Facebook To Remove Messaging From Mobile App

Facebook’s mobile app is losing one of its main features.

The social media network is notifying some of its European members that they will no longer be able to send direct messages to friends through the Facebook app, The Verge reports. For that function, they’ll instead need to download Messenger for iOS or Android.

The change is expected to roll out for those who received the message abroad in two weeks. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that this is not a temporary or regional test. Sometime soon, everyone in every country will have to use a separate app for messaging. That is, unless she 1) owns a lower-end Android device without enough memory to load Messenger, 2) has a Windows Phone or tablet, or 3) uses Facebook’s news app Paper to message people … for some reason.

By separating the main Facebook app from Messenger, the company might be able to introduce more unique features into Messenger more quickly, like WhatsApp integration or voice calling. 

So next time you tap the message button in the Facebook app and it redirects you to download Messenger, that’s why.

Twitter's New Look; Bigger Photos, Highlighted Tweets

Twitter is getting a little more Facebook-like. 

Twitter this morning said that it’s rolling out a new design for your Twitter profile which includes larger photos, a readjusted timeline, and a display of your most popular Tweets.

It looks (and acts) undeniably like a Facebook profile. But these new features may also make it easier to sift out good Tweets from a stream of white noise.The makeover includes the following new tools:

—Best Tweets: Any 140-word post that’s been faved, retweeted, or spurred a lot of discussion will be enlarged on your page so more people can see it. In other words, people will be able to spot your Twitter fights and puppy photos easier.

—Pinned Tweet: You, too, can curate the most interesting Tweets in your feed by “pinning” one to the top of your page. That way, anyone who visits your profile will be able to see the message. Sort of like a status update.

—Filtered Tweets: When you’re snooping around other people’s profiles, you can filter out their timeline by choosing to only see Tweets, Tweets with photos/videos, or Tweets with replies.

Those who are brand new to Twitter will automatically inherit the new Twitter, while veterans will receive it over the next couple of weeks. 

Home Quote Of The Day

It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.
-Danzy Senna

Home Quote Of The Day

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
-Robin Hobb

The 3R's of Retiring Your Old Gadgets: Reuse, Resell or Recycle

My home is an electronics warehouse from hell. Even I am appalled by the amount of gear that has piled up over the years. Desktops, laptops, tablets, cameras, game consoles, scanners, printers — if it’s digital, you’ll find it covered in dust and squirreled away in my storage room.

Hey, don’t judge. When you’ve been writing about gadgets since the dawn of time, as I have, these things collect. Every time I ship one back, two more show up. I have a banker’s box overflowing with orphaned power bricks I neglected to return. And cellphones? Don’t get me started.

While you probably don’t have quite this much techno-crap in your house, I’ll bet you have some. According to the NPD Group, the average U.S. household owns nearly six Internet-connected devices. A recent survey by used gadget marketplace uSell reports that seven out of 10 Americans own gizmos they haven’t touched for at least two years. As a species, we generate 20 million to 50 million metric tons of e-waste each year, most of it toxic, the vast majority of which still goes into landfills.

So in my household and probably yours, it’s time for some serious spring cleaning. But if you want to do it in a responsible way, your options boil down to the three R’s: reuse, resell, or recycle.

But before you do any of that, read this first: Five Things You Must Do Before You Ditch Your Old Gadgets.

Give to a good causeThe first and best option is to give your old technology to someone who needs it more than you do. For years, we donated old desktops to our kids’ schools, until we realized they simply weren’t equipped to deal with the deluge of gear. Your school may vary, and if you’ve got any geek skills at all, most nonprofits will benefit more from your time and expertise than your stuff.

A better idea is to find an organization that restores old tech and distributes it where it will do the most good. Seattle’s InterConnection.org, for example, will wipe everything from your device, reinstall an operating system and software, replace any broken bits, and distribute it to a nonprofit organization. If you’re donating a laptop or a phone, you can mail it in, and InterConnection will pay the shipping, provided that it still works and is less than seven years old. The rest it sends to a certified recycler.

culled from: Yahoo News

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Home Quote Of The Day

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.” 
―  Warsan Shire