool, which began rolling out yesterday, will help users review their privacy settings and control who they are sharing their content with. The system uses a blue dinosaur which guides Facebook users through three steps to navigate
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It’s the holiday season and most teenagers have received a new cell phone or Mp3 player. According to Pew Research, over 78% of teens have cell phones with almost half of them having smartphones. Teens will be rushing to online mobile app stores to download the hottest apps. According to a recent study, 58% of
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If you’ve been on Facebook for a long time, we’ve got some bad news for you: Facebook is reportedly working on a feature that will let your friends search through your old posts … by keyword. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the company is testing a new option for the Facebook app that will allow people
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Students spend up to ten hours a day on their mobile phones, a study found. Some even say they feel stressed if their phone is not in sight. A team at Baylor University in Texas found that female students spent an average of ten hours a day texting, emailing and on social media while their
Tweets from accounts that users do not follow will now appear in their Twitter timeline, in a move that has angered users worldwide. The new feature has been confirmed today on Twitter’s support page after users first reported the appearance of content from other accounts last week, with many believing it was just an experiment. Normally,
Snapchat’s popularity isn’t showing any signs of slowing after it leapfrogged Twitter to become the third most used social media app. Almost a third of 18 to 24-year-olds now use the self-destructing messaging app, which is more than double the amount of users the company had in November. Facebook still reigns as the most popular,
To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word “te” as a variant of “ti,” is the seventh tone on the musical scale. It is a hardworking little gem among 5,000 words added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” next week. The dictionary’s last freshening up was a decade ago. Entries in
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