News & Reviews:   Facebook

Today, the Facebook Company (formerly) will be now known as Meta. This was officially announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 and no, the Facebook social media platform won't change its name. From Facebook's newsroom, the Meta name change is a new direction that brings the company's apps and technologies under one new brand. 

During Facebook's Q3 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed some of the upcoming plans for the social media platforms. Out of them, one got our attention by mentioning that the company will shift their focus to young adults with "significant changes" applied to Facebook and Instagram.

If you recall, Instagram started working on direct posting from desktop browsers in May. Some beta testers got to access the feature in June, but since then we had no updates about it. Fortunately, the feature will be released soon.

Right after the Facebook outage on Monday, news about the company has been quite controversial because of a whistleblower, Frances Haugen. In case you missed it, she used to work at the company but resigned due to how they work unethically.

If you want to watch your favourite content creators collab in streams, you usually have to open multiple windows to watch them. However, Facebook Gaming is making it easier for content creators to stream together and for their viewers to watch them.

As many of you should know by now, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram servers were down late last night in Malaysia but it seemed that the whole world experienced it together. Anyway, all the servers are back online and Facebook just published an apology and update of what happened.

Back in May, it was announced that both Facebook and Instagram were planning to build an Instagram Kids app version. However, it was met with some concerns from several parties including lawmakers and child specialists. This eventually led to a pause in the project.

In Malaysia, a lot of WhatsApp users like to send voice messages instead of text messages. That's not always good, especially if it's an important discussion and you want to keep a record. But what if you can transcribe the voice message?

Twitter has introduced quite some new features in recent years. However, not every one of them was able to win users' hearts. Earlier, the company announced that it had to take away Fleets, an Instagram Stories-like feature, as "it hasn't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like it hoped." Now, the social media platform is serving something new called Communities, and it's what we've seen on its rivals.

We're getting more and more features for WhatsApp in recent weeks. It's reported that the company is looking to add message reactions, and recently the feature to transfer your chat history from iOS to Android was added. WhatsApp is also reworking some old features.