Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category

Posted on January 12, 2012 - by Wayne Sutton

Guest Post: Managing and Updating your Facebook Profile

About Guest Author: Kelly Jones writes for www.ocnissanirvine.com. She writes for blogs as a hobby and enjoys exploring new avenues in the social sphere. Her interest encompasses a wide range of subjects ranging from technology to cooking and traveling.

With the ever increasing dominance of Social Media and our lives being all over Facebook, one needs to take some measures to analyze your Facebook profile periodically so that you can keep on using it without any adverse effects on your public profile.
It is always beneficial to review your FB profile as the site keeps on changing and we keep on adding friends, posting pictures and updates without thinking on a long term basis.

Some steps that will help you in managing your profile and cleaning it up include:

1. Editing Friends
Nowadays, we keep on adding friends and the more the number, bigger is the ego boost. We should try to cleanse the friend list periodically. One should always question do we really need that person whom we only said a cursory hi at a party as a friend and do we want him to view our Holiday pics. If you delete people from the friend list, they would not know and you can get rid of unwanted baggage.

2. Friend lists
You should use the Friend Lists feature judiciously to arrange posts, pictures and updates so that only the people you want to share can actually view them. You can defines posts based on location, school family, work etc and this helps in keeping things private and public at the same time. Create groups and use them to refine your profile.

3. Sharing Info
Always keep you profile info updated as Facebook suggest lists based on the latest info. Keep you bio updated along with the personal choices and info shared. If you want, you can also hide info that you want to keep private like religious and political views.
Check you like pages and see if you want to update them and let go of some. Facebook uses this to show ads to your friends so be careful.
Get rid of the apps that you no longer use as they have access to you data. Refine the notifications list. Then update your privacy settings to refine what you want to share.

4. Review the changes made
Once you have made all the changes and updated the profile, then test and review the updated version.

As Facebook keeps on making changes on a regular basis, one should review and update our profiles on a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or an annual basis so as to keep our profiles updated.

Posted on December 30, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Guest Post: Facebook updates and changes are annoying, why change?

About Guest Author: Chris writes at all hours of the day and can’t stop. He is a webmaster junkie and thrives on throwing bulks of information on the web.

Facebook has been changing so many things that I can even keep up. Just like everybody else I’m addicted to this social network called Facebook. As a webmaster though, I wonder why they are changing so many things. They have us all addicted in doing what we are already doing. We all knew how to do everything on Facebook and we liked it that way. Now the network keeps changing so much that I’m not sure I’m not even doing the right things.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I think one something as beautiful as Facebook was you don’t change it. People are addicted to cocaine as a drug, are you going to try to change that.. No. Why change something when it’s doing better than it ever has and people enjoy what it is. I understand the idea everything can be bigger and better, but for a website like Facebook to do what it did is breathtaking.

With such a beautiful artform, I would not change it for the heart of me. So I guess this is me somewhat ranting on how I hate the new changes in how they even think about keep changing everything. I really disagree with how they change things and now I don’t even know how to use Facebook.

If you go all the way back to the my space age, this is basically what is happening them. They kept changing everything and allowing spam and HTML to no limit and now they do not even exist on the platform. Do you want to become a MySpace? Facebook was simple and easy just like a textbook. Now it’s integrated like a viral network.

I’m adjusted to see who has to say what on the new Facebook and how you feel about the changes they keep making.

Posted on December 7, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

How time spent on Facebook impacts students grades – infographic – case study

How time spent on Facebook impacts students grades- infographic – case study


Via: OnlineEducation.net

Posted on June 8, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

How to turn off Facebook’s Photo Facial Recognition in your privacy settings

If you didn’t know Facebook added the ability for other users to tag your photos in a new way. It’s being called Facial Recognition aka photo tagging. You can read about it via the Facebook blog here ( Making Photo Tagging Easier ). If you would like to turn it off Nick from All Facebook posted a step by step guide.

Head on over to your privacy settings page (found here), and click on “customize settings.”

Next, scroll down to the “things others share” area and locate the setting “suggest photos of me to friends” (pictured below).

Once you click on the button, a dialog box (like the one pictured below) will show up. Click on the drop-down that says “enabled,” switch it to “disabled” and then click “okay.”

 
via Facebook Expands Availability Of Facial Recognition Globally — Here’s How To Turn It Off.

Posted on May 17, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

social media infographic – The Demographics of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter via adage

via The Demographics of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter | Ad Age Stat – Advertising Age.