Social network tips

wouldn’t be so popular if the administration of this site and its developers hadn’t listen to the complaints and offers from its numerous users. That is why we can see from time to time a bunch of new improvements and appearing of new features on Page. We can like or dislike these new improvements but the truth is that Facebook developers try to make this huge social network as protected from spammers, user-friendly and more integrated as it is possible. That is why at least try to be grateful for these attempts or appeal to the page with your request if you suppose that something on Facebook should be changed in future.

And again Facebook users have to face new improvements and changes happened with their profiles and Facebook Home Page in particular. About the new changes in details you can read further. The only thing we want to add that this time these alterations touched the core of this site – Facebook Home Page – where we can see appearing of more links leading to different options of Facebook which all of 500 millions of registered users apply from time to time.

Here are the descriptions of the main changes and improvements you will see when reach Facebook Home Page:

• the top of Facebook Home Page is occupied with a new bar of icons and buttons responding for requests, sending of messages and all notifications a user on Facebook can receive from his/her friends. These new icons are very convenient to use and they let you find out if someone has poked you or sent you a message even if you are not on your personal page because surfing on other FB pages. All these icons and buttons turn into red spots and in such way appeal to you to check your new messages or notifications. These icons have drop-down menus to display all items containing in their boxes at once.

• now let’s concentrate on the right part of this top menu on Facebook Home Page. Here you can find a number of links that can take you to the homepage or to your personal page, there is also a link leading to a new account menu which allows gaining access to all your settings, the Help Center of Facebook and other pages related to the home page.

• move on to the middle of this top part of FB Home Page. Users will be able to find here a search field bar (new and improved one with a number of new filters like searching for your friends on Facebook via their names, subjects or their hobbies and likings). For instance, if you type a name of your Facebook friend and you will get tons of results dealing with his/her account – latest posts, new photos and videos and all his/her recent stuff posted on Facebook. In a new way you can find some groups only by pointing out some popular keywords. For instance, type “Haiti natural disaster” and you will be offered the list of groups that are dedicated to this topic somehow.

• now let’s focus on the improved left side of the FB Home Page. Members of this social network find over there a bunch of links leading to their News Feed pages, Messages, Photo Albums, Videos and Friends’ Lists. All these links are followed by appearing pop-up boxes. For instance, after clicking on the Photos link you will see a pop-up box with all your photo albums. It is more convenient to use all these common options and features of Facebook.

As for the central part of FB home page, they left it pretty much the same and you won’t find any important changes in this part of Facebook main page.

All probably know that it is hard to find better web browser for surfing on this social network than Mozilla Firefox which can offer users a lot of additional plug-ins, toolbars to make their Facebook profiles more integrated and interactive by means of useful software for web browsing including helpful and customizing add-on called as Greasemonkey that can even make your more personalized and good-looking with the help of and not similar to other Facebook profiles.

Due to these reasons and also because of high level of security and can offer more and more users who have accounts on Facebook choose this web browser to unblock their Facebook pages at work or to surf anonymously using a number of cool plug-ins and add-ons.

Nevertheless there is a number of the so-called Facebook problems you can face if you use Firefox to browse on Facebook social networks. To avoid these Facebook problems or find the best solution to fix them you can read the following descriptions of the most common Facebook problems a Firefox user can face:

1) One of the most common Facebook problems among Firefox users is inability to load such applications as Farmville, Mafia Wars and similar to them. The problems deals with usage of Flash plug-in. The solution can be in renovation of the old version of your Flash plug-in by visiting the Adobe Flash Player website or improving settings of an installed plug-in. Check in settings if an option of allowing the third party content is turned on.

2) The next issue is also one of the most common Facebook problems and it deals with slow connection and work of Facebook chat if a member uses Mozilla Firefox. To solve this problem upgrade your version of Firefox at least up to Firefox 3.6. If it doesn’t help you should browse the FAQ section of the Facebook Help Center.

3) One of the most widespread Facebook problems concerns inability to load the main page of Facebook. To fix this problem try to do the following – check if Facebook is accessible from different web browsers (like Opera or Google Chrome). If it is not accessible from different browsers check your Internet connection. There can be two reasons explaining this problem – you don’t have an access to the Internet at all or Facebook site is temporarily not working which happens from time to time. If it is accessible but you still want to use it by means of Firefox web browser you can try to cope with this issue by sticking the following tips:

• Clear cookies and cache of your Firefox browser. To fulfill this browse the FAQ section on Firefox Official Website.

• Check if your antivirus software or firewalls let you gain access to Facebook via Firefox. This is a widespread reason why users can’t gain access to their Facebook pages. Select to allow access to your Facebook page if it is blocked by your firewall.

• Try to delete and install Mozilla Firefox to your PC again if you don’t know the reason of blocking your access to Facebook from this web browser.

4) Another popular Facebook problem is that one which redirects a user from certain Facebook applications by giving the info about the error with such text “Page isn’t redirecting properly”. Not all Facebook applications work as clock but you can appeal to Facebook Help Center if you intend to fix this problem.

Plenty of new members of popular social networks such as MySpace, Twitter and ask a lot of questions concerning unblocking their favorite social communities at workplaces and at schools where these sites are usually blocked by educational establishments and corporations administrations to prevent their staff members and students wasting their work or study hours and other sites like this community. To answer the burning question among social networks’ newbies “What are the ways to at school/at work?” we should appeal to explanation of which are mostly used to unblock any blocked site from a public computer or for the purpose of anonymous surfing from a home PC.

What are Facebook proxys?

Facebook proxys are web sites letting you get an access to any blocked site from a public computer even if this computer is upgraded by the newest blocking filters and firewalls preventing you from surfing on such “time-killing” resources as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and similar to them sites. It is rather easy to gain access to your favorite but blocked sites even from a public computer if you know which Facebook proxys to use and how to apply them. To understand how Facebook proxys work we should focus at first on what are firewalls and filtering that were developed to block access to popular social networks.

What are firewalls and filtering software?

Due to the great popularity of Facebook social network more and more schools, colleges and corporations along with small firms and companies have to appeal to IT specialists in eager to find a way blocking an access for their staff members to this popular resource and other sites like Facebook because many employees and students simply ignore the rules and enjoy surfing on social networks instead of working or studying. It is hard to control all students because such public places have a lot of computers in libraries and classrooms that is why it was decided to apply firewalls and filtering software – specific programs blocking certain sites from a block list composed by educational establishments and corporations pointing out the main “wasting-time” resources.

In spite of providing constant improvements of such firewalls and filtering software to prevent surfers from applying unblocking techniques there are still reliable ways to gain access to your favorite sites bypassing even the best firewalls and filters and mostly these ways concern using Facebook proxys.

How does Facebook proxy sites work?

To make it simple for beginners we advise them to understand proxy sites as middle-men between a public computer a persons uses to get an access to a blocked site and this blocked resource. By entering URL of a blocked site in a special text area of any proxy site (you can easily find them in Web, there are even the lists of proxy sites updating every month) you should wait while a proxy server connects with a blocked site, copies its data and transfers this content right to your web browser. After these actions you will be able to surf on your favorite blocked site from a public computer at school or at workplace without any problems and in an anonymous way.

Because of great popularity can boast more and more people want to join this huge social network with more than 500 millions registered users. In fact nowadays it is hard to find a modern person who had never heard at least something about Facebook. Nevertheless, there are, surely, who have just registered their accounts but still don’t get it how to use Facebook to have a chance to get all its benefits and use all these cool communication features so popular among experienced . The further guide for beginners will explain the main features of this big social network and demonstrate how to use Facebook if you are a newbie.

1) How to use Facebook News Feed?

After logging in to Facebook you will be transferred to your personal page where everything important on this social network for you happens or reflects. Here you can alter your status updates, add and view photos and videos, listen to music and chat with friends from your friends’ list using your Wall, personal messaging or instant messages. If you sign up for Facebook applications they will appear on this page too. Let’s focus on your News Feed – this is a place in the middle of your page where all updates of your friends are shown. Some of post in News Feed can be rather annoying, that is why you can appeal to the Settings and choose to hide reflection of certain events in your News Feed of your friends’ profiles. In general News Feed helps to track interesting info happening with your friends.

2) How to add Facebook Friends?

The process of adding friends on Facebook is one of the most important ones. To add some of your real life friends to your Facebook friends’ list you should find the link titled as “Friends” (at the top of your profile) and click on it. You will see a search engine that can help you to find your colleagues, old pals from school or college and friends according to your interests, use all possible search filters like an option of finding your friends by e-mail to make the process of friends search faster and easier. Besides, just after signing up and logging in Facebook will offer you the so-called “Friends Suggestions” among which you can find the usernames of your friends.

3) How to use Facebook apps?

Facebook applications are one of the best options this social network can offer. There are literally hundreds of various apps you can install and use on your personal page. The most popular of them concern online interactive games like Farmville or Mafia Wars while the others are interesting surveys and quizzes and the thirds respond for blogging and integrating your accounts from other social networks to Facebook. To choose among apps you should scroll down to the end of your page until you will notice the link “Applications”, after clicking on it you will be offered a list of the most popular apps to install. You can search for more applications if you click on “Browse More Applications” link. All allowed and installed applications will be reflected in the “Application” section.

4) How to use Facebook Chat?

To use the chat option on Facebook scroll down and find at the bottom of your page, on the right side, a tab showing who of your friends is online at the moment. Click on any of your friends who is online and you will see the icon titled as “Chat”. Click on it to chat with your friend.

These were the most common features letting you start your surfing on Facebook without any problems and burning questions.

The years ago the Facebook was created as a small community for American college students who wanted to keep in touch with their mates online and nowadays it is very hard to believe that this fact concerns Facebook at all. Right now is the popular global social network that has more than 500 millions of registered users all over the world. And all of these users from China, India, France and Great Britain and other countries can connect with one another and find virtual mates. The UK is also very popular especially among young British people who like an idea of chatting with their American or other English-speaking friends from Australia and Canada.

In spite of all positive options British Facebook users also experience some problems with Facebook Login UK Page which are in fact common among all versions of a . If you are a British and has some problems with your Facebook Login UK page then read a useful info given below.

What are the main types of Facebook Login UK Page problems?

It seems that process of logging in into Facebook is as easy as a piece of pie but in fact there are few common problems that cause login failures and make it impossible to log in using the Facebook Login UK Page. So what problems can you experience during logging in into Facebook:

1) You have entered your password or username in a wrong way. Even if you misspell at least for once you will experience a login failure immediately. Retype your username and password again if you suspect that at the first time you really could make a spelling or typing mistake and be more attentive this time. If you still can’t login, then try to remember what password you used on Facebook when signed up for it. Maybe you just need to restore your password via “Forgot Your Password?” box and reactivate it again. Information about your password will be sent via e-mail. Check your Spam box if you didn’t receive an e-mail from a Facebook bot into Incoming box. Advice – if you use a private PC (not a public one at school or at work) select “Remember me” box below a login form and make in such way Facebook to remember you.

2) Sometimes when you try to sign up or log in using your e-mail you may get the following message “Your E-mail Address is Not Valid”. You see, Facebook does not cooperate with those users who have e-mails starting with info@ which are in the most cases are generic e-mail accounts used by spam bots. Try to use another e-mail address if you have something similar to the above mentioned e-mail account.

3) You can’t refresh your Facebook Login UK page. Sometimes login pages on Facebook do that –they refuse to refresh or to load. In this case check if you have activated cookies on your PC. Appeal to the Facebook Help Center if you don’t know how to do this.

These are the main problems UK users of Facebook can face during their logging in into this social network.

If you can’t fix all the existing problems with you should appeal to the Facebook Help center and you will be given all necessary information concerning a specific problem you have. Only in such way you can get a professional assistance and solve all your problems in an easy way.

Despite all interesting options and applications can offer its main purpose is still to make your communication as interesting and entertaining as it is possible. Many years ago Facebook was a small social network where college students could chat and keep in touch with their mates. Times change as well as Facebook but the Chat still occupies one of the leading positions among the most used .

To spice up their or chat conversations and make them more emotional and personal users apply the so-called Facebook emoticons or smileys which are similar to usual smileys you can use in instant messengers like ICQ or SKYPE. All Facebook emoticons are titled according to their shortcuts you can find in the Chat Box on this social network.

If you are a beginner on Facebook and still don’t get it how other users apply these Facebook emoticons and insert their codes while chatting, read further and you will learn how to do this.

At first let’s focus on a definition of Facebook emoticons codes. Usually a smiley or an emoticon is a cute picture of a face expressing different emotions like happiness, shyness, anger or boredom and many others. The official title to such images is “emoticons” but people still call them “smileys” because initially instant messengers could offer only few emoticons looking like yellow faces that smiled or frowned according to a user’s mood. And initially virtual smileys spring from 1970s when a smiling face was used as a logo of State Mutual Life Assurance of Worcester (MA, USA). Since those times and till nowadays people use this symbol to express their happiness or positive thoughts and when approve something. Right now, there exist few hundreds or even more of various emoticons expressing all human emotions and reflecting some life processes or popular characters and events.

Now you are quite aware what are Facebook emoticons and the short history of their appearance in the Facebook Chat. It is a high time to teach you how to use these emoticons in your chatting process so you could express your feeling with cute smiling faces or emphasize something important illustrating this by various emoticons.

First of all we should warn you that you can’t operate with all those smileys you have seen in ICQ or Microsoft Messenger (that have more than 200 variants of different emoticons) on Facebook and will have to use a limited amount of emoticons. Facebook developers work on this problem, but still there are for now only few dozens of smiley codes you can use to communicate and chat with your friends by means of the Facebook Chat.

Below you can find the examples of the most widespread Facebook emoticons and their smiley codes people insert in their chat conversations. By typing a consequent combination of letters and special signs you can get a certain emoticon eventually:

• Toothy Grin Face –

• Wink Face –

• Open Mouth Gasp – :-O

• Frowning Face –

• Face Sticking Tongue Out –

• Kissing Emoticon – :-*

• Angry Face-  >:-(

• Doubts –  :-\

• Crying Face- : -(

• Angel –  O:-)

• Heart – <-3

In addition we want to say that even such a little amount of emoticons for the Facebook Chat still can give you a chance to express your emotions in a funny way without typing in words what exactly do you feel. Communicate and learn more smiley codes to make chatting on Facebook even more interesting.

Social networks are enormous resources with lots of registered users and organizations and Facebook is one of the hugest social sites nowadays having more than 500 millions account owners. That is why if you want to find someone from your real life on you will have to use “Search System” and waste your time in vain browsing among the numerous results if you don’t know how to use Search options effectively.

When you signed up for the first time you was probably offered the so-called Facebook’s Friend Suggestions defining your possible friends from school, colleagues or relatives basing on your personal info you have pointed out when registered your account. However this suggestion list can’t know all your friends and people who you know very well. That is why you need to figure out how you can find your friends using standard Facebook People Search option in the most effective way.

1) Search for your friends with FriendFinder collection of search tools and filters. You can use this option of Facebook People Search system and find your pals on this resource after clicking on the link of the “Connect With Friends“widget located on the right side of the home page. Use such options of Facebook People Search and FreindFinder tool as:

• Find your buddies via their e-mails from your e-mail address book option. If you know e-mail of your friend and if it is supported by public mail services like Gmail or Yahoo!Mail then you can find your mate in an easy way.

• Search for your former or present classmates. Point your school and year of graduation if you are looking for former classmates and this tool will help you to find them quickly.

• Search for your colleagues. Pretty much the same option as the previous one, only you should point out the name of the organization where you work.

• Search for people using IM networks. If you want to make your Facebook People Search more effective enter your data of IM (instant messaging) networks as SKYPE, ICQ, AOL and other popular IMN.

2) Use Advanced Search App to improve your Facebook People Search navigation. Install it on your page using simple tips by choosing “Advanced Search” app link located at the bottom of your profile page and use the following options of it:

• Search for people according to the Find Friends Tab options. This tab offers the following options for a search as by age, by gender, by relationship status and even by a star sign if you believe in astrological forecasts. Besides you are able to search for those people who were born on the same day as you did. And you may also select such filter as Country to find all these people specifically in your country.

• Search for people who have the same interests as you do. For instance, if you want to find people who share your political points of view or some religious preferences you should use such filters as Politician or Religious. By the way you can limit your search within a certain Fan Group. Other filters you can use to search for people are by Company/Product or by Artist/Celebrity/Literature preferences.

Remember that persistence and usage of available apps can make your People Search on Facebook as easy and effective as it can be.

It is quite obvious that many want to get an access to their favorite social network via their mobile phones because they can use their phones literally everywhere especially if they own smartphones or touchphones like iPhone and similar to it devices. That is why developed a number of special versions for mobile users and call all of them as which is available on lots of different types of innovative handsets and older versions of cell phones that even do not need to have the Internet connectivity services. This Mobile is very easy-to-handle and offers a number of specific and standard features a usual Facebook Home Page can suggest along with a user-friendly interface.

Accessing Facebook Mobile login page is also very available. All is required from a user is to have a registered account on Facebook and a special installed software on his phone like Opera Mini or Safari for iPhone browsers to type over there a simple URL of the Facebook Mobile login page looking like this – m.facebook.com. After this you should login as you usually do while surfing on a standard version of this social network by filling a login page with your unique login and password data. In such way you can get an access to Facebook from any cell phone. And if you own new handsets like iPhone, Blackberry, Android and the latest Nokia gadgets then you can download and install on your phone an app of Facebook Mobile that can offer you a wide range of options similar to the usual version of this social network. Beware of fake software and use only official versions of the mobile Facebook app for your phone to protect yourself from spamming and malware.

By means of this app you can also activate a text messaging function to follow the updates of your friends’ statuses and post comments on their and your walls. You can also share your photos with your Facebook friends uploading them right from your phone to your personal page. Besides the enumerated functions there are certain opportunities for different types of the newest mobile phones about which you can read further.

1) Peculiarities of the mobile Facebook version for iPhone users. According to the official resources, iPhone was the first device that applied Facebook Lite. You can synchronize your contacts from your Facebook page with your iPhone’s address book and iPod.

2) Mobile version of Facebook for Blackberry. This app lets you be online on Facebook whenever you want and twenty-four-seven if you want. With the help of the special app for Facebook Blackberry supports you can read messages from your friends, check updates and view pics of your pals from Facebook when they call you on your handset. It is very convenient and simple to figure out.

3) Android version of the mobile Facebook app. The popular Google Android and Facebook cooperated to develop a specific app so owners of Android phones could reach their profiles on Facebook 24/7 without any obstacles. You will have no any problems with checking your updates, sending messages to all your friends and uploading photos. Besides you can reach up to 125 phone numbers of your friends from Facebook via the main menu of your Android phone.

There is also the Windows Mobile app for Facebook for those smartphones that support operating system of Windows Mobile. It is pretty much the same as the mentioned versions and can offer you a fast and 24-hour-a-day access to your Facebook profile.

You are probably aware that Facebook being one of the most visited social network can offer to its account owners an enormous diversity of different activities, applications and options letting them have a very good time and contact heir friends in lots of various ways. After the every user can visit his pals’ fan pages or create his own fan page. In spite of the popularity of this resource not all members, especially newbies, are aware how to do this.

Creation of your own fan page usually doesn’t take too much time. All you must do is to follow simple step-by-step guide after .

If you don’t own a registered you should sign up because more than 300 millions and an endless amount of possibilities wait for you to . Especially you have to use Facebopok if you are very interested in free advertising and promotion of your business or occupation. In this case a wisely built and popular fan page representing your business can assist you in achieving the popularity of your occupation. No matter what kind of business you are planning to promote –some firm or company, your homemade occupation that brings you money or your own musical band, a good fan page can bring you only benefits.

A step-by-step guide of building a fan page on Facebook:

1) As it was already mentioned to create a fan page you should or register a new account filling a special form on the Home Page of Facebook. After login Facebook profile, you should search for any already made fan page and visit it.

2) At the end of such fan page (looks like a column on the left side) you can easily find a link called “Create a Page for My Business”. Click on it.

3) You will be offered to choose a sort of business of occupation you are planning to advertise. Think and choose carefully because if a niche of your business was chosen in the most appropriate way then it can help the others to find your fan page easily.

4) To choose the basic features of your fan page, you should push the link “Edit the Page” and scroll down it till you will see the section responsible for publishing contact information about your business. You will see an image (looks like a pencil) with a link “edit”. Push it and feel free to fill in empty blanks denoting a website of your business, a physical address and its working hours.

5) After this you should choose a picture or logo of your company or brand and add it to fill in an empty space of a profile image of your page.

6) Use different applications to describe your business and yourself. Facebook can offer to you a huge quantity of applications. Select those that can emphasize your occupation. If you own a travel company choose among applications that can assist people to decide where they should spend a vacation. If you work in a tech company, add an application telling about the latest news in this sphere and so on. Be creative and add the apps everyone uses and likes – for instance, “You Tube Box”. You can find partners and place links of their fan pages using a special app called “Favorite Pages” and they can place your fan page in the same way. To conclude, try to make your fan page as interesting and attractive as you can.

7) Some fan pages inform about all updates which happen to them by sending notifications about these updates to all friends of a certain fan page. It can promote your business a lot but some users find such reminding rather annoying, so if you want to alter this option you should customize your publish settings. For instance, you can select it unable to send messages to all friends of your fan page if you install a new app, but can inform them by means of other publish settings about an upcoming event dealing with your business.

8 ) Do not forget to add photos of yourself, your workplace or a company where your work, your co-workers and colleagues. Some users only place photos of products they sale or services they offer. It is not bad but do not limit your fan page’s photo albums only by these photos. Let people know more about your life at work place and about your friends at work.

9) After choosing all these options you can “publish” your fan page by pushing button with such title located at the beginning of your fan page. Then you can suggest to all your friends to visit your new fan page.

Fan pages can really help you in promoting your occupation or business, so try to make them more personal and user-friendly using the above step-by-step guide.