Facebook Introduces New Way To ‘Prioritize’ Your Best Friends

If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, your News Feed can be a confusing jumble of status updates, links and photos. A new update to the social network’s mobile app should alleviate that problem, though. Facebook on Thursday announced new settings that allow users to prioritize which friends and pages are featured in their News Feed. At the

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Facebook Introduces ‘Facebook Lite’ App For Emerging Markets

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc rolled out a new Android app for its social media service on Thursday that uses less data and runs faster in regions with spotty connections. The app, called Facebook Lite, is available in countries across Asia and will soon make its way to parts of Latin America, Africa and Europe, Vijay

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Facebook Introduces Awesome New Option For Trans And Gender Nonconforming Users

Facebook is receiving praise from leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy groups after expanding its gender options to include a free-form field. The new field allows Facebook users to write in their own gender identity if they don’t identify with any of the pre-existing 58 choices included on the social media platform, the Associated Press reported. Officials made

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