Hajarbakis Blog

It's no more new that Facebook is no longer appealing to the younger generation. Also, few week ago, they lost one million active users - the highest in the company’s history. Now, In a recently concluded survey of 4,594 people, it was seen that 26% of these people deleted the app from their phones. So more people keep deleting the Facebook app from their phones. In addition, the stats also disclosed that 9% of those people downloaded all the information Facebook took from them, 54% have adjusted the privacy settings on their app, and the percentage of those who have taken a break from the app is 42%. Younger ones are more likely to delete the app from their phones than older ones. 44% of people aged 18 – 29 actually deleted the app. The privacy adjustment was also made by more of the young ones, while both adults and young ones took almost the same amount of break from the app with 47% and 40% respectively. The result of the survey might be biased and greatly affected by t...

Facebook is gradually shifting from being just a social media platform, and is trying its hands in some other technological fields. Over the years, there has been an increased demand for smart speakers, and it has been long-rumored that Facebook is gearing up the launch of its own wireless voice-controlled speaker. Although this area of the market is dominated by Amazon, with Google not so far behind and Apple expected to make waves with the HomePod. There is also one major competitor lurking in the dark, waiting for when the time is right so as to take the market by storm. This competitor is none other than the social media giant–Facebook. The “Aloha” project by Facebook was brought to light again by a youthful developer Jane Manchun Wong, was able to hold a short talk with an internal “Aloha Voice Testing” tool. This ongoing project is expected to rival the likes of Siri, Alexa and Google assistant. Not much is known about the smart speaker yet because most of its features are...

Few weeks ago, we reported that the Ugandan government imposed a compulsory tax of 200 shillings per day in order to use social media. This directive became effective since the beginning of this month where Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, and all other social media users are by law required to pay tax. You can continue using this social media services as long as you pay your tax, and the officials over there have made it convenient as payment can now be paid right through mobile phones. Apart from the popular social networks, even fairly-known OTT services like Tinder, Tumblr, etc., has been blocked. Many people have been flocking over to VPNs so as not to be affected by this new OTT tax decree. The government, however, noticed this and has ordered local Internet Service Providers (ISP) to block the use of VPNs. MTN, Airtel and other internet providers in Uganda—including Africell—have answered this call by the government. They have blocked internet access for those who do not pay...

Facebook has continued to create updates and improvements for its app. Although many might not notice these new features before they are eventually make public, frequent users of the apps might notice something. The latest feature to surface is the Do Not Disturb feature that is being tested for both Instagram and Facebook. This feature allows you to block all notifications from the apps for 30 minutes, an hour, two hours, the whole day or for as long as you want until you switch it back on manually. In addition, other options such one to turn off sound and vibrations will be released alongside the DND feature. We do not know whether everyone or only a selected group of users will be able to access this new feature. This is similar to YouTube's Remind me to take a break feature which practically does what it's called, but these features are quite weird because they give users the option to stop using the app. Another feature that we expect to see is the one where you...