Whether you are a user of Facebook or not, it’s always there and millions upon millions of people use it every single day. Starting tomorrow, Facebook will be sold on the open market for about $38 a share, bringing the totaled value of the company to a whopping $100 billion. Given the circumstance, we felt it was appropriate to share this graph with everyone that shows some interesting tid-bits about FB and just how much the almighty Mr. Zuckerburg is worth. 

Starting today, Facebook is going to start rolling out a much more photo-centric mobile look for users. If you glance at your feed in the next few days, you’ll begin to be greeted by much bigger image thumbnails than what we’re used to, so for all you photo lovers, this is awesome. In fact, photos will now be a complete 3x larger in the mobile app and on the mobile site. Whoa.

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Color and Verizon have just launched a special 4G LTE edition of their social photo sharing application onto the Play Store. With Color, you can stream video onto your Facebook page for all of your friends to watch and enjoy. Previously, users of the already popular application had requested that sound be made an option for streaming – their wishes have been granted. If you’re on Big Red, then you can access the sound feature and upload your beautiful images and audio straight to your friend’s timeline. 

Adding little “F” accents to the newly introduced Camera and Messenger icons with Facebook was not enough to quiet critics. Facebook gave in last night, removing the shortcuts from their Android app completely in the latest update. The people have been heard. And back to your regularly scheduled Saturday activities.

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On Friday, an update was released by Facebook that didn’t exactly thrill the masses. Upon installing, users noticed that they now had 3 icons from Facebook in their app drawers:  Camera, Messenger, and Facebook. The camera app was a shortcut so that you could instantly take photos and then load them into FB, while the messenger shortcut was exactly what you would expect it to be, a shortcut to their messenger service. As I mentioned earlier, many of you were not excited to now have Facebook in 3 different spots, especially right next to two of the most used native apps on your phone. You now had to be careful when you hit “Camera” or “Messenger/Messages” as these are the identical (or close enough) names to your stock camera and messenger apps for Android.

Well, a new update has hit this afternoon with new icons to help those apps stand out a bit more (no, they didn’t remove them). As you can see from the picture above, the icons now include mini FB icons. That was  nice of them, wasn’t it? (No comment.)

Unfortunately for most stock Android users, you will need to install a 3rd party launcher if you wish to hide these shortcuts. They are attached to the Facebook app, so uninstalling would simply uninstall the entire app. It’s sort of a shady move by Facebook, especially for those that like to keep their app drawers tidy without a bunch of extra spam. It’s almost like bloatware that isn’t from an OEM, something I didn’t think was possible.

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Social media platforms have essentially taken over the world in the last few years. Almost everyone you know has probably been on Facebook at some point, but the reach of services like Twitter and Google+ seems to be growing by the second as well. They are a way for you to reconnect with long lost friends, get closer to your current group, share your life, find news (or deals or happenings), and more. While some still try their hardest to avoid them, we want to know which of them you use the most. Is it still Facebook? Are you a master of all things Twitter? Or have you shunned the old standards for something new?

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Some of our favorite applications for Android received updates today, so be sure to head on over to the Play Store and pick up the newest versions. There is not anything too major in any of the updates besides your general bug fixings, but it is always good to have the latest and greatest available.

Update:  Sooooo, about that Facebook update. It actually included built-in Messenger capabilities, some UI tweaks, and a new Camera shortcut so that you can shoot video and pics and the upload them directly to FB. Can’t say that I’m all that big of a fan of the added shortcuts into the app drawer. Also, we would assume this means that the stand-alone Messenger app will get the axe? Might as well uninstall it either way or you will have two Messenger apps in there.

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