Feb 20, 2022 | Blog, Facebook, General Interest, Instagram, Recent News, Security, Social Networking, Technology News
An increasing number of scammers are using social media to target victims and relying on social engineering tricks to convince people to part with their personal information or money. The problem has grown serious enough that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has...
Feb 13, 2022 | Blog, General Interest, Instagram, Recent News, Security, Social Networking, Technology News
Hackers have recently hit upon a new money-making scheme. Some groups have started breaking into Instagram accounts belonging to people with high numbers of followers. They are then holding those accounts hostage until the owner agrees to pay the ransom. In some...
Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Business & Finance, Facebook, General Interest, Instagram, New Technology, Recent News, Social Networking, Technology News
If you’re not an Instagram user you may not have heard of ‘Stories.’ They are vertical photos or videos with a duration of no more than fifteen seconds per clip. You can post multiple 15 second clips in a row as well. The unique part is that they...
Oct 25, 2021 | Blog, Business & Finance, Facebook, General Interest, Instagram, Recent News, Social Networking, Technology, Technology News
If you use Facebook then you are no doubt aware that recently the company experienced an outage that took the site offline for several hours. Many people initially assumed that the company had been hacked. However as the outage continued there were none of the...
Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, General Interest, Instagram, Recent News, Social Networking, Technology
More and more social media platforms are taking steps to improve protections for younger folk. Instagram is the latest company to take steps in that direction with the recent announcement that the platform will soon require users to provide their date of birth if they...