Facebook can lead to sadness, researchers find

Scanning Facebook could leave you down in the dumps, research has indicated. 
Another study released on Wednesday discovered the social system site promotes emotions of jealousy among clients that can lead to despondency.

Looking through Facebook has become a daily activity for millions of individuals, however researchers set out to find how emotionally included clients are with the social systems administration site and how regular utilization can affect their mental health.

Specialists at the College of Missouri discovered Facebook utilization can lead to symptoms of melancholy on the off chance that it triggers sentiments of jealousy among its clients.

Educator Margaret Duffy, who co-authored the study, said they way Facebook fans utilize the site makes a distinction by they way they react to it.

She said: "Facebook can be a fun and healthy activity if clients take advantage of the site to stay associated with family and old companions and to share intriguing and important aspects of their lives.

"Then again, if Facebook is utilized to perceive how well an acquaintance is getting along financially or how happy an old companion is in his relationship - things that cause envy among clients - utilization of the site can lead to emotions of misery."

Mobilink becomes the World’s fastest growing brand on Facebook

Mobilink has been certified as the World’s Fastest Growing Brand on Social Media in recognition of its exceptional engagement practices. The accolade has been given by Social Bakers which is the global provider of network statistics and analysis for the most commonly used social networks. This is the first time a Pakistani Brand has led the global charts of any social media ranking. Social Bakers has also marked Mobilink as the most socially devoted Pakistani for a second consecutive month on all social fronts.

The achievement followed Mobilink’s fan base crossing the milestone of over 2.1 million Facebook fans and twitter followers growing to more than 89,000. This marks Mobilink as the leading telecom brand on social media with maximum likes on Facebook (www.facebook.com/mobilink) and the most followers on its twitter account (www.twitter.com/mobilink).

SMS Craze fades in UK

SMS Craze fades in UK. It is for the first time in the history of the UK that the people showed low interest in SMS. The change comes due to the number of text application, including whatsapp, iMessage, BBM, Snapchat,etc. present in the Smartphones. The number of text messages fell for the  first time since its arrival in 1992 in Britian. Beside the above mentioned application Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus also attributed a lot in fall of text  messages.
The figures from Deloitte shows that in 2013, the smartphone users in the country just sent 7 billion fewer text messages  than in 2012. The reports claimed that the use of SMS will further fall in the United Kingdom in 2014.

Gfive launches Bravo A2 Mobile phone with Dual-core Processor

Gfive launches Bravo A2 Mobile phone with Dual-core Processor. Gfive has launched a new sleek and stylish handset called Bravo A2 with a high-end features. It's a very stunning device and has the capability of trio SIMs active simultaneously. Gfive Bravo A2 is an exciting device which features a 3.5 Inches HVGA HD Capacitive Touch Screen display and is powered by a 1. GHz dual-core processor. The handset runs on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, which is quite old. Google had launched Android Jelly Bean after ICS OS and a number of handsets accessible in Pakistan run on the Jelly Bean OS. Recently, Google has unveiled the latest version of Android that is KitKat, which is coming with high quality features and enhanced performance.
Anyhow, the Android 4.0 ICS OS is not bad at all. Other features of the Gfive Bravo A2 are a 2 megapixels rare-facing camera with LED flash and GEO-tagging, a 0.3 megapixels VGA front-facing camera for video calling, a 256 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM.  It also comprises a 5.5 GB of G-Cloud storage capacity. It also has a MicroSD card slot and expandable memory up to 32 GB. Gfive Bravo A2 has a 1500 mAh battery that has enough juice to offer approximately 5 hours of talk time and 78 hours of standby time. 
In terms of connectivity the Bravo A2 includes a Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n; Wifi hotspot, GPRS, GPS and MicroUSB (v 2.0). It is coming preloaded with social networking applications including Facebook, Skype, Viber, Whatsapp, Gmail, Google search, YouTube, Google +, etc. In terms of entertainment the handset has an Audio, Video player and FM Radio. The dimensions and the weight of the Bravo A2 is not known yet.
Price of the Gfive Bravo A2 handset:
Available in white color option the Bravo A2 contains the very much affordable price tag f Rs.5, 499 PKR, 51 US dollars, £32. It contains a 1 one year warranty.
The Package contains:

• Handset
• Battery
• Charger
• Headset
• User Manual

Have a look at the specifications of the Bravo A2 handset:

• A 3.5 Inches HVGA HD Capacitive Touch Screen display
• A 1. GHz dual-core processor
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system
• A 2 megapixels rare-facing camera with LED flash and GEO-tagging
• A 0.3 megapixels VGA front-facing camera
• A 256 MB of RAM
• A 256 MB of ROM
• 5.5 GB of G-Cloud storage
• MicroSD card slot
• Expandable memory up to 32 GB
• A 1500 mAh battery
• A Bluetooth
• WI-Fi
• GPRS
• GPS
• MicroUSB (v 2.0)
• FM Radio

How to recognize fake or real social networking Profiles

How to recognize fake or real social networking Profiles. Now days it’s hard to recognize fake and real social networking profiles. It's a bit hard for common users to differentiate between real or fake social networking pages of stars, celebrities and other people. Here exist lots of people that try to deceive other users of the social network websites for reasons of their own, from having a bit of fun, to cheating for its own sake. It is very much essential for the common users of social networking websites to keep safe online and remaining distant from people you don't know.

The social networking websites include Twitter, Facebook, and Google plus, etc. Now the question is why you need to stay away from fraudulent? There are lots of things that can cause you suffering and tension. For instance the fake users of Facebook, twitter and g+ play games with the innocent people. If you started to have strong belief on them they can cause serious threat and deprive you from your money, property and even your life. The fraudulent might also be embezzled your identity or valuable information for deceiving others.

If you are not satisfied and your mind constantly hit you regarding the identity of the new friend and celebrity pages you, be careful and may end up following an imposter. The first thing which I recommend is think a number of times before accepting a friend request blindly. No doubt you have lots of people in your life circle you can add them instead of unknowns.

You need to ask a few questions from him/her. For example, he or she knows you? From where they get your social networking information? Etc.

You also need to check is the person is frequently tagged by others.  You need to check how many friends and followers are listed in the person's network. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. A fraud one will often have considerably fewer. Check his profile and pictures. The real people always have pictures with friends and family posted on its account.

The most important factor is that the fake or imposter does not provide its bio on the social networking accounts. An empty bio on Facebook, Twitter and Google plus is a strong proof of its dud.

If you want to follow celebrities on the social networking websites, you need to check lots of things first. I think a real person or star may not even have a social networking account, but my opinion can be refuted because the stars and celebrities start creating social networking pages to stay in touch with their fans. There is a trick to recognize real page of your favorite celebrity, on Twitter and Google Plus the famous person and organizations have gotten their social networking accounts with a verified sign that is a proof of their accuracy.

On Twitter the Green Tick mark and on Google Plus the Grey Tick mark is the proof of their real identity. But all real profiles do not have the verified sign. Like Twitter, Facebook also verified accounts with a small blue icon or tick mark with a checkmark in it. It will emerge next to the user or page’s name on their Timeline, in search results and elsewhere around Facebook.

To conclude, if you find someone who posted a fake profile, report it to site monitors and authorities they will take action instantly by closing their accounts more quickly.

Girl hanged herself over Facebook Prevention

The addiction of social networking website Face book is becoming a serious threat to the life of people most probably teens. Day after day many incidents happen due to Facebook including kidnapping, blackmailing and people also kill themselves due to frustration. Lots of suicide incidents happened due to Facebook. The researches have also proved that the addiction of Facebook and other technology has a negative effects of the health and mind of the people especially children and teenagers. Due to the addiction of Facebook an awful incident happened in Indian province Maharashtra where a young girl has hanged herself because her parents stopped her for using Facebook.

Aishwarya Dahiwal, 17, a college student found hanging in her bedroom on Wednesday after an argument with her parents, who told her she had to stop using Facebook on her computer, in Maharashtra, said police.

The police said that the parents of the girl stopped her to use Facebook and Mobile all the day. Investigating Officer G. H. Lemgude of Nanalpeth police said that like other parents they wanted to save their daughter from went astray. They told her that she should focus on her studies, but after a row with parents the girl locked herself in her room and was found hanging later, with a suicide note nearby.

The suicide note read as:

‘Is Facebook so bad? I cannot stay in a home with such restrictions as I can't live without Facebook’.

Experts say Facebook are more often to show psychological disorders, such as mania, paranoia, aggressive tendencies, antisocial behavior and increased alcohol use.  Like Pakistan the use of Facebook is also growing rapidly in India, approximately 56,675,740 people use Facebook in India making it the third largest user base for Facebook after USA and Brazil. A survey revealed that the approximately three-quarters of India’s high school students prefer Facebook over phone calls to communicate. The survey was disclosed by the Tata Consultancy Services in June, 2013.

Mobilink Launches “Social Bundle” for Prepaid Subscribers

Mobilink has launched ‘industry – first’ offer in the form of the ‘Social Bundle’ for its Prepaid subscribers. After successful subscription, subscribers will have unlimited access to Facebook, WhatsApp Messenger & Twitter usage with absolutely no data charges, as well as 300 SMS. Customers can avail the ‘Social Bundle’ for a total of three (3) days, at a cost of Rs 10+ Tax, making it the one-stop solution for access to Facebook, Twitter, messenger and Whatsapp, as well as 300 SMS. Mobilink’s prepaid customers can subscribe to Social Bundle using *114*17#. 

Facebook to update data use policy

Facebook declared on Thursday that the company is updating its data use policy, formerly known as its privacy policy, in an attempt to offer people more clearness on how the company employs information they
share. The Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data-Use Policies, two separate documents that govern the way the company handles advertising, user data, and third-party retention of that data, undergo the changing process.

Facebook plans to deploy affordable internet to undeserved Communities

Facebook has a plan to deploy the more affordable internet access to the undeserved communities. In this regard Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief of Facebook, signed a project, to make internet more affordable, with Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and four other companies including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia and Opera Software ASA.
The project called ‘Internet.org’ will bring the access of the more affordable internet to the people around the world who can't afford it.

No More Pornography on Facebook

No More Pornography on Facebook.Facebook is to filter its ads and decided that it will not permit  ads that contain pornographic material to publish on the pages. Following the footsteps of Google Blogger, Facebook is forced to remove ads with sexual or violent content. This action was essential  for Facebook to eliminate content which violated community standards and prohibits users from posting content about hate-speech, threats and pornography, etc.