Although they represent a small minority anywhere in the world, users who have no Facebook account can now use its messenger service. Facebook has opened up its messenger service to people who aren’t registered with the social network, and you can now use Facebook Messenger to chat using only your name and mobile number. Facebook updated its Android app yesterday to embrace a wider audience base by removing the necessity to be a Facebook member [...]

Facebook and Whatsapp have both moved to distance themselves from rumours that the social-networking giant is looking to acquire the popular messaging app. In separately issued statements to AllThingsD, Whatsapp denied reports that emerged on Monday while Facebook issued a more generic response. But the Facebook acquisition talks aren’t happening, said multiple sources. WhatsApp gave us the following statement: “The TechCrunch article is a rumor and not factually accurate. We have no further information to [...]

Facebook is proposing to end its practice of letting users vote on changes to its privacy policies, though it will continue to let users comment on proposed updates. The world’s biggest social media company said in a blog post Wednesday that its voting mechanism, which is triggered only if enough people comment on proposed changes, has become a system that emphasizes quantity of responses over quality of discussion. Users tend to leave one or two-word [...]

What was supposed to be a shortcut for Facebook users to log into their pages ended up exposing their e-mail addresses and, in some cases, potentially allowing access to their accounts as well. A Facebook spokesman said on Friday that the company had created the shortcut, called auto login, to let some users go directly to their pages by clicking on a Web link sent to their e-mail addresses. Once they clicked on the link, [...]

The theme behind the film is to share with people the prominence of social media in all of our lives. It was written by a group of contributors and researchers. It would really be a huge honor to see the video shared on your site.

Google on Wednesday began letting members of its online social network get search page reminders about the birthdays of friends. “Everyone deserves a little love on their birthday,” Google’s Irene Chung said in an online message announcing the new feature. “Starting today, you’ll see a reminder on Google.com when someone in your circles has a birthday.” Search page birthday reminders are only shared with friends indicated in a person’s preferences in Google+ controls at plus.google.com/up/birthday, [...]

In an attempt to help business colleagues collaborate more easily and getting things done faster, Google has announced some new features for its social networking app targeting business centric users.The search giant is offering a full preview mode for its Apps customers, who will be able to use the business features of Google+ for free through the end of 2013. Now Google Apps users will be able to make use of Restricted posts, a feature [...]

A consumer protection group Germany has sent Facebook a ‘cease and desist’ letter that claims the social-networking website breaches German privacy law. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations says Facebook has one week to stop automatically giving third party applications information about its users without their explicit consent. The group said in a statement today that if Facebook fails to comply by September 4 it will sue the California company. Facebook representatives in Germany didn’t [...]