Many Facebook users prefer to browse posts, watch videos or check messages without letting others know that they are currently online. If you also want more privacy while using Facebook, you can turn ...

The Instagram active status is helpful and shows when you or someone else is online or was last active on Instagram. It appears as a green dot next to the user’s profile picture when someone is active ...

LinkedIn’s Active Status feature allows users to see when their connections are actively on LinkedIn or available to contact on mobile. If you don’t want your own active status to be displayed, our ...

Here is the simplest way to turn off active status on your Facebook account. Facebook is one of the most popular social media sites in the world, with almost three billion users on the platform.

If you follow or have messaged someone on Instagram, they can see your online status by default. But sometimes, you want a little more privacy. If you want to hide your status, you can do that using ...

CHECK your Facebook settings today – you might be giving your activity away. Plenty of users may find that they’ve been accidentally broadcasting their Facebook habits. Check your settings: you might ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

Love using Instagram, but also love your privacy? Earlier this year, Instagram added Activity labels, allowing followers and people you direct message to see the last time you were on the social media ...

To enhance privacy on Facebook Messenger, users could hide their active status. This allowed them to avoid unwanted conversations or keep their online status private. Mobile users disabled this ...