Facebook Digital NewsPaper App Announced by Mark Zuckerberg

Social Networking major Facebook is trying hard to get back to top place as a social networking source in the world. After the boost of small social networks such as WhatsApp, SnapChat etc from the last one year, Facebook Corporation concentrating on decreased popularity of its social networking site. In last week they announced an implementation of its latest mobile app named 'Paper'.

Paper is a latest mobile app from Facebook Corporation which falls in the category of digital newspaper and will be launched around end of January 2014, according to sources. Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the major personality behind this project for mobile Facebook users in the world. This product, digital Paper will digitize worldwide news updates from various media related companies but it is not clear that this app is going to be a standalone app or incorporated with Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

Facebook Paper App May be Available by End of January

With this announcement about digital newspaper, it seems that Facebook is challenging Flipboard which falls under same category. Launched in 2010 and downloaded by 90 million users, Flipboard collects many articles from media sources and represent them to user in attractive manner. This app is expected to be in the market for use from the end this month.

Facebook Corporation has declined to reply on the speculations but with the help of this product Facebook may be referred as a customized newspaper. This News Feed feature from the major social networking site may show up news articles over trends. Facebook eyed on mobile market to boost its user base and increase advertising opportunities.

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Facebook Scanning Private Messages

The Social Networking Giant Facebook has been accused of scanning private messages of its user’s data to provide it to some marketers. A class action lawsuit has been filed in California federal court against Facebook.
According to the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this social networking company scanned plaintiffs’ private messages containing uniform resource locators that is URLs and searched the website identified in the URL. This is done for the purposes including but not limited to profiling and data mining.

 

The company enables it to mine the user’s data and gain some bucks by sharing it with the other parties like marketers, advertisers and other data aggregates, according to the complaint. This social networking company is said to have violated the California privacy laws and Electronic Communications Privacy Act by its international interception of electronic communications.
High Tech Bridge, A Swiss firm, reported in August that it used an especially dedicated web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 most popular and largest social networks for the sake of testing with respect to user privacy.
The filed lawsuit is asking for the class action status and injunction against Facebook’s practices. It also claims the greater of either $100 US dollars a day for each day of alleged violations or $10,000 US dollars for every user who is claimed to be affected.
But on the other side, Facebook people officially emailed a statement which said, allegations are without merit and they will defend themselves vigorously. With the effect of growing social networks and competitors, Facebook is already lacking users from the last year. Now we will have to wait and see what and how this report will affect its users.

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