Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg On Why Safety Check Was Not Activated For Beirut

I never expected my post on Facebook's Safety Check to go viral but it looks like everyone thought Facebook should have activated that feature for other human disasters not just the Paris attacks. This led Mark Zuckerberg to clarify the matter on his Facebook profile and say the following: Many people have rightfully asked why we turned on Safety Check for Paris but not for bombings in Beirut and other places. Until yesterday, our policy…

Why Don’t We Have A Facebook Safety Check For Beirut?

Facebook enabled yesterday the "safety check" following the Paris terrors attacks whereas people in the affected area can mark themselves as safe which will send an alert to their friends and followers. The Paris attacks are quite shocking and the death toll is still on the rise unfortunately. All of my friends there are safe but they still can't believe what's happening. Speaking of alerts and attacks, I think it would be quite useful if…
Beirut

Coolest Beirut Barber: Tweet, Whatsapp And Take A Selfie While Getting A Haircut

9 years ago
My friend Kriks shared with me this picture that he took at Cool Cut Grooming Lounge in Zalka. I’ve seen this thing online once and wanted to suggest it to barbers in Lebanon but it ...
Blog Info

LebaneseBlogs 2014 Stats: I Am Lebanon’s Most Prolific Blogger And BlogBaladi Has The Highest #1 Posts in 2014

9 years ago
My favorite Lebanese aggregator [LebaneseBlogs] just released its stats for 2014 and sorted them into five different top lists: Lebanon’s 20 Most Shared posts on Facebook. Lebanon’s 20 most shared posts on Twitter. Lebanon’s most ...
Social Media

Update: You Can Now Edit Photo Captions On Instagram

10 years ago
I wrote a post back in September wondering whether it was possible to edit a photo caption on Instagram, specially after people had commented on it. For all I know, it’s not possible but it ...
Social Media

Is It Possible To Change a Picture’s Caption On Instagram?

10 years ago
A friend was showing me how some Instagram account uploaded a picture of Amal Alameddine and George Clooney and wrote Anal instead of Amal, which is quite hilarious. However, I looked back at the account ...
Lebanon

Sayfco and Virgin Radio Have Over 3 Million Fans On Facebook

10 years ago
via Sayfco I don’t know how Virgin Radio Lebanon managed to get almost 3.8 million likes that fast but they now have more likes than Sayfco, noting that Sayfco has reportedly spent 3 million dollars ...
Photography

10,000 Followers On Instagram!

10 years ago
PS: I am not a professional photographer, nor do I pretend to be, but I love photography and I am getting better at it. I’ve been on Instagram for two years now and I already ...
Information

Tweet Your Complaints To The Lebanese ISF #مش_عالرسمي

10 years ago
The Lebanese ISF is opening up to the Lebanese people and asking them to tweet their complaints and questions. The complaints don’t have to be formal ones and you can write in whichever way you ...
Information

2014 Social Media Stats in The Middle East

10 years ago
[YouTube] Here are some of the interest statistics as compiled by Hussein. – 40.2% of the total Middle East population accesses the web, – 88% of this online population uses social networking on a daily ...
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