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Facebook made an announcement today, but it wasn't the fun kind. Guy Rosen, VP of Product Management at Facebook says that at least 50 million user accounts have been compromised by unknown parties. The social network is taking several steps to safeguard affected accounts, as well as other accounts that have questionable involvement. Facebook became aware of the attack on Tuesday. The cause was a flaw in the site's code for a feature called "View As" that let you see how your profile looked to another person. The attacker exploited a flaw in View As to steal access tokens for as many as 50 million accounts. With the token, someone else could take over your Facebook session and access your data. All those accounts have been manually logged out by Facebook to invalidate the stolen tokens. In addition, Facebook logged out another 40 million accounts that have a "View As" request from the last year. If your account was affected, you'll see an alert w...

During its F8 2018 conference in May, Facebook previewed a major redesign to Messenger that it had teased earlier in the year, saying it would simplify the experience, remove some of the unnecessary interface elements, and put emphasis on the features most users want to get to quickly. Oh, and it should have a dark mode too. While the company said the new look would come soon, it took a bit over four months for us to see the first sign of it. According to our tipster, the new design appeared on their Messenger app without an update. It was a server-side change and, suddenly, everything was different. The bottom bar has three tabs only, with the camera and new chat button moving to the top right. Most of the superfluous features — games, businesses, and more — have moved to the third Explore tab. The chat screen has also changed. The customizable chat colors are still there, but the interface looks cleaner — if a little reminiscent of the Skype overhaul with its rat...

Different Facebook users check other users profile for different reasons. Most of these reasons are security unwise and may cause damages to the user in question. I’ll be teaching you different working methods to trace all your friends who viewed your Facebook profile. Please note that these methods can be used to track Facebook profile visitors. I’ll be taking you through three (2) simple and easy methods of checking your Facebook profile visitors. How To Check People Tracking your Facebook Account 1.  Using Facebook Profile Visitors App for Android Lately, many developers have also created applications for viewing who visits your Facebook profile. With those apps installed, you can track people who visit your profile more frequently. Steps to download and use the android app Download who viewed my profile from HERE Launch the recently installed application and tap on the option “Connect to Facebook”. Enter your Facebook username/email ID and password in t...

Facebook recently announced that it will soon roll out a dating feature that will enable people be able to find that perfect, special someone. Already, people have already started using Facebook for dating and meeting new mates and it has been working well but this new feature is going to make it a lot more secure and easier than trying to date someone on the normal app. There has been a lot of confusion and rumors about this feature so we have decided to clarify everything and tell you all you need to know about this highly anticipated feature I know everyone is eagerly waiting for. It is not an app, it’s just a feature: Yes, it’s not an app on it’s own. A lot of rumors have been flying around that Facebook dating is going to be a new app that will be released by Facebook. Well, our finding have shown us that it will not be an app, but a new feature that will be embedded into the Facebook app. 2. The feature has not been released yet. Officially, the feature has not been released yet ...

Posting social media updates is so  yesterday . Stories are all the rage now with big players like Snapchat and Instagram racking up many millions of Stories each day. Now, Facebook's version of stories has hit a big user milestone—150 million daily users. Being Facebook, that means it's time to start pushing ads. In case you're unaware, Facebook Stories are similar to stories on every other platform. They're short video and photo montages put together by users. You can only view them twice, and they vanish in 24 hours. Facebook's 150 million daily user count is still short of the estimated 300 million using Instagram Stories (which Facebook owns), but that's 150 million sets of eyeballs that could be looking at ads. So, here they come. The ads are rolling out starting today in the US, Mexico, and Brazil. The ads consist of 5 to 15-second videos, but there's no click-through functionality for now—they're just videos, and you can skip them. T...

Facebook has been roundly criticized in recent weeks for the way it handles user data, including allowing said user data to fall into the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Facebook aims to address your concerns at this year's F8 conference. The company is announcing several privacy-oriented features including Clear History. It's not ready yet, but Facebook says this tool will show you where it's getting personal information on you and allow you to delete it. Facebook's data collection web is complex and almost omnipresent on the internet. It's not just about the information you plug into your profile, but the sites you visit that sport like buttons and other forms of Facebook integration. Odds are Facebook has a lot more data about your online activities than you think. Clear History will list all the websites and apps sending data about you to Facebook. If you don't like what you see, you can delete the data from Facebook's platf...

Facebook's annual F8 developer event kicked off today, and the company had a number of pretty big announcements. Among them was news of plans to build a dating platform directly into its mobile apps—news investors in Match Group, the owner of a whole lot of online dating services including Tinder and Match.com, didn't take very well. As of this writing, the company's stock is down more than 20 percent. MTCH took a pretty sizable hit today. In addition to Tinder and Match.com, Match Group owns OkCupid and PlentyOfFish. A precipitous drop can be seen in Match's price chart beginning at 1:20 p.m., Eastern, right around the time of Facebook's announcement. The drop slowed about 20 minutes later, but the price has continued to fall, albeit more slowly. Facebook Dating profiles will be separate from regular Facebook profiles, and dating activity won't be shown to Facebook friends. Potential matches will be recommended based on a number of factors, including mut...

Facebook recently released  Messenger Kids , an app designed for privacy-conscientious parents who want a safe way to let their kids chat with friends online. Messenger Kids provides a way of doing so, offering an adult full control over a child's contact list and who they can talk to, all without having to create a full-fledged Facebook account. An update to the app finally addresses a concern that parents have had until now: being able to manage when their kids can access the service. With the new feature, appropriately dubbed 'Sleep Mode,' parents can specify a time during the day or week when the app becomes inaccessible. During that time, kids won't be able to send or receive messages or video calls, play with the app's 'creative camera,' or receive any notifications. If they do open the app while Sleep Mode is enabled, they'll be greeted with a message telling them that Messenger Kids is disabled and to come back later. Like most ot...

Its users have long been asking for a way to show their disapproval of news, in addition to the famous Like button. But it is not exactly as one might expect. Firstly, the button actually works as a downvote, indicated by an arrow rather than anything more disapproving like an upside-down thumb. How to check your Facebook data or activities The introduction does appear to be a test ahead of rolling it out on Facebook more broadly, however, and so the feature is expected to come to more people in the future. Facebook says that the button is for voting down comments that are abusive or disrespectful, so that they will not get promoted to the top of a discussion. As such, it mostly functions like the downvote button on Reddit, allowing people to express their dislike of a comment and offset any positive reactions it might be getting. In doing so, the feature should be able to make conversations on the platform less centred around those comments that generate the most ...

Facebook announced yesterday that it's going to be making policy changes for users around the world based on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although GDPR doesn't take effect until May 25, Facebook says it's rolling out the changes in Europe this week, with other regions following later. Changes include the ability to opt out of ads based on data collected from external websites that use tools like the Facebook Like button. Facebook will also make it easier to delete information about users' religious and political affiliations and relationship status, ostensibly removing that information from the pool of data advertisers can use to characterize them, although Facebook didn't say opting out of ads based on those identifiers will be possible without removing the information entirely. GDRP provides additional protections for young people in certain countries, like requiring parental permission for Facebook to show ads ...

Facebook can collect a lot of data about you even if you seldom or never post to Facebook. In a blog post, the company explained it can collect info if you use the "like" button on a third-party site, sign in to an app using Facebook, and in many other situations. Facebook reiterates that it's not selling this information but does use it to improve its services and better target stories and ads. Facebook 's product management director, David Baser, just  wrote a blog post   explaining when Facebook and its partners collect your personal information and when it's shared. It also reiterates how it's able to gather information on people who don't use Facebook. Here's the nugget you need to know about: When does Facebook get data about people from other websites and apps? Many websites and apps use Facebook services to make their content and ads more engaging and relevant. These services include: - Social plugins , such as our Like and Share ...

It turns out that there is a Facebook Messenger unsend feature – but only Facebook elite have access to it. The information broke when numerous reports surfaced of Mark Zuckerberg messages disappearing, but the rest of the conversations remaining.After being caught red-handed, Facebook promised that a public Facebook Messenger unsend feature would come soon, and executives will lose access to it until then. Remember that time you sent a nastyFacebook message to your ex that you immediately regretted right after you hit the enter key? Yeah, me neither, that never happened to me, ever. Well, if it hypothetically happened, you wouldn’t be able to unsend that Facebook message. But the world found out yesterday, via TechCrunch, that Mark Zuckerberg had the power to unsend Facebook messages when multiple reports confirmed that messages from Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives mysteriously disappeared from inboxes. However, the messages to those Facebook employees remained...

Facebook is rolling out new features today to what are arguably its most important products: the News Feed and Messenger.  On the Messenger side, you'll get panoramic photos and HD video support. Meanwhile, the News Feed will get additional tools to help you assess the credibility of a publication that appears in your Feed. Facebook added support for sending images up to 4K resolution in Messenger recently, and now you can do even bigger images in the form of panoramas. The app doesn't capture 360-degree photos for you, but you can take them with your phone's stock camera app or a third-party one. Then, just share the file in Messenger. Similarly, HD video sharing doesn't mean capturing videos in the app. You can film a video with your phone and share it at 720p resolution in Messenger. You can also share videos from another message or from your News Feed. Speaking of the News Feed, Facebook has launched some new features related to ne...

It's been a rough month for Facebook. Following news that millions of users' personal data had been  collected without permission  by a third party, the social media giant caught some flak for the way it handled metadata collection on Android.  In an effort to assuage public ill will, Facebook  announced today  that it's making user settings—especially ones dealing with account data and privacy—easier to access and more transparent. Historically, Facebook's settings have been convoluted. By its own admission, prior to today's announced update, settings in the mobile app were "spread across nearly 20 different screens." In a blog post, Facebook says it's cleaned up the settings section to make it easier to understand; the changes also emphasize users' control over their data and privacy. "Most of these updates have been in the works for some time," Facebook says, "but the events of the past several days underscore their imp...

Since its been reported that Facebook sells users data, its necessary for you to check your Data and see your history on Facebook. Step 1: Log in to Facebook on your computer and access Account Settings: click at the top right of any Facebook page and select Settings. https://www.facebook.com/settings/ Step 2: Click General in the lefthand column. Step 3: Click Download a copy of your Facebook data at the bottom of the General Account Settings page. Step 4: You’ll be taken to a new webpage to confirm that you really wish to download your Facebook information. Click the green Start My Archivebutton to continue. Step 5: “It may take a little while for us to gather your photos, wall posts, messages and other information,” reads a prompt that appears. To continue, click the blue Start My Archive button. Step 6: You must now verify your identity by typing your Facebook password in order to help protect the security of your account. Step 7: A confirmation messa...

Android's permissions system used to be more permissive than it should have been, and according to  Ars Technica,   Facebook was taking advantage of that little loophole to harvest call and SMS data. By exploiting the fact that pre-4.1 Android permissions could be requested by apps on the Play Store up until last year, and that those earlier permissions automatically granted call and SMS access together with contacts, Facebook was able to collect and store metadata associated with each from those that gave the app contacts access.  This is on the heels of the larger  Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal —which we haven't really covered because, up until now, it hasn't really applied to Android specifically. The much-abridged version is that a company called Cambridge Analytica reportedly harvested data from some 50 million Facebook users, against Facebook's terms of service. Some of that data was ostensibly deleted after Facebook privately contacted the comp...