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Thursday 3 December 2020
Facebook said Dating had been built with “safety, security and privacy at the forefront”.
Facebook shares climbed more than 6.9% to $170.75 in after-hours trades.
To get authorised by Facebook, “advertisers will need to confirm their identity and location,” the statement said.
Facebook said it made a net profit of $3.7 billion in the fourth quarter of last year.
Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael targeted voters through social media during the general election
Here are the top 11 parties by Facebook following.
That’s around €42 billion.
Sleep soundly.
Listen up, Zuckerberg.
Wow! Sad! Angry! Six different emotions are being tested.
The social networking behemoth isn’t too shabby a place to ply your trade.
The robots are taking over.
Facebook said that it made $802 million in profit for shareholders on revenue of $3.2 billion.
It made an estimated £371 million in revenue in the region in 2013.
Facebook’s CEO said that the virus must be brought under control soon, before it becomes a “long-term global health crisis”.
It was only a matter of time…
It’s, like, science.
The Taoiseach took part in a Facebook Q&A at the social media company’s California HQ.
He gave away 18 million shares of Facebook stock – guess how much that’s worth?
He only asked for one or two, like.
The Sympathise button is old news. Here’s what Facebook REALLY needs.
Sometimes, ‘Like’ just doesn’t seem appropriate.
Like, literally.
If we haven’t got God to fall back on what does this generation believe in now? Kate Bellamy takes a lighthearted look at what people follow today.
It’s science.
Illustrated by GIFs.
The Ivorian was the target of abuse when Galatasaray met Fenerbahce at the weekend.
You went to the gym. We get it.
NSFW language.
“I’ve had situations where it’s been very dangerous for my kids. We devalued the first photos,” he said.
An oversharing filter? An anti-inspirational status widget? We’d like all of those please.
The family of a Dutch inventor, who died in 2004, are suing the company for alleged patent infringement.
What international brands’ updates got hundreds of thousands of likes last month, and why?
Customers can now get answers from Bank of Ireland in new ways…
This summer’s Olympics will be the most tweeted, liked and tagged in history, organisers say.
Facebook had previously planned on selling shares at between $28-$35, but is now going for a price between $34 and $38.
Sometime this month, 337 million shares will be up for grabs when the world’s biggest social network floats on the stock market. But be warned: it may be hard to get a hold of them.
THIS YEAR HAS given us a lot of unexpected things, but one of the bigger cultural changes of 2020 has been the wide-scale move to working from home.
Writing in TheJournal.ie today, Arlene Vithaldas of the UCC Academy argues that it’s time for society to change its view of a workplace that includes commuting to offices.
Some people have found that working from home has given them more time, because they don’t have to commute both ways or end up getting stuck in the office after hours.
However, others miss the collaborative nature and social aspect of being in the office, as well as the chance to regularly be in urban centres where offices tend to be located.
Today we’re asking: Do you enjoy working remotely?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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Average Facebook user gets more ‘Likes’ and comments than they give
The average user tends to attract more ‘Likes’ and messages than they actually give out themselves, thanks to ‘power users’.