Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Wednesday

Facebook's New Security Checks To Keep Spam Free

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 14, 2011
Facebook has been introducing several security checks since some months to avoid it being driven by spammers. It introduced several securities like email verification like almost other media sites, mobile phone number verification and now they came up with photo tagging feature.

In this option, you will be prompted to enter some answers to sequence of questions with multiple choices. Facebook offers the security checks if it finds any user entering some wrong username/password several times or doing some unwanted activity like sending friend requests to strangers.

Facebook security check
Facebook prompts you with 2 option and from there you need to choose one. The options are :

1. Add a Phone : It asks for adding a phone number where it sends a verification code. After entering the verification code you can login to Facebook account.

2. Identify photos of friends : This is the very new feature. It will prompt you with some profile/album photos from any of your friends in random order and you need to choose the correct option (name of the friend) in given multiple choices. Once you are done with sequence of  questions on identifying the photos of random  photos of friends, you are now allowed to enter into the account.

Facebook image check

Hope, this brings more secured Facebook account.

How To Hide From Facebook Chat

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 07, 2011
We can hide us by showing offline status to the certain friends in Facebook chat. It is very easy to do as you just you have to follow some simple steps but most of the persons don't know about that so here is the step to hide yourself in Facebook chat.

Firstly, log in to Facebook account. Most of the Facebook users enjoy in making friends with the old friends and strangers too  and chat with all of them. And no difference! I was also one of them. But at the starting but as time go by, and in the busy life it is impossible to talk every one who are in your friend list. But the problem arises when you are already chatting with one of your friend for any work and at the same time  then two or three friends say "Hello, how are you?" So giving no reply to them is also a bad manner and if you are replying with a word then obviously they will try to keep the conversation going on or tell some thing to you and till how much days you say that you are busy. Practically not possible to tell everybody. So the perfect solution is that hide your online status from Facebook chat with those persons.

Here are the steps :

1. Login to your Facebook Account and click and expand the chat menu.

2. From the chat menu click on Friend Lists (at top) and create a new list just type your list name and press enter. 

3. Say, you have created Block List, now you will see Block List in your Facebook chat option. 

4. Now move your mouse cursor to your Block List you will see edit option beside Block List. 

5. Click on edit and immediately a pop up window will come up. 

6. Now select the friends whom to show you are offline.

7. Done Selecting friends? Now click on Save List. 

8. Now your selected friend automatically moved from chat list to Block List but by default your Block List will be visible and your friends of your Block List will see you online. 

9. We need to show offline now. Hence if you want to show offline status to your Block List's friends, just go to Block List and you will see at the right side Go Offline click on it as shown in the below screenshot. 

10. Yes! done with hiding yourself from your Block List's friends. If in any case, you want to chat with them then simply click on Go Online again.

Tuesday

How To Hide Your Facebook Profile From Search Engines

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 06, 2011
Nowadays people can find your Facebook profile in almost all major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, ASK. Since facebook is considered as the topmost brand among all the social networking media and have alexa rank #2 with Google PageRank(PR) 10/10 so all the major search engines mostly Google indexed all most every pages of facebook including your profile page and brings into the first or second pages. It becomes very easy to find their friends or family or strangers easily by Google search engine by typing their real names.

There are a lot of people who don't want to expose their identity of Facebook profile into Google or other search engines and don't want to get unwanted friend requests even. In this case you can prevent your Facebook profile getting indexed in Google and other search engines. Here I will discuss how can you do that with some easy steps:
  1. Log in to Facebook Account
  2. Go to Account (on top right) -> Click on Privacy Settings 
  3. Go down and click on Edit Settings under Apps and Websites. as shown below:
    hide facebook profile in google
  4. Then click on Edit settings under Public search. as shown below:


  5. Here you need to unchecked Enable public search under Public search. as shown below:

      6. Make sure you have unchecked the box and immediately a popup will come up asking to                  Confirm.

Now I have done with all the steps. Normally it takes time and will not index your Facebook profile in various search engines.

Thursday

How to Get Facebook Profile Username

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 01, 2011
Most of the Facebook users are unaware about the profile username option which is provided by Facebook. That means Facebook profile can be viewed through your username and not with long profile ID. This is optional and It will give you a distinct Facebook profile page which can be easily rememberable. Setting username for your Facebook profile won't change the profile name appearing on your profile, in search search engines which you are being searched by your real name or any other place on the site.

Get this new Facebook web URL which will be your personal identification for your Facebook profile. Your friends can enter your username after Facebook.com/ or search in a popular search engine like Google, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with real known names.

Here we go with a example, if you set your profile username to best.buddy then Facebook profile can be accessed via http://www.facebook.com/best.buddy

Those who have not set their username yet, go and set Facebook profile username by following the below steps:
  1. Login to facebook with your username and password 
  2. Then simply visit http://www.facebook.com/username 
  3. You will prompted with the a screen dialog with various profile name options. Select from there or set it of your own choice by checking availability.
Facebook username

Here we go, in this example below we can see that the username best.buddy is available

Facebook username available

So before creating your username think of some real and easy to remember names as once you set you can't re-edit it.

How To Import Facebook Contacts To Google+

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 01, 2011
Actually, there is no direct way to export Facebook contacts to G+ so we need to follow below steps to get all your Facebook contacts to Google+. Importing contacts to Facebook required to follow two steps. Facebook doesn't allow Gmail service to import their data. So we overcome this issue using yahoo service. If you don't have yahoo email address, please register and get an account on Yahoo! 

Anyway, let me explain it step by step process on how to go from Facebook contacts to Yahoo! till G+

1. Login to your yahoo email addresses and go to contacts tab.


2. Click on import contacts, you will be asked to provide options where you would like to import contacts like Facebook, GMail, Hotmail etc. You will get similar screen like below one. Click on Facebook icon to start importing contacts.
Completed with importing contacts to Yahoo? Good, then we are done importing the contacts.

3. Now all your contacts in Yahoo now, yahoo allow us to export those contacts to various format.

4. Now connect your G+ account to Yahoo account to import Facebook Contacts. Log in to your Google+ Account, and go to friend circle tab, Find friends under the 'Find people' (as below picture) and now connect to your Yahoo! account via Facebook login.



Done! Now all you Facebook contacts are now imported and accessible from Google plus service hence you could see the below connected message as well.



So, send request to the people, you want them on Google+.

How To Publish Your Blog Post To Facebook Fan Page Automatically

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 01, 2011
It is very easy to publish your blog posts to your Facebook profile or fan page automatically. Just you need to add an application to your Facebook account first. A lot of RSS applications are there to auto publish your blog’s content. These apps adds your RSS feeds, monitors for any update and publish it automatically to your Facebook profile and/or fan page so you don’t have to share your blog posts manually to your Facebook friends, everytime you update your blog. 

RSS Graffiti is widely used apps for this purpose in Facebook. We personally use and prefer this one and have added to our Poketors.com fan page. If you don’t have a fanpage on facebook yet, you can add this to your profile page as well. 

1. Sign in to Facebook.com


3. Choose your profile and/or fan page from left column and click green 

“+Add Feed” button on the right.

4. Put in your blog’s feed URL and put the source URL and other info.

Put in your blog’s feed URL and put the source URL and other info

Click Preview to confirm the link and to view how it will look like as an update status. 

5. Save it and we are done. 

That's it. Now you can publish a post in your blog, it will automatically publish to your Facebook profile page or fan page.

Wednesday

How To Conquer Facebook Status Updates [Infographic]

Posted By: Poketors - August 31, 2011
Nowadays, infographic has become an easy media to understand the whole article or a story in an effective way. According to Post Planner, there are 8 ways that allow you to ‘conquer the Facebook status’.

How To Conquer Facebook Status Updates [Infographic]

The 8 ways are listed as follows:
1. Ask questions
2. Post Fill-in-the-blanks
3. Post Photos
4. Talk about the News
5. Ask for Likes
6. Target different Fans
7. Talk about Facebook
8. Celebrate Today
Now find the infographic below:

Facebook Status Ideas to Improve your Edgerank
Source: PostPlanner

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