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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

If you have a business and you want to promote it with help of a Facebook page, it is time you get serious and take some measures to make sure that you are going in the right direction and that you get your share of visitors and customers too.

Using Facebook is all about getting more traffic to your page and in order to do that you will have to focus on getting more shares and like so that you can promote your business and enjoy better results. You also need to remember that only shares and likes are not the way to succeed and you can get more people to click on your Facebook page if you are smart and use the right tips to boost your Facebook posts click through rate. Read more…

Facebook is still the top social network in the world, with close to 2 billion visitors each month. But even the most avid Facebook users might not be aware of all the features this social networking service offers. So if you want to be in the now about the hidden Facebook features, that can change your Facebook game, keep on reading this article on the 20 best secret Facebook features.

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The worldwide population is more than 7 billion and of that 7 billion, 3.5 billion have internet access. 2.3 billion People worldwide are active social media users.

The world seems smaller now as there are various apps available now which help you communicate with people across the globe. Using social media, you can share news with a friend thousands of miles away and share it with other like-minded people around the world. This can be both a blessing and a curse. Read more…

The recent US elections have triggered another grave problem in the social media networks which is quite worrying. While the millennia’s consider Facebook as the major source of news from the world over, the fake news pouring in and out of this popular social media network have them thinking over an alternative source.

The news publishers had been quite worried about this new trend. In fact, the issue was so grave that almost up to 60% of the Facebook users never went beyond it for keeping themselves updated on whatever was happening around them. But during the US elections, the way fake news was spreading through Facebook had even the people directly involved with it quite worried. Read more…

A Short History of Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO and founder of Facebook, which he began in his school in the year 2004 with room-mates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes from New York City. Zuckerberg is in charge of setting the overall direction and strategy of the product for the organization. He leads Facebook’s design of development and services of its infrastructure and core technology. Mark learnt computer science at Harvard University before moving the organization to Palo Alto, California.

Previously, Zuckerberg developed and designed a music suggestion system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client named Wirehog. Later, he decided to leave those two projects for the pursuance of new tasks. Zuckerberg went to Harvard University and educated with computer science before establishing Facebook. Read more…

From among all the feature additions in Facebook, one was introduced recently and gained immense popularity in a short time: Facebook Live video. When the option of live video was introduced, a lot of individuals and pages started posting live videos for testing and it became a trend on Facebook.

While a lot of people and pages may use the Facebook Live video option for fun, majority of businesses and pages try to reap some benefits out of it. In fact, social media experts claim that the main purpose of introducing the Facebook Live video was to allow pages and businesses to be able to use one more tool for promotion and awareness. A survey revealed that Facebook Live videos were actually able to make many pages popular but a matter of concern is that why some other pages were not successful in doing this? Read more…