If you sleep with your phone under your pillow, or check Facebook before doing anything else in the morning, you may have an unhealthy ‘digital diet.’ A team of Californian developers has created an app that helps people track how much they use their phones, and specific apps – and weans themselves off, if necessary.
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Facebook said Tuesday it would step up efforts to limit circulation of bogus “news stories” in user feeds, saying it is an annoyance for members of the huge social network. “We’ve heard from people that they want to see fewer stories that are hoaxes, or misleading news,” said Facebook’s Erich Owens and Udi Weinsberg in
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Over 300 million people use Instagram every month – making it more popular than Twitter. Just nine months after hitting 200 million users, Instagram yesterday overtook Twitter, which said six week ago it had 284 million users. The site, owned by Facebook, also revealed more than 70 million photos and videos are shared by its
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(By Tori Molnar) I started my company, Utoria, when I was only 13, and my mum has always given me guidelines about what I should and shouldn’t be posting on social media. However, through speaking to audiences of peers, I’ve realised that most of you don’t have similar situations. The majority of young adults’ tweets,
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“This media we call social is anything but, when we open our computers and it’s our doors we shut”… This is one of the most vital messages that everyone needs to hear. Look Up is a spoken word for the “online” generation. Written, performed and directed by Gary Turk, it is an extremely important life
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The wait is over for Instagram users who want to change the captions of their retro-style photographs. Since its launch in 2010, users of the photo-sharing app have had to put up typos in their captions because they couldn’t be corrected after publication. But now the California-based company has at last added an editing tool.
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While many people assume Snapchatting involves teenagers passing revealing pictures between themselves—is this true? We really wouldn’t know—there’s actually much more to the app than that. Read on for some of the alternative uses and extra features on offer. 1. Instant messaging Did you notice Snapchat rolled out IM functionality back in May? That means
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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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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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