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Facebook, home to the largest collection of personal photos, uses facial recognition to identify people. Who’d have thought? Facebook has a security feature called Profile Picture Guard that uses facial recognition to keep profile pictures of real people from being used by bots and fake profiles and pages. The only …

Snapchat bought Bitmoji back in 2016 and it continues to rely on that investment. Snapchat is actively using Bitmoji to make itself more social, and to get users to interact with it more. Lenses is one of Snapchat’s stand-out features and they’ve proven time and time again to help boost …

When you share something on social media, particularly on social media sites like Facebook, you may not be sharing it with your entire friends’ list or all your followers. Facebook lets you selectively share posts and Instagram has just gotten a new close friends feature that lets you create a …

Apps and the devices they run on can be hard to put down. There is enough new content on social media apps every hour of the day that you may never run out of new things to read or watch. If nothing else, you can always get into a good …

Netflix content isn’t normally the kind you’d find on HBO or AMC. The streaming service may eventually add hit shows from major networks but it still has unique content that you won’t find elsewhere. In fact, Netflix has finally gotten its first Oscar nomination for best picture this year so …

Snapchat lets you share both images and videos. It has special lenses that work only with videos i.e., the animated ones and it has a neat loop feature that will automatically play your video on repeat. In a recent update, Snapchat has added a new loop feature that allows users …

Pokémon Go trainers can choose one of three teams to join. They can join a team once they’re level 5 and up until two days ago, the selection was permanent. The team you picked had to be a decision you made carefully because it was practically set in stone. There …

You can download select movies and TV shows on Netflix. This is a feature that was added a while back to both the smartphone apps, and the lone Windows 10 desktop app for Netflix. Not everything can be downloaded of course but that doesn’t mean the feature isn’t useful. It’s …

Instagram is a photo sharing platform. It built its user base on sharing photos enhanced with its built-in filters but it has also pivoted and become something of a messaging platform. No one installs Instagram to replace their messaging app however, there’s no denying that conversations do happen over DM …

Twitter adapts to how conversations happen on its platform. It will occasionally push UI changes, and some feature changes that it thinks will improve how everyone tweets but it also takes into consideration the many innovative ways conversations are had. That’s basically how Twitter threads became an official feature. Another …