Advantages of WordPress over Blogger platform for Blogging

Why Blogger.com is just waste of time for professional blogging?

1. The permalink feature in blogger is very bad. You cannot change the permalink structure.

2. The categories are no-index by default in blogger which is not at all SEO friendly.

3. As blogger is in cloud you cannot customize it to your need. It just serves your basic need, advanced customization to your need is highly impossible in blogger. In short no access to the Database.

4. You don't find many great templates on blogger.

5. If you want to add some functionality then you must be a hardcore programmer, even hardcore programmers find it very difficult to add some functionalities.

6. We cannot optimize ads in blogger unlike we do in WordPress using plugins Ad Injection and Quick Adsense.

7. Last but not the least your blog is not owned by you but owned by google and they can delete your blog anytime without your permission.

I am not just saying these words just like that, my blog was on blogger for about 2 years and was deleted one day without my consent. It used to be a top notch with reasonably quality content. It used to be one of the top Alexa Ranking blogs that are hosted on blogger.com.

Don't waste your time and switch to WordPress self-hosted blogs right away.

Source: Imran Uddin

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Stalking Friends with Facebook Messenger

You’re no doubt aware that Facebook shares your location with friends, but what you probably didn’t realize is how precise that data is or how easy it is to extract from the service.

Aran Khanna, a student developer in Cambridge, MA, has created a Chrome extension that grabs location data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plots your friends’ locations on a map.

The data is retrieved from messages sent with location sharing enabled. That usually means from mobile devices, as it’s on by default in the iOS and Android apps.

I was able to pull location information for myself that dates as far back as 2013 and accurately shows me messaging friends from my desk at my old workplace, from bed at home and even from my new home in Amsterdam.

In a few minutes I could plot the travels of my friends around New Zealand and guess who was messaging me from their girlfriends’ place.

Facebook pushes Messengers users to enable location sharing when they install the app. It’s likely most people just click through to get talking to their friends.

Don’t want to share if you’re messaging friends from somewhere embarrassing or private? You can disable sharing your location by tapping the arrow icon in Messenger, but we’d recommend digging into the settings of your phone and disabling Messenger’s location access altogether.

Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/05/27/facebook-marauders-map-turns-messenger-into-a-stalkers-dream/

Original Post: https://medium.com/@arankhanna/stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger-9da8820bd27d

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