Facebook Brings Free Video Calls To Messenger App

Amazing! Isn't It? Facebook is not relenting in making the connection with your friends and loved ones stronger. Few weeks ago, Facebook forced all its users to start making use of the messenger app as you cannot read or send messages directly with the Facebook app. This was very frustrating as it meant more storage and cache to deal with on our devices.

Unknowingly, Facebook has got a little surprise that was gonna excite us and that's the introduction of the voice calling to the messenger app.

According to Facebook on this update:

"You can quickly start a video call from any conversation with just one tap. If you're messaging with someone and realize words just aren't enough, you can simply choose the video icon on the top right corner of the screen and start a video call right from within an existing messenger conversation.
Video calling on Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device"

With this update, I think Facebook has brought Messaging up to the standard of the likes of Skype and Viber.

This update may not require you to update your Messenger app depending on the version of Messenger you use. Just look out for the Video icon at the top right corner of the screen to start a Video call. Happy Messaging!

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How To Backup and Download an Archive Your Facebook Account

It will be one of the most painful thing that happened to you if you ever lose your Facebook account to hacks or for one reason or the other, in order to prevent this occurrence, having a backup of your account can prove to be very resourceful and useful for later use.

In this stroll, you'll be learning how to backup and download an archive of your Facebook account in a step-by-step order. Please, grab on your seat belts as we go on this short cyber journey. :D

• Read: You can now choose who manages your Facebook account after you die

How To Backup and Download an Archive Your Facebook Account

Please follow carefully the below steps in order to download your archive without hassles.

• Log on in to your Facebook account.
• Select the arrow down icon displayed at the top right side of your account.
• Click on settings from the drop down menu.
  
  
  
•  On your settings menu, click on download a copy of your Facebook account.
  
  
  
• On the next page, click on Start my Archive button.

• A mail containing the link to the archive of your account will be sent to you.
• In your mailbox, the message received contains a link to your archive
  
  
  
• Clicking on the link redirects you back to the Facebook archive page
• Click on the Download archive button and you will be required to enter your Facebook password.
• On entering your Facebook password, your timeline's Archive will automatically start to download.
• After successfully downloading, you can use any file unzip tool to extract the archive.

This archive contains your messages, photos, settings and information related to your account.

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Facebook Now Lets You Choose Who Manages Your Account After You Die

Have you ever wondered what will happen to your Facebook account when you die? if you never did, Facebook have made provisions for your account management with the new legacy contact feature.

What Your Legacy Contact Can Do On Your Account After You Die

• Write a post to display at the top of the memorialized Timeline (for example, to announce a memorial service or share a special message)
• Respond to new friend requests from family members and friends who were not yet connected on Facebook
• Update the profile picture and cover photo
• Download an archive of all your uploaded photos and posts

 You Legacy Contact Wont Be Able To:

• log in as the person who passed away
• reply to messages on the deceased profile

 Facebook has also redesigned how your timeline will look like when you're dead. this can be identified with the "Remembering"  Included on the timeline. see a preview below:

This Legacy contact feature is available in the US only, although Facebook has promised to roll out the feature to other countries very soon. for more information on Facebook Legacy Contact, See Adding a Legacy Contact on Facebook Newsroom

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5 Great Tools For Automatically Sharing Your Blog Posts To Your Social Profiles

I know how hard it is to compose blog posts and after the whole the typing and editing, I’m proud to announce to you that the drama does not end there.

How about creating awareness for your posts by sharing with your friends on your social media?, It’s very obvious it takes pretty little time but your profession doesn’t gives room that time as you are already thinking and planning your next article/news.

I’m very delighted to bring you some good news, as I’ll be sharing with you some awesome tools that does the magic!, The magic basically is that you don’t have to go through the stress of sharing your posts to Facebook, twitter, etc. after composing and publishing  them.

Below is a list of online tools that can be used to carry out this task, each tool is very unique and I advise you to check out and make use of the one you think will work out best for you.

NOTE:

It is Strongly advisable and recommended that you choose one or two out of the list as making use of all these tools may in turn make your timeline look very Spammy and filled with different posts containing the same links. This can get irritating at the long run.

•     Twitterfeed

This tool is ideal and ready to use with your Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, and other online social media platforms.Sign Up takes only a few minutes and can be done with your social profiles.

•    RSS Graffiti

RSS Graffiti is a Facebook application that can share your blog posts on your wall, Pages and Groups. All you need is just to supply the address of your blog feed and you can sit back and relax while the sharing job is done. In case you experienced any problems while trying to make use of this app, feel free to drop your comments so I may be of help.

•   Onlywire

This tool is one of the best on my list. Onlywire can help you share your blog posts to 50 Social profiles at once without even pressing any buttons and guess what? This tool is completely free and has no hidden charges although it exists in free and paid mode but I can assure you the free mode is just more than enough for you blog. It is also available as a WP Plugin and Browser extensions aside the online platform it offers.

•   Feedburner

I’m sure this might have actually brought a little confusion, you have always known feedburner to be an email subscriptions manager but there’s a special thing this tool does, it allows you to instantaneously share your blog posts to your twitter timeline. Making use of the Google URL shortening protocol to make your posts urls shorter and displays just immediately after the title of your posts.

You can always find this under the Publicize>Socialize tab on your dashboard.

•   Hootsuite

Hootsuite lets you Schedule messages and publishes them on your social media at once, it also gives you the ability to monitor, measure and track your campaign’s performances.  You can grab a 30-day free trial of this tool to see if it meets with your target.

Kindly be informed that there are a variety of tools that performs the same tasks as the ones listed above, perhaps you may have been using one already and I’ll really love you to try these tools out. And also remember over using the tools to avoid spam.

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