Have you ever sent your friend a link to something funny on Facebook Messenger? There’s a chance that someone you don’t know has seen that link. A quirk in Facebook’s developer tools lets anyone see links others have shared using Facebook Messenger – and Facebook doesn’t plan on fixing this problem anytime soon. If you don’t think that’s a problem, then take a look back through

Read More

Do you have your phone number listed on Facebook? If so, then you might want to think again: a recent study shows that someone can learn a lot about you simply by typing your phone number into Facebook. Facebook has always encouraged users to add their phone numbers to their profile. But after doing that, anyone can find you by typing your phone number into the search bar. To prove that poin

Read More

I have Facebook, you probably have Facebook. Most people in the developed world have Facebook. However, very few people have ever taken the time to download their Facebook data. Why would you want to download your Facebook data? And what does it even mean to download your Facebook data? Here are a few reasons why downloading your Facebook data is a useful activity: -You can see all of the in

Read More

In September of 2012, Facebook announced that it had reached the 1 billion user milestone. To put that in perspective, there are just over 7 billion people in the world. In other words, Facebook has accounts for 1 out of every 7 people in existence today – not including fake Facebook accounts. No matter which way you slice it, that’s an astonishingly large number, and Facebook has rightfull

Read More

The biggest news in the tech world today was that Instagram was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram, the popular picture sharing app for mobile devices, has seen its userbase skyrocket in recent years, with approximately 30 million iOS users joining in the last 18 months alone. Amazingly, after Instagram’s new Android client was launched last week, n

Read More