‘Deepface’ sounds like a Bond villain or his plot to destroy the world, and it should. Using the world’s largest photo gallery, a la Facebook, the company has created a program that can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25% accuracy. If you consider humans have 97.53% accuracy doing the same task, this program is mind blowing.
Welcome to yet another lecture on why posting pictures of yourself on social media sites may come back to haunt you. In this week’s lesson we shall be looking at yet another rascally thing Reddit users are up to. The subreddit called Facebook Cleavage, is making quite a stir.
Blayne Shepard, one of the four men on trial for the murder of a former Royal Marine outside a Durban rugby match, received a threatening message through Facebook while he was in court.
Watch out! This baby has a gun! Not really though, she doesn’t even know where the trigger is – dumb baby. This picture a dad took of his baby daughter with a bolt action rifle resting on her lap has caused a ruckus on social media.
Two years ago everyone was talking about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion. Back then we thought it to be an abhorrently large amount of money for a site almost dedicated to cat pictures, duck face selfies and filtered food porn. Well Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp dwarfs that deal.
In the days leading up to Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, Google CEO Larry Page was willing to beat Facebook’s offer. So what happened that caused WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to decline Google?
By now you’ll have heard that Facebook has purchased Whatsapp, an app that most consumers use for free, for $19 billion. The deal was signed at a very sentimental location for co-founder Jan Koum: the former North County Social Services office – the place where he used to stand in line to collect food stamps.
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He might be this years forerunner for being the dumbest criminal. Not only did he post a video of himself racing through traffic on the San Antonio police department’s Facebook page, writing “Catch me if you can,” it was done under his name. It turns out the police could indeed catch the moronic Alberto Rodriguez.
So depressed she wouldn’t even face possible owners visiting the shelter she was kept at in San Bernardino, California, Chelsea’s days were numbered. Due to be put down on Thursday, few were interested in adopting her. But leave it to the Internet to save the day.
Paying for fake likes on Facebook will give you notoriously poor returns, but even using legitimate means to generate likes through Facebook advertising will now result in failure. This is according to Derek Muller, who has 131 000 likes on his Facebook page. Muller now longs for the days when he had only a couple of thousand page likes.
It’s common knowledge that Facebook just isn’t signing up as many users as it once was. The plateau makes sense, given the sheer size of the user base, which remains large despite a flurry of reports indicating a teenage user exodus. Those studies didn’t stop Facebook from declaring 63% increase in revenue and an eightfold increase in profit for the fourth quarter yesterday.
Subscribing to Vin Diesel’s facebook page is either the best or worst life decision one can make, depending on how you look at it. The big friendly giant regularly posts a confounding mixture of selfies, inspirational quotes and personal family photos — all of which garner millions of likes and thousands of comments thanks to his […]
Facebook and Princeton University are embroiled in what will inevitably be the nerdiest standoff in history. A few Princeton epidemiologists got together, did some research, and published a paper on a very dubious premise: that if you look at Facebook as an infectious disease, then 80% of its hardcore users may well have “recovered” and abandoned the service by 2018.
Hot on the heels of this insightful video, it seems like media and citizens alike are escaping their Facebook induced hibernations and bailing.
The hordes of teens that once made Facebook the company that it is today are now leaving in a mass exodus of millions. A recent report has revealed that the number of teens on Facebook is down 25% from 2011.
Snapchat CEO, Evan Speigel, isn’t doing himself any favours of late. He still hasn’t apologised for the security breach that affected 4,6 million Snapchat users, and now he’s involved in a row with Forbes.
If you didn’t enjoy the meteoric rise of the selfie last year, you’re in for something of a rough ride in 2014. The very first meme of 2014 is the ‘Selfie Olympics’ or ‘extreme selfie’, and it comes with a very specific set of rules and regulations.
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It always seemed like only a matter of time before Facebook users started questioning how much time they were expending online, and now the questions have started coming thick and fast from the group of people Facebook relies on most – the millinials.
If you’re not eating, sleeping and breathing social media, it’s time to hop on board. Fortune Magazine’s predictions for social media in 2014 show that social media is transforming the way fundamental ways in which businesses function – which makes this set of predictions especially useful.
Yes, of course they are. But now we have cold, hard evidence to prove it. This infographic outlines some of the basic traits of narcissism, before revealing some worrying correlations between heavy social media use and narcissism.
It’s easy to get down on South Africa. With crippling strikes, the mess our police force made arresting Krejcir and the Nkandla saga, there’s more than enough news every morning to send even the most positive person into a depression. And goodness knows, Facebook loves nothing more than a good bitch about The Republic. That’s where the epic […]
‘Family Guy’ fans are up in arms after a recent episode saw one of their star characters, Brian, run over and killed-off the show by a car.
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
Well that’s it – the final nail in the coffin. Thanks to Justin Bieber’s new ‘selfie app’, the selfie has become a fully fledged art form. Let us join each other in putting brown paper bags over our heads, and wait for it to be over.
They surveyed teens in 30 countries. After extensive research, they were able to show that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. And for sites like Facebook, a drop of 20% means millions, billions even. So, where are they going instead?
Afrikaans e-news website, the Pro Afrikaans Action Group (Praag), has been put under severe pressure, after Google has pulled the plug on all of its advertising. The site had been generating thousands of rands, but without it’s advertsing revenue it maybe forced to shut down.
This isn’t what we wanted, is it? Instead of making a dislike button, or a middle-finger button, Facebook have decided to fix something that wasn’t broken. They seem to like doing that.