is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. In the case of supporting sports teams or celebrating birthdays, this feature makes a lot of sense.

Your profile picture is the message you send most. There’s no easier, more ubiquitous way to raise awareness for a cause then splashing your pic rainbow for gay rights or green to promote the Arab ...

Users will soon have a host of new ways to personalize their profiles and control what content is shared on their walls, Facebook announced on Wednesday. The biggest change comes as tweaks to the ...

Whether it’s to show solidarity for a social issue or you just want to change things up, you may want to occasionally swap out your standard Facebook profile photo. When you change your picture, you ...

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Facebook has announced three new features that will improve mobile profiles. The company says that the new changes are to enhance the way users express who they are and to give them more control of ...

With Facebook users now clamoring for ways to identify with the causes they care about in their profiles, Facebook is now working on a platform that will allow Pages to build temporary profile ...

Every now and then we decide to show our support for various causes by changing our profile picture on Facebook. A new feature is being tested by Facebook that will allow users to set a temporary ...

Over the course of time, Facebook has improved a lot and the social-network giant is continuously adding features to keep the users refreshed all the time. One such feature added recently is the ...

Facebook is adding a new feature that recaptures some of the social network's early appeal, in an attempt to arrest its declining popularity among younger users. An anonymous tipster leaked images of ...