Helping People Support Earth Day and Our Planet

Protecting the environment is just one important part of keeping our global community safe, which is why on this Earth Day, all of us at Facebook hope that people from around the world who use our family of apps and services will join us in showing their support for our planet.

Building a global community that works for everyone requires that we create spaces where people can show their solidarity for issues and causes that they are passionate about. In fact, in 2016 the global Facebook community came together to celebrate Earth Day, making it the #1 topic on that day. Here are a few interesting ways people have come together on Facebook to show their support for the environment:

• Nearly 1.6 million people plan to participate in Earth Day activities through a Facebook Event
• More than 1 million people are members of Earth Day related Groups
• People used nature related emojis 2x more during Earth Month compared to the previous month
• Top topics co-occurring with Earth Day were Happiness, Love, Climate Change, Earth and Environmentalism
• Top languages used to celebrate Earth Day are “Día de la Tierra” in Spanish, “Tag der Erde” in German, “Giornata della Terra” in Italian, “Jour de la Terre” in French and “Ngày Trái Đất” in Vietnamese.

We are also committed to doing our part. For an entire year of one person’s Facebook use, our carbon footprint is less than the impact of boiling water for one pot of tea (355g CO2e)*, and in 2018 our goal is to have at least 50% clean and renewable energy in our electricity supply mix for our operations.

This Earth Day we hope people will show their support on and offline, and are providing the tools to make it easier:

• Profile frames: People can find a non-profit organization’s frame and add it to their profile by visiting facebook.com/profilepicframes or by tapping on the “Add Frame” button on your profile picture.
• Camera: People can express themselves by creatively enhancing their photos and videos using an Earth Day-themed frame.
• Groups & Events: People can find a local Earth Day Event or discover an environmentally-focused Group that’s relevant to issues close to their heart and get involved.
• Fundraisers: Additionally, in the U.S., people can go to facebook.com/fundraisers to start a fundraiser for a favorite nonprofit on behalf of environmental causes.

For more information about Facebook’s sustainability commitments, please visit sustainability.fb.com.

* Facebook’s annual per-user carbon emissions: 281g CO2

How to Download Facebook Lite

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Facebook lite is specially designed for Android Gingerbread 2.3 or higher users, Facebook Lite uses less data and works in 2G, 3G, 4G all network conditions.

Facebook Lite:

• Installs fast – the app is smaller, so it’s quick to download and uses less storage space.
• Loads quickly – it is our fastest app. Upload photos faster and see updates from friends.
• Uses less data – be more efficient with your mobile data. Save money by using less data.
• Works on all networks – it is designed for 2G networks and areas with slow or unstable internet connections.
• Works on most Android phones – you can use it on almost any type of Android phone, new or old.

Keeping up with friends is faster than ever. Facebook is free and always will be.

About Facebook:
• Message friends and have group conversations
• Get notifications when friends like and comment on your posts
• See what friends are up to
• Share updates and photos

Problems downloading or installing the app? See Facebook.com/help/fblite 
Still need help? Please tell us more about the issue: http://fbhelp.me/facebook-feedback
Facebook is only available for people ages 13 and over.
Terms of Service: http://m.facebook.com/terms.php

DOWNLOAD:

Click here to download Facebook Lite 

How to Change Your Name on Facebook

If you’ve recently changed your name, or you want to separate your professional life from your personal life, you’ll likely want to change your name on Facebook. Facebook frowns upon using fake names,

but allows you to make changes to your real name up to four times. To change your name on Facebook, log into Facebook and navigate to your "Account Settings," then click on your name to open the name editor (or go to "General" and "Name" if using the mobile app). Change your first, middle, and last name as applicable, then click on "Save Changes" to complete the process.

Steps

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   Open your account settings. Log in to Facebook and click the Gear icon in the top-right corner of the page. Select “Account Settings”.
   

   • To access this on the mobile app, click the menu button in the top-left corner and scroll down to Account Settings. Select General, and then tap Name.
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   Click on your name to open the name editor. You can enter a First, Middle, and Last name, as well as an Alternate name (such as a nickname or maiden name).
   

   • Your name can only be changed four times.
   • Facebook wants you to list your name as it appears on your credit card or ID.
   • You cannot use symbols, numbers, random capitalization, or punctuation.
   • Your middle name cannot be words or phrases.
   • Nicknames should be variations on your real name (Jim instead of James, Meg instead of Megan, etc.)^[1]
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   Enter your real name. Facebook does not allow you to impersonate someone else, or create a page for a fictional character. Accounts found in violation of this will be forced to change the name.
   

   • If you want to create an account for an organization, business, or a pet, you will need to create a Facebook Page.
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   Enter your password. To change your name, you will need to enter your password into the box before you are allowed to save your changes.
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   Click Save Changes. Your new name will be saved, and the change will reflect on your Profile shortly. It can take up to 24 hours for a name change to be approved.
6. Why can't I change my name?
   Facebook is a community where people use the name they go by in everyday life. This way, you always know who you're connecting with.

   If you're trying to change the name on your profile, please review our guidelines around what names are allowed on Facebook.

   You may be having trouble changing your name if:

   • Your name doesn't follow our name policy
   • You changed your name in the last 60 days, or you tried to change it too frequently
   • You were previously asked to confirm your name on Facebook
   • Your name doesn't exactly match the name that appears on something from our ID list

   If you want to limit the audience who sees the name you go by in everyday life on your Facebook Profile, you can adjust your Privacy settings. To do this, visit your Privacy Settings to see who can look you up and contact you.

   If you're still having trouble changing your name, please let us know.
7. How do I use language-specific names?
   
   
   Right now, language-specific names are only available in a few countries.

   A language-specific name is the name that you used to sign up for Facebook, translated into another language. If someone uses Facebook in the same language as your language-specific name, they'll see your language-specific name in your profile, search results, posts, comments and photo tags. You'll also see your language-specific name if you use Facebook in that language. Here are some examples of language-specific names:

   Name Used at Sign-Up	Language-Specific Name
   Hanako Yamada	山田花子
   Chen WeiJie	陳偉傑
   Young Hee Kim	김영희
   Marina Petrova	Марина Петрова

   To add or edit your language-specific name:

   1. Tap 
   2. Tap Account Settings > General > Name
   3. Tap add or change your language-specific name
   4. Enter your Facebook password if prompted and tap Save

   To delete your language-specific name:

   1. Complete steps 1-3 above
   2. Delete your language-specific name
   3. Enter your Password and click Save Changes

   If you're having trouble adding your language-specific name, it might be because the name you requested doesn't follow our name standards. Keep in mind that the language-specific name should be your authentic name in that language as it would be listed on your credit card or student ID. If you've read our name policies and think that your name was rejected by mistake, let us know.

How to Change Your Facebook Name on an Android Smartphone

Due to Facebook's terms of service, you would never want to change your Facebook name whatsoever as long as there is any genuine reason to do so such as changing your name due to marriage.

Before you go any further towards the process of changing your Facebook name, you must keep in mind that once you make amendments in your name on Facebook, you will not be able to make any further changes before the duration of 60 days. This restriction has been added to Facebook in order to prevent fake IDs and/or frauds.

Once you clearly understand the restrictions and consequences that you might experience after changing your Facebook name, you can follow the steps given below to get the job done using your Android phone:

This entire process is very simple and easy even for the person who is using an Android Smartphone for the first time

1. Turn on your Android phone.
2. From the home screen, tap the Menu button to go to the apps list.
   
3. From the available apps, tap the Facebook icon.
   
4. If you are not already signed in, on the opened window, provide your login details in the appropriate fields and tap the Log In button.
   
5. On the News Feed interface that comes up, tap the More button (Icon with three horizontal lines) from the top-right corner of the screen.
   
6. From the opened More interface, scroll down and tap the Account Settings option available under the HELP & SETTINGS section.
   
7. From the Settings window, tap General.
   
8. On the next window that comes up, tap the Name option.
   
9. On the Change Name window, type your first name, middle name, and your last name in the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields respectively.

10. Type your Facebook account password in the To save the setting, please enter your Facebook password textbox.

11. Finally tap the Save button to change your Facebook name.

Facebook Spaces: A New Way To Connect With Friends In VR

Spending time with friends and family creates many of our most meaningful memories, but it’s impossible to always be physically near the people we care about. 

That’s where the magic of virtual reality comes in. Today, we’re introducing Facebook Spaces — a new VR app where you hang out with friends in a fun, interactive virtual environment as if you were in the same room. Facebook Spaces launches in beta for Oculus Rift and Touch today, and you can download it now from the Oculus Store.

Be Yourself in VR

It’s easy to create an identity that represents the real you in Facebook Spaces. This helps people recognize you and makes VR feel more like hanging out in person. Just choose one of your Facebook photos and you’ll see an array of options for your VR appearance. Start with one of these options, then customize until it feels just right. You can change your eye color, hairstyle, facial features and more until your look fits your identity. It’s all about being yourself.

Get Together, Have Fun and Share Experiences With People You Care About

Once you’ve decided on your look, jump into the experience and invite your Facebook friends to join you.

You can draw in the air with a virtual marker to create anything you can dream up, from a decorative hat to a handmade tic-tac-toe board.

You’ll also find the rich variety of Facebook content at your fingertips to view with friends in VR, including 360 videos and photos that can transport you to new places. You and your friends can relive personal memories from your own Timelines, or even make new ones as you explore things that interest you from people and Pages you follow.

Bring Anyone In On the Fun

Why should the people in VR have all the fun? Facebook Spaces lets you easily phone a friend in the real world with Messenger video calling, so you can bring even more people into your VR space. They can answer your call on their phone to instantly open a window into your virtual world. Whether you want to show off your latest 3D drawing masterpiece, play an amazing 360 video your friend would love, or just spend time chatting, it’s one of the best ways to be in the moment together, from anywhere.

Of course, there’s a selfie stick too. Use it to take photos of your experience and share the memories you create in VR with your friends on Facebook.

Control Your Experience

We want Facebook Spaces to be a comfortable place for everyone. You have control of your experience, including the ability to pause at any time. Pausing moves you into a quiet space where you can take a break away from other people and activities. You can also choose to mute your friends or remove them from your space. Facebook Spaces is all about connecting with friends and family that you know and trust, and we’re committed to making VR a positive place for all.

What’s Next

Today is only the beginning. We’re launching in beta, and we’ll add new features as we learn from your feedback and continue exploring what makes social VR experiences most meaningful. We also plan to bring the experience to more platforms over time. We’ve only just scratched the surface of social VR technology. In the future, it will continue to transform the way people around the world stay connected with their communities and those closest to them. We can’t wait to get there.

How do I add or change my profile video?

You can take or upload a video of up to 7 seconds to use as your profile video. Profile videos appear at the top your profile just like a profile picture. You can currently only add a profile video from iPhone or Android.

To add a profile video from iPhone:

1. Go to your profile and tap your profile picture or video
2. Tap Take a New Profile Video to take a new video or tap Select Profile Video to choose a video on your phone
3. Record a new video or select a video already on your phone
4. Tap Use

To add a profile video from Android:

1. Go to your profile and tap your profile picture or video
2. Tap Take a New Profile Video to take a new video or tap Select Profile Video to choose a video on your phone
3. Tap Next, then tap the bar at the bottom of the screen to choose a thumbnail for your video
4. Tap Use

Note: Profile videos are public and can be viewed by everyone.

After taking or uploading a video, you can then select a thumbnail from the video as your profile picture. The picture will show up in Facebook's news feed. Only when people visit your profile page will they see your video, which helps people add a some flair to their profiles without making Facebook's newsfeed overly distracting.

Elsewhere in the update is new bio field that lets you add a short, 101-character blurb about yourself and featured photos that let you select the five photos that appear on the mobile version of your profile page. Both of these features are available from your profile page on both mobile and desktop platforms.

Lastly, you can set a temporary Facebook profile picture (but not video) for both iOS and Android. When you select a new photo to use for your profile picture, you'll see a small Make temporarybutton in the lower-left corner of the Crop screen. Tap on this button and you can select 1 Hour, 1 Day, 1 Week or Custom.

Google introduces 'Quick Draw Turning scribble to art

Using your finger or mouse to draw on your smartphone, tablet or computer can be slow and very difficult. In order to address this little, yet much needed issue, 

Google created and now debuted  AutoDraw . The new web-based tool pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw. Pretty similar to what a swipe keyboard or handwriting recognition can do, AutoDraw can intelligently identify what you wish to draw from a simple scribble to perfect art.

When you scribble an outline of something that you want to draw, the machine learning incorporated artificial intelligence senses an appropriate drawing and places it on the screen. It also asks you if you actually drew what you did or did you mean something different, similar to what an autocorrect algorithm does on a smartphone keyboard. For example, if you draw a jagged line from top to bottom, the AI senses that you could be drawing a flash and places it on screen and also asks you if you meant something different and puts it into a small bar on top of the drawing screen. Or if you drew two circles with a stroked line, it asks you if you wanted to draw a spectacle frame or a bicycle. AutoDraw’s suggestion tool uses the same technology from an earlier launched project ‘Quick Draw’ to guess what you’re trying to draw. >>>>> Quick Draw only tries to guess what you drew.

The best part of AutoDraw — it’s completely free and works on your smartphone, tablet and even your desktop PC or laptop. So next time you want to create your own greeting card, make sure you give AutoDraw a try. The new AI drawing portal is fun and kids can adopt it well for learning and entertainment.

Though the algorithm is great and predicts most of what you would want to draw, there are many more items, drawings, figures and more that needs to be added. For example, we did try drawing a regular IC chip and the prediction was off — it detected birthday cake, table, balloon, water drops, chandelier, and what not. Well, we did not expect it to be perfect, but we are sure the tool will definitely make itself better in time.

AutoDraw is developed with the help of artists, designers, illustrators and friends of Google who created original drawings. The hands behind AutoDraw are HAWRAF — Design Studio, Erin Butner — Designer, Julia Melograna — Illustrator, Pei Liew —Designer, Simone Noronha — Designer, Tori Hinn — Designer and Selman Design — Creative Studio.

Google has also invited all users who are interested in submitting their designs and drawings to help take their latest AI experiment AutoDraw to a higher level in order to make drawing fun for everyone and more accessible.

M Now Offers Suggestions to Make Your Messenger Experience More Useful, Seamless and Delightful

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of suggestions from M to everyone in the US. M is your helpful assistant in Messenger, powered by artificial intelligence.

 M offers suggestions by popping into an open conversation to suggest relevant content and capabilities to enrich the way people communicate and get things done.

When we announced M over a year ago, it was a small AI experiment powered by humans that could fulfill almost any request. We learned a lot and these interactions have enabled us to build a completely automated version of M that suggests helpful actions in your chat, exposing features people may not have known were available right in Messenger. Suggestions from M has been testing with a small percentage of users for the past few months — and it has been a great success — today we’re expanding it to all Messenger users in the US.

Suggestions from M appear when it recognizes intent in a conversation and initially will include the following actions:

• Sending stickers: M shares fun sticker suggestions for your daily life interactions like “Thank you” or “Bye-bye.”
• Paying or requesting money: M recognizes when people are discussing payments and gives them the option of easily sending or requesting money.
• Sharing your location: M can suggest an option to share your location during a conversation.
• Making plans: If people are talking about getting together, M helps coordinating a plan.
• Starting a poll (in group conversations only): Have a hard time making decisions in a group? M lets you set a poll topic and vote in group conversations.
• Getting a Ride: Talking about going somewhere? M suggests “Get A Ride” and shares an option of Lyft or Uber.

M relies on AI machine learning techniques. It suggests relevant actions to help manage conversations or help get things done. We are bringing the power of M’s AI technology to support and enhance the Messenger experience and make it more useful, personal and seamless. To experience M, simply chat with a friend or a group as you normally would. M may make a suggestion in a conversation relevant to one of the core actions listed above, and then the M logo and suggestion will appear — it’s that simple. And M learns: the more you use it, the more it can help. You always have the option to ignore or dismiss a suggestion if it’s not helpful, and if you don’t want M’s assistance you can easily mute it in M settings.

As suggestions from M start to roll out to users in the US, Messenger users across the globe will also start to see a redesigned way to compose messages. This update offers an easier way to access and discover Messenger features like our rich visual messaging tools and the ability to quickly share content like video and images directly from the text composer with a long press. We’re also adding a “More” tab to more easily access Messenger features such as Games, Payments, Share Location and Rides.

M is launching today to all iOS and Android users in the US and will eventually roll out to other countries. But this is just the beginning for M… expect to see more and more AI-powered, delightful and relevant experiences improving Messenger for you, every day. We hope that suggestions from M are just the start of what a proactive, helpful and useful assistant can offer to the 1 billion people who use Messenger each month.