At the moment it is a feature that will be available only in the United States but if successful it is likely that within a while everyone on Facebook can know who their friends are near them. That is the functionality provided ‘Nearby Friends’ and will be available in upcoming updates of Facebook for mobile devices.

‘Nearby Friends’ will be optional and if we activate it, will tell us that other users are in the same area as us, which, according to Facebook, can be useful for us to meet them at a certain point. When we select this utility will receive notifications about friends who are in that area if we want to interact with them. Continue reading “‘Nearby Friends’ will report on which Facebook friends are close to us”

Recent studies appeared on Twitter that indicate that many users are leaving without seeing the social network utility or approximately 40% are less active should be a spur to its developers that continue to make improvements with which to curry favor with their users. The latter has to do with the notifications to arrive in the web version of Twitter in brief.

Notifications are commonplace in Twitter clients but users we missed the web version which is necessary to cover the tab notifications or private messages to see whether there was any interaction. In short, it is not necessary to do this because will pop-up windows appear when someone interacts with us. Continue reading “Twitter will notice on its Web version”

In Twitter continue working to provide useful features for users and one of the last who are evaluating has to do with the ability to mark certain accounts as favorites. At the moment this option is under evaluation and, depending on the reception that has among the testers, we will see it in the future in our accounts or not.

The option of checking accounts as favorites would be an evolution of the current lists of Twitter. If eventually could include adding a favorite brand to some accounts. Then we could separately review our full timeline or the timeline of these popular accounts so that their publications would be easier to follow that would no longer lose in the middle of the tweets from the many other accounts that follow. Continue reading “Twitter evaluates the option to have favorite users with a separate timeline”

Perhaps because of its strong professional character LinkedIn had no functionality to block other users, which is common in other social networks. The defendant had brought this feature in recent years and since the company have heard requests implementing this functionality that will soon be available in all profiles.

The reasons to block other users depend on each one but this feature was demanded primarily to keep clean our updates feed avoiding appearing in lots of messages that interest us and prevent us from focusing on what is really useful for us.

In LinkedIn support team explains the steps to block a user, but it is easy because you only have to go to that user’s profile, open the menu of options to interact with him and select the option of blocking.

When a user is blocked do not receive a notice, which is quite logical. By blocking someone add it to our list of locks that can hold up to 50 blocked users. These blockages can be removed but to apply the option to exchange messages with the other user will be lost, all recommendations will be deleted and the system did not suggest it more like a contact who might know.

A question that emerged by always about Facebook is that there is a button that call dislikes. And is that some Facebook entries, as the announcement of the death of any person or any event that is not exactly cheerful, not stick too well with the famous I like, because it may seem that whoever is “liking” something sad or unpleasant, does so without the slightest sensitivity.

Therefore, the social network would be experimenting with a new button called sympathize. This button will attempt to express that we share the negative post feeling, without the ridiculous end to like to the news of the death of a person. Continue reading “Facebook would be experimenting with it sympathizes button”

Twitter continues to explore new options for their network and experiencing the coming few weeks ago was the ability to send direct messages to people who do not follow each other. It seems that Twitter makers are not convinced at all to incorporate this functionality and so far have disabled it.

This functionality was active from late October for some users. Twitter seemed wanted to get close to instant messaging style like Whatsapp, Line, and the similar. We do not know if it is that the tests have not been satisfactory or that it is simply a step backwards to return stronger and bring an improved version of the functionality but combat applications such as Whatsapp that are already so seated among the users is not a task nothing simple. Continue reading “Twitter could eliminate the ability to send private messages to any user”

Facebook has announced a new design for the “Like” and “Share” buttons to help people share more and better content across the web. Today these two buttons have achieved tremendous popularity, because they are viewed over 22 billion times a day over 7.5 million sites.

These buttons will replace the traditional “hand with thumb up” accompanying Facebook since 2010. The new buttons are characterized by bright blue and the traditional “F” which identifies the signature. Continue reading “Facebook redesigns the “Like” and “Share” buttons”