Social network tips

Interactive social games developed especially for Facebook and similar to it resources by such developers as Zynga and Playdome are very popular these days among those surfers who spend their lifetimes in the web chatting and sharing their ideas and wasting their time entertaining themselves with all available Facebook means. The most popular interactive games as Facebook Farmville Game Application occupy most of their lives and that is why no wonder developers are interested in creation more profound and interesting amusing games for such pro Facebook users. The following article will serve as a certain review for the new but still rather popular among Facebook surfers games – Zynga’s Roller Coaster Kingdom which a free game application everyone can enjoy while playing it.

Below you will find assort of introduction of the Roller Coaster Kingdom game and few tips how to start playing successfully:

1) Roller Coaster Kingdom game or just RCK is very easy to find and install on your Facebook page. Check your News Feed and you will definitely find over these the posts like “Click to decorate your own roller coaster park” and so on which means you have got a sort of an invitation to join thousands of users who area already playing this game within Facebook all over the world. This link we give is also can help to find RCK easier – (just do not forget to login onto your Facebook account at first).

2) After registration a mascot of your park named as Wally will meet you and give you a sort of a brief review of all those game opportunities you can choose from just after the start. In general RCK gives a newbie about 15 thousands dollars to run his new park of attractions and the half of this sum you will have to spend in order to buy your first roller coaster for your new park. There are 3 options of choice are given in the very beginning so choose carefully because all of them gave different levels of excitement and capacity for passengers of your virtual amusement park.

3) After getting this tutorial from the friendly mascot you can start to create your own park using all available for a newbie means. Never forget that you won’t manage to have a huge park at first but then after providing your strategy of marketing and advertising your amusement park you can expect to expand it and buying new attractions like cooler roller coaster as well as shops and merry-go-rounds for kids. Rides and shops set beside each other will bring you virtual profits you can spend for improving your park even more.

4) Even if you are not logged onto this game application your park never stops to bring you profits, but level points will be taken into consideration and added only if you are physically in the game. And these level points are the only means to get bigger amusement park in RCK eventually. After all you will be offered to offer your virtual visitors booking some tours at your park because of high quality and popularity of your park. And that is when you will have to feel what is like to run your own park of attractions.

If you suppose by mistake that only kids are having fun while uploading their childish videos on Facebook and only porn apps developers design video applications for Facebook users then you may think twice and change your opinion after reading the following article reviewing the most adequate and popular Facebook video applications developed mostly for entertainment purposes:

Video

This is the most widespread and default Facebook services which you may add as a built-in app to your personal page at once after registration. Its main advantages are in popularity (more than 4.5 millions of Facebook have this app added in their personal pages) meaning it has a huge database of videos and lots of features so every user could find it useful. You are allowed to upload videos which weight no more than 300 MB or last no more than 15 minutes (which is however longer than average clip on YouTube). Such strict limits make the process of finding, watching and uploading your on videos even more interesting because this process is getting to be rather creative one.

Its major functions are quite simple because this built-in Facebook video service is foremost a video version of photo utility based network. It is strange because many users expect Facebook Video to become self-maintained platform within this large social network like for example MySpace developers made but due to the fact there are multiple video applications designed by third party developers such positions is getting to be more reasonable.

Vodpod: Videos

If you have registered on the video resource known as Vod:Pod then you can by means of this app integrate your Vod:Pod playlist with favorite videos and watch them like at any other non-Facebook blog platform. You can display the latest videos uploaded and added by you on Vod:Pod account to all your Facebook friends because they will be shown at once after adding them on your account ton this popular video network. Besides you will get an option of Vod:Pod bookmarklet identifying videos and clips anywhere and viewing the recent updates via your “Pod” being embed on your FB profile. The top 5 chosen by you videos will be displayed only on your account but the first video from this personal top list will be available for the other to watch.

SplashCast

Positioning it as an online video feed aggregator SplashCast looks like Miro in the cloud. You can view RSS feeds and flash embed videos and pull them out from the video player side where a user is allowed to arrange and display his own video channel for his Facebook friends. Besides it provides users with the so-called “View Bigger” option where you will able to view your videos on rBGH.

Mesmo.TV

Developed for proper social video discovery (according to the words of its CEO Davin T.Miyoshi) this service or Facebook video application is for searching videos among other users uploaded clips. You are able to browse and rate videos after watching them but it fact its functions are quite limited and only Mesmo.TV will find it useful.

In a case that someday Facebook will change its policy concerning playing music or you also (as millions of Facebook users actually do) find Facebook not so good when it comes to default music options and opportunities for promoting your band or simply to listen your favorite music we offer the list of the most interesting to use music player plugins and apps. Use them wisely because not all of them are the same when it comes to appliance and a set of offered features. Prepare to look through the list of the best Facebook applications for music fans who like an idea of integrating their music libraries straight to the Facebook pages.

iLike

Being also known in the past as My Music app this one is for no one of the most widespread music player app within Facebook social network. iLike lets you as a FB page owner create a new music profile and then scan you music library’s song list straight from iTunes. In a case you don’t have an account on iTunes you can add such list from any other music social network where you have an account. Such app will allow you adding music to your FB page without any obstacles and can help to share your lists among friends and take info about their lists as well. There are also few extra features you may look so check iLike right now.

Mixpod

This is a music player which can play list of your songs on Facebook page of yours. You can use the default skin or customize as you like it in order to make your FB page brighter. Besides it can offer the following feature – when a person click on any song from your list added via Mixpod he or she gets a chance to watch the corresponded videos to this tune on YouTube.

Music

Prepare to get the best Facebook music sharing app after installing on your page Music app. It willet you adding the clickable links leading to the songs you will add to your FB page. You are allowed to upload music from your PC or choose the direct music downloads from online resources.

My Band

This is another cool app which will be the perfect one for you if you are a musician because it helps to create original band page on Facebook, and post totally unlimited number of songs and download music to this upgraded page whenever you want to. You can share your music via this app and sell tickets to your concerts as well. It has more than 4 millions of fans so you should join this army as well if you want to make band homepage on Facebook really cool and popular.

Songs

They say that it is the most popular music player within Facebook so you should check this fact on your own. This app has more than 2 millions of active users telling us that it has certain advantages over other numerous music player apps which can be found on Facebook.

Facebook is the best place to promote a good thing to do by means of your own non-profit group or fan page where people can really help those desperately requires this help. However, just like any other fan page on Facebook this types requires proper rotation within this social network itself. What means you can use in order to achieve high popularity of your non-profit page on Facebook?

We offer to apply one or better all of the numerated below methods if you are really planning to make your non-profit page as one of the most visited on Facebook and stand out among other fan pages and groups of the same niche being more active than the other organizations and individuals presented on Facebook.

1) You should propose to read educational info about your issues and non-profit occupation

Education is the key even when it comes to promotion of any non-profit page on Facebook social network. In order to achieve positive results and soon you need to apply an active language to show your organization’s major activities and purposes you want to achieve and tasks to fulfill. Some statistics won’t be unnecessary – point out how many people precisely have joined your organization or a group, how much money they raised or scope of aid they gave. Such numbers can attract more interested in certain issue people than you think. So make your educational data really informative and interesting to read.

2) Provide only two-way conversation with the followers

Those people who chose to “like” your organization’s Facebook page should be encouraged to post on your Wall. Always ask only appropriate questions which will inspire people for further participation in your non-profit occupation. Always read and react to all posts on your Wall because the feedback is very appreciated by people who still have doubts whether to support your organization or pass by. In such you will grow a huge fan base and you can really achieve the aimed goals to do something good.

3) You need to gather donations

There are numerous ways and tools within Facebook which can assist in gathering donations by exchanging Credits of your fans to donations or buy adding to your fan page apps which will make the process of donation simpler and more user-friendly for those who is really interested in providing assistance and support your organization’s aims.

4) Create your own network

You see, unlikely those fan pages which are active because of the idea of getting profits from the proper promotion at Facebook your organization’s page can become a part of a huge network where you and the similar organizations can collaborate to achieve the same global aims together. To become successful reunite your forces and your altruistic goals will be definitely achieved making this world a better place to live.

Sometimes it seems that everyone who uses Facebook has been already involved into this game of constant competition between those members which status updates will more interesting to read and get a decent feed of comments left below every successful change. We don’t know if you really like an idea of using this huge social network only on such purpose exclusively but still have decided o give few recommendations how to spice up your page by means of promoting it via status updates. Hilarious phrases and interesting discussions they arouse can become your best tools for rotating your personal FB page which is the major task for many users visiting social networks like Facebook.

So, the most interesting ways you can use and themes you should touch while updating your status message on Facebook are:

1) Popular Culture Status Updates

All those references to the mass or popular culture were always estimated well by all people who are interested in this culture and its products. If you mention in your status update someone famous it will reduce your risks to minimum that your update will be left without any comment. Never use info which can be interesting only your friends who have the same hobbies as you do. Not everyone enjoys Battlestar even if you think it is very cool and will never stick to an idea of commenting an update about this show. Make your updates actual for everyone.

2) Apply Numerous Status Updates

If you are sticking to the plan – the more the better, we support you because in the case with posting of a punch line of jokes in your status updates one after another you can achieve the best possible results. For instance, you have the first update message where you put a sort of a quick joke and then post under this joke another status update’s message explaining or continuing this joke. Such consequence can be very useful if your updates are regular and you have a lot of time to experiment.

3) Don’t Forget To Sell Your Joke in A Status Update

Just imagine for few moments that you need to sell your status update joke to someone you don’t know at all. How to do this? By appealing to famous advertisement clips and using such popular brands in your joke in order to cheer up an audience and cause in everyone who reads your updates certain associations.

4) Bear in Mind Who Is Your Major Audience

Try to imagine what people make the major audience of reading your updates. They are probably foremost your friends, family members and friends of your Facebook friends which mean you can joke taking into account all forbidden themes which may offend your pals and other users as well. Be tactful and serious in part because some jokes may hurt.

Christmas and New Year are knocking at your door so hurry up to buy gifts for all your friends and relatives and use cool Christmas Facebook applications developed especially to congratulate and celebrate this holiday with all your Facebook friends. Holidays will last few days and that is when you can have fun using these apps for entertainment and for more friendly communications with your close and new Facebook buddies. The following list of the best Christmas Facebook applications is what you need to celebrate this holiday in a proper and funny way.

1) Santa Yourself Facebook App

Each holiday season you ask yourself – what is like to be Santa and bring to people all these gifts? Surely, this fairytale is too good to be true but still if Santa is a kind of your idol then you can try yourself as a virtual Santa by adding this app onto your Facebook page. Your photo plus fake bear and funny hood of Santa equals a cool picture you can use a holiday card when sending gifts to all your virtual friends on Facebook. You can also animate and make your Santa photo dancing and singing. Sounds a bit childish but everything seems like this during Christmas holidays.

2) Christmas Cards App

E-cards are extremely popular these days because it requires not so much of your precious time to send to all your friends personal and cool static or animated e-cards dedicated to special occasion or some international holiday like Christmas. You can make your own virtual card or choose from the offered and add your personal greetings – everything depends on your time and amount of friends and relatives you want to congratulate to this family holiday.

3) Christmas Goodies Application

If you are looking for a holiday gift shop application this one is what you need. Choose from thousands of real and virtual gifts you can send to your friends via personal messages, Wall posts and via delivery services right at their homes at the Christmas Eve. You can also earn these gifts without paying for them just being active and unlocking in such way more gifts you can present to your friends.

4) Christmas Friends Tree

Imagine you have a Christmas tree, virtual for sure, you can decorate with all your friends at Facebook. Seems to be a great idea, right? By means of this tree you can involve your friends into the process of decoration by deciding who of them is an angel sitting at the top of your tree, who is a star and even decide who can be Santa.

5) Christmas Kisses

Send to all your friends tons of virtual Christmas kisses by means of this application. The main point is to get more levels points by sending to your friends these cute and adorable virtual kisses and greeting with Christmas.

6) Say Merry Christmas

Do not be shy and say it loud and proud because it is so easy to do having this app installed on your Facebook personal page. This application supports more than 100 languages so you can send to your friends greeting at any language you want to all corners of our huge world.

Facebook is an outstanding platform for promotion mainly because advertising and marketing on this huge social network is not prohibited if you follow the basic rules and in addition to this resource can offer millions of potential clients which may like your idea, service or product if you promote it well. The same concerns building of your own brand via Facebook – you can expect to get the best opportunity. The main task is to use this opportunity with all possible benefits for you and that is why this article was published. We give you few useful tips how to build your brand on Facebook with maximum profits.

There were analyzed more than fourteen thousands of posts by the digital agency Beyond which were published on the most famous and popular corporate Facebook fan pages representing the world brands and these analysis results can really help you to figure out how to behave and what strategy to choose while building your own brand practically from nothing using only those opportunities which Facebook may give to you.

These results even got a label “Facebook Four” because they stand for 4 main guidelines all these successful branded companies use while planning their social media advertising and marketing campaign. So here you may found these 4 secrets all these super brands use to stay the best from the best for many years especially when it concerns promoting their services via social networks like Facebook:

1) You are to provide all your customers and in this particular case your Facebook fans with tempting hot offers and discounts (it was proven that more than 40 percents of people would rather join the company which offers discounts or low prices than to the company where quality or services are better but prices are higher).

2) Never focus on negative comments and try to listen to all suggestions and requests to avoid negative comments in future but still never concentrate on responding them (no more than 5 percents of negative comments were found on every fan page which was analyzed because managers were following such politics).

3) Encourage fans for communications and make sure that fans tell their friends and other fans about your service about their positive impressions they have about your brand (it was proven that fans are likely to help each other than to a brand so use this knowledge as an advantage).

4) Also keep in mind that your fan page should contain more images than videos but both should be present. However images should be displayed in a greater quantity, so do not be afraid to promote your service or product and show them in the most favorable light by means of high quality photos. It was proven that fans like an idea when a fan page contains images and texts more than pages containing videos and text.

And the last advice we want to share – never try too hard. It is better to make sure that your service or product is of high quality than to promote your brand covering bad products. Think about it and consider al these advices when creating your fan page on Facebook with the purpose of promoting your new brand.

Sometimes it is very hard to follow the Facebook chat’s conversation and trace all important contacts you want to save and can’t remember by yourself because you have too many Facebook friends. Being social is cool and you just need to learn how you can save your Facebook chat’s history in order to retrieve any forgotten or lost e-mail address or just need to quote precisely piece of texted conversation for your chat with a friend.

There are many situations when you just need to have at your fingertips Facebook chat logs. And you can easily do this if stick to the tips given below.

Someone may say that keeping all your chat conversations is a bit paranoid but sometimes such precautions can be vey helpful if you need to prove something or to point at some key phrases of your previous conversation with a Facebook friend. Besides, an idea that you can recall anytime any part of your conversation with friends or beloved people is also too tempting to refuse from it.

Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t allow in an official and automatic way to save chat’s history and many users find such disability as a serious lack due to the above mentioned reasons. But is doesn’t mean that you can break this rule and successfully save all necessary chat’s conversations.

As well as any other IM agent Facebook chat tool remembers only few last phrases of the last conversation between you and your virtual interlocutor, these short snippets can be noticed between sign-offs and shown only at 1 page. In such way you can use these snippets to follow the last few thoughts of your virtual conversation. Surely such order of things many members find not satisfying.

To save your Facebook chat’s history completely you need to use alternative ways like your integrated browser’s extensions.

Apply a special Firefox Add-On or Extension of Google Chrome

Some people say that all these extensions and fan-made add-ons have a number of lacks because they were made by non-professionals but such statements are quite childish because even official extensions and applications they offer at Facebook also have certain drawbacks and bugs. So don’t be too strict and enjoy features which are not quite available at the moment in an official way. Recovering all these lacks won’t be unnecessary if you use simple add-ons created especially for providing you with one certain feature like saving your Facebook chat’s history.

There are two variants of the commonly used add-on whether for users for Firefox or Google Chrome. Choose what version is more suitable for your needs and browse in order to find it (for Firefox users – select ToolsàFbCHM àGet Facebook ID and for Google Chrome users – WindowàExtensions TabàFbCHM Options). It is called Facebook Chat History manager (FbCHM) and according to many reviews it works without too obvious bugs and runs smoothly.

Create account from Facebook Chat History Manager using your new Facebook Chat ID this extension gave you. Remember that your passwords to this ID and to your account on Facebook should not be the same to make your chat logs more protected from breaking. After your login onto this Facebook Chat account via the FbCHM you can be sure that all your chats are traced and recorded into special logs you can use whenever you like.

All Facebook users probably know that it is hard to find better web browser for surfing on this social network than Mozilla Firefox which can offer Facebook 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 Facebook page more personalized and good-looking with the help of Facebook layouts and not similar to other Facebook profiles.

Due to these reasons and also because of high level of security and privacy Firefox 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.

In a case you don’t know Facebook positions itself as one of the most popular and international resources in the world offering a number of social services allowing you and your friends, family members or classmates communicate online using personal pages of this network as virtual places to chat and have fun being involved in different social activities proposed in a great quantity to Facebook members.

Nevertheless, even an impressive amount of features and options of this resource can’t completely satisfy those members who got used to apply certain options on different social networks and want to add these features to their personal pages on Facebook.

That is why on different message boards and blogs we can see appearance of such burning questions as “How to reach college Facebook social network?” meaning that people, mostly college students, need to know some tricks for improving their pages or getting some extra features other users of Facebook do not have.

We want to tell your about some tricks you can apply to answer the question “How to reach college Facebook social network?” by dividing these tips into 3 main groups concerning interaction between Facebook and other similar to it resources, the so-called “access tweaks” allowing getting some extra features on Facebook and tricks concerning the most popular Facebook apps which are quite legal and can help to pimp up your page in a quick and easy way.

1) Modifying tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook community and make it more interactive with other similar resources:

• Google Calendar – this is a well-known userscript of Firefox Greasemonkey add-on used by many members to pimp up their profiles on Facebook and add to them some extra features. This script allows you to add Google Calendar option to your Facebook page easily.

• AIM Plug-in – a lot of Facebook users also have accounts on AIM and this plug-in lets you know when someone sent you a message on Facebook while you are using AIM and vice versa.

• Twitter2FB – another popular social network Twitter can also be attached to your Facebook page if you have accounts on the both sites. Displays your Twitter status updates, News Feed and messages on Facebook page and vice versa.

2) Some access tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook social network and add some extra features to your page:

• View Photo in Album Facebook Application – lets you view of other users in their albums even if these users are not in your friends’ list.

• Cleaner Application – allows you to get rid of annoying ads appearing on your Facebook page from time to time.

• More Friends Application – this trick lets you check your friends’ list to help you find more friends you have forgotten or have not sent them messages for a long time.

• Jobster Application –allows you to gain access to some job portals and get info about available job vacancies.

3) There are tons of official and fan made applications Facebook supports and offers its members. There are few of them we recommend to all members:

• Sparkey Application – it is a sort of dating service letting you meet and flirt other members of Facebook of the same or opposite sex according to your preferences.

• Facebook Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox – use this application to integrate into your web browser a toolbar allowing to know about your Facebook updates and notifications from your friends when you use Firefox and logged in into Facebook.

• Sticky – Make your page more interesting by adding bright and sticky notes to your own Wall and on Walls of your friends.

• Farmville – play this popular game to have more virtual friends and meet new people among more than 80 millions of Farmville players.

Surely, these were only few of the most popular tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook community and make it more interactive and easy to use, browse and you will find a lot of similar to these tricks modifying tips for Facebook.