Beginning as early as this week, Facebook will make it a requirement that you use their standalone Messenger app to send and receive messages (as they pull the plug on Messenger being supported from within their stock Facebook app). Generally, changes to Facebook are met with unhappiness among their users --but this time, the company is claiming it will help speed up the rates … [Read more...] about Facebook Messenger Now Required to Chat with Friends
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Google Schedules Orkut for Shutdown
In the social-network beginning, there was Orkut (at least as far as Google was concerned)... but now there are a host of other apps and projects like YouTube, Blogger, and Google+. Unfortunately, Orkut never really caught on --so Google is dropping the axe and shutting it down come September 30 of this year (new account creation has already been suspended). If you … [Read more...] about Google Schedules Orkut for Shutdown