Facebook Activity
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Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data
Technology | Nov 03, 2021, 09:26 AM ISTAs part of this change, people who have opted for our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them."Face Recognition was introduced by Facebook in the year 2010.
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Facebook to digitally mentor 5,000 young tribal women in India
Technology | Oct 16, 2019, 05:48 PM ISTFacebook's Going Online as Leaders (GOAL) connects underprivileged young women from tribal areas with senior expert mentors in the areas of business, fashion and arts to learn digital and life skills
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Facebook to pay Android users in India and the US to monitor their phone usage
Technology | Jun 12, 2019, 06:21 PM ISTFacebook decides to pay Android users in India and the US just to monitor how they use their phones, by launching a new app called Study available on Google's Playstore, for users aged 18 and above.
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Facebook shelves a feature intended to encourage civil political discourse
Technology | Dec 24, 2018, 07:50 PM ISTFearing a conservative backlash, Facebook has shelved a feature that was intended to encourage more civil discussion among users of opposing political beliefs.
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Facebook may be perpetuating existing social inequalities: Study
Technology | Jul 25, 2018, 05:35 PM ISTThe findings showed that people who had looked for work within the last four weeks were more likely to have deactivated their Facebook accounts -- eliminating a potential resource in their job search
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Facebook will now tell how much time you spend on social media website
Technology | Jun 23, 2018, 01:32 PM ISTThe new feature would offer users the option to set a daily time limit as well as a link to manage their Facebook notifications.
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Facebook admits it tracks users' mouse movement as well as 'online and offline actions'
Internet | Jun 13, 2018, 04:15 PM ISTFacebook in a 225-page document admitted that it collects information from and about computers, phones and connected devices which even includes mouse and various other services.
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Mark Zuckerberg held his first Facebook Live Q&A session: 10 things the CEO revealed
Jun 15, 2016, 01:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg held his first midnight QnA on Facebook LIVE. The one-hour session saw a handful of 111,000 people tuned in and Zuckerberg answered all their questions ranging from his life, his mission
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Your Facebook activity reveals your personality traits to strangers
Sep 12, 2014, 12:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: A new research has revealed that the personality traits of strangers can be detected by looking at their facebook activity.The researcher from the University of Kansas found that extroversion was the easiest personality