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Facebook adds Profile video in the new update for Mobile Users

Facebook has released new updates to mobile profile pages to enable users to better personalize their profiles and more easily control their privacy settings. The new update adds profile videos and lot more cool features.

The new Facebook feature for mobile users allows you to upload a short and looped video as your main profile photo. Profile videos have the ability to add a whole new dimension to your mobile profile page. Users can also set a temporary profile picture that reverts to their old picture at a specified time. With this feature, you can support any charity or Facebook campaigns for a specific time period by changing to a temporary profile pic.

Facebook also introduced more ways to control privacy settings so that users can curate what pieces of information are public and which are only viewable to friends or people that they have allowed to view profiles.

Along with these new profile features, Facebook have made some design changes to mobile profile that improve the profile layout and better present information about you and your friends in a more visually engaging way. Profile pictures are now centered, and bigger to give you more real estate to show off what you can do with these new creative tools.

Facebook is currently testing all of these features to a small number of iPhone users in the UK and California, and they will be rolling them out to more people soon. Facebook, in a news release, said that they believe these improvements to profile will give people more ways to connect and share with each other, and express themselves in meaningful ways.

Changing Your Facebook Profile pic means to support Digital India Initiative, Not Internet.org

Facebook has recently added the SupportDigitalIndia campaign that changing one's profile photo to the Indian tri-color to support the Digital India initiative. Facebook even released a tool where anyone can show they are 'helping transform India into a digitally empowered society' by simply changing their Facebook profile pic. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, have already changed their profile pics for supporting Digital India Initiative. But, there was a controversy by saying that changing the profile pic means to support Facebook's Internet.org campaign. The controversy has arised due to the usage of the words 'Internet.org profile picture' in the web code.

Facebook basically said as much, saying it was a mistake by the engineer who used the wrong shorthand name in the web code. The company's statement reads:

"There is absolutely no connection between updating your profile picture for digital India and Internet.org. An engineer mistakenly used the words 'Internet.org profile picture' as a shorthand name he chose for part of the code. But this product in no way connects to or registers support for Internet.org. We are changing the code today to eliminate any confusion."

Zuckerberg Announces Project to Connect Refugee Camps to the Internet

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, promoted access to the Internet as “an enabler of human rights” and a “force for peace” on Saturday. He announced that Facebook would help the United Nations to bring Internet connections to refugee camps.

“It’s not all altruism,” Mr. Zuckerberg said later, in an implicit acknowledgment that drawing new users to his service is also good for Facebook’s bottom line. “We all benefit when we are more connected.” He did not say where and how Facebook would work with refugee camps.

Read more at The New York Times.

Instagram hits 400 million users

Instagram, the photo-sharing app Facebook bought for a modest $1 billion in 2012, now has more than 400 million users, the company said on Tuesday. It had only 300 million users 9 months ago. According to the number of users, Instagram is far larger than rival Twitter Inc with 100 million more users.

The photo-sharing app has grown rapidly over the past three years, faster than many of its social app competitors, including Twitter and Snapchat. The Facebook unit has rolled out a number of products and features this year aimed at getting users to spend more time in the app.

More than 75% of Instagram's users are outside the United States, the company wrote in a blog post. More than half of the 100 million newest users living in Europe and Asia with Brazil, Japan and Indonesia adding the most users.

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion and has been slow to monetize the app. It recently expanded its platform to all advertisers, rather than a select few, and is expected to make up to $2.8 billion in advertising revenue in 2017.

Facebook is planning to launch low-cost Wi-Fi service in India

In San Francisco, Facebook has declared their opinion regarding the wifi facility in India. Social networking site Facebook has remained defiant about its free internet service providing initiative Internet.org and said it was looking at innovative ways to provide connectivity in the country.

At the India Economic Convention 2015, Facebook vice president for mobile and global access policy Kevin Martin said that they are planning to launch a low cost wifi service in India. He also said that Facebook's connectivity lab has been working with drones and unmanned aerial vehicles to lower the cost of service to people without infrastructure.

He also added that the social networking giant supports the concept of net neutrality and Internet.org initiative was to enable people to realize the importance of internet by providing access to basic web service free of data cost.
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