Facebook wants to keep bullies away with Safety Center

While Facebook activities were initially made to connect family and friends, the social network isn’t immune to online bullies and trolls. Facebook hopes to help out in this respect with the Safety Center. The site shows things like how to share posts with a limited audience or privately, report abuse, and even enable two-factor authentication. It might not be the perfect solution for solving a terrible issue but at least it’s a start. And it’s something you might want to check out if you aren’t familiar with the tools Facebook offers here.

Source: Lifehacker

Facebook Messenger tries out data saving option

For users who need to monitor data consumption, using data saver options of apps like Google Chrome are useful. Facebook thinks it’s useful enough to try out on its own Messenger app. What the data saver option does is it cuts back the amount of data you use by letting you only look at pictures and videos on a click-to-download basis. This feature gets enabled when you’re on cellular data. If you are on Wi-Fi, the app will continue to download the photos and videos as they come to you. Messenger will also show you how much data you’ve saved. However, the feature isn’t available to everyone yet. But if you’re on Facebook Messenger’s beta program on Android you might be able to toggle this option.

Source: Android Police

Facebook’s Slack competitor is now out of beta

Facebook is done beta testing its Facebook at Work service. Now called Workplace, this enterprise service charges its customers a per-user subscription fee each month. This guarantees no ads in the service, though. Also, it’s separate from your personal Facebook account so it does help lessen the distraction a bit (for now at least). Don’t expect it to offer so many productivity tools a la Microsoft Office suite. For now it’s a communication tool, much like Slack, but at lower prices.

They are charging: US$3 per user for companies with fewer than 1,000 monthly active users, US$2 per user for companies with 1,001 – 10,000 monthly active users, and US$1 per use for companies with 10,000+ monthly active users. For comparison, Slack has a free version but the “standard” tier, which has unlimited message storage and group phone calls, and goes for US$6.67.

Source: Recode

Facebook can now be your calendar app, too

It’s not all that surprising that Facebook now has an app to help you manage Facebook events. And if you rely on this heavily, the social network wants to keep you in its ecosystem—even for your non-Facebook events. There is now a new Events app on iOS launched in the US. It shows you an overview of your upcoming Facebook events as well as your regular iCloud calendar (if you enable it, that is). You can give or revoke access to Events for your regular Calendar events. If you’re on Android and you want this app, Facebook is currently working on a version for you.

Source: Popular Science