"$200,000 in the city dump; however, after Arthur goes to bed Norma retrieves the box from the tenement's dumpster. The next day, as Arthur leaves for work he sees Norma sitting at the kitchen table transfixed by the button. Finally, she decides to push the button much to her husband's disgust. The next day, Mr. Steward returns and takes back the box, giving the shocked couple a briefcase with the $200,000. Norma asks what is to be done with the money, to which Steward remarks that they should spend it. Norma also asks what will happen to the box and"
"Twitter's ""What are you doing right now?"" A few weeks later, the company introduced controls to reduce content from app interactions, and enabled the feed to show photos in which friends were tagged. In December 2010, Facebook rolled out a new drop-down button, offering users the ability to view News Feed by categories, including only games, status updates, photos, links, Pages, or specific groups of people. In February 2011, Facebook added News Feed settings to let users specify if they want content from only the people and pages they interact with the most, rather than everyone. In September, Facebook updated"
"like button, including ""Love"", ""Haha"", ""Wow"", ""Sad"", and ""Angry"". The Like button is one of Facebook's social plug-ins, which are features for websites outside Facebook as part of its Open Graph. Speaking at the company's F8 developer conference on April 21, 2010, the day of the launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said ""We are building a Web where the default is social"". The like button is implemented similarly to an advertising network, in that as more sites participate, Facebook is given a vast amount of information about who visits which websites and when. When loading a website that has the like"
"The change was intended to maximize the ""meaningful interactions"" that people have with content on Facebook. The ""like"" button, stylized as a ""thumbs up"" icon, was first enabled on February 9, 2009, and enables users to easily interact with status updates, comments, photos and videos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. Once clicked by a user, the designated content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends, and the button also displays the number of other users who have liked the content, including a full or partial list of those users. The like button was extended to comments in"
"Facebook like button The Facebook like button is a feature on the social networking website Facebook. It was first enabled on February 9, 2009. The like button enables users to easily interact with status updates, comments, photos and videos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. Once clicked by a user, the designated content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends, and the button also displays the number of other users who have liked the content, including a full or partial list of those users. The like button was extended to comments in June 2010. After extensive testing and"
"issued a statement clarifying that ""We didn’t take away any privacy options"", and later issued an open letter apologizing for a lack of information on new features and users' controls, writing ""We really messed this one up. [...] I'd like to try to correct those errors now."" The News Feed has received multiple updates over the years since its original setup. In 2008, Facebook added a feedback button to each story in a user's feed, letting them tell the service about their personal preferences for their feed. However, the feedback button was removed in April, and returned in July, with"
"in November 2012 and then again in 2015, first in January and later in September of that year. All of the hoaxes are based on several misunderstandings, including, with respect to the privacy version, the fact that it incorrectly assumes that Facebook becoming a public company in May 2012 affects how it treats user information, the assumption that posting certain content online can protect someone from adverse legal consequences, and the fact that the hoax ignores that if Facebook wanted to significantly change its terms of service agreement, it would have to provide notification of these changes. Facebook privacy and"
"by various social media websites (most notably Twitter and Facebook), these features add internal linkage between users and themes. Characteristics of a multimodal feature can be seen through the status update option on Facebook. Status updates combine the affordances of personal blogs, Twitter, instant messaging, and texting in a single feature. The 2013 status update button currently prompts a user, “What’s on your mind?” a change from the 2007, “What are you doing right now?” This change was added by Facebook to promote greater flexibility for the user. This multimodal feature allows a user to add text, video, image, links,"
"updates to News Feed, including a more minimalistic design with consistency across both the website and mobile devices, along with a new layout for posts, presenting friends' photos, shared articles, and maps with larger text and images, and brands' logos. New ""sub-feeds"" show updates in specific areas, such as posts from specific friends or interest updates. However, the initial limited rollout of the new design saw a trend of lower user engagement, prompting the company to stop the rollout. A year later, in March 2014, Facebook once again updated its News Feed, but in response to criticism from users, the"
"2015 that its viewership numbers were inflated ""by some 150 to 900 percent"" and waited over a year before taking action to disclose or fix the problem, citing internal Facebook communications that ""somehow there was no progress on the task for the year"" and decisions to ""obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math."" In response, some journalists and industry analysts complained that the industry-wide ""pivot to video"" was based on lies, though some publishers disagreed. Pivot to video ""Pivot to video"" is a phrase referring to the trend, starting in 2015, of media publishing companies cutting staff resources"
"Facebook reportedly removing the first iteration of the feedback options due to a low impact on user satisfaction compared to other aspects of the algorithm. In March 2009, Facebook rolled out the option to ""Like"" a page to see updates from it in their feed, gave users customizable filters to determine what friends they wanted to see News Feed updates from, and also added a publishing field at the top of the feed, previously exclusive to user profiles, for easy post creation. The publishing field contained the text ""What's on your mind?"", a similar but also notably different question from"
"Facebook Safety Check Facebook Safety Check (sometimes called Facebook Crisis Response) is a feature managed by the social networking company Facebook. The feature is activated by the company during natural or man-made disasters and terror-related incidents to quickly determine whether people in the affected geographical area are safe. The feature was developed by Facebook engineers, inspired by people's use of social media to connect with friends and family in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Originally named the Disaster Message Board, it was renamed to Safety Check prior to release. It was introduced on October 15, 2014."
"and face recognition that will automatically assign a name to face. Facebook’s like button utilizes its users to do their own personalization for the website. What posts the user comments on or likes tells Facebook what type of posts they will be interested in for the future. In addition to this, it helps them predict what type of posts they will “comment on, share, or spam in the future.” The predictions are combined together to produce one relevancy score which helps Facebook decide what to show you and what to filter out. In 2016, Facebook introduced reactions (Love, Thankful, Haha,"
"30, 2015, in the aftermath of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting but it was saved and reposted onto YouTube by several others. In November 2015 Feuerstein posted a video on Facebook criticizing Starbucks for removing Christmas-related symbols from its holiday cups in favor of a solid red design. The video made national headlines and Feuerstein appeared on CNN that same month. In his appearance he stated that his post was not just about the Starbucks cup, adding that: “The silent majority is sick and tired of consistently being bullied to be quiet about our beliefs and trying to remove"
"billion photo uploads, and 140 billion friend connections. On January 15, 2013, Facebook announced Facebook Graph Search, which provides users with a ""precise answer"", rather than a link to an answer by leveraging the data present on its site. Facebook emphasized that the feature would be ""privacy-aware"", returning results only from content already shared with the user. On April 3, 2013, Facebook unveiled Facebook Home, a user-interface layer for Android devices offering greater integration with the site. HTC announced the HTC First, a smartphone with Home pre-loaded. On April 15, 2013, Facebook announced an alliance across 19 states with the"
"Facebook page or you turn on your television."" After the 2016 election, journalist Margaret Sullivan called on facebook to hire an editor to monitor News Feed to ensure accuracy and balance of news stories. In late 2016, Facebook described plans to issue warning labels on certain News Feed posts. Facebook has a partnership with fact-checkers like Snopes.com and PolitiFact, and would display that a story is disputed if it has been debunked by one of those fact-checkers. On the Facebook app, News Feed is the first screen to appear, partially leading most users to think of the feed as Facebook"
"at all? Is there a premium on memory where you can only have so many rainbows before we have to shut Facebook down in the Eastern Hemisphere?"" In a blog post, Facebook stated that the different levels of access was necessary ""because this is a new experience we’ve been testing"", although user feedback has questioned this line of thinking by pointing to earlier temporary reactions, including dedicated Halloween and Mother's Day reactions, that were available to all users despite not everyone celebrating. Facebook like button The Facebook like button is a feature on the social networking website Facebook. It was"
"removed by Facebook, according to a timeline shared by the company. The delay generated renewed criticism of Facebook over its handling of offensive content and, in particular, public posts of video and other content related to violent crimes. ""We have a lot of work [to do], and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening"", Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his April 18 keynote address at F8, Facebook's annual developers' conference. ""Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Robert Godwin Sr.,"" Zuckerberg added. On May 3, 2017, Facebook announced that"
"on Facebook that have received an abundance of fake likes that have distorted proper user metrics. Facebook states in its Terms of Service agreement that users may only create one personal page, and it has ongoing efforts against the spread of fake accounts. The like button is a feature of social networking service Facebook, where users can like content such as status updates, comments, photos and videos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. The feature was activated February 9, 2009. It is also a feature of the Facebook Platform that enables participating websites to display a button that enables sharing"
"""reinvents the way you open programs on your phone"" to enhance focus on Facebook features, to the detriment of other apps not focused on social networking. Others, like Om Malik, highlighted potential privacy concerns, noting that use of Facebook Home might allow the company unprecedented access to user data on mobile devices. In response to its poor reception, Facebook indicated in late-May 2013 that it was planning on making improvements to Home in response to consumer feedback. The first of these improvements came in an update released in early-June 2013, adding the ability to pin shortcuts to a tray on"
"2011. An app for Windows Phone, though lacking features including voice messaging and chat heads, was released in March 2014. In April 2014, Facebook announced that the messaging feature would be removed from the main Facebook app and users will be required to download the separate Messenger app. An iPad-optimized version of the iOS app was released in July 2014. In April 2015, Facebook launched a website interface for Messenger. A Tizen app was released on July 13, 2015. In October 2016, Facebook released Facebook Messenger Lite, a stripped-down version of Messenger with a reduced feature set. The app is"
"Facebook Platform. On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Beacon, a social advertising system that enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, eBay sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they listed items for sale. The program came under scrutiny because of privacy concerns from groups and individual users. Zuckerberg and Facebook failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on December 5, 2007, Zuckerberg wrote a blog post on Facebook, taking responsibility for the concerns about Beacon and"
"does not provide key information, such as location, hometown, or relationship status, other users can use a new ""ask"" button to send a message asking about that item to the user in a single click. On September 6, 2006, News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends. This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause. Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained"
"it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users). In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends. On February 23, 2010, Facebook"
"Following Snapchat's introduction of geo-filters in 2015, Facebook was quick to follow suit. They announced they were testing ""location frames"" in December, 2016. In June, 2017, Snapchat introduced World Lenses, which allow advertisers (and, of course, other users) to use AR to alter the environments of photos and videos. For example, a company could create an effect that places its product in the background of someone's video. In December, 2017, Facebook announced the rollout of a similar feature, World Effects. Instagram introduced stickers in December, 2016. Although not originally suited for marketing campaigns, the capabilities have evolved so that now"
"or neutrally. Other websites include more complex Web content voting systems, for example five stars or reaction buttons to show a wider range of emotion to the content. The like button was first announced as a FriendFeed feature on October 30, 2007 and was popularized within that community. Later the feature was integrated into Facebook before FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook August 10, 2009. The Facebook like button is designed as a hand giving ""thumbs up"". It was originally discussed to have been a star or a plus sign, and during development the feature was referred to as ""awesome"" instead"
"The Dash Button and Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) were introduced by Amazon.com on March 31, 2015. Due to the timing of the announcement, there were a number of news stories questioning whether the Dash Button was an early April Fools joke. The Amazon Dash Button is a small electronic device designed to make ordering products easy and fast. The Dash buttons come in packs; each device contains an embedded button emblazoned with the name of a frequently ordered product. Users can configure each button to order a specific product and quantity, via the user's Amazon.com account, and mount the buttons,"
"first launched their site worldwide. In the hopes of making it easier for users to share or keep their information private, the company ended up modifying the entire site and publicizing a subsequent apology for the situation. For years, Facebook has been giving advertisers the option of having targeted ads based on data collecting companies like Acxiom Corp and Experian PLC. In March 2016, Facebook first acknowledged that user data had been mishandled back in 2014 when a third-party app was linked back to Cambridge Analytica. This was the same company that was hired by the 2016 presidential campaign of"
"and help it 'pivot to video'"" (blogger Anil Dash). In September 2016, Facebook admitted that it had reported artificially inflated numbers to its advertisers about how long viewers watched ads, because Facebook's system had not included views of fewer than three seconds, leading to an overestimation of 60-80% Facebook apologized in an official statement and in multiple staff appearances at New York Advertising Week. Two months later, Facebook disclosed additional errors in audience metrics. In October 2018, a California federal court unsealed the text of a class action lawsuit filed by advertisers against Facebook, alleging that Facebook had known since"
"2014, Urban posted ""The Fermi Paradox,"" a post that became extremely popular. The site's original slogan was ""New post every Monday and Thursday"". As post lengths increased and the content became more detailed only weekly updates were possible, and the slogan became ""New post every Tuesday"" at first, ""New post every Tuesday(ish)"" later, and ""New post every sometimes"" since 2015. With the new focus on science and technology, ""Wait But Why"" gained the attention of Elon Musk, which led to the series of posts on Musk. In June 2015, Elon Musk asked Urban if he would be willing to write"
"during the 2010 Pakistan floods. After the May 2015 Nepal earthquake, ""BuzzFeed"" reported that many users outside the geographical area affected by the earthquake were marking themselves as safe using the tool, and that this was angering other users who thought they were being insensitive to the toll and tragedy of the event. The story was picked up by other publications including the ""Huffington Post"" and fact-checking website Snopes, which noted that this was due to a bug in Facebook leading it to prompt people outside the affected area to confirm whether they were safe. Facebook Safety Check Facebook Safety"
"graphic content, requiring users to explicitly confirm that they wish to see the material. Facebook Live, introduced in August 2015 for celebrities and gradually rolled out for regular users starting in January 2016, lets users broadcast live videos, with Facebook's intention for the feature to be presenting public events or private celebrations. However, the feature has been used to record multiple crimes, deaths, and violent incidents, causing significant media attention. Facebook has received criticism for not removing videos faster, and Facebook Live has been described as a ""monster [Facebook] cannot tame"" and ""a gruesome crime scene for murders"". In response,"
"""BuzzFeed"" VP of Product Chris Johansen told Facebook that they needed seven things in order to participate in the program, including compatibility with comScore, Google Analytics, and ""BuzzFeed"" tracking tools, preservation of key aspects of the look, feel, and functionality of the website, and monetization. In January, Facebook returned for talks, saying they had implemented all of the requests. Instant Articles launched officially on May 12, 2015. Launch partners included ""Woven Digital"", ""BuzzFeed"", the ""New York Times"", ""National Geographic"", ""The Atlantic, NBC News, The Guardian, BBC News, Bild,"" and ""Spiegel Online."" Facebook also created an Instant Articles landing page to"