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Social Media's Shocking Data Harvesting & Sharing Practices Exposed
The FTC's new report reveals how social media giants collect data, share it with third parties, and create detailed profiles for their own and others' use.
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What is Facebook Account Cloning & What Can You Do about It?
Keeping yourself – and your friends – safe from Facebook account cloning scams is simple. This is everything you need to know to protect yourself.
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How to Tell if Your Facebook Messages Have Been Read
Want to know if your friends have read your messages? Facebook Messenger will tell you when your message has been sent, delivered and read.
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See the World Smarter: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Get Multimodal AI
Ray-Ban Meta glasses' new AI assistant can identify what you see, answer questions, and make calls. All without you reaching for your phone.
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Tired of Junk Facebook Posts? This Setting Might Make a Difference
Say goodbye to annoying Facebook posts! This under-the-radar setting lets you filter out clickbait, fake news, disturbing images, and more.
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Facebook Rolling Out Better Controls for Its Video Player
Facebook's revamped video player gives you more full-screen options, consistent navigation controls, and a broader range of content recommendations.
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Facebook Messenger is Now Encrypted: Key Things You Need to Know
Default encryption is here – find out the benefits and limitations. Plus, learn how Secure Storage works to keep your conversations secure and accessible.
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Take Control of Your Facebook Privacy with Custom Friends Lists
Don't want your boss to see your weekend pics? Target your Facebook posts and protect your info with easy-to-use custom Friends lists.
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The Complete Guide to Facebook Privacy Settings
I performed a complete analysis of every Facebook privacy setting. Get my recommendations for the changes you should make to protect your privacy.
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How to Delete Your Meta Account Permanently
Tired of Meta? We explain what your Meta account is and provide the simple steps to permanently delete your Meta account and all of your associated data.
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How to Delete an Old Facebook Account When You Can't Log In
These steps will help you delete a Facebook account, even if you can't log in or access the old email address or phone number associated with it.
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Can You Spot the Fake? Meta to Start Calling out AI Images
AI-generated images are getting more realistic. Meta's new labels help you tell the difference between real and fake photos on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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Reactivate Your Facebook Account When You're Ready to Dive Back In
Reactivate your Facebook account with ease! Follow our simple guide to quickly reconnect with friends and update key settings for a secure, hassle-free return.
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How to Delete Your Facebook Account Permanently
Tired of Facebook? Here are the simple steps to permanently delete your Facebook account and all of your history or temporarily deactivate it.
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How to Deactivate Your Facebook Account
Tired of Facebook but not sure you're ready to leave permanently? Here are the simple steps to deactivate your Facebook account so you can always jump back in.
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How to Download Your Pictures, Posts and Other Data from Facebook
Safeguard your Facebook memories. Our guide shows how to make a backup copy of all of your Facebook data, including posts, messages, photos, and videos.
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How to Export Your Facebook Photos and Videos to Cloud Storage
Learn how to easily back up your Facebook memories – photos and videos – to a cloud service like Google Photos or Dropbox with our step-by-step guide.
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How to Hide your Friends List on Facebook
Hiding your Friends list on Facebook makes sense, both to protect your privacy, as well as prevent account cloning that could put your friends at risk.
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Stop Your Threads Posts from Being 'Suggested' on Facebook & Instagram
Meta's new privacy feature in Threads now enables users to prevent their posts from being "suggested" in other people's feeds on Facebook and Instagram.
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How to Tell if your Facebook Account Has Been Hacked
How to tell if your Facebook account had been hacked, how to kick a hacker out of your account and how to secure your account against future hacking.
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How to Claim Your Share of the Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Settlement
If you used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, you can submit a claim for your portion of the $725 million settlement. Here's how.
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Use Facebook’s New Tool to Influence What You See in Your Feed
Facebook announced a new tool that lets you boost the likelihood of seeing posts you like in your feed, while decreasing the number of ones you hate.
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Keep Your Facebook Messages Private with Secret Conversations
With Facebook’s Secret Conversations enabled, your messages are encrypted end-to-end, so no one can read them. But there are loopholes.
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New Facebook Feeds Tab Puts You in Control of What You See
If you don't like Facebook telling you what to read, you'll love the new Feeds tab that shows chronological posts from your friends, Pages, and groups.
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Sellers Beware of this Facebook Marketplace Scam
Scammers posing as buyers are tricking Facebook Marketplace sellers into sending cash through Zelle and other payment apps. Here's how to spot the scam.
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Facebook Ad Copyright Violation Scam Used for Phishing Attacks
Emails claiming your ad violates Facebook's terms of service for copyright are being used to phish business account login credentials. Don't fall for it.
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Facebook “IS THIS YOU?” Video Scam Steals Your Login Info
Don't fall for this scam that steals your login info. Here's how to spot it before you click and what to do if you've already been fooled into logging in.
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Facebook Lets You Block Political Ads
You may not be able to stop your friends from arguing about politics, but you can at least get rid of political ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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Bulk Delete Facebook Posts with This New Privacy Tool
With the new Manage Activity feature, you can easily filter you old Facebook posts and delete or achive them to pull your private information out of the public eye.
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How to Remove Zoombombing Videos from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter & YouTube
Get offensive and dangerous zoombombing videos removed from any of the major video sharing platforms and hold accountable those who captured and posted them.
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How to Stop Sharing Your Browsing Activity with Facebook
Facebook finally lets you control how much third-party data shows up on your profile with new Off-Facebook Activity privacy tools.
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Should You Care About Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency?
What cryptocurrency is and, by extension, Facebook's proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and why you should you care.
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Facebook Redesign Focuses on Private Conversations and Privacy
Facebook wants to help you make friends, find dates, and have completely private conversations with end-to-end encryption. But after a year of privacy missteps, is it enough?
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How to Prevent Facebook from Uploading your Contacts
Facebook may be using your mobile device to harvest your friends' contact information — here's how to turn it off and delete any information it collected.
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Facebook Messenger Now Lets You Unsend Messages
Facebook Messenger's unsend feature lets you delete messages, but there are limitations. Here's what you need to know before you press unsend.
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Deleting Your Facebook Account Won't Protect Your Privacy
If you're thinking about deleting your Facebook or Twitter account to protect your privacy, think again. Getting rid of your account probably won't keep you safe.
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Facebook's Partners Had Access to Your Messages and More
In the company's latest privacy scandal, Facebook allowed business partners see messages and contacts long beyond they offered services that required access.
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Facebook Bug Lets App-Makers See Photos You Never Posted
A new Facebook bug gives app developers access to all photos you upload to Facebook — even photos you don't post.
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Facebook's New Portal Smart Display Is Perfect for Video Calls
Facebook's voice-controlled Portal and Portal+ may look like an Amazon Echo Show or Google Home Hub, but they are purpose-built for video calling.
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Hackers Gained Full Access to as Many as 90 Million Facebook Accounts
The latest Facebook data breach not only gave hackers access to users' Facebook accounts, but also the accounts of services users logged into with Facebook.
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Facebook's Latest Privacy Snafu May Have Set Your Posts to Public
A software bug caused everything on Facebook to be posted publicly by default for almost a week, affecting 14 million users.
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Facebook Wants You to Opt-in to Face Recognition & Personalized Ads
Don't give up your privacy to Facebook. These are the two key privacy settings you need to verify.
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Facebook Has Been Secretly Giving Away Your Data for Years
Through partnerships with big tech companies, Facebook has been sharing your personal information even if you told them not to.
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Don't Share Outdated Personal Information on Facebook
Online quizzes and memes that ask for outdated personal information like your first car or your first pet's name seem fun, but sharing could help hackers get into your accounts.
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How to Check if Cambridge Analytica Has Your Facebook data
Facebook has put up a link so you can easily check to see if Cambridge Analytica has your personal data.
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Easily Delete Facebook Apps with Access to Your Personal Data
Facebook has made it easier to mass delete apps and control the information they can access. Here's how.
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Should You Turn Off Facebook Facial Recognition?
Even if you aren't tagged in photos, Facebook can notify you when they're published.
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How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Them Knowing
Want to unfriend someone on Facebook but don't want them to find out? Here's how to block them out without pissing them off.
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Don't Share Boarding Passes & Concert Tickets on Facebook
The information in barcodes on boarding passes and other tickets can compromise your identity.
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7 Common Scams We're Still Falling For
Fraudulent emails from friends, financial phishing and too-good-to-be-true offers: here's why we still fall for these scams and how to spot them.
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How to Report Fake News on Facebook
Help stop the spread of misinformation with Facebook's new "fake news" reporting tool.
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Find Out What Facebook Knows About You
The price of using the Facebook is your personal information, which collects in order to advertise to you. Here's how to find out what Facebook knows.
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Facebook Makes Watching Videos Better & Worse
The latest updates to Facebook apps make watching videos convenient, although you might want to know how to turn off the autoplay feature.
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How to Control What You See in Your Facebook News Feed
How the world's biggest distributor of news chooses what you see — and how to take back control.
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7 Facebook Messenger Tricks You Never Knew Existed
Facebook's Messenger app is more than just a text messaging app. It lets you send money, call an Uber, order flowers play games and much more.
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Facebook Users Threatened with Sophisticated Phishing Attacks
Cybercriminals are out again to get your Facebook login data using persuasive tactics.
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How to Fix 8 Common Facebook Frustrations
There are solutions to the most common Facebook frustrations. So check out our guide and get back to Liking Facebook.
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Study: Kids Think Parents Should Have Device Rules, Too
Parents aren't the only ones who think device use should be restricted.
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Now You Can Do More Than "Like" Posts On Facebook
The social network's reactions feature rolled out to everyone today, so you can finally show your love or dislike of a post.
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Facebook Gets Into Video Live Streaming With Live Video
Facebook rolled out Live Videos, a live video-streaming competitor to Twitter's Periscope, to all U.S. iPhone users today.
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Facebook Most-Used Words Quiz Causing 'Privacy Nightmares'
Did you click the popular app that tells what your most-used words on Facebook are? You may be open to massive privacy issues; Techlicious explains.
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Facebook Alerted State Department to Iranian Cyberattacks
Facebook's new alert system tipped off U.S. State Department officials to an Iranian cyberattack on their email and social media accounts.
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Facebook Lets Strangers Contact You Via Messages
Facebook has quietly let strangers contact you through your Messages "Other" mailbox, now people who aren't your Facebook friends will pop up as Message Requests.
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Facebook Adds Card-Style Notifications to Mobile App
Facebook notifications just got more useful with a new update lets you customize your notifications to show timely information important to you.
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Facebook Fixes Battery Drain Issues in iOS App
Has your iPhone battery been draining faster than usual lately? Facebook for iOS may be to blame. Find out what you can do to stop the drain.
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Facebook Search Now Lists Everyone's Public Posts
Facebook's widened search function gives you results from its index of 2 trillion public posts, so you can find posts even from non-friends.
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Facebook Tests Shopping Feed
Facebook is testing new ways solutions to make shopping and product discovery easier. Among them is a dedicated Shopping feed.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Says 'Dislike' Button is Coming Soon
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the social network is close to unveiling a new button that lets you express empathy with a post.
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How to Disable Autoplay Videos on Twitter and Facebook
Most social networks now autoplay videos in your feed by default, but you can disable this setting on Facebook and Twitter with a few simple steps.
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How to Stop Ads in Your Facebook News Feed
Tired of the increasing number of ads in your Facebook News Feed? Here are the 5 steps you need to take to stop them.
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'Facebook Moments' Automatically Creates Music Videos from Your Pictures
Facebook Moments now automatically creates personalized, customizable music videos from any shared Moment with 6 or more photos.
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Facebook, Pinterest the top social networks
Social networking sites Facebook and Pinterest have the largest following among U.S. Internet users, with Instagram close behind in third.
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Pew: Facebook, Twitter Users Increasingly Reliant on Social Media for News
A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 63% of social media users (Twitter, Facebook) now get their news there.
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Here's How to Customize Your Facebook News Feed
The News Feed Preferences panel lets you choose friends whose posts you want to see at the top of your feed, and select others to unfollow.
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Facebook Gets New Photo Editing Interface, Tools
Taking a page from Snapchat, an update to the Facebook photo editor interface allows the easy addition and manipulation of stickers, text and filters.
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Facebook Facial Recognition Now Works Without Seeing Your Face
Facebook researchers have designed a recognition algorithm that can identify you based on clothes, body shape and posture when your face is obscured.
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Facebook Overhauling its Location Sharing Features
Facebook Messenger has scrapped always-on location tracking in favor of letting you share your exact GPS location with friends with a finger tap.
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How to Avoid the 3 Most Common Social Media Scams
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center has identified three common types of social media fraud that you should be aware of.
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Facebook Testing Its Own In-App News Search Engine
The new Add a Link feature for the Facebook iOS app lets you search for links to attach to status updates without needing to open a browser.
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Facebook: We're Not Responisible for the News Feed Political Echo Chamber
A new study from Facebook, published in Science, suggests our own biases are the biggest factor in the one-sided political nature of our News Feeds.
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Facebook Testing a Feature That Allows Better News Feed Customization
Facebook is giving a small number of users the ability to promote chosen friends' content to the top of their News Feeds.
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Facebook Messenger Gets Video Chat Feature
The Facebook Messenger chat app now lets you connect to friends with free, face-to-face video chats — just watch your mobile data plan.
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Facebook Unveils New Caller ID App 'Hello'
The new Facebook app Hello (Android only) gives you information about incoming calls, pulled directly from the Facebook profile of the caller.
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Facebook Testing New 'Sidebar Status' Messages
Sidebar Statuses are short text blurbs, viewable by your Facebook Messenger friends, that are reminiscent of AIM away messages.
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Facebook Scrapbook Lets You Easily Share Photos of Your Kids
Facebook Scrapbook allows you to easily create dedicated albums for your kids on your own profile using the site's photo tagging feature.
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Facebook Shows Off New and Coming Features
Spherical videos, third-party messenger apps and a Wi-Fi smart battery for smoke detectors were all unveiled at the F8 Facebook Developers Conference.
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Managing Digital Accounts Before & After Death
When a loved one dies, what happens to their various accounts? What you should know and what options do you have to protect and honor your family and friends.
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Are Cemeteries Obsolete?
Online memorials are becoming more common, but are they making cemeteries obsolete? Plus, how to create an online memorial and what privacy concerns you should be aware of.
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How to Spot Lies, Hoaxes and Misinformation Online
Don't get fooled by a hoax — many online lies and scams can be detected and fact checked in seconds if you know what to look for.
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Facebook Adding Suicide Prevention Tools
Social network Facebook is rolling out new tools to report threats of self-harm and suicide and provide resources to those in need.
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How to Name a Digital Heir for Your Facebook Account
Facebook now lets you name a legacy contact able to perform simple account management tasks in the event of your death.
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Facebook Facial Recognition Tech Reaches 'Human-Level Performance'
DeepFace, a new facial recognition algorithm being developed by Facebook, can identify a person in a photo with 97.35% accuracy.
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Obama to Introduce Comprehensive Online Privacy Bill
The bill, if passed, would create stricter privacy regulations and empower the FTC to police violations by companies like Facebook and Google.
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Illinois Cyberbullying Law Forces Parents to Give Up Kids' Passwords
A new Illinois cyberbullying law compels parents to surrender the social networking passwords of their children at the request of school officials.
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Facebook Taking Action Against Fake News Stories
Facebook is changing its News Feed algorithm to reduce the number of hoaxes, scams and false news stories appearing on your Timeline.
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Facebook Adding Warnings to Graphic Videos
The new warnings, being applied to graphic video of Charlie Hebdo terrorists, also prevent those under the age of 18 from viewing the content.
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Find Out What Your Facebook Likes Say About You
Researchers have developed a computer program that can accurately guess your age, gender, intelligence and more based on your Facebook likes.
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AMBER Alerts Come to Facebook
Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to being issuing geographically targeted AMBER alerts to members.
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Facebook, Google+ Sharing Personalized 'Year in Review' Content
Both Facebook and Google+ are sharing automatically generated albums and videos with your most popular photos of the year.
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Facebook Now Automatically Enhances Uploaded Pictures
The Facebook for Apple iOS app now automatically enhances your uploaded photos and gives you more control over editing brightness and clarity.