Facebook Professional Tips & Tricks

Messaging apps: 20 tricks to raise your chat game

2015-01-03T00:47:00.001-08:00

These secret tools should help you get the most out of Snapchat, iMessage, Facebook, Viber and Whatsapp

Master the art of the messaging app. Photograph: Alamy

Kadhim Shubber

Sunday 21 September 2014 09.00 BST

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Facebook Messenger

1) Avoid using Messenger
Facebook has drawn the ire of its users by making it nigh-on impossible to not move over to the new Messenger app, which replaces the message functionality on the Facebook app itself. Now, when you click on messages, you are obliged to install Messenger, unless you’re content to never send Facebook messages from your phone again.
The only workaround, for the time being, is to use the mobile browser version of Facebook. There have been suggestions that on iOS if you pause the installation of Messenger, or delete it after installation, you can continue to send messages the old way, but we found this didn’t work.

2). Mute notifications in Facebook messenger

2) Silence that awful sound
Facebook Messenger has been controversial, to say the least. Not only are users irritated by being forced to use the app, the ‘Ping!’ notification can quickly become relentless when you’re in a group conversation, for example.
This is harder to stop on iOS than on Android.
Head to Settings -> Notifications on iOS to can mute all conversations for either 1hr or until 8am, however long that may be. Alternatively head to a specific conversation and click the “i” on the top-right hand corner to mute for 1 hr, until 8am, or indefinitely. If you really want to nix any sounds from the Messenger app entirely, head to your iOS Settings -> Notification Center -> Messenger -> Sounds.
On Android you can simply head to Settings -> Notifications and customize notifications however you wish, including disabling that awful ‘Ping!’ To Mute specific conversations, select and hold the conversation in the ‘Recents’ tab, then click ‘Mute notifications’.
3) Chat heads
You may want ready and easy access to particularly important Facebook Messenger conversations. Chat heads are small bubbles that remain on your phone’s screen even after you leave the Messenger app, allowing you to click back into a conversation easily. To create a chat head, click and hold a conversation in the ‘Recents’ tab, then click ‘Open chat head’. This is only available on Android.
4) See shared photos
Scrolling through reams and reams of messages to find that one photo someone sent two weeks ago is a pretty inefficient way of doing things. Facebook Messenger lets you see all the photos sent in a single conversation in a collated grid view, making the ordeal of finding an old photo much less painful. To go to the collated grid view on iOS, click the ‘i’ at the top right of a conversation ->
Photos (or in group chat, ‘i’ -> More -> See Photos). On Android, you will need to open a chat head, then click the three vertical dots on the top right -> See Shared Photos.

Viber

5). Don’t download pictures in Viber.

5) Don’t auto download my photos please!
Use Viber for a short while and you will quickly find your phone filled with pictures and videos that you neither took nor saved yourself. This is because Viber, like WhatsApp, automatically downloads and saves any images you receive. To end this multimedia tyranny, on iOS, click ‘More’ on the bottom right of the screen -> Settings -> Media. On Android, it’s in the same location: Menu -> Settings -> Media.
6) Be more private
By default, your contacts can see when you were last active on Viber and if you have read their message. The obvious result being if you’re actively avoiding someone, they can probably tell. You can easily disable both of these functions. On iOS, click ‘More’ on the bottom right of the screen -> Settings -> Privacy. You will also be able to block contacts from this menu. On Android, it’s in the same location: Menu -> Settings -> Privacy.

7). Smart Notifications in Viber

7) Smarter notifications
If you are receiving a particularly large amount of messages from someone, but don’t want to be buzzed every time, Viber has the option to enable ‘Smart Notifications’. When this is on, you will receive notifications for the first one or two texts, but messages from your contact immediately after won’t buzz your phone. Sadly this function is only available on Android. Select a conversation, then swipe left. A menu will appear with an option for ‘Smart Notifications’

8) More private messaging
WhatsApp is similar to Viber in many ways, including in the fact that it lets your contacts see when you were last in the app, hardly ideal if you’re slow at replying to messages or just plain don’t want to talk to someone. Disabling this feature is straightforward. On iOS, within the app, head to Settings -> Account -> Privacy. You can also block numbers from this menu. On Android the process is the same. Head to Settings -> Account -> Privacy. In the same menu, on iOS and Android, you can block contacts who you no longer want to be able to message you.
9) Don’t autosave media
Again, just like Viber, WhatsApp will save all images and videos you receive to your phone, clogging up your photos with content you didn’t explicitly want to be there. To disable this go to Settings -> Chat Settings -> Save Incoming Media. On Android this option is found in the same place: Settings -> Chat Settings -> Media Auto Download -> Data.

SnapChat

10). Snapchat Fun Filters

10) Fun Filters
Everyone knows you can doodle on your Snapchats, it’s a core premise of the messaging app. But you can also add filters to your photos, giving them the look and feel of Instagram photos. To enable filters, click the clear square at the bottom left of the screen when you open the app, then click the cog at the top right hand of the screen to enter Settings -> Manage -> Filters. You will need to give Snapchat your location data. Then when you take a photo, simply swipe left and right to add filters.
Snapchat also has location-based filters, which are special overlays that only appear when you’re in certain places. So far it appears they only work in the US, at famous locations in New York, for example, and at attractions like Disneyland.

11). Enlarged text in Snapchat

11) Embiggen text
In the same menu as ‘Filters’ is ‘Special Text’, which allows you to enlargen the text you send. While this might seem rather mundane, it offers new opportunities for creativity when mixed with emojis, which can also be enlargened. Once this feature is enabled by going to Settings -> Manage, you will see a large ‘T’ in the top right hand corner whenever you type text into your Snapchats.
12) Black and white
The ordinary colour palette on Snapchat is rather limited, conspicuously lacking white or black. But a simple trick will let you access a whole range of new colours and tones. When you select the pen tool, tap and hold the colour bar. Instead of swiping up and down, instead swipe left and upward to the opposite side of the screen. Here you’ll find white. Swipe down to the bottom of the screen and you’ll find black. In between, you’ll find varying shades of the default colours. On Android you can even paint transparently: tap and hold on the colour bar until the full palette appears, then select the transparent colour.

13). Front-facing flash in Snapchat

13) Front facing flash
Few if any smartphones have a flash for the front-facing camera (that’s the one you use for selfies, by the way). But Snapchat has a nifty way of recreating the flash effect even in the absence of a physical flash. When taking a photo with the front-facing camera, Snapchat will force the screen to flash all white at the instant the photo is captured. The blast of light created is basically equivalent to a flash. To enable this, go to Settings -> Manage -> Front-Facing Flash. On the same menu you’ll have options to enable replaying people’s Snapchats and ‘Special’ (read ‘Larger’) text.
14) Stop chat messages from disappearing
Snapchat used to be a simple photosharing app, but in May this year it introduced a text chat function. Now when you exchange snaps with someone, you can also swipe right on their name to bring up a chat box that works in the same way as any other instant messaging app. There’s one crucial difference, the text disappears as soon as you close the chat box, which can quickly become frustrating if you’re exchanging information you need to remember. To stop this from happening, simply tap on the message you want to save – it will become highlighted in grey and won’t be deleted until you un-highlight it again by tapping it.

iMessage

15) Switch Off Read Receipts
Let’s start with the simple stuff: read receipts. When you’re a messaging a friend, these appear underneath their messages on their end of the conversation, showing them if you have opened the chat and seen their message, which means they know exactly how long you took to reply. This can be disabled by heading to iOS Settings -> Messages -> Send Read Receipts
16) Send texts from your computer
If you are working hard at your laptop, you may not want to break your flow to check messages on your phone. Download the Messages app for Mac and you will be able to have iMessage chats from your computer. Better still, with the new OS X Yosemite, you’re not just restricted to iMessages, you can also send SMS.
17) GIFs!
Animated GIFs are those short, looping, often hilarious, videos that dominate much of the web’s less serious communication. Although it may not the most important feature that the iPhone has to offer, iMessage supports animated GIFs. Send one to your friend and it will automatically play in your conversation thread. To send an GIF with iMessage, save a GIF to your Photos in the same way you would an ordinary picture, then during an iMessage conversation, click the Camera icon and ‘Choose Existing’. Alternatively, you can enter the ‘Photos’ app, click the GIF, select the box with the upward arrow at the bottom left of the screen, then select ‘Message’.

18). Caps lock in iMessage

18) Write in capital letters
Sending long messages, emails, Facebook posts or tweets in all-caps is widely regarded as obnoxious, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its place. This is more of a general keyboard trick for iOS, than specific to iMessage; it will work for all of the apps here. The shift key on the iOS keyboard switches between upper and lower case, but annoyingly it only allows you to type one capital letter before you have to tap it again. Alternatively, you can hold it down, which makes typing difficult. But if you double tap the key, it will go into all caps mode, allowing you to type in upper case continually. To go back to lower case, simply tap the key again.
19) View time stamps
iMessage hides the time stamps for messages by default (the same is true for iOS texts generally). Instead of showing the time of each text, it simply shows when a session of texts begun. Swipe left on a conversation, however, and you will be able to see the time of each and every text.

20). Emojis in iMessage

20) Emojis!
Emojis are a fun way of communicating in shorthand online, replacing text-based communication with a visual language that is broad enough to let you say almost anything, but restrictive enough to force you to be creative about how you construct messages. There are cute little illustrated icons to represent everything from facial expressions, to landmarks, to fruit. You could think of them as hieroglyphics. To enable emojis in iMessage (and for the keyboard generally across all apps on iOS), go to iOS Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Keyboards -> ‘Add New Keyboard’ -> Emoji. On Android phones, emojis are active by default. Simply click the smiley face on the bottom left of the keyboard. Some of the emojis are slightly different on Android. For example, the dancing lady emoji on iOS is a dancing man on Android.

Permanently Delete a Facebook Account the easy way!

2013-08-21T01:27:00.005-07:00

If you’re done with Facebook, you may be running around in circles trying to figure out how to delete your account. They certainly don’t make it easy to find. Follow this guide to make sure that you save all of the data you need and delete your account for good.

Save any data you need. Before you delete your account, save any photos and contact information you need from your account. You will lose access to all of this when you delete your account.
- You can download a copy of all of your Facebook data through the Account Settings. Click on the Gear icon in the upper-right corner to access it. Click the link that says “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.
- Download individual pictures by clicking the Download link at the bottom when you open them.
Clear your Facebook history. You can open the Activity Log to undo all of your previous actions on Facebook, such as liking posts and comments you’ve made. This will help ensure that as little data about you remains as possible after your account is deleted.
- To access the Activity Log, click the Privacy button in the top-right corner. Select “Who can see my stuff?” Click the link for the Activity Log. Here you can choose which parts of your activity you would like to delete.
Visit the Delete Account page. This page cannot be accessed through Facebook unless you search for it. You can also follow this link. Click the “Delete my Account” button to start the account deletion process.^[1]
Enter your password and the CAPTCHA. Once you have entered these, press “Okay” to permanently delete your account. You will need to wait 14 days for the deletion to take effect.
- You need to have access to your Facebook account in order to delete it this way. If you can’t remember your password, use Facebook’s password reset service before deleteing your account.
5Try a temporary deactivation instead of deleting your account. If you're not 100% sure that you want to permanently remove all that information, you can temporarily deactivate your Facebook account.^[2]
- Click the Settings icon and select Account Settings.
- Open the Security section from the left menu.
- Click the “Deactivate your account” link
- Fill out the form for deactivating your account. You will still be able to be linked in posts and messaged, though you will not receive notifications about it.
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Top-10 Facebook games of 2013

2013-07-16T02:47:00.001-07:00

by Graeme

Here are some topmost 10 Facebook games of 2013:

1. CityVille: Launched by Zynga, CityVille has enticed a large audience. The game not only offers a frolic world but also allows the players to carry out certain tasks side-by-side such as construction, farming, collection of tax and buying or selling of goods. .
2. Mafia Wars: This game is mostly preferred by travel enthusiasts as it allows the players to travel various countries such as New York, Cuba, Moscow, Bangkok, Las Vegas, Italy, and Paris and so on. There is a complete marketplace offered to the players to trade for what they desire.
3. FarmVille 2: FarmVille is among the most-played Facebook games. The players need to manage a simulated farm through plantation of crops and harvesting trees. Be it an adult or a child, they prefer this gameplay to the utmost.
4. FishVille: Similar to that of FarmVille, this game offers a computer-generated aquarium to the players. The players need to cope up with the virtual gaming world to manage the aquariums properly.
5. Buddypoke: The real world offered by this game allows the players to select their own Buddypoke characters. The players can discover this pleasurable world with their friends as well. One can even chat and play within the game.
6. Castleville: In this game, the player can own his own castle. One can construct and enrich the castle to make it worth living for everyone. Once you make some money in the game, you can open various outlets within your castle such as library, ice cream store and cake shop.
7. Restaurant City: This game allows you to be the owner of a restaurant. You can lend an invitation to the friends as well.
8. Bubble Speed: In the game, you can enjoy the fun world with your speed. It is an extremely amusing game for all those who want to experience thrill.
9. Pet Society: The virtual pet world offered by the game permits you to build up your own house.
10. Monster World: In this game world, one not only enjoys with the monsters but can also manage a grass land of his own.
These games are among the top Facebook Games of 2013 being opted by most of the players. Despite of all these games, there are many more as well such as Dragon City, clash of clans, Hay Day, Bike Race and the like. So, enjoy the online gaming world with your friends and make social networking a more fun.

by Graeme
http://www.ilifegeeks.com

‘Status Snapper’ provides a quick way to ANONYMOUSLY share Facebook Statuses

2013-03-01T02:46:00.000-08:00

Ever come across a Facebook status (a.k.a a post with the discussion underneath) that you wished you could share publicly on the internet, while preserving the anonymity of the people who liked it and/or left comments underneath? If so, then ‘Status Snapper’, a free Chrome extension, can provide a quick and easy way to capture screenshots of Facebook statuses while automatically blurring all names and profile pictures in the discussion underneath, maintaining the content without any identifying names or inf. It will also automatically upload it to Imgur for quick sharing.

How to Capture Facebook Statuses

Install Status Snapper for Google Chrome. Once installed, login to your Facebook account and a newspaper icon will appear in your address bar. To capture any status, just click on the newspaper icon and it will show you a new ‘Snap’ button in the address bar top right.

Clicking the ‘Snap’ button will automatically blur the profile images and names, not just of the person who wrote the status but also others who liked or commented. If you want to remove the blur effect from any particular name or profile picture of the person, simple hover your mouse on top of it the blur effect will be removed.

To confirm the snap, just click on the Finish button and it will automatically show you a popup and will start uploading it to Imgur. After the upload is complete, it will automatically open the uploaded image on Imgur and you can share the link with anyone you want.
Important note: (a.k.a bug alert!) For Status Snapper to work properly, make sure the status is in the center of your browser window (i.e. in Facebook’s one column display); otherwise it will not correctly blur some of the names and images, for some reason.

The verdict:

It might not be an extension that you need desperately but nonetheless its something you can use to have fun with your friends. One thing think the developer of the extension should take into consideration is to bring support of multiple online cloud storage services and not just Imgur, and to allow for logging into one’s exising Imgur account. The other thing on our wish list: fix the bug so that it works when Facebook displays more than one column.
Feel free to share your thoughts if you tried Status snapper.
Get Status Snapper for Google Chrome.

Magically update your phone Contacts with a full screen caller ID and information from Facebook!

2013-02-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

Sync.ME magically updates your phone Contacts with a full screen caller ID and information from Facebook (birthday, status, address, website, company & job title). View your contacts birthdays in one convenient place. Get reminders for friends birthdays and send them awesome gifts on Facebook. If you like Facebook check out Sync.ME. It's fun, easy and FREE. Happy Syncing :)

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Invite All your Facebook friends to an event with just one click

2013-01-26T06:51:00.002-08:00

Facebook Invite All Friends PRO – If you have lots of friends to invite to events or page suggestions, you have most likely grown tired of clicking over and over again on each person that you want to invite. We all know what a pain it is to include a bunch of people from your friends list whenever you plan an event.

First: Create an event, then click on a whole bunch of people, sit there and click, and click, and click…Well click no more we made this extension to save you time.

This is how Kick Ass Chrome Apps came to life, we decided we could make peoples lives easier and started by creating this extension, which will run some java script magic that will do all that clicking for you! All in just a single click (Paid Pro Version).

If you have technical difficulties please visit our site for support You can find the links under the details tab here. Refunds are possible within 24 hours and you can use this application on more than one computer. Just authenticate again and the app should run in PRO mode on any machine you authenticate with. If you are looking for how to upgrade run the app in free mode and click the link to upgrade. You must oAuth with Google and use Google checkout. To make things easy it would help if you use the same Google account for oAuth and Google checkout.

Check it at:
http://kickasschromeapps.com/facebook-invite-all-friends/

Add a cover photo to yourtimeline

2012-12-13T05:00:00.002-08:00

A cover is the larger photo at the top of your timeline, right above your profile picture. Note: Like your profile picture, cover images are public, which means anyone visiting your timeline will be able to see them.

We've found that people have a better experience viewing your timeline when they see a cover that is as unique and individualized as you are. This helps people learn more about you. It also helps us prevent spam, fake profiles, and other content that can detract from your experience on Facebook. An easy way to ensure your cover image is unique is to choose an image from your life, like a photo from a wedding, day at the beach, or birthday party. If you want to use a photo to show solidarity or express support for a cause or organization, you can still post a status or a photo and star it on your timeline.
To add a cover photo to your timeline:

Go to your timeline
Click Add a Cover
Choose whether you want to upload a new photo or pick a photo from one of your existing photo albums
Once you choose a photo, you can reposition it by clicking on the image and dragging it up or down
Click Save

Note: Your cover image has to be at least 720 pixels wide.

(source: facebook)

No dislike button?

2012-07-31T14:57:00.000-07:00

...don't worry you may use some other "technique"

Facebook Search Page!

2012-07-21T13:11:00.000-07:00

This is the URL of the ultimate OFFICIAL search page we all needed and could not find!

Click below and enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/srch.php

Facebook Symbols

2011-03-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

You asked for the?
Find them at fbsym.com

If Facebook was always there!

2011-03-09T03:05:00.000-08:00

25 Facebook Tips and Tricks you should be aware of

2010-10-23T07:36:00.000-07:00

1. Hide Your Online Status From Selected Friends:

So you want to use Facebook chat but don’t want some people to see your online status? Simply open up the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list called BlockList.
Once the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. Bingo! You will now appear offline to everybody in the BlockList.

2. View a Friend’s Profile Without Messy Applications:

If you are like me, you often get annoyed by the dozens of silly applications that people have added to their profile. Here’s a Grease Monkey script that allows you to view any profile without all those applications. Remember: the Mozilla Firefox web browser is a prerequisite for running Greasemonkey.

3. Display Your Facebook Status On Your WordPress Blog:

Want to display your Facebook status updates on your WordPress blog? There is a plugin that does exactly that. StatusPress lets you display your status updates to a widget on your WordPress blog.

4. Access Facebook Chat Through Your Desktop:

No need to go to Facebook.com if all you want to do is use Facebook chat. You can do it right from your desktop using clients like social.im , Adium or ChitChat.

5. Update Facebook Status From Firefox:

If you are a firefox addict you don’t need to use any other software to update your Facebook status. Simply install the FireStatus add-on and update your status right from your browser. You can also use the Facebook Toolbar to completely manage Facebook from your Firefox browser.

6. Create A Photo Collage From Pictures Of Your Facebook Friends:

Easily create a photo collage from profile pictures of all your Facebook friends using a simple Facebook app called Photo Collage.

7. Add A New friend But Hide It From Your Status Update:

A great tutorial by Tim Watson walks you through the process of hiding specific actions from your status updates.

8. Schedule Facebook Messages To Be Send Later:

If you want to schedule your Facebook messages to be send sometime in the future, Sendible is a great tool to do that. You can also use Sendible to schedule your status updates.

9. How To Share Flickr Photos On Facebook:

My Flickr is a Facebook application that lets you display your Flickr photos and photo sets on Facebook so your friends can view and comment on them without leaving Facebook.

10. How To Download Facebook Photo Albums:

Ever felt the need to download complete photo albums from Facebook. You can easily do it with either a Windows desktop application named FotoBounce or a great Firefox add-on FacePad.

11. Upload Photos On Facebook From Your Phone:

All the smart phones like iPhone and Blackberry make it simple to upload photos to your Facebook account but how would you do it if you have a regular phone? Here is a great tutorial to walk you through that.

12. Magic Circles On Facebook:

You might have heard about the Konami code that makes red blurry circles on your Facebook page. This might be one of the most popular Facebook hidden tricks. Here’s how to do it:

Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key then press up & down & Magic circles will appear!

To stop them simply reload your page.

13. Use Your Facebook Like A Pirate:

Do you love talking like a pirate? You can set your Facebook to appear like a pirate page by going into Current Language Settings and setting it to English (Pirate).

14. How To Insert Cool Symbols In Your Status Updates:
Make your status updates interesting by inserting cool symbols. Simply copying them from this list and pasting in your status updates.

15. Automatically Poke Friends That Poke You:

Don’t have enough time to poke back friends who poke you on Facebook? Automate it with a Grease Monkey script called Facebook Autopoke.

16. Upload Photos From PicasaTo Facebook:

Upload photos to your Facebook account directly from Picasa using the Picasa app for Facebook. You can also upload the Picasa captions and resize your photos before uploading them to Facebook.

17. Search Facebook Like A Pro:

Not everybody knows how powerful Facebook search is. Similar to any large search engine, Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you search like a pro. For example if you are looking for a person named John Marsh and filter your results down to only people who are married, you can try name: John Marsh status:married. A complete list of search tips for Facebook can be found here.

18. How To Update Facebook Status From Gmail:

Facebook gadget for Gmail allows you to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail.

19. How To Access Gmail From Facebook:

If you seldom have to leave Facebook just to go check your Gmail inbox, check out Fmail. It is a great application that lets you check your Gmail from within your Facebook inbox.

20. See Facebook Twitter style:

If you love Twitter more than Facebook, you can view your Facebook just like you view your Twitter using this grease monkey script.

21. Import Facebook Friends To Twitter:

FB140 is a simple tool that lets you find all your Facebook friends that are using Twitter so you can easily follow them.

22. Access Facebook From Microsoft Outlook:

This is a great tip for people attending colleges or working in places that block Facebook, but allow you access to Microsoft Outlook. Simple install the FBlook plugin and access Facebook from Outlook.

23. Display Your Facebook Status Upside Down:

This is a cool and fun trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to FlipText and type in your status. Then simply click on Flip Text and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.

24. Update Facebook Status Using Twitter:

Wouldn’t you love to update your status on both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Just install the Twitter application for Facebook. Once synced, your tweets including the #fb tag would automatically be posted as status updates on your Facebook.

25. Download Videos From Facebook:

Facebook has one of the largest collection of user uploaded videos.You can download most of the videos from Facebook by using a client like SpeedBit or DownFacbook.

8 MORE Steps To Regain Control Of Your Facebook Privacy

2010-10-13T06:04:00.001-07:00

We have covered 8 steps to regain control of your Facebook Privacy in Part 1. If you haven’t already, please read it, as we covered privacy basics in search visibility, photos and videos, relationships and contact information.
Let us now proceed with the next steps concerning Facebook privacy controls in the context of applications, friends, news feed, wall posts, groups, ads, and quitting Facebook.

#9: Control What Your Friends Can Share About You

As explained earlier, your Facebook friends can reveal information about you to applications of their choice even if you yourself do not use those applications. A typical example is when your friends use a birthday application that reminds them of your birthday so that they can send you a card or gift.

Unfortunately, this also means they reveal your religious, sexual, and political preferences as well as other personal information about you. Birthday information is also misused by financial fraudsters. All of this can be shared via more than 500,000 applications with more than 1 Million developers from over 180 countries.

If you don’t want to do that, go to Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites page. Click Edit Settings for What your friends can share about you. Choose what you want to share or uncheck all boxes for maximum privacy.

#10: Reduce Visibility of Your Facebook Friendships

Your friends list is visible to everyone on Facebook by default. Some people browse others’ friends for voyeuristic or marketing purposes. Unfortunately, Facebook now considers your friends list as “publicly available information” so there is no way to hide it completely. You can make it slightly harder for strangers to see your friend list. Go to your profile page, click the pencil icon next to your Friends box, and uncheck the Show Friend List to Everyone box.

Note that your friends list is still visible to all applications (and their developers) as well as to anyone who knows your Facebook username or ID.

#11: Remove Unused Applications

As explained in “9. Privacy From Your Applications” in the original guide, you should review the list of Applications you have authorized on Facebook and remove unused apps.

Go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and review all applications listed by choosing Authorized, Allowed to Post, and Granted Additional Permissions from the drop-down.

#12: Minimize Publishing Recent Activity To News Feed

The ability to control the Recent Activity news feed on your wall as described in “5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates” in the original guide has now been removed from Facebook. Therefore, there is no way to stop notifications appearing on your wall when you add a new friend, comment on or like a friend’s status, note, photo, video, or link.

However, you can still stop certain kinds of notifications from appearing as Recent Activity on your wall news feed. This includes notifications when you become a fan of a page, are RSVPed to an event, receive a gift, join a Group, or are tagged in a photo or video. To do this, go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and change the drop-down to Allowed to Post. For each of the applications listed below, click Edit Settings, Additional Permissions and uncheck the Publish to streams box.

Ads and Pages
Developer
Events
Gifts
Groups
Links
Photos & Videos

There are two additional points to note:

Wall-to-wall posts with a friend are only visible to mutual friends of both.
You can still manually Remove all Recent Activity news feed posts from your wall.

#13: Control Privacy Of Wall Posts

Your Facebook status messages can now be public and searchable from external search engines like Google. You can also set Facebook privacy controls on a per-post basis, but it’s better to set the default privacy setting for your wall posts. Go to Privacy Settings > Profile Information, and select Only Friends for Posts by Me.

Next, to control your wall privacy, go to your Profile page and click the Options link under the Share button. Then click Settings. Here, you can control whether your friends can write to your wall and who can see wall posts made by your friends.

It’s better to restrict who sees wall posts made by your friends. For example, college buddies may write things on your wall that may not be suitable for a professional audience.

#14: Hide Group Memberships In Your Profile Information

The Groups that you are a member of are listed in your profile. To remove them from your profile, go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and click Edit Settings for the Groups application.

Click (remove) to remove Group memberships from the Info section of your profile. Set the privacy level for visibility of your group memberships to Only Me.
Note that when you post a message to a Group’s wall, a notification will still be posted on your profile. This step simply makes the list of groups invisible on your Profile page Info tab.

#15: Avoid Appearing In Advertisements

There are no changes to Facebook privacy regarding advertisements, but the location to access these settings has changed. Now, go to Settings > Account Settings, and click the Facebook Ads tab.

Set both options under Ads shown by third party applications and Ads shown by Facebook to No one to avoid appearing in any advertisements on Facebook.

#16: Understand Difference Between Deactivating and Deleting Account

These privacy changes in Facebook have prompted some users to quit Facebook altogether. If you decide that Facebook is not your cup of tea, you must understand the difference between deactivating and deleting your Facebook account.

From Settings > Account Settings, you will see an option to Deactivate Account. Deactivation simply puts your Facebook account in a suspended state. All your profile information, pictures, friends, and wall posts remain intact on Facebook servers, but are not accessible to other Facebook users including your friends. You can resume using Facebook as before simply by logging into Facebook again.
If you wish to permanently delete your account, you need to submit your request on this page. This will remove all your information from Facebook’s servers, and there will be no way to access or recover your account and profile information again.
This completes our guide to how you can regain your privacy in Facebook to the extent possible, while also explaining which Facebook privacy controls are no longer available. How are these changes affecting your Facebook experience? Do you have any other tips to share? Shout out in the comments!

(By) Mahendra is an Editor at Techmeme, tweets as @ScepticGeek and blogs at Skeptic Geek.

So you want to creep on facebook!

2010-09-25T08:38:00.000-07:00

Full access to a photo albumeven though he or she is not our friend
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The Social Media Cheat Sheet

2010-03-11T03:08:00.000-08:00

The Social Networks Landscape. A great tool for CMO's and more...

Facebook Marketplace - Buy, sell, and trade with the Facebook Community

2010-02-10T05:27:00.000-08:00

With Facebook Marketplace, you can buy and sell anything using their easy listing service. You can list what you want, what you have, and see how you know the people who have created listings. The Marketplace application page displays all the most recent listings in your networks, and easy ways to filter and search for what you want.

Marketplace

Now you know Facebook can be used to sell your products or your second hand (but still in a good quality) things. It is called Facebook Marketplace. You can sell things with no charge at all and the advantage of being a seller in Facebook is you can make your advertisement appear on targeted Facebooker. What does that mean? First you can choose which group of people who you think will be attract more to your products. The second thing is you can choose whether you want your items to be visible to the user group or not.
Even after you choose a specific crowd and you have targeted your customers on Facebook, other Facebookers (your friends) can see your advertisement in your profile. So, you are getting a lot of eyes on your products. Free, quick, and guaranteed to be seen for all users. Remember, you have to choose the right location. Or if you want to provide selling to other countries, it’s up to you! Make sure you have read the Terms and Condition carefully.

Not only sell your own things, you can sell your affiliate links. Affiliate websites are some website that are using you and other user to promote their links and you will get an advantage from them based on what system you prefer (Pay per click or Pay per sale). Affiliate websites usually have products to sell, like website or hosting, so they want you to promote their links. If you don’t know any affiliate websites, try Paydotcom or Clickbank. Those affiliate links also can be sold in your Wall, Group, Page, and anywhere on Facebook area! Facebook is way more convenient because others won’t give you many facilities to promote.

Maybe you don’t have things to buy and you don’t interested in selling affiliate links. Start to buy other products on commission to you. It means that you want to leverage the market place. How? Use the Radical Buy application on Facebook. This application allows you to sell and buy personal things and the unusual is it lets you to promote other user’s item and you will get commission!

Probably people would think Facebook is not as good as the famous eBay, but who knows? Facebook is getting really famous right now. Not everyone have an eBay account. And you can socialize better on Facebook, of course you will get more attention with Facebook Marketplace. The advertising is more functional than eBay, it is free, it has more options to get money, and you can target your customers! Don’t expect to get money fast, though, it all still depends on the products you sell to the Facebooker. If you sell quality products that would interest many of the Facebooker, you are about to get big bucks in your saving! Let’s follow this online making money ideas and make money with Facebook!

FaceBook Chat Icons (Emoticons), Smileys etc.

2010-01-31T12:51:00.000-08:00

Here is the list of smilies/emoticons/emotes that you can use in your Facebook chats! Just type what’s under the picture and see what will pop up in your chat!

:-* – kiss

^_^ – “kiki”

-_- – squint

O.o – confused

>:O – upset

<3 – heart

:v – Pacman

:|] – robot

:) – happy

:( – sad

:P – tongue

:D – grin

:O – gasp

;) – wink

8) – glasses

B) – sunglasses

:3 – cute/cat-like

>:( – grumpy

:/ – unsure

:’( – cry

3:) – devil

O:) – angel

Improve your Facebook Page with ReverbNation’s MyBand

2010-01-31T09:06:00.000-08:00

The Fan Page has revolutionized the way that bands can interact on Facebook, but Pages have always lacked the familiar look and feel of sites that are native to showcasing music. MyBand, on the other hand, lets you put your band’s photo, streaming tracks, and upcoming shows front and center. Set your preferences to show the MyBand tab by default, and suddenly people can get an instant snapshot of your band without scrolling or fumbling around.

How to avoid having your Facebook profile indexed by search engines

2010-01-26T03:54:00.000-08:00

When someone searches for your profile on search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.) they’ll hit your public search instance (that includes a thumbnail, your name as recorded on Facebook database, your regional network etc.).

You can easily keep your online privacy by avoid having your public search listing crawled (and thus shown) by search engines. Just follow these steps in order to do so:

* Login to your Facebook account
* Hit Privacy
* Hit Search
* Now deselect the following statement: “Create a public search listing for me and submit it for search engine indexing.”
* Hit Save

You have just made sure that your profile won’t be showing up on search engines. Allow a month or so to have it removed from the search engine result pages.

Save time managing your status update for all your social networks.

2010-01-26T03:41:00.000-08:00

Just use a new service called Hellotxt
- Post updates by group to separate work and play.
- Aggregate and organize your friend's feeds.

Send Updates
Post your status updates from web, mobile, sms, email or 3rd party applications through our API to more than 45 social networks.

Follow Friends
Receive updates from profiles of friends.

I am Selling...

2010-01-09T07:55:00.000-08:00

Do you sell anything on eBay? Use this widget to promote your items on your facebook. You can also list a friends items if your not selling anything, how about that eh?

This widget is a very good way of promoting your items off eBay to new potential customers. It will automatically grab your listings on eBay so you don't need to attend to it everytime you place new listings.

Application Page

Hide Your Online Status From Certain People

2010-01-09T07:18:00.000-08:00

All you have to do is open up your chat icon in the lower right corner of your Facebook display, click on Friend Lists, and create a new list called “BlockList.” Make sure after you create it that it’s configured under “Display these lists in Chat.”

Now, all you have to do is either click “edit” and add the friends you want to block, or if they’re already online, just click their name and drag them under this new list. Once you’ve got everyone there who you want to block from see your online status, hover your mouse over the green dot to the right and click on “Go Offline.” Now, you appear offline to only those certain friends.