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Facebook videos can now follow you wherever you scroll I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update Facebook really wants you to watch more videos but it knows you're also impatient and you want to scroll away after hitting play don't feel bad it's not your fault social media has given us all some sort of screen attention disorder where we feel this compulsion to keep scrolling but have no fear Facebook has come up with a cure now you can click an icon in the video to have it pop out and float on the side lingering in the corner as you continue to scroll floating videos may have you in awe but the Internet is going nuts for an app that promises to alert you when someone unfriend you on Facebook the app is called who deleted me and well as I stand here recording this report it's not working the company has not returned our email to confirm why but a post on Facebook seems to indicate it's having server troubles it may not have been able to handle the surge of new users from all the coverage it's getting it's an app for Android and iOS and it's also a Chrome browser add-on it's designed to monitor your friend count and list who unfriend you now normally on Facebook you'll never be notified if someone unfriend you the only way to know is to visit their page and see that you were both not friends now if you don't want to see someone's post anymore but you feel bad about on friending them you could always just change your settings so they don't show up in your feed and honestly I can't recommend downloading an app like this that taps into your account to monitor activity history has shown us that these types of apps just end up causing headaches remember Snap saved it saved all disappearing snapchat messages but that was a security nightmare that resulted in a massive online leak of private photos while Twitter also has a new feature that I cannot recommend you now have the option to add your birthday to your profile which does a few things for one it tells Twitter your age so you can have advertisements targeted to you if you publicly share your birth year it makes it easy for someone to steal your identity and it also adds balloons to your profile on your special day yay balloons okay now here's some tech to really get excited over you can soon buy a real star Trak communicator modeled after the from the iconic 1960s original television series Enterprise it's really just a bluetooth handset for your smartphone acting like a portable speaker for 150 dollars it also comes with a little charging stand it debuted for the San Diego Comic Con this week it won't be min to our galaxy until January of next year no word though if this version is going to be able to transmit on subspace frequencies that's it for this tech news update there's always more cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey