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  How to Hide ‘Active’ Status on Facebook (Android, iOS & Web) Are you tired of receiving inane messages from your Facebook friends every time you go online? If so, you have come to the right place. Because in this article, we will show you how you can prevent your friends from knowing when you are online on Facebook. We will teach you how to hide your ‘Active’ status on Facebook (Android, iOS, and the web) to cut out unsolicited messages from friends when you go online. That means we will show you how to turn off the green dot that appears on your Facebook profile. Hide ‘Active’ Status From Friends on Facebook (2021) Now, how do your friends know that you have come online? And what does the green dot mean on Facebook? Well, the green dot indicates that the user’s online status. It means the user is actively online on the social media platform right now. Apart from the green dot on Facebook, you might see a grey crescent moon that means they’re online but idle and an empty grey...

All Facebook Users Can Now Transfer Their Photos and Videos to Google Photos By Techtonic group Last December, Facebook introduced a new tool that lets users  transfer their Facebook images and videos to Google Photos . The feature went live in Latin America and Asia Pacific this February, followed by regions in the UK, US, and Canada. The company has  now made the feature available globally to all Facebook users . To use the feature, open Facebook Settings and  visit 'Your Facebook Information' . Here, you will have to  choose 'Transfer a Copy of Your Photos or Videos' . Facebook will now ask your password to verify your identity. Enter the password,  choose Google Photos as the destination , and  select 'Confirm Transfer' . After authenticating with your Google account, the process begins. Facebook will notify you with an in-app notification and an email once the transfer is complete. Facebook's photo transfer tool is part of the open-source...

Facebook, Saregama Ink Licensing Deal to Let Users Add Its Music to Stories and Videos By Techtonic group Mere days after Saregama  partnered  with Spotify, the record label has now signed a global licensing deal with Facebook to make its entire music catalog available across Facebook and Instagram. Saregama now joins the likes of other major Indian music labels including Zee Music Company, T-Series, and Yash Raj Films to join hands with the social media giant. You will now be able to use songs in Saregama's catalog in a wide variety of formats. The company will enable you to add music stickers to Instagram Stories or use one of the tracks in your profile posts. Instagram Music, a  much-loved feature  arrived in India earlier last year. It lets users  add a live lyric or 15-second customizable snippet  to their Instagram Stories. The availability of some evergreen tracks from Bollywood's well-known artists is only going to ramp up the feature's ...

Facebook Floats New Entity 'Jaadhu Holdings' as Part of Facebook-Jio Deal By Techtonic group Facebook now has  a new entity named 'Jaadhu Holdings LLC'  as part of its  9.9% stake acquisition  in Jio Platforms Limited. Both companies disclosed the entity in a submission filed to the Competition Commission of India. "Jaadhu is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Facebook.   Jaadhu is a newly incorporated company formed in March 2020 under the laws of the State of Delaware, United States."  reads the filing.  "As on the date of the Notification Form, Jaadhu is not engaged in any business in India or anywhere in the world" The companies ensure CCI that  this transaction will not change the competitive landscape . As mentioned in the filing, Facebook and Jio Platforms will continue to operate independently. Moreover, Facebook and Reliance claim there isn't any significant overlap between the areas the companies operate in. "The Pr...

Facebook Now Let's You Bulk Delete Old Posts By Techtonic group Social media giant,  Facebook , is bringing a new feature to make it easier for users to delete old posts. The new 'Manage Activity' feature will allow users to delete their posts in bulk or one-by-one. Facebook says the feature will allow users to filter their posts as well. This will allow you to quickly find posts you want to delete.  You can use filters like a range of dates, or specific people.  Clearly, the company wants to make it easier to get rid of old embarrassing posts, or posts about an ex. With the new feature, Facebook wants to help users maintain their account to reflect the kind of person they are now. The feature is meant  "to make it easy for you to curate your presence on Facebook to more accurately reflect who you are today"  says the company. With the new feature,  you will be able to move posts you don't want on your profile to the trash.  These will be r...

Facebook Staff Stage Virtual 'Walkout' Over Trump's Inflammatory Posts By Techtonic group Some  Facebook  employees on Monday staged a 'virtual walkout' to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action on a series of controversial posts from Donald Trump. As part of the walkout, the aggrieved employees, who are already working from home because of the pandemic, took the day off work. In response to the walkout, Zuckerberg moved his weekly meeting with employees to Thursday. The developments come after  Zuckerberg decided not to remove any of President Trump's inflammatory messages from Facebook . While  Twitter  has started fact-checking and labeling Trump's tweets whenever they seem to breach the platform's policies, Zuckerberg has rejected proposals to do something similar on Facebook, saying that such a move would violate free speech on the platform. According to  The New York Times , many employees were already upset with ...

Facebook Releases Live Events Company App 'Venue' By Techtonic group After  group audio calling app CatchUp  and  music collaboration App Collab , Facebook's New Product Experimentation (NPE) team has released a companion app for live events named 'Venue' this week. The app provides passionate fans with a platform to share their excitement and to discuss live events as they happen.  Venue will debut in partnership with NASCAR in Supermarket Heroes 500 race tomorrow . "As NASCAR makes its return to action over the coming weeks, Venue will provide users with a unique and exciting way to connect with fellow race fans from around the globe – all from the safety and comfort of their own homes.  NASCAR was built on innovation, and we couldn’t be more excited to help a great partner like Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team innovate around new platforms.", said Tim Clark, SVP and Chief Digital Officer, NASCAR. Venue will feature expert commenta...

Facebook Launches Music Collaboration App 'Collab' By Techtonic group Facebook's NPE team has today launched a new app it calls Collab with a refreshed take on music creation. The announcement comes merely a couple of days after the team announced its  group audio calling solution named CatchUp . Collab lets creators share  TikTok-like short-form music videos . The  app combines a total of three videos  that could either be all yours or as a collaboration with others. Other Collab users can use your videos for collaborating with your piece. "With the app, you can create your own arrangement by adding in your own recording or by swiping and discovering an arrangement to complete your composition.",  explains Facebook. After creating collabs, you can easily publish them across other social media platforms to share your creation with your friends and family. Even if you're not interested to upload your original videos, you can browse the collection of...

Facebook's New App 'CatchUp' Wants to Compete Against FaceTime Audio By Techtonic group Facebook has released a new app called 'CatchUp' today. The app allows users to make audio calls over the internet with up to 8 people at a time. That might not sound like it's anything different from WhatsApp Audio calls, or FaceTime Audio. However, CatchUp aims to differentiate itself from other apps with a couple of key features. Most importantly, the app  allows users to mark themselves as 'Ready to Talk' or 'Offline' . This way, you will always know whether someone is available to talk or not. Apparently, that's a big reason why people don't call their friends. Facebook says,  "Based on our studies, we found that one of the main reasons people don’t call friends and family more frequently is that they don’t know when they are available to talk or are worried they may reach them at an inconvenient time.  CatchUp addresses this prob...

Facebook Announces Permanent Work from Home Option for Employees By Techtonic group Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company would embrace the work from home culture by offering a  permanent work from home option to many of its existing employees . "Over the next 5-10 years, I think we could have 50% of our people working remotely, but we're going to get there in a measured way. I think Facebook will be the most forward-leaning company on remote work at our scale, and we've been working on a thoughtful and responsible plan to do this.",  wrote Zuckerberg on Facebook. As part of this goal, Facebook will focus on remote hiring. Zuckerberg says Facebook will hire experienced engineering within 4 hours of a city where there is a Facebook engineering office. This includes areas such as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Diego. The company will also set up new hubs in Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver. According to Zuckerberg,  more...

Facebook to Pay $9 Million to Settle Canadian Probe Into Misleading Privacy Claims By Techtonic group Canada's competition watchdog has fined Facebook CA$9 million (around Rs. 48 crores) for making  "false or misleading claims"  about its privacy settings. In a press release on Tuesday, the Competition Bureau said that the internet giant will also pay an additional $500,000 to cover the costs of the Bureau’s investigation. The payments are part of a settlement between Facebook and the Canadian Competition Bureau. As part of the deal, the US tech giant also agreed not to make false or misleading representations about the disclosure of personal information. The development comes just days after  Facebook agreed to pay $52 million  to settle a lawsuit by its content moderators for failing to effectively protect their mental health. The fines are the result of a years-long investigation that looked at Facebook’s practices between August 2012 and June 2018. ...

Facebook Shops Announced to Help Turn Your Buisness Profile Into a Storefront By Techtonic group Facebook already has a ' Marketplace ' and lets businesses  tag products  in their posts. The social media giant, however, is making an even bigger push into online shopping with the launch of Facebook Shops today. It enables businesses to turn their Facebook or Instagram page into shopfronts. Users can then hop in, browse the product catalog, and buy the goods they like without ever leaving any of the social apps. In its  official blog post , Facebook Shops is being billed as an essential feature for small businesses. They've been hit the hardest due to the COVID-19 lockdown.  "Our goal is to make shopping seamless and empower anyone from a small business owner to a global brand to use our apps to connect with customers,"  says Facebook. Why makes Facebook Shops so useful? One of the highlights of the feature is that you simply need to set up one storefr...

How to Enable Facebook's New UI on Web By Techtonic group Although Facebook keeps its mobile app up to date with the latest features, the company just recently started to push new features to its desktop website. We have seen the company  release the messenger app for desktop users  earlier this month. Following that update, the company also unveiled an entirely new look for its web version. The California-based social media giant announced the new appearance for its website in their annual F8 event back in 2019. Following the announcement, we saw the company  testing its newly designed web interface . However, they unveiled the new design for its website just recently. The new web interface of Facebook  brings a ton of new appearance changes to its website, including the support for the newly hyped feature -- the Dark Mode . Apart from that, this new design is much easier on the eyes compared to its previous version bringing bigger fonts, easy-to-underst...

Facebook Aquires GIF Sharing Platform Giphy for Around $400 Million By Techtonic group Social media giant Facebook has today acquired one of the most popular GIF creation and sharing websites - Giphy, which will now be a  part of the Instagram team . The news was first reported by  Axios  and got subsequently confirmed by Facebook in an official blog post. While Facebook did not disclose the financial terms of the deal,  Axios ' report suggests that the company had a  valuation of around $400 million . Facebook ✔ @Facebook Welcome to the family, @ GIPHY ! https:// about.fb.com/news/2020/05/w elcome-giphy/  … 1,173 8:10 PM - May 15, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 536 people are talking about this The acquisition is part of Facebook's bigger  plans to   integrate Giphy's extensive GIF library into Instagram  and other Facebook-owned apps. In an official blog post announcing the acquisition, Facebook claims almost  50 percent...

Messenger Rooms Now Available to All Facebook Users in North America By Techtonic group Facebook's ' Messenger Rooms ' teleconferencing service is now rolling out more widely in the US, Canada and Mexico. In an official Facebook post on Thursday, the company's co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that it will be rolled out to all Facebook's users globally starting next week.  Messenger Rooms is already available on Messenger worldwide , and the company plans to integrate it with its other online services,  including WhatsApp  and Instagram, going forward. Announced late last month, Messenger Rooms is group video chat service designed for social interactions. While  Zoom , Skype and other popular teleconferencing apps are designed for business meetings, Messenger Rooms is targeted at consumers, helping people stay in touch with their friends and families from afar. To use the feature, users can create a 'Room' from within the chat option in t...

Facebook to Pay $52 Million to Moderators For Falling to Protect Their Mental Health By Techtonic group Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to its content moderators in the US to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company failed to adequately address the mental and emotional well-bring of workers tasked with moderating disturbing content on the platform. As part of the settlement announced Tuesday,  moderators will get a minimum of $1,000 each  from Facebook, but those who have been diagnosed with mental health disorders, like PTSD, will be eligible for  additional compensation of up to $50,000. The  settlement covers 11,250 moderators in the US , and according to lawyers for the plaintiffs, as many as half of them may be eligible for extra compensation because of mental health issues associated with their content moderation work. The lawsuit was originally filed by one Selena Scola, who says she developed PTSD after working as a content moderator for ...

US Political Consultant Bought Over 200 Fake Facebook Pages to Defend Himself By Techtonic group According to Wikipedia, Roger Jason Stone is an American political consultant, lobbyist, author and a convicted felon. A convicted felon, who is also a confidant and a top advisor of the current President, Donald Trump? Well, if that also does not make you believe that he is actually a convicted felon, then listen to this. According to newly opened FBI search warrants, Roger had bought over 200 fake Facebook pages back in 2016 to damage the reputation of rival political parties and later to defend himself against some major charges. Stone is a man who has a very high reach in the political world as he has been friends with Trump since way back.  The man was under investigation for allegedly conspiring with Russia during the 2016 Presidential elections  but was never charged, though. However, he was served 40 months of prison time for lying to Congress. Now, a  jo...

Google, Facebook to Let Employees Work from Home Through 2020 By Techtonic group The  coronavirus pandemic  has led a lot of companies across the globe to bring work from home policies to employees. Tech giants Google and Facebook will continue letting employees work from home till the end of the year. Google's work from home policy is already in place until June and with this announcement, employees get to work remotely for the rest of 2020. As reported by  The Information , Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google employees whose workflow demands a return to the office will be allowed sometime in June or July with enhanced safety measures. Meanwhile, CNBC first  reported  that Facebook will open a majority of its offices that got closed in wake of the coronavirus situation on July 6. Employees who are currently working from home, however, will be allowed to continue doing so until the end of the year. "Facebook has taken the next step in its retur...

Facebook SDK Bug Caused Several IOS App Crashes By Techtonic group Several popular iOS apps including Spotify, TikTok, GroupMe, Pinterest, and Tinder reportedly faced crashing issues due to a problem in a Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK) integration. The crash had apparently affected multiple apps, as can be seen in the discussion on this issue raised on  Facebook iOS SDK's GitHub  page. " Well, this certainly got our entire team rattled and the boss foaming at the mouth. Crazy how the FBSDK tracking the app launch can cause everything to come crumbling down. Whomever QA'd this change, I fear for their job.",   wrote  a developer. According to reports, there was a change in the type of data that the Facebook SDK server provides when an app opens which was causing the crash. If reports are to be believed, it looks like Facebook made an update to its SDK servers to identify if an app was a health-app or not. Facebook was quick to rectify the issue, a...