Social network tips

When you use Facebook you are very often being invited to play with video games already used by our contacts or use of information sharing systems. Almost always, this type of activity requires the installation of so-called applications.

To function, these applications draw on our personal information and, in many cases, can even send data or information to our contacts or post them on the bulletin board. Lose control of all installed applications and how they interact with our personal information is much easier than you think. In previous lessons, we have seen, for example, we have dozens of applications authorized to “write” news and status updates on our bulletin board. The general rule of common sense, even for Facebook applications, is the best criterion to follow to avoid losing control.

Upon installation of applications is in fact always served the type of access to our data we will be granted for the link to our profile, it is well to limit the number or not to install some stay there without too much thinking. Restrict access permissions, or delete operations are always possible, but forget to have it installed is definitely a risk that can be reduced dramatically simply by not adding them. The access point to the panel configuration of all installed applications can be reached by clicking the Settings tab in the Settings menu Applications.

Set the privacy for each application

In the configuration panel will automatically see a list of recently used applications. But beware, this is a partial list of all those who have access to our profile! To view the applications that in some way involved reading, sending or preparing in some way our personal information, we must choose the Show drop-down menu items added to the profile, license, authorized for publication and with additional permissions.

As we select one of these groups, we will see that the list will be updated automatically and in the table header which lists the names of all the selected applications, you will see the type of interaction allowed for that type of applications. In the case of applications with additional permissions, provided the activity is to publish recent activity (news of a line) on my dashboard.

To remove an application, just click on the symbol of “x” of the row of the table and confirm the voluntariness of the cancellation. Clicking on a profile, go to the official page of the application where we can read the details and features. Changing the type of access to our data is done by clicking the Edit settings instead. Depending on the type of application we can take action on the visibility of the type of application or additional permissions granted.

Unfortunately, because of viral games and applications on Facebook, or perhaps I should say for the ease with which you enable access to our profile, it is not uncommon to have to configure or delete hundreds of applications.

Do not forget about external applications privacy

There are situations where applications are added to our profile outside of Facebook. In the case of YouTube, for example, when we upload a new video we can choose to enable the AutoShare providing its publication of the notification of uploading a video on our Facebook Wall and beyond. Depending on the outside, once defined the possibilities of the service to interact with our profile we note that other applications have been drawn from the information sent from the authorized range.

Also in the case of YouTube, for example, our post, corresponding to upload videos, are also displayed in the news we received from our friends in their home page and in other applications such as standard of Facebook Photo, Videos and Notes.

To disable the linked sites and applications outside of Facebook, you must retrace or reverse the procedure used to activate the link from within the external application, or locate the application within the Facebook system configuration (see lesson above) and delete it or change its permissions.

A few weeks ago with the introduction of a new Facebook profile, we have witnessed a wave of creativity started by the French Alexandre Oudin, who has actually used the features of the layout of this page to customize your profile. In this article, let us see how we use Photoshop to create our own profile page, in fact, after the jump, you can download the PSD file for photoshop that allows you to easily create all the photographic material necessary for customization.

Set the privacy

First, change your privacy settings (if they have not already done so) so as to be the only one you can see photos that you have been tagged. This will be two advantages:

• if you work, none of your colleagues will know that party where you have drunk up to stun
• your page will show the flow of images in your profile, and not where you’ve been tagged

At this point, you can download the PSD file to be opened with Photoshop and start the next tutorial.

Cut out your photo

First, download or create a PSD file.

By opening the PSD file, you will discover that consists of a single level “laundry” in the parts of your profile photo and the flow of images. It looks like the file just open in Photoshop:

What you do is open your photo and insert it in this file, simply open it in Photoshop and drag from one window to another.

This will create a new layer in the layer stack and the new stock will be above the page layout view, drag the layer so that it is positioned below and you’ll see your photo appear only on the holes of the layout sections, namely, those that make up the profile photo and the flow of images.

You have to do now is select the “holes” on the level of the layout, using the Magic Wand tool, move to the level of photography and doing CTRL + C to copy the selection to a new file. Save all selections starting from the far right and names the file with consecutive numbers. At the end of the transaction on your PC you should have 6 files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg and so on until 6.jpg which is the larger picture of your profile.

Upload photos on Facebook

All you have to do is go on Facebook and change your profile picture, repeat this process for 6 times, how many files you created in the image sequence that will show you the numbers and you’re done.

And you thought as you customize your Facebook profile? Did you use any pictures as in this tutorial, or have preferred to use many different pictures? Let us know with a comment, and if you want, link your profile to show everyone how you customized.

Interactive social games developed especially for 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 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 . The following article will serve as a certain review for the new but still rather popular among games – Zynga’s Roller Coaster Kingdom which a free 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 and only porn apps developers design video applications for then you may think twice and change your opinion after reading the following article reviewing the most adequate and popular 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 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 for music fans who like an idea of integrating their music libraries straight to the .

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.

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 this types requires proper rotation within this social network itself. What means you can use in order to achieve high popularity of your ?

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 has been already involved into this of constant competition between those members which 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 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 Facebook applications developed especially to congratulate and celebrate this holiday with all your . 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 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 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 – 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 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 . Being social is cool and you just need to learn how you can save your 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 . 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.