Category: Facebook

While it's by no means a new feature, people are starting to notice what Facebook Mobile's Contact Sync actually does, and it's not pretty. At the very least, it will trash your phone's address book by overwriting it with Facebook contact info and profile pictures. More disturbingly, while it's doing that it sends your phone's entire address book to Facebook, to be hashed and badly matched up ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two big changes today, the newly revamped Groups being one of them. The second is that users will now have the ability to download all of their Facebook data, anytime they wish, as a big ZIP file. Expect the new feature to hit your account settings in the next few days. The option to download your data will show up in your Account Settings, just below the ...

Friend lists are so yesterday. Facebook has just announced a total overhaul of the Groups feature, designed to make it easier to share things with the groups of friends who are likely to care about them, without spamming the rest of your Facebook contacts. The new Groups are private by default, which is a big change from the previous publicly-searchable default. Group Chat has also been added, ...

The Facebook Photos service has always been a bit limited when compared with competitors like Flickr due to a hard and fast limit of 720 pixels maximum resolution. Thankfully, that limitation has been lifted thanks to an overhaul that includes a new photo viewer and an improved upload and tagging engine. Photos uploaded to the world's largest social network can now be up to 2048 pixels at their ...

Of Facebook's 500 million-plus users, 200 million of them play games. Thanks to some new changes in Facebook's UI and policies, announced at the big Facebook Games event tonight, those Facebook games are about to become more fun for gamers and less spammy for non-gamers. As part of its gaming initiative, Facebook has made its sidebar navigation more relevant by pushing your most commonly used ...

If you're constantly forgetting to log out of Facebook when you use other people's computers or phones, Facebook's new remote logout feature is right up your alley. Under Account Settings (specifically, the Account Security section), you can now see a list of places where you're currently logged in, along with some info to help you determine whether each session is legitimate or unauthorized. ...

Facebook Connect is missing from Apple's new social network, iTunes Ping, after it was apparently working on Wednesday night. There seem to be mixed messages coming from Apple, according to interviews that All Things D's Kara Swisher conducted with Apple honcho Steve Jobs and VP Phil Schiller. Jobs said Facebook Connect wasn't in Ping, and gave a dismissive "I guess we could do that." ...

If you've been testing out Facebook Places, you may have noticed that the Places icon looks like the number four ... in a square. Is this a blatant glove-slap at Places rival/partner Foursquare? Is Foursquare so synonymous with location-based check-in services that Facebook decided it would best represent the Places services? It's a lot more innocent than that, according to the artist behind ...

The launch of Facebook Places marks Facebook's long-awaited entry into the location-based social networking game. Far from destroying Foursquare and Gowalla, though, Facebook actually got those companies, along with Yelp and MyTown, on board with its Places API. Check-ins should eventually flow both ways, making it as easy as possible to tell Facebook -- I mean, uh, your friends -- where you are. ...

If you're obsessive about your Facebook friends and you always notice when your friend numbers go up or down, Facebook Friends Checker might be for you. It 's a Chrome extension which keeps track of your friends and periodically informs you when someone defriends you or deletes their account. You'll get an alert on top of your Facebook page, showing your lost friends and it'll stay there until ...