by Shoaib Rehman | Sep 28, 2015 | Facebook, Social Media
Update 21:14 BST
Facebook is back online on some smart devices however, it is yet to be recovered on the desktop machines.
Update 21:11 BST
No official statement has been issued by Facebook yet. Hashtag #facebookdown is trending on Twitter worldwide.
Facebook servers have become inaccessible and the social media platform has gone down.
Something unusual has happened today, yes you got it right. Facebook has gone down and it is now inaccessible via the web and the smartphone applications. It is very unusual in the history of Facebook and now the question arises whether all our personal information is secure on it? Are we not an easy attack for the hackers? What Facebook will do to overcome this problem?
So far it’s been more than 20 mins since the website has become inaccessible and no official statement has been issued by the company.
Facebook is the largest social network platform with over 1 billion active users and considering the number of active users, Facebook must ensure that all its servers are running and they must ensure the security of the users’ personal information remains intact. Mind it that recently Facebook had the best day in the history of the company when more than 1 billion users were online at the same time all over the world.
Are you able to access Facebook in your region? Leave a comment here and let us know if you have any difficulties accessing it.
by Shoaib Rehman | Jun 23, 2015 | Social Media, Web development
Add this one to the annals of “What took you so long Google?” Gmail’s greatest feature just graduated from the service’s experimental labs to become a regular part of Gmail: Undo Send. With this feature enabled, you have a pre-determined number of seconds to recall the email you just sent.
If you’ve never used this feature, I can’t stress enough how helpful it is. We’ve all sent emails we didn’t mean to or had second thoughts about the wording. Prior to Undo Send, we just had to suck it up and live with our mistakes. Not a great situation to be in when email is such a critical communication tool—even in this era of HipChat and Slack.
Overnight success, six years ago
Undo Send began as an experimental feature in 2009 when it offered only a five second retrieval period. It was a hit almost immediately and has been a mainstay of many Gmail accounts since it was first introduced.
Gmail has introduced the much awaited ‘Undo Send’ sent email feature
Although handy, Undo Send does have limits beyond the recall grace period. Once you click Send on an email, an undo option appears at the top of your inbox or whatever page you’re on in Gmail such as sent mail. Once you leave that page, the Undo Send option immediately disappears regardless of the grace period setting. In other words, when you want to use this option don’t click anything until you’ve hit that Undo link.
Undo Send’s graduation into standard Gmail comes less than a month after Google added the feature to Inbox by Gmail.
The impact on you at home: If you’re already an Undo Send user then your current settings won’t be affected. Everything will work as it should. Anyone who’s new to the feature will find it under Settings > General. Undo Send allows you to recall an email either 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds after you’ve hit Send. I’d recommend the maximum to be extra cautious, but if you like to live on the wild side, 5 or 10 seconds will work just fine.
