Take a selfie to unlock Facebook
- The social media network has been trialling a new safety feature which involves taking a clear picture of your face before it’ll let you scroll through your timeline
- Apparently the idea behind it is that the bods at Facebook will be able to stop suspicious and potentially fraudulent activity such as creating an account or setting up ad payments
- However, anyone lucky enough to have snapped up the new iPhone X will have already heard about this kind of safety feature due to its inclusion on the device
In other social media news…
Spend the night in the Coca-Cola truck and other great PR stunts
- The clever people at Laterooms.com capitalised on the obsession of the Coca-Cola truck at Christmas and came up with a competition to stay in it
- Another great PR stunt last month mention in Rich Leigh’s monthly top 10 round-up was designed by Booking.com who created a bedroom at the top of the highest building in Europe, the Shard, to allow a couple to have the best view of the November 5th fireworks
- Clothing retailer, TK Maxx, hid some snow globes in their Irish stores and the finders won free snow for outside of their house
Facebook is giving disaster-relief charities more guidance on who needs help and where
- While users can see individual campaigns and calls for help during a crisis, Facebook is now set to allow relief groups more data on where the aid should go via its Community Help API service
- This follows on from earlier this year, when the app announced a crisis response tool which allowed users in America to ask for help and give help to those involved in a crisis
- Now the great news is that Facebook is set to expand its fundraising tools beyond the US meaning even more help to those who need it
And in other news…
- Here is the majestic man who managed to de-activated Donald Trump’s twitter account for a whole 11 minutes and the world breathed a big sigh of relief (before it was re-activated again. Boo!)
