Love it or not? But Twitter is in love... It has replaced its much famous stars with Hearts...
Twitter today retired its star button that users click to “favourite” a post and replaced it with a heart.
The new system of “likes”, offers a better way for users to express their views. But it quickly sparked an outcry from some users, as it was also used by Facebook.
Twitter said the move was taken in consideration as it would be easier to understand for users around the world.
Twitter’s Periscope livestream app, already uses the heart symbol, and it now will appear on Twitter and Vine(App for short Videos) .
The idea has been around for months, and key Twitter investor Chris Sacca suggested such a change in a June blog post, saying favourite was “too strong a word.”
"Favorite is a superlative. It implies a ranking. In the early days of Twitter many of us interpreted the word literally and only keep a few tweets in our favourites that were truly, well, our favourites," he wrote.
“We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers,” product manager Akarshan Kumar said in a blog post.
“You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favourite.” Kumar said the heart “is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures and time zones.”
“The heart is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people. And in our tests, we found that people loved it,” he added.
Reactions:
Hearts? Really Twitter? Why not lollipops, or sugardrop fairies made of rainbow smiles, sparkles, and a generous dollop of dreams?
A Twitter “poll” — another new feature to boost user interest — found 80% users preferred “favourites” and only 20 per cent “likes,” with some 220 users voting.
Boosting the government’s ambitious ‘Digital India’ drive, social media giant Facebook has come forward to facilitate state-run BSNL in setting up 100 Wi-Fi sites in rural areas of western and southern India.
Facebook will spend Rs 5 crore per annum for sponsoring these 100 Wi-Fi hotspots in the country. “Facebook has partnered with us to sponsor 100 Wi-Fi hotspots in villages across west and southern India.
They will pay Rs 5 lakh for BSNL bandwidth for each hotspot per annum,” BSNL chairman & MD, Anupam Shrivastava said.
The hotspots are being set up by BSNL-selected vendor Quad Zen.
“We have already set up 25 hotspots under the agreement. Facebook is only sponsoring them and not taking any revenue share.
Quad Zen will set up these hotspots and handle sales.
There is revenue share model between BSNL and Quad Zen,” Shrivastava said. When contacted, Facebook spokesperson said, “We don’t have any comments at this point of time.”
The agreement between Facebook and BSNL is for three years and it can be further extended for two more years, he said.
BSNL has also received interest from Member of Parliaments for setting up Wi-Fi hotspots in villages which they have adopted under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) to make it a model village by 2016.
“Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Najma Heptulla and Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan are sponsoring BSNL bandwidth for Wi-Fi hotspots in the villages that they have adopted under SAGY. BSNL approached MPs explaining this model under MPLAD scheme and over 50 MPs have responded positively to it,” Shrivastava said.
He said that the sponsored Wi-Fi spots are being set-up in addition to 2,500 Wi-Fi spots that BSNL is setting up in partnership with Quad Zen and Trimax. “With Facebook and MPs coming forward, we are being able to set up Wi-Fi hotspots in area where it is not commercially feasible to run them. We are quickly extending optical fibre connectivity to these hotspots,” Shrivastava said.
Under commercial model, Quad Zen will set up 2,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in West and Southern part of the country and Trimax will set up 500 hotspots in North India.
Facebook recently enabled autoplaying videos on its website and apps and this feature is the most annoying thing in the world.... After Bieber though!
I find it annoying especially because they start playing even when you're just scrolling down and don't pause at the video. It can waste data, and sometimes people will share videos that you would rather just not see, but avoiding them when they start playing in front of you without warning can be difficult.
It's actually possible to disable the autoplay quite easily, though the settings aren't very obvious at first glance. Don't worry though - whether you want to disable autoplaying videos on the Facebook website or Android or iOS apps, I've got you covered.
Follow these steps to stop Facebook videos from automatically loading and playing.
If you are using Facebook on the Web (desktop browser):
1) Go to Facebook's video settings page when you are logged into your Facebook account.
2) Click the button to the right of Auto-play Videos and choose Off from the drop down menu.
If you are using the Facebook app for Android, use the following steps to stop Facebook videos from autoplaying:
1) Tap the three horizontal lines icon.
2) Scroll down and tap App Settings.
3) Tap Video Auto-play.
4) Tap Off to stop videos from automatically playing, or Wi-fi only if it's okay for videos to autoplay when you are on Wi-Fi.
If you are using the Facebook app for iPhone, use the following steps to disable video autoplay:
1) Tap the three horizontal lines icon labelled More near the bottom right corner.
2) Scroll down and tap Settings.
3) Tap Account Settings.
4) Tap Videos and Photos.
5) Tap Auto-play.
6) Tap Never Auto-play Videos to completely stop Facebook videos from automatically playing, or On WiFi Connections Only if you don't mind videos autoplaying when you are on Wi-Fi.
If you are using the Facebook app for iPad, use the following steps to stop videos from automatically playing:
1) Tap the three horizontal lines icon labelled More near the bottom right corner.
2) Scroll down and tap Account Settings.
3) Tap Videos and Photos.
4) Tap Auto-play.
5) Tap Never Auto-play Videos to completely stop Facebook videos from automatically playing, or On WiFi Connections Only if you don't mind videos autoplaying when you are on Wi-Fi.
You have one less annoying thing in your life now that Facebook videos autoplay is disabled. For more tutorials, visit the How To section.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the last leg of his visit to the US. Over the past couple of days, Modi has managed to speak to a host of Fortune 500 CEOs. Among the prominent announcements from Modi’s Silicon Valley visit are:
Google announces plans to offer free Wi-Fi at 500 stations
According to a recent report released by the United Nations Broadband Commission titled, ‘The State of Broadband’ report prior to the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development said that India slipped in global rankings on broadband penetration.
While many may argue that it is the Government’s responsibility to provide an effective and affordable access to broadband internet, the fact remains that India is now behind countries such as Syria and Sudan in terms of internet penetration.
During PM Modi’s visit to the Google campus during the Code for India hackathon 2015, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google would be partnering with Indian Railways to provide high-speed broadband internet connectivity at 500 Indian railway stations. Pichai stressed that these connections would enable streaming of high definition video content, stressing that they would not just enable connectivity but enables consumption of high bandwidth video.
Microsoft Broadband connectivity to 5 lakh villages
After Google, it was Microsoft’s turn to sweeten the deal. While Google focussed on high speed connectivity, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft will partner with the Indian government to bring low-cost internet connectivity to 5,00,000 Indian villages.
During the townhall at the Facebook HQ with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, PM Modi responded to a query on how effective the Make in India campaign would be and the ease of changing the course of things. He gave the anecdote of a scooter being driven and how easy it is to divert its course. Modi added that in the case of train, it take time to steer it in a new direction. This was in reference to the scale of India. At the Facebook townhall, Modi highlighted that India has a unique challenge of over 600000 villages.
The announcement by Microsoft couldn’t have come at a better time than when the Digital India initiative has been proposed to the world.
Microsoft data centres in India next week
In his announcement, Nadella added, “A key part of both Make in India and Digital India, bringing world class infrastructure into India, respecting India’s digital security, sovereignty and privacy is a key milestone for us.”
This would enable Microsoft to offer high speed services, cloud hosting, as well as enable scalability to small business, young enterpreneurs and large corporations in India. Interestingly, in March 2010, Microsoft launched the Azure Platform in India.
However, earlier this year, in March 2015, Microsoft had launched the cloud program for India. The plan to announce data centres in India is quite likely a natural extension to an existing go to market plan for Microsoft. However, the announcement during Modi’s visit to the US has only increased global interest in the development.
Google type in 10 Indian languages including Gujarati
After announcing high-speed internet, Google also announced that users in India would now be able to type in 10 Indian languages. In an official blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, “To help make web content more useful for Indians, many of whom don’t speak English, we launched the Indian Language Internet Alliance last year to foster more local language content, and have built greater local language support into our products—including Hindi Voice Search, an improved Hindi keyboard and support for seven Indian languages with the latest versions of Android.”
Similar to the case of Microsoft, the announcement by Google invoked significant national interest. Last year, Google had announced the Indian Languages Internet Alliance to work with local languages. In 2014, Google’s Rajan Anandan announced “Google’s Anandan said that the plan was to bring the features to at least the top eight Indian languages within the next 18 months, which would include Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, etc.”
Qualcomm $150 million fund for start-ups
In another announcement that aligns with PM Modi’s plans for the SME and start-up segment, Qualcomm announced support for the Digital India and the Make in India initiative by launching a $150 million venture fund for startups.
According to Qualcomm’s executive chairman Dr Paul Jacobs, the main objective of this fund is to “Fuel innovation and foster promising Indian start ups who are contributing to the mobile and ‘internet of everything’ ecosystem and provide start ups with financial, marketing, technology and business support to help propel them forward in the competitive Indian market.”
Apple to manufacture in India?
In June this year, there were reports of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn planning to set up an iPhone manufacturing plant in India. During the meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the possibility of manufacturing in India was discussed.
External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup quoted Apple CEO Tim Cook as saying during the interaction, “We have a unique tie with India. Our founder Steve Jobs went to India for inspiration.”
Facebook embraces Digital India
During the townhall at Facebook HQ, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that before Facebook made it big, and before things worked well, they hit a rough patch.
Zuckerberg said, “Early on in our history when things weren’t really going well – we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook – I went and I met with Steve Jobs and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be.”
Zuckerberg did heed the advice. And spent a month visiting India. He added that seeing the way people connected in India made him believe that the world would be a better place if everyone had a stronger ability to connect. Zuckerberg changed his profile picture to support the ‘Digital India’ initiative.
Facebook is now expanding its Mentions and live blogging app to more users which as of now, is only available on the iOS App Store. The platform, which was previously available for certain celebrities such as musicians and actors will now be open to any individual with a verified account Mentions account.
According to the Facebook Blog, you can report from the scene with Live, host a Q&A and connect in real-time with your followers. You can also check out what people are saying about you and other topics you follow. In addition, you can also see what topics are currently trending on Facebook.
Image: Facebook Blog
The new Mentions app will also let you too choose the audience you want to share your text, links, photos or anything else. For example, Facebook states that you can share a post so only your followers see it in News Feed.
With this attempt, Facebook wants more and more journalists to use its platform as their distribution channel of choice. This will allow them to post live to Facebook during breaking news or to host live Q&As with followers as well.
Users with a verified profile can log in with their Facebook credentials to start connecting with their followers but if you’re a public figure and believe your Page or profile should be verified, you can fill out this form.
The whole deal is to make it simpler for people with verified pages to manage their Facebook account by viewing posts that mention them. It will also help these people to respond more quickly and easily via the dedicated app. Facebook Mentions also shows a timeline of posts that reference the particular user.
Facebook calls it an authentic way to connect with fans. Besides access to the video on News Feed, people who have recently interacted with a celebrity’s posts will receive a notification when the broadcast begins.
Facebook has revamped its Pages service on mobile devices, in an attempt to attract more businesses by giving them a new way to showcase their products on the social-media platform. The company wishes to offer businesses more ways to communicate or interact with customers using their smartphones, tablets and desktop. The layout will launch in the ‘coming weeks.’
Facebook says that, “We’re adding new features to Pages to make it easier for the more than 45 million active businesses on Facebook to highlight important information and reach their goals.”
In addition, “The new features for Pages reflect our belief that no matter if you’re a plumbing company, a flower shop, a non-profit or a brand, your Page should house the information people are looking for, help you communicate with your customers and support your unique goals.”
With the upgrade, one will get Page call-to-action buttons on mobile are more prominent, making it easier for businesses to use their Page to reach out to more consumers. It is directly available under the Page cover photo, so that you cannot miss it. The company is also testing several new call-to-action buttons on mobile, including ‘Call Now,’ ‘Send Message’ and ‘Contact Us,’ making it easier for people and businesses to connect directly.
Among the changes, Facebook also announced two new sections for Pages. According to Facebook, the new Shop section helps retail businesses bring their products to the forefront of their Page, while the new Services section enables professional services businesses to showcase a list of their offerings at the top of their Page. This way, a Spa can add their services menu to their Page or highlight the line of products they sell, helping people get to know their business faster.
In the end, Facebook has improvised on the layout hoping to make it easier for users to navigate through Pages on mobile. The company will offer each Page section with a corresponding tab, just like how videos and photos have their own tabs.
When the service is launched, Page visitors will be able to click on the tab associated with a section to see more details. Additionally, the Home tab will also contain highlights of each section, so relevant information is front and centre when someone first gets to a Page.
Instagram has added new layout options in addition to its signature square for pictures and videos in a bid to attract more advertisers and to stop users defecting to more flexible services such as Snapchat.
The move is the first major alteration to the photo-sharing, social media service since Facebook Inc bought it for $1 billion in 2012, and addresses the wishes of many of its 300 million users, who have been constrained by the square format. “It boils down to giving advertisers and users more options,” said Debra Aho Williamson, a social media marketing and advertising analyst. “You want people to be able to see more of your ad. It’s something advertisers are definitely going to be interested in.”
One in five photos and videos posted on the service do not fit the square format, Instagram said in a blog post. “Friends get cut out of group shots, the subject of your video feels cramped and you can’t capture the Golden Gate Bridge from end to end,” it said.
From Thursday, Instagram’s web-based service and its mobile apps running on Google Inc’s Android system and Apple Inc’s iOS will allow portrait and landscape formats, giving both users and paying advertisers more options.
The move should help Instagram in its battle with newer rivals such as Snapchat for users in the fast-moving messaging and media-sharing market.
At the same time, it should attract more advertising revenue for Instagram, which said in June it would open its platform to all advertisers by the end of the year, rather than just to select brands.
Instagram is expected to generate nearly $600 million in advertising revenue by the end of this year and $2.8 billion in 2017, according to projections from research firm eMarketer.
By comparison Facebook, the world’s most popular online social network, generated more than $12 billion in revenue in 2014. The growing service hit one billion users in a single day for the first time on Monday.
To promote the new formats on Thursday, Walt Disney Co released exclusive footage of its upcoming film, “Star Wars, The Force Awakens,” using the new landscape option.
Instagram for iOS version 7.5 is available today in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 7.5 is available today on Google Play.
The biggest social networking platform Facebook has just gotten even bigger. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had one billion people logged on to the site on a single day, marking the first time in company history to reach this milestone.
According to a Facebook post by the CEO, “On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family.” He stated that the company uses average numbers but this instance was different! “This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it’s just the beginning of connecting the whole world,” he added.
We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.On... Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 27 August 2015
Facebook has also released a special video to commemorate the milestone.
We made this video to celebrate all you've done to help our community connect one billion people in a single day. It's an amazing milestone. I hope you enjoy. Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 27 August 2015
The CEO went to say how proud he was of their community and the progress which has been made. He states, “A more open and connected world is a better world. It brings stronger relationships with those you love, a stronger economy with more opportunities, and a stronger society that reflects all of our values.”
However, no information was provided from which source the new users came from but the company definitely had a reason to celebrate, along with the advertisers too. In the end, the young CEO thanked its users for being a part of his community and for everything they have done to help Facebook reach this milestone.
Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is also the wealthiest individual under the age of 35, with a personal fortune of $41.6 billion (roughly Rs 2,72,667 crores). According to a previous report, Facebook aims to bring 4.5 billion users online with Internet.org.
In a blogpost released to mark the first year of the initiative, Facebook said it will open a portal allowing any mobile operator to offer the service under its Internet.org platform. Facebook currently partners with specific operators to launch the service in different countries.
Facebook for Business has rolled out a new Donate Now button. The button will be available for non-profit organisations and will be available on Pages and link ads too. This new call-to-action button is yet to rollout to all users. “We are excited to introduce a new “Donate Now” call-to-action option on both link ads and Pages. Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to connect with people who care about their causes and encourage them to contribute through the website of their choice,” Facebook for Business writes in a post.
Talking about the new feature, a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable, “We’re inspired by how much good comes from these connections, so we’ve added a ‘Donate Now’ call-to-action on Pages and link ads to make those connections easier than ever.”
In order to avoid misuse, the button is only available for NGOs. Users can now try the feature on the ALS Association Facebook Page. Compared to the buttons introduced previously such as “Shop Now”, “Book Now or even the Donate button rolled out earlier, this one reportedly is different and takes you directly outside of the social network and no details are asked within the site.
Facebook User Base Has Now Climbed to 125 Million Users in India
Social networking giant Facebook has added 13 million users in six months to take its user base to 125 million in India, its second-biggest market globally.
The US-based firm, which had 112 million users in India as of December last year, also launched a 2G-friendly mobile app ‘Facebook Lite’ here to cater users with slow internet connectivity.
Globally, it has 1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 31, 2015 with the US as its biggest market.
“In India, Facebook has 125 million average users (MAU), while the number of mobile MAUs stands at 114 million. On a daily basis, 59 million users in India are accessing Facebook and 53 million are accessing us from their mobile phones,” Facebook head of Products (Facebook Lite) Vijay Shankar told PTI.
Talking about the Facebook Lite app, announced earlier this month, he said the product has been “built ground up for markets like India” where internet speeds are slow.
Facebook Lite will feature all core functions of the standard app like news feed, messaging, photos, links and notifications among others but does not show videos on the news feed.
It also allows users to select the quality of images they see on their news feed to optimize data consumption.
“In India, over 80% of the users are on 2G network. We have worked on improving the apps performance even on spotty connections and across devices from entry-level devices to high-end ones,” Shankar said.
Facebook Lite will be rolled out in other markets in coming weeks, he added.
Both Facebook Lite and the standard Facebook app will work on a single device at the same time.
Facebook, Twitter allow users to show support for marriage equality
Facebook has introduced a new feature that lets users show off their support for marriage equality by superimposing a rainbow over their profile picture.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally announced the Celebrate Pride tool on his personal page following the US Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry,
Simply head to facebook.com/celebratepride and Facebook will allows you to superimpose a rainbow over their profile picture with a click of a button.
“Our country was founded on the promise that all people are created equal, and today we took another step towards achieving that promise. I’m so happy for all of my friends and everyone in our community who can finally celebrate their love and be recognized as equal couples under the law. We still have much more to do to achieve full equality for everyone in our community, but we are moving in the right direction,” Zuckerberg wrote on his wall.
Other IT bigwigs such as Apple, Google, Uber and Salesforce too have voiced their support for gay marriages on social media channels throughout the day.
On Twitter, you can automatically make a tiny rainbow heart appear in your tweet by including the #LoveWins hashtag.
Several renowned figures across the world have come out in support of the US Supreme Court’s ruling.
L=Life G=Gets B=Better T=Together I am not one of them but I think its better to see 2 men holding hands than 2 men holding guns #LoveWins
Facebook teams up with Kaspersky Labs to rid malicious software
Facebook announced today it has been using a new security tool to help detect and remove malicious software for users of the world’s biggest social network.
Facebook said it was working with Kaspersky Lab, bolstering a program implemented with other online security firms including ESET, F-Secure and Trend Micro.
“Thanks to the collaboration with these companies, in the past three months we have helped clean up more than two million people’s computers that we detected were infected with malware when they connected to Facebook,” said Trevor Pottinger, a Facebook security engineer.
“In these cases, we present a cleanup tool that runs in the background while you continue using Facebook, and you get a notification when the scan is done to show you what it found.”
Pottinger said the program uses “a combination of signals to help find infections and get the malware off of your computer for good, even if the malware isn’t actively spreading spam or harmful links.”
“Thanks to the collaboration with these companies, in the past three months we have helped clean up more than 2 million people’s computers that we detected were infected with malware when they connected to Facebook. In these cases, we present a cleanup tool that runs in the background while you continue using Facebook, and you get a notification when the scan is done to show you what it found,” said the Facebook Security team post.
Kaspersky Lab’s Kate Kochetkova said in a separate blog post that Facebook users are often targeted in online fraud schemes such as “phishing,” which are faked emails designed to get recipients to download malware.
“Facebook is a major aim for phishers: one in five phishing scams targets Facebook notifications. So be vigilant when you receive emails appearing to be from Facebook: as they can be fake. There are lots of Trojans targeting Facebook users as well,” she said.
Fraudsters may also use Facebook, Kochetkova said, to “‘like’ weird things and promote questionable goods and services on your behalf.”
Ello, the ad-free social network which gained prominence last year with an invitation-only launch, announced Thursday it was opening to the public with an application for iPhone users.
The startup got attention with its “anti-Facebook” policy of promising to never use advertising or to sell customer data to third parties.
Last September, a surge in interest made Ello membership a hot ticket, with invitations selling on eBay at prices up to $500.
In announcing the public launch, Ello provided no details on numbers of members but said there were “millions” using the platform.
“The new app is beautiful with dozens of unique features,” said Ello co-founder and chief executive Paul Budnitz.
“With so much positivity on Ello, and with awareness of the negative effects of ads and data collection by other networks coming to the forefront of the news, the timing of our app release couldn’t be better.”
Ello has upgraded the service to include new ways to find friends, full search, real-time alerts, private messaging, private groups and “loves” instead of likes.
It received $5.5 million in funding last year as it changed its charter to back a promise to remain ad-free, becoming a “public benefit corporation.” While the services is free, Its future plans include premium features which would be paid.
Ello was launched by a group of artists and programmers led by Budnitz, whose previous experience includes designing bicycles and toys.
The world’s biggest social network seems to think that people aren’t sharing enough pictures and so has created a new app that helps users to find even more images to post.
With a phone at everyone’s fingertips, the moments in our lives are captured by a new kind of photographer: our friends. It’s hard to get the photos your friends have taken of you, and everyone always insists on taking that same group shot with multiple phones to ensure they get a copy. Even if you do end up getting some of your friends’ photos, it’s difficult to keep them all organized in one place on your phone.
To help make it easier as Facebook claims, it has launched an app.
Called Moments, once installed it will work through a smartphone’s entire camera roll and, using Facebook’s facial recognition software, grab anything that features what it recognises as an image featuring Facebook friends.
The app’s default setting is to create a private album that can be used for sharing the discovered image or images simply with those pictured in them.
The idea is that the privately shared album grows organically as both people continue to share new photos through it.
Moments also keeps all of your synced photos organized and even lets you search them to find the ones that you or specific friends are in.
Moments is a Creative Labs app. It is launching today, (i.e. 16th June 2015) in the US on iOS and Android, and will be rolling out to more countries over time. You can download Moments from the App Store or Google Play.
Several Facebook users in India are irked by a malicious porn malware that went on spamming their timelines with porn images and videos. The malicious software is present in a link to a video that is being shared on users’ timelines. The headline of the video reads, ‘Watch urgent, because it is your video’. Once users click on the link, their timeline and inbox would be spammed with porn messages.
Mobile users were redirected to pages containing various offers while desktop users were asked to download a file from a folder. “The malware stealthily installs an extension on the Chrome web browser. The message contains a link to a malicious website that allegedly shows up as an Amazon Web Services page,” points out The Hindustan Times.
Now, this isn’t something new. The Agra cybercrime cell that claims to be the first to spot the malware told The Times of India that ‘the issue was triggered by a virus from the Kilim malware family, which has caused such incidents elsewhere across the globe’.
Earlier in January, the same malware had reportedly affected around 110,000 users across the world. Disguised as a porn link, it prompt users to download a Flash update. Once a user is infected, the malware would start posting porn links on the person’s Facebook page and also tags friends.
The porn malware has left many users embarrased, who instantly took to calling friends, family and colleagues, explaining the issue and asking them not to click on the link.
In order to not become a victim to such malware, one should avoid clicking on shortened link or any alluring link. Those infected should delete the file/folder and instantly change all their passwords.
Does that mean an evolution away from Flash? After all, Flash dominates the market for the types of HTML5 games that Facebook is talking about. “Well it’s hard,” Taylor said about Flash specifically. When I laughed and noted he was giving the diplomatic answer, he assured me that it is something they think about a lot. “We want to be ahead of the curve and fill in the gaps when possible,” is how he ended up putting it. And this stance on HTML5 is vital for Facebook because Taylor really does see mobile as the future — but as it stands right now, that’s a bit of a problem. “The popularity of mobile devices will change,” he said implying that the dominant devices today might not be so dominant in the future. And if that’s the case, why should Facebook dump resources into them? Wouldn’t it be easier if they just focused on HTML5 — something which will work on an increasing number of devices going forward? Of course.
