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June 7th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
A couple of months ago, the supermodel and Victoria’s Secret angel Miranda Kerr – who also happens to be the fianceé of Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel – spoke out against Facebook’s supposed theft of her partner’s ideas.
“When you directly copy someone, that’s not innovation. It’s a disgrace. How do they sleep at night?”, she asked in an interview with The Times.
Kerr has a point.
In August 2016, Facebook-owned Instagram introduced a new feature called Stories that bore a strong resemblance to Snapchat’s feature under a similar same name. And that wasn’t the first time Facebook cloned some features of Snapchat into its products such as Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger. Read more…
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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
It is safe to say we are now living in a very social world. While the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat may once have seemed a bit of a novelty, they have quickly grown to become an integral part of the lives of many of us.
According to the 2017 Digital Economy Compass, a research dossier published by Statista, globally there are now 2,789 million monthly social media users, with the UK being home to an extraordinary 42 million alone. Looking specifically at Facebook, Business Insider points out that people spend on average almost an hour a day using its suite of apps, while a new function even allows people to look for jobs on the site. The use of social media is so high that there are even tools like Everypost and Feedly now to help people cope with keeping on top of where and when they are posting updates. Read more…
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May 29th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world with 1.94 billion monthly users. That’s 18% more than the previous year. Furthermore, this application has been proven to take an average of 50 minutes out of a typical user’s day. This means that almost one hour of valuable time is being used on Facebook.
Unfortunately, many people find the user experience of Facebook to be quite addictive. Even those who are adamant about quitting find themselves using it again. Fortunately, there are strategies that can be used to successfully rid yourself of this social media platform for good. Read more…
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April 17th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Cyber Security
Facebook is truly a leader in social media with around two billion active users worldwide. With so many people using it, the platform becomes a popular target for cyber criminals, prankers, and even comedians. This has been causing some problems for the users who get tricked by various hoaxes, cloning scams, and fake news about dead celebrities, natural disasters, and other extraordinary events that did not happen.
Facebook has started to battle hoaxes seriously around two years ago. Then, an update to News Feed was introduced to reduce the distribution of posts that people have reported as hoaxes and fake. Despite that one and many other updates, the platform is still targeted by cyber criminals. Unfortunately, in many cases they are successful.
Here are fifteen examples of Facebook cloning scams and hoaxes that made quite an impact. Read more…
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April 12th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Snapchat has become one of the most popular social media networks in our present times. Founded in 2011, Snapchat has managed to capture the world’s attention with its unique features. By February 2017, the social media network has reported a number of 301 million monthly active users.
It’s important to note that many individuals haven’t yet used it. After addressing a few questions here and there, we have figured out that many millennials have no idea about Snapchat’s features. Read more…
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April 11th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Search Engines
Today, we live in a technology-developed world and the development in technology gives us a lot of options to make progression in our personal, professional as well as public life. People always love and wish to track down a person that they might have lost contact for a few or many years.
Finding people have become an important activity all over the world now and the growth of technology makes it easy for the people to find a person or a person’s details. Web or online is a great platform that lets people to find anyone that they want. Read more…
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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Writer in Mobile
The eCommerce industry has shown some remarkable breakthroughs after the introduction of cutting-edge mobile technologies and mobile apps. Different scales and sectors of companies and new-age marketers are adopting avant-grade e-marketing tools and technologies to improve their productivity and generate more revenues. Marketers are leveraging different genres of social media tools to grow their customer’s reach quickly and efficiently.
In this race, Wechat has emerged as one of the most persuasive social media marketing tools on the web. It is a powerful mobile messaging app, launched by the Chinese high-tech giant company, known as Tencent. The popularity of Wechat is just remarkable. In a very short time span, it has built more than 541 million users in China itself and is fast becoming one of the most powerful e-marketing tools across the globe too. Read more…
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March 24th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Facebook follows the strategy of copying the features of other apps implementing those feature and then killing them after sometime. It is a habit that is repeated by Facebook over and over again and Facebook has done that with Snapchat many times.
Facebook also made an attempt of buying Snapchat few years ago for $3 billion in 2013, which was turned down by the Snapchat owners. Many times Facebook introduced similar feature just as Snapchat. This resulted in making Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all look almost similar. Read more…
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August 1st, 2018
by Quertime Writer in Mobile
The word “selfie” was cut in by the Oxford Dictionary in 2013. There is nothing to get much surprised as taking self-portraits has been into trend since the day when smartphones come with a camera on it. Besides, the social media platform has also played a significant role in spreading the awareness of this term as it encourages people to share their pictures and enjoy the no. of likes and comments they get on it.
The advent of smartphones has bring high-resolution front-facing cameras, giving the trend a new push. It shows how the selfie game is going strong and majority of people are posting their photos on social networks. Read more…
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March 21st, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Facebook has always remained ahead in terms of innovating. This is why it keeps on coming up with new features every now and then to facilitate its users. In a similar vein, Facebook recently introduced ‘City Guides’, a feature that enables its users to plan their vacations in a more organized manner.
Lets go through some of the characteristics of ‘City Guides’, so that you can effectively use it to your advantage, and plan the perfect vacation for yourself and your loved ones. Read on to find out more. Read more…
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March 14th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Facebook has long been the best place to go for updates on cat videos and what your friends are eating for lunch. However, they have recently rolled out a new jobs feature.
Companies can now post job openings that their applicants can apply for, right through the site. Here’s 15 things that you need to know before you post a job or apply through Facebook. Read more…
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March 8th, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
Almost all of us are found on Facebook. The charm of Facebook has inveigled all of us in some ways. Since the creation of Facebook in 2004, it has set different trends in social world and played an important role in connecting different people from all over the world.
People from different socio-economic backgrounds and ethnicities are found on Facebook. And with the passage of time more functions are added in Facebook. People use Facebook for socialization, for getting in touch with their friends and family, to get updates on events and happenings and the list goes on. Read more…
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March 2nd, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Cyber Security
Facebook, from the past many years; has gained the reputation of being a largest online social network podium across the globe. The influence of Facebook is too wide and its usability is so convenient that people of all ages such as a teenager, youth and senior citizens can even access it without any hassle. More than this, it has gained popularity in remote areas of every country in such a manner that you easily get connected and can interact with parents, neighbours, relatives and the known ones.
But sometimes, you may get confronted with uncertain problems that have breached your FB account security and privacy. With the consistent arising of problems in Facebook, the merits between public and private space are getting diminished or blurred consistently as the time passes by. Without being aware of FB security and privacy features, you might end up becoming prey to identity theft, malicious activities as well as phishing attack plotted by the scammers and cyberpunks. Read more…
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February 21st, 2017
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
In the present moment, Facebook is the biggest existent social network in the entire world. Most people use it in order to communicate, to share things, and to “have a social image”. Facebook is doing its best to offer better user experiences as the time passes.
During today’s article, we’ll take a look at 20 Facebook timeline tips and tricks. If you’re using a social network, you’d better do it right. Learning few tricks and tricks never hurt anybody, so let’s begin: Read more…
Updated on
July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Writer in Social Media
What if I told you that Facebook Messenger has at least twenty uses or cool tricks that you can do with it and regular messaging and video messaging are not included in those twenty things.
If you are anything like me you use Facebook Messenger on a regular basis. I mean who wouldn’t, it is a great way to chat daily with my friends and I absolutely love being able to video chat with my family that I don’t get to see frequently (ok and I will admit I have been known to use video chat with my best friend in the middle of a wardrobe crisis every now and then). This is what is great about Messenger right? Well, yes and no. Read more…