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Facebook is planning to release a much-required feature

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facebook Clear History Tool

Facebook is gearing up to release a great feature which protects users privacy. A couple of days back I discussed how Facebook collects user data from the third-party applications even if they don’t have the Facebook account.

Most of the application developers use Facebook SDK ( software development kit) to develop their applications. It helps Facebook to mine the usage patterns and the interests of the user.  Using the data it collected from the users, it builds an individual profile for every person.

As per the information that leaked today,  Facebook is going to provide a feature to its users which wipes the data it collected from them. The new function will be named as “Clear History Tool”.  It accommodates the user to check, what information Facebook already gathered from them. If they wish to stop Facebook from collecting the personal information, through third party applications and websites they visit,  they can pause the history. The new feature will protect the user ’s privacy. But it is doubtful how effective Facebook is willing to implement it.

As a part of the digital wellbeing, FB already introduced, “Screen Time” feature which helps us to know the exact amount of time we spent on Facebook.  But contrary it doesn’t help us to limit the time. Facebook users around the world know that the company never dare to lose its grip on the user’s privacy.

Do You Know What FB Can See From Your Facebook Photographs?

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Many of us upload photos on Facebook regularly to share them with our friends and family. Have you ever wanted to know how Facebook looks at our Facebook photographs and how it sees in them? Here is a simple article which lets you know what the social networking giant takes from your photographs.

Know What FB Reads From Your Facebook Photographs

Facebook is a brilliant social media platform that many of us might be very active. We tend to share every moment of our with our friends.

When you upload a photograph in your account, it actually tries to figure out what are the objects and scenes that are present in the picture. You may or may not added the description, but it has all the ability to understand what the picture is all about.

You may have uploaded a photograph of yours eating a pizza, or playing with your dear pet, or partying with your friends, or standing on the banks of the river. The company figures out everything from the picture itself. It uses some machine generated codes for helping the blind persons understand your pictures.

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Here is how you can view what the Facebook’s visual recognition algorithms have found in the photographs that you uploaded in your account.

  • Click on the thumbnail of any picture that is on the FB to look at it in the enlarged vision.
  • Now just right click on the image and then click on inspect from the options available, then you can see the Chrome developer tools window open.
  • You can then find the description of the image as seen by FB under the image tag.

FB uses this tool to make the pictures accessible to blind people, whereas we can use this just in case we want to know what FB knows from our photographs.

Facebook wants its users to donate blood for the needy

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Facebook has recently taken a few steps that help in connecting the blood donors to those who are in need of blood and also with the hospitals that are near them. From the mobile version of the Facebook application, users can simply sign up to be a blood donor.

On the occasion of the National Blood Donor Day, the company has taken this initiative that helps the users in finding the nearby blood requests. Technology actually has a lot of uses and it is even more useful when we try to implement it in addressing different social issues.

Blood donation is a great concept that lacks proper publicity and there should be a proper mechanism that helps in bringing awareness among the public and encourage them towards blood donation.

If you have a Facebook account, you can sign up as a blood donor in FB using a few very simple steps. When you see the option ‘people near you need blood donors’, just click on start helping now and then it will ask you for some information like your blood group and whether you donated earlier or not. Provide it the required information and you can share your status, which gives an encouragement for your friends and family and they may get motivated towards becoming a donor too. That is it you are done with signing up.

It will show you whenever someone near you is in need of blood and you can contact them over a phone call or a message or WhatsApp right from there.

This initiative must be applauded.

How to see all your comments, likes and posts made by you on Facebook

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Scrolling through the news feed of Facebook has become a daily task for a lot of us. And many people spend a lot of their travel time to their offices, schools and other such places surfing through the feed. And while scrolling we intentionally or sometimes unintentionally like and share the posts of our friends and also the posts by the pages liked by us. But have ever felt to have a re-look at a post or a status liked by you, it is easy when you have shared it on your or someone else’s timeline, but what if it is just liked by you and you again want to see that post or status. Don’t worry, it is possible and it is also pretty simple.

The easiest way using which you can find anything that you have ever liked on Facebook is definitely using the Activity Log in your profile settings. It not only shows you your likes on the social media platform but also everything that you have done on FB which may include the posts that you have done, your statuses, your shares, comments, saved items and much more.

If you just want to see all the posts that you have ever liked on FB using your profile, then you can make use of the filters that can be found on the left side of your screen. Just click on the Likes option and then you can see a small sub menu open with options Posts and comments, pages, and interests, just select whatever option you like. You can notice a calendar to the right of your screen and it allows you to view everything you have liked on FB from the day 1 of joining the leading social media platform. You can even unlike the posts using this activity log without any hassles of going in search of that particular post.

Control your Facebook news feed with these simple settings

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Facebook is undoubtedly the most popular and widely used social networking site. People use this application as a time pass and it is no doubt that many people actually doesn’t do anything more than just scrolling through the page of the news feed and checking out the activities of all the other people on the internet.
Obviously everyone wishes to see a certain posts in their page and would wish to remove all the unwanted and useless posts which are not of their interest from that feed page.
Let us now take a look at the process of controlling your Facebook feed. Using this thing you can easily set up the feed page with only posts and content from the particular set of friends that you wish to see. Make your feed page look clean and accurate by simply following the process below.
• Sort the feed page with top stories if you wish to see the most indulged posts on the website that might not have seen yet. You just have to click on the News feed option on the upper right corner of the news section in the desktop version and then click top stories
• You may not be interested to see the posts and content of all the people in your friends list, so you can just choose to show the posts of certain users only. You can create a list for those people from your friends list using the friends list option on the left side bar of your window
• You can even directly unfollow certain people by going into their profile page and clicking the unfollow button located on the upper right side of their profile page, you can also uncheck the get notifications option which you can get when hover the cursor over the friends option of that particular friends timeline or profile page
These simple settings can thus help you in making your feed page the way you wish it to be like.