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It looks like Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram are having some technical difficulties right now. Many users have complained about not able to send and receive messages through the platforms. Not just in Malaysia, other countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Australia are facing the same problem as well.

Meanwhile, over the West, we got some news about the US government accusing Facebook of monopolising the industry. In fact, sources say that 48 attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission filed a case against Facebook just yesterday due to using "unlawful schemes" to crush rivals. They also demanded Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. 

Are you addicted to your smartphone? In this modern era where almost everyone has one for work and play, it's hard to tell if one is really addicted. To answer that, a recent study was carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and here are the results.

Great news to the people who like to use Twitter because the company has rolled out a new feature which is Fleets, it is the same as the Instagram Stories. It is located on the top of the timeline, the users can post text, photos, videos, share tweets, and others can reply to your Fleets via DMs. Basically, it functions almost the same as the other platforms' Stories and it will disappear in 24 hours.

Today, you can now send secret messages to your friends and family on your Facebook Messenger and Instagram. The vanish mode is a chatroom that you don't need to delete the messages and it will automatically disappear in a short time by itself. In the secret chatroom, you still can send a message as per normal such as texts, photos, voice messages, emoji, gif, and stickers.

When it comes to social media platforms, Instagram is one of the most popular globally and even in Malaysia. That's probably why Facebook is adding a new way for reaching out to its large user base with two new features - Reels and Shop.

We believe everyone is kinda familiar and used Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browers before, only to download other internet browers. According to sources, Microsoft is going to force the users to install its new Chromium Edge and it will automatically be the default web browser.

Good news to entrepreneurs who run a business on Facebook, as the company will make business transaction easier soon. The businesses can directly sell their products on WhatsApp and the buyers can directly make an order from there.

It seems that a screenshot posted by @wongmjane on Twitter seems to showcase Facebook’s upcoming feature that they’ve been working on, in order to help you manage your timeline better. While there’s no news on when the feature will be officially rolled out to the public, we do know that it is currently in testing, which means that it could be available within a month or two.

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Instagram is rolling out an update that can bring you back to the time when the polaroid icon existed. The latest update allows users to customize the app's icon with several interesting designs including the nostalgic polaroid icon that we miss so much.