Reels and direct messaging have been the most popular features on Instagram, the company said earlier this year, which is why ...

There are three simple methods you can use within Facebook to stop your friends from posting on your Facebook wall: Control Who Can Post on Your Profile via Settings Block Facebook friend’s profile ...

Hiding your Friends list on Facebook makes a lot of sense both to protect your privacy, as well as prevent account cloning. The privacy benefits are pretty self-explanatory – whether it's a nosy ...

Facebook wants you to get in touch with your friends again – or at least wants to make it easier to find your friends when you open the app. We see more junk, advertisements, and clickbait and fewer ...

Meta said it's now fixed a Facebook bug that was sending automatic friend requests when users visited profiles through the app — which was bad news for anyone covertly visiting others’ profiles on the ...

Meta, Facebook's parent company, apologized and said the glitch was corrected. On May 12, 2023, claims began to spread across social media platforms that Facebook would send someone a friend request ...

In August, we reported that Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec had analyzed human Web behavior, and could predict who your next Facebook friend would be. Turns out it doesn’t take a scientist to ...

Are you as fed up as I am with the seemingly endless number of scams flooding Facebook? You know, the ones I’m talking about — the messages that make you stop and think, "Is this for real?" Whether ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Social media platforms encourage everyone to share their lives online, but some sharing can be risky. One common scam involves scammers looking at your Facebook friends list and attempting to create a ...

This often-overlooked privacy setting on your Facebook profile can protect your identity and boost your security online For social media users with privacy concerns, sites like Facebook have a dark ...