Facebook to come up with Message Requests on Messenger.
Facebook Inc. is now coming up with its Message Requests that will be available on the company’s instant messaging app “Messenger”. This option will completely replace the “Other” inbox option present on the website. The Vice President of Facebook, Mr. Dave Marcus took the opportunity to announce about the new feature in the company’s recent post.
Message Requests for the Messenger app will enable all the users to message whoever they wish by simply using their actual name on the social media platform. So in case the users are actually discoverable on the platform then they will now have more access to who can actually approach them to start a conversation.
So now that the company has come up with Message Requests, it is actually in good shape to completely discard the Other folder completely. The folder was not a very prominent feature of the messaging option since it was camouflaged in a corner on FB that could only be accessed while using the desktop version of social media. So far nobody could access the Other option while using Messenger.
The idea why the tech giant has come up with this new option is that strangers can get a platform to contact anyone with an optimistic vision that this will assist in uniting long lost contacts and “estranged parents”.
But the good thing is that Facebook users have the choice of ignoring or accepting the message requests anonymously. By accepting the request a message is sent particularly to the main folder for inboxes. However, under any circumstances Facebook has vowed to take care of the spam messages but all those requests that cannot go to the inbox will fall in the Messages Request option. To explain it simply, the messages that are obtained will be rerouted to the users inbox if the users become/are friends on Facebook or have each other’s contact related information on their device or if they have an open thread with the person.
Similar to the existing friends on Facebook, users will be able to see the messages by strangers on the main inbox and then will also be notified regarding the messages once they have accepted the Message Request. According to Mr. Dave Marcus, this is actually a “a foundational development,” where the company is extremely devoted to increasing the connectivity amongst the people.
So now soon we will encounter an updated Messenger and will be able to control the Message Request.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, gives his speech in Chinese language at a local university.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook Inc., enthralled the masses at the Chinese Tsinghua University recently when he gave his speech in Chinese completely. He spoke strongly about his and the company’s mission to transform the world. The chief executive officer became a member of the University’s board of economics and management in the previous year.
Zuckerberg stated, "This was also my first real speech in any language sharing how I started thinking about Facebook's mission, what has kept me going through challenging times and what our mission means now looking ahead for our community of 1.5 billion people.” He further added, “The themes of believing in your mission, caring more deeply than anyone else and always looking ahead is relevant to anything you might build."
In October 2014, the young CEO was successful in pleasing the crowd present at Tsinghua University where he conducted a question and answer session as well. The issue that aroused during that session was that the pronunciation of Mr. Zuckerberg was considered to be off slightly. Moreover, he also made one slip up that resulted in the social media moguls to states that the company has only eleven users.
This time, he actually came up with his speech and improved largely. At TechCrunch – the popular tech website, Mr. Jon Russell stated that when the CEO spoke to the Chinese speakers, they were actually enthralled by the extensive vocabulary of the tech tycoon amid the fact that he took a relatively short span of time to learn. The only suggestion they had was that he could actually improve his tone since it needed some work. However, overall everyone agreed that the progress shown by the owner of the top social media platform is actually very impressive.
Earlier in 2009, Facebook was banned in the region and is still banned to date. The CEO had initially shown interest in knowing more about China when he read “The Governance of China” by the President Xi Jinping. The book fascinated him so much that he asked all Facebook employees to read it. When he came to the University previously, he cleared that the company’s mission was to "connect the entire world", where he mentioned that company is keen about making harmonious relations with the authorities and masses at the People’s Republic of China. The future prospects seem extremely bright and he is willing to further extend the relationship with the Asian giant.
Facebook is all set to roll out Instant Articles for iOS users.
Facebook Inc.has recently announced that they are all set to reveal its Instant Articles for all the users of Apple iPhone that will be through the Facebook application. A lightning bolt will appear on the top right corner of the same stories present on the News Feed that signifies Instant Articles. So if a user taps on a story, it will automatically load ten times faster than other web based articles.
This new feature by the company gives Facebook users a better experience in comparison to other mobile web based articles. Some features of Instant Articles comprise of features like automatic playing of videos that load at a faster pace, by tilting the phone the app starts to zoom in the pictures, also the ability to comment and like photos and videos individually. Photo galleries can now be viewed with ease by simply swiping along with pictures having geo tags that allow interactive maps to pop up.
FB has been employed in a manner that the Instant Article service works smoothly in comparison to other similar services. According to Facebook, Instant Articles will provide a “more beautiful” experience than ordinary articles that tend to lag too. The Instant Articles have been tested on a small sample of individuals that were satisfied with the experiences thus the company gathered the courage to make it available for the masses. The company started to review the service earlier in June and since then the social media giant has been collaborating with various publishers.
Facebook states further that the users tend to share the Instant Articles at a frequent pace with their loved one. However, this claim will only be termed true when a sample population that is adequate in number tries out this feature. A publicly released beta version of the application can be exploited by Android users that has been revealed this week but a complete version for Android will be launched later this year.
Facebook has unveiled that thousand of Instant Articles have now been released by content developers. Users can gear up to access Instant Articles by big names of the publishing world like MTV, Daily Mail, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, The Washington Post and National Geographic. More publishers are also listed that are likely come onboard when it comes to Instant Articles that encompass Hollywood Reporter, Fox Sports, NBA, The Weather Channel, Variety, Movie Pilot, MLB and Variety.
This news is indeed a treat for readers on Facebook using Apple iOS.
Facebook is dealing with battery drainage bug on its IOS app.
Facebook Inc. is now working towards devising a fix since users have complained about battery draining while using the company’s app on Apple iPhone. So if while using the iPhone you thought that your battery was draining at a rampant pace then this might not be the case believes Matt Galligan who is the co-founder of Circa.
Matt Galligan actually wrote a blog post which was loaded with screenshots. These screenshots showed how the Facebook app was utilizing the battery when it was running in the background irrespective of the fact that the refresh option has been disabled now.
Facebook has now taken the issue into consideration reports the popular tech website TechCrunch. A statement has been released by the news platform where they have reassured about looking into the matter. As per the spokesperson belonging to FB, the company is optimistic about finding a way to the issue. However, they have not unveiled the approximate time span for the rectification. The issue can be resolved within a week or more depending on the complexity.
Mr. Galligan in the blog post stated that the battery drain of iPhones on the app is merely ridiculous. As per his consensus, more than 15 percent of the battery drainage was due to the application though the refresh option has been disabled by the company. The issue is the case that the application does not properly go into sleep mode thus it actually stays active for almost twice the time the user actually spends using the application.
As per TechCrunch, there were several bloggers who are not contented with this feature since the app is not complying with the instructions provided by Facebook users since ideally it should run in the background. The reason behind this calamity can possibly be the social media giant’s new feature which allows the videos to play on its own. If you have not disabled the auto-playing videos option in the settings then this is liable to happen. The feature also plays audio but that is performed in silent mode. So the extra power needed to run the videos can be the reason behind the battery drain.
So Mr. Romain Dillet belonging to TechCrunch actually applied this theory and experimented by disabling the auto-playing videos along with the refresh option for the iOS app. It was noted that the application used 7% lesser battery for a day. However, when auto-playing was enabled results was the same so the results are merely uncertain.
The social media giant has again gotten in trouble, as the European law has disallowed all tech companies to use information of European users anywhere outside the region.
Facebook Inc is one social media company which has repeatedly been experiencing a difficult time in the European region, mostly due to the privacy settings that are generally observed by the company but always turn out to be rather offensive for the giant. The most recent news suggests that the European authorities have shown massive disregard for all kinds privacy laws that are followed by Americans and have informed the company of its own set of principles that will followed in the region. Previously, a Safe Harbor was launched by the American government which allowed all the companies of the country to not only operate in Europe but also take user information from the country to theirs, which caused many complaints to rise from the state.
However, a new program has been installed in the region which has not only dismissed the transfer of European information to the American region, but it has also dismissed all kinds of rules that they feel are taking away information of the users to the other country. All such activities are allowed to be stopped by the authorities at any time that proves to a threat to the people of the country. As for the social media company, analysts believe things are going to be a little more difficult now, since the rules have been tightened for companies like Facebook itself.
Facebook business has also been deemed as a ‘data hungry’ company for which things have been made a little too difficult by the European authorities. Since the social media giant seems to be gaining most of its revenue through the ad generation business, which is mainly supported by the whole idea of selling personal user information in order to target the right audience with the right ads, according to their likes and dislikes.
The social networking giant first got in trouble when an Austrian student turned against it and filed a complaint about how he did not agree with the kind of usage that was being carried out by all kinds of tech companies that belonged to the American country. He also said that it was clear that all such companies working in the region were surely not using the user information of the Europeans in the right manner and had a huge chance of being offensive to user sentiments, something that the media company does not really gives heed to. The same Austrian student has also demanded from the media firm to pay back all the users which it might have offended in the past.
Facebook Android app to load faster amid slow connections.
Facebook Inc. the social media giant has yet again achieved another benchmark where they have now developed an open source “Network Connection Class” which is aimed to gauge the relative speed of the network connection. This initiative will help the company to improve its Android application so that the newsfeed can be loaded at a faster pace when the connection is sluggish. The idea behind this network solution is to keep the audiences involved in the new potential markets. So now users can enjoy the social media without being much bothered about slow Internet connection.
Facebook users will be delighted to know that the company now supports images and photos in JPEG format that is commonly used by people. The good part about this format is that it loads using a relatively lower resolution where the Internet is slow. Initially if the network is slow, then the photo will not load at all but now the only compromise is a lower screen resolution of the image.
Albeit the resolution will be lower, users will now not wait for the photos to be loaded slowly on an extremely annoying connection since the image can now be viewed while it is actually loading.
Basically the Network Connection Class will actually gauge the speed of you Internet connection along with allowing you to evaluate the category or genre of stories that need to be published on your News Feed. In case you have a sluggish connection that is not able to download and play videos then the application will be smart enough to show more links, statuses than videos. So if the connection gets better over the passage of time then the app itself will start to display videos and photos.
So the idea behind the Network Connection Class is to actually start prioritizing the stories that the user can view depending on his/her Internet connection speed. So this will actually cut down on the content that will take a lot of time to load and actually focus on that content that can be viewed easily.
The idea behind coming up with such an update for the FB Android application is to empower the users who belong to the underdeveloped regions or in other remote areas where the Internet speed is sluggish. So this initiative will actually help the users belonging to the third world countries giving them the maximum access to the social media platform. This is a great initiative that will expand the websites reach to various places across the globe.
Facebook wishes to penetrate Internet to Africa.
Facebook Inc. is devoted to bringing Internet to those regions that do not access to this facility. The company initially came up with Internet.org with an aim to provide access to Internet to the masses and that even free of cost. The company’s latest target has been to penetrate this service to the African region and empowering the local users through the power of the Internet.
In accordance to Facebook, the company is all keen to come up with a satellite that will be launched in Africa. FB partnered with the French firm Eutelsat Communications with an aim to bring the Internet to the massive parts of the sub-Saharan African region.
The company has an aim to increase Internet access and that merely through smartphones since they are being sued readily across the globe. Facebook products and services will use the satellite to spread Internet.org platform so that it can make the service reach mobile users in Africa. As per reports, the service is currently in the pipeline and will be launched in the African market by 2016.
AMOS-6 is the name of the new satellite that will be able to cover major chunks of the East, Southern African and East as reported by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg who is the chief executive officer of Facebook. The FB executives stated, "To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies.”
The Internet.org medium will offer the masses free Internet access by collaborating with the pared web services that deal with job listing, education, agriculture, healthcare etc. along with this, the company will have its own messaging and social media network service.
The rate at which the number of people who have Internet access is declining at a rampant pace where almost half of the world’s population has not made its way to the online world as reported by the United Nations Broadband Commission the previous month.
According to the data by the company, Facebook currently has almost 20 million people that use the social media platform in the Nigeria and Kenya which belongs to Africa. Majority of the people that use this service within the region are mobile users. The social media giant has established its first office in Johannesburg.
Popular tech based website known as The Information previously claimed that the company has canceled its plans to establish a satellite to offer Internet in Africa.
