News & Reviews: Facebook
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Mar 19, 2020
Update - The COVID-19 Information Centre has rolled out to Malaysia!
While businesses are either closing temporarily or minimizing human contact with "Contactless Delivery", Facebook has announced a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Centre on their mobile app. The new update will take some time to roll out, but here's what we know about the feature so far.
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Mar 17, 2020
Based on a statement by AndroidHeadlines, it seems that WhatsApp by Facebook will most likely come with self-destructing messages which will delete themselves within an hour or up to a year. With that said, the aforementioned feature is expected to be available only on private chats while group chats will not have it.
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Mar 16, 2020
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture(Motac) is now facing criticism by netizens after allowing the Malaysia Travel Fair 2020 to proceed. Despite the Prime Minister’s call to postpone or cancel all forms of events and gatherings, the event was held at PWTC from 13-15 March and it attracted a large amount of crowd during that period of time.
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Mar 13, 2020
So something cool just happened - when I opened my Facebook page on the desktop, I was given early access to a new Facebook design layout! It seems not only a few selected ones got to experience this as my colleagues don't have it yet. So without further ado, here's the first look of possibly the new Facebook desktop design layout in the near future!
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Mar 10, 2020
In its pursuit of expanding its reach, Facebook has been testing all kinds of features. The company has been focusing on Stories a lot in recent weeks, even in Facebook Messenger, with its latest undertaking being the cross-posting of Stories to Instagram. If the feature works, social media managers will have a little less work when managing the postings.
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Mar 09, 2020
While Facebook can be pretty annoying on showing you ads about something you just talked about, the company have decided that they enforce a temporary ban on ads of medical masks. This is to prevent exploitation by groups or individuals in the wake of COVID-19.
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Mar 05, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has now penetrated even more countries out of China recently which does not just rise the health concern but fake news is also spreading out rapidly. Today, Google has seemed to be hiding all the apps that are related to the coronavirus.
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Mar 03, 2020
Yesterday, Facebook Messenger had an update that trimmed the fat of the app in various areas. Now, we have a little more detail as to what was done on the development side. Facebook has revealed that the Messenger app for iOS is now twice as fast and is 84% smaller than the previous version.
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Mar 02, 2020
Many regular users of Facebook Messenger have run into a chatbot at one point or another and while amusing at times, most find it pointless. Facebook has redesigned the app, which has been greatly streamlined with the Discover tab for businesses now gone. Instead, it now has an emphasis on the People tab and is more focused on Stories.
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Feb 28, 2020
Huawei have been accelerating their development on the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) since losing its Android license in May 2019. But recently, it seems that the progress is going well as it has come to our attention that three popular apps will be available on Huawei's AppGallery soon.
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