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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
December 3, 2011
December 1, 2011
How To Stop Unwanted Facebook Notifications From Close Friends
It first looked cool and useful when it started out but when it got extremely out of hands, I had to do something. When Facebook introduced smart list, they made it very easy to group your friends according to their importance to you. It also makes it easier to keep track of their facebook activities as you get notified when they post an update or upload a new picture. The downside of the smart list is that you get tons of notifications that's of no use to you. Even without commenting or liking the post, you get notified about it. Sometimes, you have to scroll through all these unwanted notifications just to get stuffs that are important to you and at other times, what you need just get drowned in the pool of these crazy notifications.
Stopping Notifications From Close Friends
-Log in to your facebook account and on the homepage, check the left column
-Scroll down till you see your lists
-Select Close Friends
-On the next page, check the top right corner and click on notifications
- Just select Off and those crazy, unwanted notifications stop.
How To Stop Getting Notifications From A Certain Friend
There are times when you just want to stop getting notifications from a certain close friend. Let's assume you have someone as a close friend but updates his/her status with boring stuffs every two seconds, and you want to stop getting notified about it without totally removing the person from close friends list or blocking updates from all close friends, here's just what to do.
-You need to visit that particular friend's profile
-At the top right, click on Subscribed
-Select Unsubscribe and you won't get anymore updates from that particular friend.
If you find this post helpful, it takes just five seconds to share on facebook. Thank you!
Stopping Notifications From Close Friends
-Log in to your facebook account and on the homepage, check the left column
-Scroll down till you see your lists
-Select Close Friends
-On the next page, check the top right corner and click on notifications
- Just select Off and those crazy, unwanted notifications stop.
How To Stop Getting Notifications From A Certain Friend
There are times when you just want to stop getting notifications from a certain close friend. Let's assume you have someone as a close friend but updates his/her status with boring stuffs every two seconds, and you want to stop getting notified about it without totally removing the person from close friends list or blocking updates from all close friends, here's just what to do.
-You need to visit that particular friend's profile
-At the top right, click on Subscribed
-Select Unsubscribe and you won't get anymore updates from that particular friend.
If you find this post helpful, it takes just five seconds to share on facebook. Thank you!
November 18, 2011
Using Custom Links In Facebook Status Updates And Wall Posts
The first time I saw a status update with a link underneath a custom text, I thought facebook was already supporting HTML in statusupdates and wall posts. I tried writing some stuff in basic HTML but was rendered as plain text and realized it's all some sort of trick after all. Of course we all know you can tag people and mention pages in your status update or comment by typing @ before writing the name but it all gets even better if you can mask/hide that fan page or profile name with some sort of custom text. You can even write a whole status update or comment linking directly to your profile or facebook fan page. I bet you want to learn how, right?
Before you can do this, you have to first know your profile ID or that of the person or page you're tagging.
How To Get The Profile ID Of A Facebook User Or Fan Page
For users who do not already have a facebook username, you can get the profile ID by just going to the profile, checking your address bar and copying out the last set numbers in the URL. For example, the ID for this profile is shown in red:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890000
For users or pages with facebook usernames or vanity url such as http://www.facebook.com.com/username, enter http://graph.facebook.com/username in your browser.
Be sure to replace username with your own valid username, for example, http://graph.facebook.com/doncaprio . The page that displays should show you your profile ID.
For more on finding facebook profile ID, read this post.
Linking Your Updates To Facebook Profiles Or Fan Page With Custom Text
The trick is just a simple piece of code and you can create a really funny update with it. It's as simple as the code written below:
Profile ID - 165091976865893
Display Text - YOUR TEXT HERE
That's all you're gonna be needing. Be sure to replace profile ID and custom text with what you want to be displayed in place of the profile or fan page.
My last status update on facebook was written as this:
It appeared exactly as shown below:
It's a really funny update and you can copy that into your status update, just be sure to edit the profile IDs and text that will be shown instead of the link. Remember, you can always get the profile ID of any profile by checking this post. You should, however, note that this trick doesn't work for external links.
Sharing this post on facebook takes less than 5 seconds. It's gonna help us :).
Before you can do this, you have to first know your profile ID or that of the person or page you're tagging.
How To Get The Profile ID Of A Facebook User Or Fan Page
For users who do not already have a facebook username, you can get the profile ID by just going to the profile, checking your address bar and copying out the last set numbers in the URL. For example, the ID for this profile is shown in red:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890000
For users or pages with facebook usernames or vanity url such as http://www.facebook.com.com/username, enter http://graph.facebook.com/username in your browser.
Be sure to replace username with your own valid username, for example, http://graph.facebook.com/doncaprio . The page that displays should show you your profile ID.
For more on finding facebook profile ID, read this post.
Linking Your Updates To Facebook Profiles Or Fan Page With Custom Text
The trick is just a simple piece of code and you can create a really funny update with it. It's as simple as the code written below:
@@[0:[165091976865893:0: YOUR TEXT HERE ]]
Profile ID - 165091976865893
Display Text - YOUR TEXT HERE
That's all you're gonna be needing. Be sure to replace profile ID and custom text with what you want to be displayed in place of the profile or fan page.
My last status update on facebook was written as this:
@@[0:[1167126869:0: Don ]] is now friends with @@[0:[185282101484120:0: Tupac Shakur ]], @@[0:[106458656056797:0: Ice Cube ]] and @@[0:[175576745802091:0: 9,564,856 other people ]].
@@[0:[175576745802091:0: Report Don to Facebook ]]
@@[0:[175576745802091:0: Report Don to Facebook ]]
It appeared exactly as shown below:
It's a really funny update and you can copy that into your status update, just be sure to edit the profile IDs and text that will be shown instead of the link. Remember, you can always get the profile ID of any profile by checking this post. You should, however, note that this trick doesn't work for external links.
Sharing this post on facebook takes less than 5 seconds. It's gonna help us :).
How To Find A Facebook User Or Page ID
These days, you're sometimes asked to provide your facebook user ID when filling some forms online and some of us don't even have a clue what this is. You might even need the profile ID of a page for certain reasons and this can be a real challenge especially if the profile in question already has a username. Since most facebook profiles now have vanity URLs, you can't get the profile ID just looking at the address bar, all you're gonna see is the username. So how do you get such profile ID for profiles with custom address?
Users Or Pages Without A Username
For pages or users who do not already have a facebook username, you can get the profile ID by just going to the profile, checking your address bar and copying out the last set numbers in the URL. For example, the ID for this profile is shown in red:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890000
Users Or Pages Without A Username
For pages or users who do not already have a facebook username, you can get the profile ID by just going to the profile, checking your address bar and copying out the last set numbers in the URL. For example, the ID for this profile is shown in red:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890000
November 15, 2011
Pornographic Pictures On Facebook News Feed
I've been seeing some really unusual and disturbing pictures on my facebook news feed over the last 24 hours. Lots of pornographic pictures and really violent images have been showing on my news feed and it's rather embarrassing viewing facebook and the person next to you thinks you're viewing a porn site. I saw the fist one earlier this morning and thought it would end there. Ever since, I've been seeing these pornographic pictures all day and it's spreading even faster. It's not just nude photos, I've seen pictures that are nothing but gross blasphemy that ridicules lots of peoples' beliefs.
You automatically get these stuffs shown on your news feed the moment any of your friends views and comments on the picture. This is clearly a security breach and I hope facebook really gets something done really fast or it might get worse and there's a chance there would be long term consequences if it continues. Facebook might also face sanctions as minors have been exposed to adult contents and I've even seen a couple of people on my friends list deactivating their facebook accounts.
There are speculations that this virus spread or security breach was triggered by the Anonymous hacktivist group but no one has claimed responsibility yet.
How To Stop The Pornographic Pictures On Facebook
There's no way to block these pictures from showing up on your news feed right now, the only thing you can do is take some security measures. Never comment on any of these pictures as this is aiding the spread. The moment you comment on it, your friend sees the comment and it goes on and on.
Also, if any of these nude pictures appear on your news feed, you can make facebook better by reporting the photos so the facebook team can remove them.
I got a really disgusting video in my inbox like a week ago from a friend. The title says "99% can't watch this for 15 seconds" or something. I can't remember the title precisely but if you see something like this, do not open it. It's a facebook virus being spread around.
Do not follow suspicious links as well.
One more thing, if you get a notification or message that a friend reported you for offensive behaviour, do not open it, just ignore this.
It's turning to a really crazy place and I see myself moving over to Google Plus finally if this continues for too long. Please share this on facebook!
You automatically get these stuffs shown on your news feed the moment any of your friends views and comments on the picture. This is clearly a security breach and I hope facebook really gets something done really fast or it might get worse and there's a chance there would be long term consequences if it continues. Facebook might also face sanctions as minors have been exposed to adult contents and I've even seen a couple of people on my friends list deactivating their facebook accounts.
There are speculations that this virus spread or security breach was triggered by the Anonymous hacktivist group but no one has claimed responsibility yet.
How To Stop The Pornographic Pictures On Facebook
There's no way to block these pictures from showing up on your news feed right now, the only thing you can do is take some security measures. Never comment on any of these pictures as this is aiding the spread. The moment you comment on it, your friend sees the comment and it goes on and on.
Also, if any of these nude pictures appear on your news feed, you can make facebook better by reporting the photos so the facebook team can remove them.
I got a really disgusting video in my inbox like a week ago from a friend. The title says "99% can't watch this for 15 seconds" or something. I can't remember the title precisely but if you see something like this, do not open it. It's a facebook virus being spread around.
Do not follow suspicious links as well.
One more thing, if you get a notification or message that a friend reported you for offensive behaviour, do not open it, just ignore this.
It's turning to a really crazy place and I see myself moving over to Google Plus finally if this continues for too long. Please share this on facebook!
November 5, 2011
List Of Smileys To Use On Facebook Chat And Messaging
I was on facebook chat earlier this morning with an old friend whom I haven't seen for quite some time. We were just talking about old times when i replied with a funny smiley and she was like, "how did you do that?" I was a bit surprised she didn't know about how to use smilies on facebook chat and messaging because I assumed everybody did. I couldn't find a better way to reply but to come up with a blog post that gives out a list of smileys/emoticons to use on facebook chat and messaging. The list of smilies given out by facebook is incomplete, they claim they're adding more and you should keep trying out different codes yourself.
Unlike Yahoo messenger and other IM platforms that gives a list of supported smileys, facebook doesn't, they just assume you should know them. Below is a list of facebook emoticons supported at the moment and the codes to make them appear.
You should, however, note that these smileys can't be used on facebook mobile messaging. You can type them while sending a message on facebook mobile though and your recipient will see the emoticon if he/she is using facebook desktop version.
Also, this list only works on facebook chat and messaging, they won't work on wall posts, status updates and comments. If you intend to use smileys on status updates, you can read this post
Unlike Yahoo messenger and other IM platforms that gives a list of supported smileys, facebook doesn't, they just assume you should know them. Below is a list of facebook emoticons supported at the moment and the codes to make them appear.
| Smiley | Description | Code(s) |
|---|---|---|
 | smile or happy | :-) :) :] =) |
 | frown | :-( :( :[ =( |
 | gasp | :-O :O :-o :o |
 | grin | :-D :D =D |
 | tongue | :-P :P :-p :p =P |
 | wink | ;-) ;) |
 | curly lips | :3 |
 | kiss | :-* :* |
 | grumpy | >:( >:-( |
 | geek | 8-) 8) B-) B) |
 | cool | 8-| 8| B-| B| |
 | upset or very angry | >:O >:-O >:o >:-o |
 | confused | o.O O.o |
 | shark | (^^^) |
 | pacman face | :v |
 | squint | -_- |
 | angel | O:) O:-) |
| devil | 3:) 3:-) |
 | unsure | :/ :-/ :\ :-\ |
 | crying | :'( |
 | Chris Putnam | :putnam: |
 | robot | :|] |
 | heart | <3 |
 | kiki | ^_^ |
 | penguin | <(“) |
You should, however, note that these smileys can't be used on facebook mobile messaging. You can type them while sending a message on facebook mobile though and your recipient will see the emoticon if he/she is using facebook desktop version.
Also, this list only works on facebook chat and messaging, they won't work on wall posts, status updates and comments. If you intend to use smileys on status updates, you can read this post
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