VR Faces Made from Facebook Photos Fool Biometric Logins By Marshall Honorof Three-dimensional virtual-reality face reconstructions made from social-media photos can easily fool facial-recognition software.
What Is Finstagram? By Lauren L'Amie With the emergence of fake Instagram accounts, or "Finstagrams," teens are taking charge of social media by creating anonymous online personas.
How to Get Verified on Twitter By Lauren L'Amie Twitter is now allowing everyone to send in requests to be verified users. Here’s our guide to landing a profile with a little blue checkmark.
What Are Facebook Messenger's Secret Conversations? By Marshall Honorof Facebook Messenger's new Secret Conversations feature, now available to a select few users, will get a full release in September.
Can Posting Political Stuff on Social Media Get You Fired? By Sherri L. Smith While it might be tempting to throw a Trump tantrum or rant about Benghazi on Facebook and Twitter, it could prevent you from being hired — or even get you canned.
Why I Stopped Using Facebook, And You Should Too By Philip Michaels By retaining ties to a board member who's funding lawsuits against news sites, Facebook has shown that its supposed support for the free exchange of ideas is empty talk.
How to Dump Trump, Hillary Off of Your Facebook By Henry T. Casey Facebook isn't the best venue for a political debate, so we've got a guide for cleaning election news and candidates out of your feed.
Twitter Wasn't Hacked, But You're at Risk Unless You Do This By Paul Wagenseil Those 32 million Twitter passwords were stolen from individual users, not Twitter itself. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen to you.
Can Facebook Live Take Down Twitch? By Michael Andronico Facebook Live video is beginning to embrace gaming, but it'll take more than just a massive user base to topple Twitch.
Facebook Eavesdropping: How a Fake Story Became 'Real' By Paul Wagenseil You know that story about how Facebook listens to your conversations? It's not true, and here's how the media failed in covering it.
How to Check If Your LinkedIn Was Hacked By Paul Wagenseil LinkedIn promised to tell users if they were part of a massive data breach, but many users are finding out from third-party sites instead.
How to Find Facebook Live Videos Around the World By Cherlynn Low The new Facebook Live Map makes it easier to find Live Videos all around the world. Here's how to find a stream to tickle your fancy.
Twitter to U.S. Spies: No More Access to Data By Henry T. Casey Dataminr provides real-time updates and alerts for world events, and Twitter has stopped agencies such as the CIA from accessing the service.
How to Report Bullying and Abuse on Reddit By Andrew E. Freedman Learn how to avoid the worst of Reddit so that you can stay focused on its community and interesting discussions.
How to Report Bullying and Abuse on Instagram By Andrew E. Freedman Learn how to stay safe and report harassment on Instagram in just a few steps.
How to Report Bullying and Abuse on Facebook By Andrew E. Freedman Facebook offers multiple ways to report harassment and abuse on its social network.
How to Make Group Calls on Facebook Messenger By Cherlynn Low Now you can conference call your friends from within Facebook Messenger. Here's how.
Talk is Cheap: Why Chatbots Will Always Be a Waste of Time By Avram Piltch Tech companies are building more witty bots like Siri and Cortana, but these anthropomorphic programs waste our time and give us a false sense of our own importance.
Here's When to Watch NFL Games on Twitter This Season By Philip Michaels Twitter is broadcasting ten NFL games on Thursday nights this season. Here's the full schedule.
Mevo Is First Official Facebook Live Video Camera By Henry T. Casey The pocket-sized Mevo camera is the first live-streamer to get Facebook's approval, and its tap-to-cut interface lets you edit as you stream.
I Used a Facebook Messenger Bot to Send My Friends Flowers By Philip Michaels Facebook wants more companies adding chatbots to its Messenger app. We took one of the first bots — one that lets you place orders through 1-800-Flowers — out for a test drive.
How to Share Dropbox Files on Facebook By Henry T. Casey A new Facebook Messenger update makes it even easier to share photos, video and other files from Dropbox. Here's how to do it.
Facebook Live Video vs Periscope: What's Right for You? By Cherlynn Low We go hands-on with Facebook's Live Video to see how it stacks up against Twitter's Periscope service.
How to Stop Facebook Memories By Anna Attkisson You may not want to be reminded daily of the person you were a year ago today. Here's how to stop Facebook's On This Day feature from bumming you out.
What is Facebook M? By Valentina Palladino Facebook's long-awaited personal assistant uses a mix of artificial intelligence and human trainers to help you get things done.
How to Disable Autoplay Videos on Twitter By Philip Michaels Here's how to stop Vines, GIFs and other videos from automatically playing in your Twitter feed, whether in a browser or in the mobile app.
How to Use Facebook's Security Checkup By Henry T. Casey It's always a good time to make sure you've secured your Facebook account, so here's how to use the social network's Security Checkup.
How To Share Your Google Maps Location to Facebook and Messenger By Henry T. Casey With a new update, Google Maps on iOS allows you to share a location with your friends with a wide variety of apps. Here's how to share with Facebook and its Messenger app.
How to Edit Your Facebook Pictures Snapchat-Style By Cherlynn Low Here's our step-by-step guide on how to use Facebook's new uploader to add Snapchat style stickers and text to your pics.
How to Make Facebook for Android Open Links in Chrome By Avram Piltch By default, the Facebook app launches all sites in its own slow, annoying browser. In just a couple of simple steps, you can force it to open links in your regular web browser.
