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Facebook now supports GIFs: Here’s how to post them

Facebook confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs on its News Feed, but at the moment not every user will be able to use the function as the update is still rolling out.  GIFs work like videos, just paste the link in the post and it becomes an embedded image. In case of Facebook, you will need […]

Mom Shames 13-year-old Daughter for acting slutty on Facebook

Denver mom Val Starks becomes enraged and publicly humiliates daughter on Facebook for posing as 19 and posting indecent pictures — Video has more than 10 million views. A Denver mother’s video on Facebook has become a viral rage after she scolded her 13-year-old daughter for posting lewd pictures and claiming her age was 19. Valerie […]

Thug arrested after liking his own ‘Mugshot Wanted’ pic on Facebook

People do dumb things on Facebook, but liking your own picture when it’s posted by the police for an arrest? Come on man! It’s normal to see people updating their status abusing police, giving each other death threats or some sort of revenge stuff, but when Great Falls, Cascade County Crime Stoppers posted a picture of Levi Charles Readon (wanted for Forgery) on […]

Prison Guards Quit Job After Beaten Inmate Photo Went Viral on Facebook

Two officers from Georgia’s correction facility had to resign when the picture of a beaten teen inmate having a leash bent around his neck was posted online on Facebook seemingly with a contraband mobile phone. According to authorities, two prisoners from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Centre involved in the March 27 incident were transferred […]

Anonymous Reveals 26,000+ Twitter Handles Allegedly having Links with ISIS

Anonymous hacktivist group continues its efforts to expose social media profiles of the notorious rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ISIS militants and its supporters by gathering a list of 26,000 plus Twitter handles of alleged connections of the extremist group. Earlier in March, a CtrlSec outfit member that is active online by the nick […]

Dubai Police: Using VPN in United Arab Emirates is a Punishable Crime

Using VPN is a crime under UAE’s cyber laws – Anyone found using VPN can be charged for going against the country’s rules and regulations. A high-level Dubai Police official has made it clear that use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is strictly prohibited under country’s cyber laws. It was UAE’s Telecommunications […]

Facebook’s New Tool Will Help Users Against Suicidal Thoughts

A set of tools has been rolled out by Facebook to help prevent suicide thoughts among its users. It is now possible to report Facebook posts that identify someone having suicidal thoughts. The reported posts will be reviewed by a third party and then it will decide whether that user should be consulted and counselled or […]

Police use Facebook to find person who dropped bag of cocaine

Usually police is known for catching criminals but the Crewe police department (CPD) from State of Virginia is making news for some other and somehow funny reasons.  On February 17 at 10:34pm, the social media page of CPD posted an update asking if someone mistakenly dropped their cocaine at a Super Dollar store, if yes then contact us […]

You can now decide what will happen to your Facebook profile when you die

Can you decide what happens to your Profile Page after your Death? Facebook can! While rolling out its latest update on Thursday, Facebook announced that it has now decided about what to do with your Facebook profile page after you die. You will be remembered! The process is simple. You need to choose a “legacy […]

Beware: Porn-based malware Infects 110K Facebook Users

Facebook appears to be infected with a porn-based malware that has affected about 110,000 Facebook users in just two days. The malware, disguised as a Flash update, comes as a link to a porn video on one of your friend’s post. Clicking on it takes you to a website that may or may not be […]

Facebook is now available on Tor for Anonymous browsing

Big news from Facebook, if you are a Tor user! Facebook has developed a link that will allow Tor users to browse freely on the site. The link is generated to discriminate Tor users from botnets which the Facebook server detects once a person is browsing through an anonymous browser. Kindly, login via following link […]

Facebook goes down; users call police to bring back the service

As we all know Facebook was down yesterday for unknown reason, but how the users took it is a totally different story. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received numerous calls from Facebook users asking them to help regain contact with Facebook.  The non-stop calls forced LASD to post tweets in order to explain that police has nothing […]

Palestinians and Israelis take battle to social networks

Now, the battle waged by both sides also extends to social networks. Israelis and Palestinians are increasingly using sophisticated methods in an attempt to win support on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. While Hamas Guides Palestinians to publish photos of wounded on social networks, Israelhas created an application that simulates what if Gaza were in your country. The […]

Egyptian hacker removes Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Timeline Photo

An Egyptian hacker removed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook timeline cover photo from his account using a private exploit, according to a latest hacker news report. According to news published by The Hacker News, an Egyptian hacker with a nickname “Dr. FarFar” explained how he went about removing the cover image. Using Report abuse option on the […]