Friends | - Part 2

Watch YouTube Videos With Friends Using Uptime

There are now countless ways to watch TV over the internet. Unfortunately, unless you own a smart TV, doing so can be a solitary affair, as you’re unlikely to all crowd around a smartphone together. Cue Uptime, a new social video app which has the backing of Google. The days when families would gather together… read more »

Facebook Now Helps You Make Friends With Strangers

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Discover People. This is designed to help you make new friends, providing a way of breaking the ice with complete strangers. Unfortunately, to make this happen Facebook needs to know where you live, where you work, and what you do at weekends. Discover People is an extension… read more »

You Can Now Get an Uber Directly to Your Friends

Uber has built its business helping people get from one place to another place. However, it can now also get you from one place to another person. The company also has some custom Snapchat filters waiting to be discovered too, but surely only millenials will care about those. As detailed in a post from the… read more »

How to Use Tinder Without Facebook Friends Knowing

These days, when you open up the Tinder app you’re immediately asked to link Facebook. But this tiny detail basically ruins any hope of privacy you might expect on the app. What if you don’t want your Facebook friends to know you’re on Tinder? What can you do? Well, there are a few tiny tweaks… read more »

How to Fool Your Friends With a Fake OS Update Screen

Sometimes, you just need to play a practical joke on someone’s computer. Maybe it’s flipping their screens, inverting the mouse buttons, or changing their wallpaper to a slideshow of Fabio — whatever you choose, it’s important to goof around and have fun once in a while. If you’re a prankster at heart, you can now… read more »

Are Your Social Media Friends Sabotaging Your Finances?

A lot of factors affect your spending, and if you’ve ever sat down to create a budget, you’ve probably given them some thought. But here’s one factor you probably never thought about in a financial way: your social circle. How your friends think and talk about money can have a big effect on the decisions you make, and it’s time… read more »

How to Help Suicidal Friends on Facebook or Other Social Media

The World Health Organization estimates that one million people die of suicide each year, and the rate will rise to one death in every 20 seconds by 2020. It’s a growing problem worldwide, but you can now help. Facebook is known to cause depression, especially when an at-risk individual sees the good-natured highlights of other… read more »

5 Super Easy Tools to Share Files with Friends or Your Devices

Online storage is magnificent, but it doesn’t solve every single requirement yet. Even with our awesome Google Drive guide, you can’t do peer-to-peer sharing for faster transfers. And you might love Dropbox, but that still requires a data connection instead of just sending photos from your laptop to a friend’s phone. Plus, whoever you are… read more »

In Defense of a Large Facebook Friends list

As I write this article I have 1,166 “friends” on Facebook. That puts me in the top 5% or so of Facebook users by friend number. That’s a hell of a lot more than the 150 that Dan was talking about on his post on why you should start deleting Facebook friends. Rather than feeling… read more »

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