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Facebook rolls out new avatar feature, 50-person video messenger
Say goodbye to the days of only being able to express your emotions through the generic sad, happy, angry or thumbs up emojis on Facebook.
Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last year in other countries.
Similar to Snapchat’s Bitmoji, the feature allows Facebook users to create a cartoon avatar of themselves. They can use the avatar in comments, Facebook stories and messenger.
“So much of our interactions these days are taking place online, which is why it’s more important than ever to be able to express yourself personally on Facebook,” Fidji Simo, the head of Facebook’s app, said in a post.
“With so many emotions and expressions to choose from, avatars let you to react and engage more authentically with family and friends across the app,” Simo added.
If you can’t wait to try out the new feature, follow the steps below to create your own Facebook avatar. These screenshots were taken in the Facebook app on iOS, but the steps are similar in the Android version.
Step 1: Open up the Facebook app on your iOS or Android phone. Then tap on the three horizontal lines in the bottom-right of your screen.
Step 2: Scroll down and tap “See More.”
Step 3: Tap on “Avatars.”
Step 4: Tap “Next” then “Get Started.”
Step 5: Choose a skin tone that best fits yours and then tap “Next.”
Step 6: Now go through each section of hairstyle, hair color, face shape, eye shape and color, makeup, eyebrows, nose shape, facial hair, body shape, outfit, etc. and customize your avatar to your liking. There’s even a section for face lines and complexion if you want to get down to the extreme details.
If you need to a reminder of what you actually look like, just tap on the mirror icon at the top right of the screen to open your phone’s front-facing camera.
Step 7: When you’re done customizing your avatar and are happy with how it looks, tap the check mark in the top right corner of your screen.
Step 8: Once the screen finishes loading, tap “Next.”
Step 9: Tap “Done.”
Yay! Now that you’ve finished making your avatar, you can tap on the arrow sign in the top right to share it to your Facebook feed or set it as a temporary profile picture.
To see the different Avatar stickers, tap on the sticker icon (the smiling square below the arrow) or if you’d like to make any changes to your avatar, click on the pencil icon.
To use your avatar when making comments, simply tap on the smiley face next to the gif icon, and then tap on the avatar icon on the bottom of the screen (fourth from the left).
Article via News4Jax
Facebook will stream a virtual graduation ceremony featuring Oprah and Miley Cyrus
As dates for reopening the country are continually pushed back, virtually every aspect of life has been disrupted. Holidays, birthdays, weddings and funerals have begun to be virtualized in order for attendees to maintain social distances. It’s an inevitability the class of 2020 has no doubt been dreading for months.
Here’s some consolation from Facebook: a virtual graduation ceremony. The social media giant is bringing out some heavy hitters for the event, too. Oprah Winfrey will be giving the commencement address, while Awkwafina, Jennifer Garner, Lil Nas X and Simone Biles will all be giving speech. Miley Cyrus is set to perform.
The event kicks off at 11AM PT/2PM ET on May 15 via the Facebook Watch App. Four days prior, Instagram will start showing daily videos “that spotlights iconic senior experiences — from ‘most likely’ votes to portrait showcases to senior skip day.” The company will also be offering features to host a “virtual graduation ceremony and party” on the site.
Other sites are holding similar events. Also on May 15, Her Campus will host I’m Still Graduating, featuring appearances by Eva Longoria, Radhika Jones, Margaret Cho, Brooke Baldwin, Liam Payne, Jesse McCartney, Andrew Yang and Tamron Hall. Many schools are also planning their own, less star-studded events to celebrate graduations remotely.
It has to be a bit heartbreaking to do all of this stuff through social medium, Zoom and the like. But for the time being, that’s just going to have to be the virtual world we live in.
Article via TechCrunch
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Facebook will now let anyone remove messages from their chat history after people discovered Zuckerberg could
Article via CNBC
- Facebook will now let anyone remove messages from their chat history on Messenger.
- An April 2018 TechCrunch report revealed CEO Mark Zuckerberg had deleted messages from his chats.
- Facebook had reportedly said Zuckerberg would stop using the feature until it became publicly available.
Facebook Messenger is rolling out the option to delete a regretful or mistaken message from their chat history.
Facebook initially promised the feature after TechCrunch reported in April that multiple people said Facebook messages they received from CEO Mark Zuckerberg later appeared to have been deleted while their own messages remained. At the time, Facebook told TechCrunch Zuckerberg’s messages were deleted for security purposes.
“After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications,” Facebook told TechCrunch in a statement at the time. “These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages.”
Following the report, Facebook said it would publicly launch the feature to let users remove their messages from their chat history. Facebook reportedly said it would not have Zuckerberg delete his messages until the feature was publicly launched.
Man charged for filming himself removing ankle monitor in Facebook video
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Missouri man is charged with a felony after he allegedly filmed himself removing an ankle monitor and then posted the video on Facebook.
Thirty-three-year-old Dustin Burns of Springfield was charged last week with tampering with electronic monitoring equipment.
The video shows someone using a butter knife and screwdriver to remove an ankle monitor. The man advises viewers to remove the ankle monitor without damaging it to avoid hefty fines.
The Springfield News-Leader reports court records show Burns pleaded guilty to violating a restraining order earlier this year and was placed on probation.
Court records show warrants were issued this summer after several probation violations were filed against Burns. He has been in the Greene County jail since Aug. 28.
He does not have an attorney listed in online court records.
‘I didn’t even get my food yet’: Melee erupts at Denny’s
A video of a knock-down, drag-out brawl at a Denny’s in Albany has gone viral — racking up more than 2.5 million views on Facebook after it was posted online by a popular comedian known as “Nick Nack Pattiwhack.”
“What is you doing, baby?! I didn’t even get my food yet, baby!” the Louisiana native can be heard saying, as plates and punches fly in all directions.
“We live, baby! Yea!” he adds.
Authorities confirmed Sunday that the fight took place early Saturday at around 4:20 a.m. at the Denny’s off of Wolf Road in Colonie, according to the Albany Times Union.
No arrests were made and no one was ticketed, cops said.
The melee was caught on tape by Nick Joseph, aka “Nick Nack Pattiwhack,” who was at the restaurant with his famous side-kick, Dan Rue.
The jokesters, both from Baton Rouge, are known for their crazy antics and online videos — which include joking around in celebrities houses and public places. They’ve coined a slew of catchphrases, such as “We live, baby!” and “That’s the one, Danielson!”
Pattiwhack uses several of them in the fight video, which starts out with the pair inside Denny’s as tension begins to escalate between two groups of people.
For some unknown reason, punches are eventually thrown — with plates breaking and silverware flying everywhere — while Pattiwhack performs his shtick and watches the drama unfold.
“Oh, baby! They live, baby!” he says, unfazed by the battle going down inside the Denny’s.
“What is you doing, baby?! Oh no, baby!”
At one point, Pattiwhack musters up the courage to go over to where a trio of girls are fighting and grabs his drink off the table next to them. The move has garnered him some hate on social media, with many condemning him for not jumping in to stop the violence.
“I can’t believe u didn’t save some one,” wrote one Facebook user. “Smh peter Pipe a f–k u!!! That ain’t cool.”
Another added, “Real talk…This wasnt cool or funny at all. I like you two guys, yall make me laugh but this is sad seeing grown folks especially black women acting like hoodlums and you promoting it.”
In response to the comments, Pattiwhack wrote: “My job as a crime stopped us to record and gather faces .. that way I don’t get touched and they don’t get touched by me.”
Police said they wouldn’t be releasing a report on the incident due to the personal information regarding those who were mentioned. Denny’s would not comment on what happened, either.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/i-didnt-even-get-my-food-yet-melee-erupts-at-dennys/
NC police chief retires after calling ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement a ‘terrorist group’ on Facebook
WOW…. Looks like this dude was typing to much I don’t feel sorry for him NEVER TYPE ANYTHING ON Social Media that may harm you, your family, credibility last your livelihood. These RACIST polices and regular hard working white folks are really SHOWING THEIR RACIST; IGNORATE beliefs. People are afraid of the unknown for they can not see or hear into the present nor into the future they worry, gossip and make assumptions and defend the person, place or thing for they feel they know that person, place or thing telling anyone who will listen some people may say… “BLACKLIVESMATTER MOVEMENT is a racist HATE group!” when in fact it IS the opposite. So before we act as judge and jury know your FACTS before you give your opinion. White people (DON’T TAKE IT PERSONAL I DON’T MEAN ALL WHITE PEOPLE!) are getting scared of the unknown as we all are but SOME are taking it to far when it comes to their racist beliefs MANY are not racist but seem to not know or not fully understand the issues at hand,
Just this year a White man brought this to my attention he says when we people of color are talking on;offline about THEIR issues of their race, their lives, police brutality, white privilege; supremacy… WHITE PEOPLE NEED TO LISTEN MORE SPEAK;TYPE LESS READ AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND ask questions yes but don’t get offended or take it personal when the answer is not what you wanted to hear. OUR VOICES ARE NOT HEARD BECAUSE WHITE FOLKS ARE SO BUSY RUNNG THEIR MOUTH; ( trying to sympathize or cuddle us) OR TYPING until they end up NOT HEARING US; HALF ASS READING what we’re saying until what we are trying to say or teach you is lost. #BLACKLIVESMATTER however, the movement needs to regroup; get these militant hate filled, wanna kill a white, man; cop black people out of the picture; start engaging conversations about our issues that have been at the forefront of our lives that’s never REALLY been resolved and that’s TRUE racial equity and an end to the Prison Industrial Complex; abuse of power in our justice system. You say what about Black on Black crime? I’ll answer that in my next Blog. When you start caring about #BLACKLIVESMATTER then #ALLIVESWILLMATTER!
PLEASE YA’LL STOP LOOKING AT FOX NEWS IT’S HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!