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Here’s how to hide your active status on Instagram

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments active, Here's, hide, Instagram, Status

Love using Instagram, but also love your privacy? Earlier this year, Instagram added Activity labels, allowing followers and people you

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Snapchat now uses speech recognition to animate your face

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments animate, face, recognition, Snapchat, speech, uses

Feel strange sticking out your tongue to get that Snapchat Lens to change? Snapchat’s latest Lenses react instead to audible

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It’s over: Tinder won the dating wars. Swipe or stay home

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments Dating, Home, It's, over, Stay, Swipe, Tinder, Wars

Single people have many choices when it comes to dating apps. They can go old school and drop into Match,

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Time alerts put the brakes on your Facebook and Instagram consumption

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments alerts, brakes, Consumption, Facebook, Instagram, time

Facebook Facebook and Instagram will soon let you know just how long you spend on the network — on Wednesday,

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Facebook dismantles fake accounts that had thousands interested in a rally

August 1, 2018August 1, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments ‘thousands’, Accounts, dismantles, Facebook, fake, interested, Rally

Fake users on social media are as common as spam and at least as dangerous as the Internet Research Agency’s

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YouTube videos are now even bigger on desktop — so why are users complaining?

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments bigger, Complaining, desktop, even, users, videos, YouTube

YouTube’s move to eliminate those black bars has migrated from mobile to desktop — but not everyone is happy with

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LinkedIn lets you send voice messages that probably no one will listen to

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments lets, LinkedIn, listen, Messages, probably, send, voice

If sending out an unprompted LinkedIn message to a connection you barely know isn’t awkward enough, don’t worry — there’s

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Twitter’s new guideline seek to curb abusive comments on Periscope

July 29, 2018July 29, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments abusive, comments, curb, guideline, Periscope, Seek, Twitter’s

Twitter, in an effort to curb abusive comments on Periscope, its video-streaming platform, is giving users new tools to deal

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Photo FOMO: Adobe’s slick Hollywood editing suite, IGTV’s test for teasers

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments Adobe’s, editing, FOMO, Hollywood, IGTV’s, photo, slick, Suite, teasers, test

Afraid of missing out on the latest photo industry news while you’re out, well, actually taking pictures? Photo FOMO is

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Growth slows during Facebook’s ‘critical year,’ still reaches 2.5 billion

July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 DigitalTrends 0 Comments billion, Critical, during, Facebook’s, Growth, Reaches, slows, Still, Year

In the last three months, Facebook’s usually steep user growth didn’t change at all in the U.S. and fell in

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