Facebook began testing a new Pages discovery tool called the Pages discovery browser. The tool shows some of the most popular pages in your network as well as a list of friends who you have the most shared interests with. It’s an interesting tool,One has to wonder how this will be integrated in the future.
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Facebook began testing a new Pages discovery tool called the Pages discovery browser. The tool shows some of the most popular pages in your network as well as a list of friends who you have the most shared interests with. It’s an interesting tool,One has to wonder how this will be integrated in the future.If you're constantly forgetting to log out of Facebook when you use other people's computers or phones, Facebook's new remote logout feature is here. Under Account Settings (specifically, the Account Security section), you can now see a list of places where you're currently logged in, along with some info to help you determine whether each session is legitimate or unauthorized. And, of course, you also have the option to log any of those sessions out.Docs.com is a place where you can easily create new office documents in the browser or upload your existing documents and share them with your circle of Facebook friends as well as the outside web. The service is exactly like Office Web Apps except that it uses your Facebook account and not your Windows Live ID.The FUSE Labs team at Microsoft, that is responsible for Docs.com is busy adding new mashups to Docs.com to make the service even more appealing to Facebook users.
Facebook is today’s one of the most popular social networking website. Millions of people interact with their friends and family members and share their thoughts, pictures and videos with each other. The photo viewing aspect of Facebook is one of the most loved features by its users. This is why Facebook is constantly making improvements in this section.
Now you can import your Facebook contacts to your Yahoo! Mail and access them from there. Last year, Yahoo! announced Facebook Connect integration and some other plans to improve Mail, so before they add that, you can now import contacts from Facebook.
Along with importing your contacts from sites like Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail now allows you to connect with your Facebook friends and easily add their email addresses to your Yahoo! Contacts list.
If Orkut users can get third-party themes, then why can’t Facebook users? I’ve compiled a list of the best Facebook themes currently available for download on the Internet. The life-span of these themes is not much as Facebook keeps changing their code. The themes given below have been hand-picked by me and were all working fine. They are also being regularly updated by the original designers.
Requirements
Requirements
There are two basic requirements before you can use the themes.
- Mozilla Firefox
- Greasemonkey/Stylish add-on for Firefox
icon in the status bar in the bottom right of the Firefox window, then choosing Manage Styles. This icon with become coloured if you have styles installed for the site you're on.If you already meet all the requirements, then let the themes begin!
Summer Theme
Download this from here
Facebook Black
Download this from here.
Pink Theme
Download this from here.
Click here for more Themes
Facebook introduced new and much improved Privacy settings page and gave more control on what content is seen by public and friends.
Almost six months ago, Facebook allowed indexing of profiles in Google which included private profiles as well. Many users with publicly hidden profiles raised questions about this feature, but no positive reply was given by Facebook.
How to Remove Facebook Profile from Google
The new Facebook privacy options also lets you allow or disallow indexing of your profile in Google search results. Follow the steps below to set this option:
- Go to Privacy Settings in Facebook
- Click on Search section link.
- Uncheck the Allow box for Public Search Results option.
- Confirm the selection and you’re all done!
So, FaceBook has acquired FriendFeed. This immediately got people speculating as to why FaceBook, with all those hundreds of millions of happy users, would want to buy FriendFeed. In short – FaceBook didn’t want to buy FriendFeed!
FaceBook is huge and has no need to buy in the relatively tiny number of users that FriendFeed has. So, this was not an acquisition of eyeballs. The FriendFeed software is awesome; but that’s the problem. Geeks like us LOVE it, but it’s not usable enough for mainstream use. Although far superior to Twitter technically, FriendFeed lacks the instant usability that sites like Twitter offer.
So, I don’t believe FaceBook bought FriendFeed for the platform either.
FriendFeed does have one extremely valuable asset though – Talent!
In buying FriendFeed, FaceBook has just acquired the services of four extremely smart people. Before founding FriendFeed, these guys worked at Google and helped develop services like, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Groups.
Their market value is huge and that’s what I believe FaceBook is paying for.
In a press release accompanying the acquisition, FaceBook confirms the value it places on FriendFeed’s co-founders – saying they will; “hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.” The remaining 12 FriendFeed staff members will also be joining FaceBook, as part of the deal.
We all know how dominant Orkut was in social networks back in the year 2003. Still many people have friends on Orkut whom they haven’t been able to find on the current in thing Facebook. This is an old trick, but you can easily find your Orkut friends on Facebook by following the steps below.
- Drag this Facebook bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar.
- Now login to your Orkut account, and click the Facebook bookmarklet. If that doesn’t work, you can alternatively try opening this link.
- The Friend Finder tool in Facebook will now looks for your Orkut contacts that are not in your Facebook friends list.
P.S. This bookmarklet only works with Orkut mobile website, so login into Orkut Mobile from here.
A hip, modernized and retreated versions of a similar “hotmail deletes its inactive users” Facebook publicity accepts its incompetence by announcing that it cannot handle its own popularity. It confesses to committing mass neticide by getting rid of old, stagnant and inactive (for more than two weeks) users. Kudos to the marketing team came up with this brilliant attempt to retain its more sensible users, the ones who dare to take a break from Facebook for more than two weeks. Personally signed, with love (or maybe hate), by founder mark Zuckerberg.
We've been hearing a lot about Facebook identity thieves, social networking, privacy and personal information lately especially in light of Facebook’s recent decision to strengthen its privacy policies after the Canadian government found that Facebook’s prevailing privacy policies were inadequate. The thing is – Facebook, when configured and used properly, can be a lot safer than it is the way that most of us use it. Here’s a few simple steps which, when followed religiously, can help to deter identity thieves.
Know Your Friends
This one should be a no-brainer. Don’t accept friend invitations from people that you don’t know – you’ve got to ask yourself why someone you don’t know would want to be friends with you anyway. Whether they’re Facebook identity thieves or not, it’s clear that they want access to your personal information – otherwise they wouldn’t have added you as a friend in the first place.
Know Your Applications
Facebook applications, as they’re currently configured, have access to a huge amount of personal information more than they should have, according to the Canadian government. Before you install a Facebook application, make sure it’s got a large user base and consider searching for it on Google to see if any users have made any complaints about it. Watch out for Facebook applications that are very new – Facebook identify thieves have been using applications more and more recently to get at users personal information.
Vet Your New Friends
Limit Your Information with Customized Privacy Settings
Facebook’s privacy settings are actually quite powerful, once you lift the hood off of them. Protect yourself from Facebook identity thieves by creating lists of your Facebook friends and limiting access to personal, identifiable information like address, telephone number, birth date, and so on – one simple strategy is to create one list of people you’re not sure about, and another list of people you are sure about. As you become “sure” about your Facebook friends, move them from one list to the other.
Don’t Post Personal Information in Your Status Updates
These are only a few simple steps to protect yourself from Facebook identity thieves, but when you think about it, you don’t really have to try very hard to make yourself an unattractive target for Facebook identity thieves. After all – if you make it too hard for identity thieves to get at your personal information, they’ve still got several hundred million other users to choose from.
Whenever we say the word Facebook, one of the first things that pop to our minds is the blue and white well defined webpage design, friends, pokes, pictures, and comments. Yes, Facebook had indeed become a word that is almost as well known as the famous touristic site. This website is now a famous star, the center of attraction of many people, and a place where almost each and every one of us visits daily. Whatever the reason is, we find ourselves sitting on our desks every day and browsing through photos, commenting on our those pictures, adding some people you think you might know or would like to know, or even poking someone for attention.
This Facebook plague has been critiqued by many writers and sociologists. They say that Facebook's applications are making us waste a lot of our valuable time. Most of us now spend hours scribbling on each other's graffiti walls, playing online Facebook games, uploading photos and doing many other activities. Such a website, as he mentions, is not really very popular for people who are busy and do not have the time for such time consuming futile applications. In addition to that, I believe that Facebook, with all its restricting privacy settings, still does not provide its users with a good protective medium for it makes our own personal information at sake by making some of our information available on search engines such as google.
Moreover, we can point out a very important issue that is not really very obvious to people. Facebook is making fortunes because we use its applications. It receives millions of dollars for the ads and commercials it posts on the web and for the games it promotes for. And instead of actually thanking those users, the user ends up forced to pay money in some of the applications like the gift application. Furthermore, in order to promote for its applications, Facebook also forces the users to invite some friends before actually granting this user access to the application itself.
Facebook connects us to cousins abroad that we barely knew about. We share photos, message each other, and participate in many activities together although "virtually". Furthermore, Facebook has given us the capability to reconnect with friends that we have lost contact with years ago. It really delighted me when we found out that some have pursued their education at prestigious universities and others are now excelling in their majors. Such friendships do interest us because on the long run some of them might even turn out into lifelong solid bonds.
Moreover, joining some of Facebook groups has also helped us in several other areas. Some of Facebook's groups can provide access to people who can help each other out, like a built in support system. Such groups are formed throughout the internet nowadays as people can readily voice their opinions without having to attend a stuffy meeting that doesn‘t work for their schedule.
That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site's users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"We're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone," Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog.
Facebook, the world's largest online social network, has bowed to pressure and agreed to tighten up its privacy policies further.
The company will give its 250 million users more control over the personal information they share with third-party applications such as games and quizzes and will clarify what happens to data when a user deactivates an account.
Currently people who wish to use such third-party software have to agree to share all their personal details with the application. With the changes, the application developer will have to specify which categories of data the software needs, for instance birthdays or geographic location, so users can give explicit permission. Users will also have to specifically approve any access Facebook applications have to their friends' information. Such access would still be subject to the friend's privacy and application settings.
The changes will have significant implications for software developers who have built profitable businesses creating applications for Facebook users. They will need to update their software to comply with the new standards. Facebook said the changes would take up to a year to implement.
The move is in response to Canadian privacy complaints. Last month Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, accused Facebook of disclosing personal information about users to the nearly 1 million third-party developers worldwide who create Facebook applications.
Facebook has struggled with communicating its privacy policies to its rapidly growing number of account-holders. Privacy has been a central, often thorny issue because so many people use it to share personal information with their friends and family. As the 5-year-old social networking service has expanded its user base and added features, its privacy controls have grown increasingly complicated.
The company said today that users who want to quit the service have a choice between deactivating their account — in which case the personal details, photos and other information are retained — and deleting the account — in which case all data is erased within a short space of time.
Elliot Schrage, vice president of global communications and public policy at Facebook, said that the changes set a new standard for the social networking industry. The company said that it would actively encourage users to review their privacy settings to ensure that the defaults and selections reflect the user’s preferences.
He said: “Our productive and constructive dialogue with the commissioner’s office has given us an opportunity to improve our policies and practices in a way that will provide even greater transparency and control for Facebook users."
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