• Facebook fights creeps and apathy with expiring friend requests

    Facebook fights creeps and apathy with expiring friend requests

    Snapchat has ephemeral messages, and now Facebook has ephemeral friend requests. The big blue social network feeds off your social graph, and every time you expand it, it has more content to show you. But if you leave a questionable friend request in limbo for too long, you’ll probably never confirm or delete it. So Facebook…

  • MoviePass update removes ‘unused’ location requests from iOS app

    MoviePass update removes ‘unused’ location requests from iOS app

    MoviePass has issued an update for its iOS app that removes “unused app location capability,” apparently a response to widespread concern after the company’s CEO said: “We watch how you drive from home to the movies. We watch where you go afterwards.” An earlier statement from the company was “exploring utilizing location-based marketing,” though the…