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Well, first of all IF you haven’t
updated your iPhone, Samsung, Nexus, Micromax or any other Android based
smartphone with new Facebook messenger 2016; Do it now. Because without
updating your Facebook messenger you won’t be able to blow your mind
with new Facebook messenger features which are really amazing.
Here we go, so we all know that in today’s social media competition
among various messenger, one has to keep introducing new features to
make messenger more and more friendly and attractive. Facebook messenger
is one of the lucky messenger which is being considered as most popular
messenger even in such big competition where you have Whatsapp
messenger, hike messenger, line messenger etc.
Let’s go through new Facebook messenger features which are introduced recently in late February 2016.
New Facebook Messenger Features
Before I start demonstrating new features, let me tell you one thing. All of the new features of Facebook messenger
I am showing are belongs to individual chat box. So, keep in mind you
have to first open an individual Chat and goto the settings of that
particular chat to get these new features of 2016.
Nick Name: Well, many of us are having friends on
Facebook where they have either kept some Nick names or we might like
them to remember with their Nick names. Now using new Facebook
messenger; you can change Nick name in messenger by
going inside setting of that friend’s chat settings as shown below.
However, you friend also will get an notification of this change and
he/she will also have facility to change
their or yours nick name in new
facebook messenger.
Text Color: This is really a fantastic feature introduced in new fb messenger. You can now change text color
of Facebook chat in your new Facebook messenger 2016. By exploring your
chat with one of your contact, you can decide the text color of
messenger for that individual contact. If you friend doesn’t like your
choice, he/she can override your choice by changing text color again. By
changing text color it will not only change the chat text, but it also
change entire messenger them. So, you can have completely new Facebook
messenger them with this feature. Your them/text color with other
contacts will still remain same unless you go and change them manually.
Use Big Smiley: Yes, this was already part of
previous version of Facebook messenger but still many are not yet aware
of this new Facebook messenger feature with the use of that you can send
Big smiley to chat box. You will have plenty of big
smileys, gifs and emotions which you can use as per the mood of yours to
tease, express your mate.
Mute Chat: Many times
we are passing through situation when unwanted contacts are keep poking.
Now it’s easy, you can mute individual chat or turn off Facebook
messenger notification for individual contact. That too with many
options of couple of minutes, hours or even till the time you turn back
on notification. Isn’t this feature of new Facebook messenger is giving
relief to many around here?
So, just download latest Facebook messenger 2016
and explore excellent cool new features which will allow you to use
Facebook messenger as Whatsapp or Hike messenger and you will simply
amazed with it.
A newly discovered Facebook hacking tool actually has the capability to hack Facebook account, but YOURS, and not the one you desires to hack.
How to Hack Facebook account? How to Hack my Girlfriends Facebook
account? My boyfriend is cheating on me, How do I hack his Facebook
Account?
These are the queries that most of the Internet users search on Google.
But Beware! If you come across any Facebook hacking tool that promises
you to help you hack your friends Facebook accounts, you may end up
downloading a hacking tool that could hack you, instead of them.
Facebook Hacking Tool that Can Really Hack, But Your Accounts
Dubbed Remtasu, the tool is marketing itself as a Facebook hacking tool but actually is a Windows-based Trojan
that has accelerated globally over the past year, and has now
capability to disguise itself as an app for accessing people's Facebook
account credentials.
The tool contains a Keylogger that can capture all your keystrokes and store them in a file that is subsequently sent to the attacker's server.
The malicious Facebook hacking tool is exploiting "the constant desire of a lot of users to take control of accounts from this well-known social network," according to a Monday blog post by IT security company ESET.
How Remtasu Works:
The malicious tool is delivered via direct download websites.
Once a user visits one of these websites, the dangerous Win32/Remtasu.Y malware automatically gets downloaded and executed on victim's machine and hide itself among other files.
Remtasu has capability to:
Open and obtain information from the clipboard.
Capture keystrokes.
Store all the data in a file which is subsequently sent to an FTP server.
The worst part is yet to come:
The malware remains on the infected computer even when the victim
reboots their system or attempts to find the malware threat in the list
of active processes.
"In this case, the malware replicates itself, saving the copy in a folder that it also creates within the system32 folder," reads the post. "The new InstallDir folder remains hidden inside the system files, making it difficult for users to access."
Most affected parts of the world include Colombia, Turkey, Thailand and
elsewhere. In past, Remtasu was distributed through malicious files
attached to phishing emails purporting to be from legitimate government
or businesses organisations.
There are 6 features of facebook which you might not comprehend. Merely
read and try all of them to have the better experience with Facebook. #1 Retrieve Deleted Content By
this innovation, you can easily recover anything on facebook which you
may accidently be deleted in past. Just Follow the below steps to do so.
First sign in your Facebook Account. Now go to Facebook General Account Settings. In
General Account Setting after the Temperature setting box, you will see
a text written as Download a copy of your Facebook Data. Now click on that option and at the another page, you will see a start my archive option, click on it. Now a popup window will open and you will have to enter your password. This will be just for security purpose. Now type the password and click on submit button. Now
you will see that download link of all the Facebook Data will be sent
to your email account. The email will be that which you use for creating
your facebook account. Now open your email account after a while and
you will see the facebook mail in your account. Open the mail and you
will see a link to download your facebook data. Click on that download
link to download your entire facebook data.
#2 See First Often
we used to miss important posts by a friend and they came back asking
have you seen my facebook post? How could you see your friend’s post if
your facebook news feed is entirely loaded with undesired spams and
random posts. But guess what? Facebook do provide us the option to
compose our news feed it allows us to design our news feed with what
people and other things you want to see in the top of your news feed,
either you are on mobile or Pc. The Option which permits this
customization is “See First” The all you have to do is simply go to the
person profile whose post you want to see on the top, and then select
the option of See first just below the “Friends” Tab.
#3 Donate To Nonprofit Organizations
There is a list of 19 organizations that include the American Cancer
Society, American Red Cross, World Wildlife Fund and Malaria No More
among others and many more. You can donate any amount to all these
nonprofit organizations from your facebook account. These are certified,
trusted and verified organizations to help people. Presently to make
your contributions go to their page, click on More right below the cover
photo and choose Donate Now and you can donate any amount you want to
donate.
#4 Sync Facebook Calendar With Google Calendar This
is the very useful feature of google by this you can easily sync
facebook calendar to your google calendar and this will sync all your
facebook friend’s birthdays and all the events of your facebook. And by
this, your android google calendar will show all the marks in your
calendar. To activate this, first of all, go to the Facebook Event,
you will see several events that involve by you and then look at the
bottom right corner of the page, you will find links Upcoming Events and
Birthdays. There Right-click either one and select “Copy Link Address“.
Now go to Google Calendar. On the left side of the page there is the
“Other Calendars” option, click the drop-down arrow button and select
“Add by URL” and that it! you are done.
#5 Save Now, Read Later Every
time you logged in your facebook account, you see lots of news
there.Many of them are just waste for you but there are some posts which
you must want to read but you don’t have time to read them. At that
case, this helpful feature will be useful. You can save the post to read
it later in your account. This will save your time and also stores the
post for future reference. To do so just click on down arrow with every
post and select Save option.
#6 Convert Your Facebook Profile Into A Page Many
of the users don’t know this feature but yes it is possible to convert
your facebook profile into a page. Many promoters first make a facebook
profile and then add friends and then convert that profile into a page
by this all your facebook friends will convert into likes of your
page.Now to do this, first go to Profile to Page Migration and then,
choose a category for your Page. On the next page, select a subcategory
and fill in the required information. Lastly, click Get Started and
follow the instructions provided. That’s it your profile will convert
into a page.
We all know that facebook is always a nice platform to share our feeling and to be in touch with many, Apart from these it is also a space to discuss current time and issues. But when your profile gets Hacked then this is the most worst situation and when you don’t have access to the recovery email the condition got more worst. And at that time mostly users think that their profile will not get recovered, but you can actually do that and that too without any requirement of email address. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.
How To Recover Hacked Facebook Account without Email
You just not need to any hard work just a simple method to recover your Facebook profile that you might not know till now and with that you will not need to access your saved email and you can add any alternative email. So follow up some simple steps below to proceed.
Note: This tutorial is only for knowledge purpose and should now be used for any illegal activities as we will be not at all responsible for anything happen.
Steps To Recover Hacked Facebook Profile Without Registered Email:
1. First of all you need to enter the email address or Phone number in the field at top right and you will see screen that will ask you that you had forget the password.
2. Now simply click on the option Forget Password to see all the possible recovery solutions for it.
3. Now you need to enter your username email or phone number to identify your account.Fb 1
4. Now you need to click on the option no longer access to these and you will move to next page.Fb 2
5. There enter any of your new email address to get it registered and then repeat the same on another text field.fb 3
6. Now you will move to next page where you need to enter the answers of all the security questions that you had saved while creating your account. And if you enter them wrong them you can’t access your account, so fill them correctly.fb 4
7. Thats it you are done, now you have successfully recovered your account and thats too without any need of email address registered there as you will only need a new email there.
From December limited number of users of Facebook for iOS gained access to the renewal application that allowed to publish and view Live Photos. The technology will gradually become available to Facebook users around the world, but the exact timing of the social network does not mention.
So if you are one of them who wants to post live photos on facebook wall, you need to have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus first. Because the live photo posting feature was only available in these two phones. If you have iPhone 6s or 6s plus then you just need Facebook now for posting live photos directly on your wall.
iPhone 6s users are are really loving this awesome feature of facebook. But the sad news was you can only see the still images of live photos until you are running facebook on iOS 9 devices.
How To Post Your Live Photos on Facebook from iPhone 6s
Today I am going to show you the complete guide on how to post live photos on Facebook through iPhone 6s. This is going to be short steps which you must follow to get the full benefit of the feature.
Follow these steps to successfully post live photos in your facebook wall using iPhone 6S. For brief details, I am adding some screenshot which will make you every steps clear.
1. Launch Facebook on your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus, Login with your account.
2. Now tap on Photos.
3. Now browse the live photo from your phone which you want to be upload in your facebook account.
4. After that hit the Done button.
5. After that you will be asked to say something about this photo, Now you will see the live box emerges at the bottom right of the photo.
6. You need to tap on a Live box if you want to view a live photo or else only still image will be displayed.
7. Now you can give it a message or description and at last press the Post button to upload your live photo. That’s it!
You can easily upload short live photos of 2-3 second with this new feature, you need to give live photo option manually for each photo the reason behind this was simple that is facebook doesn’t want to reveal up live photos in public because it might contain something that you don’t want to make it public. With these easy steps, you can easily post live photos to facebook.
Mostly Hackers use these methods to hack facebook account 2016, So protect yourself from hackers. Must Read this post, and beware from hackers,
#1 Hack Facebook Account Password By Phishing
Phishing is still the most popular attack vector used for hacking Facebook accounts. There are variety methods to carry out phishing attack. In a simple phishing attacks a hacker creates a fake log in page which exactly looks like the real Facebook page and then asks the victim to log in. Once the victim log in through the fake page the, the victims “Email Address” and “Password” is stored in to a text file, and the hacker then downloads the text file and gets his hands on the victims credentials.
#2 Hack Facebook Account Password By Keylogging
Keylogging is the easiest way to hack a Facebook password. Keylogging sometimes can be so dangerous that even a person with good knowledge of computers can fall for it. A Keylogger is basically a small program which, once is installed on victim’s computer, will record every thing victim types on his/her computer. The logs are then send back to the attacker by either FTP or directly to hackers email address.
#3 Stealer’s
Almost 80% percent people use stored passwords in their browser to access the Facebook. This is quite convenient, but can sometimes be extremely dangerous. Stealer’s are software’s specially designed to capture the saved passwords stored in the victims Internet browser.
#4 Hack Facebook Account Password By Session Hijacking
Session Hijacking can be often very dangerous if you are accessing Facebook on a http (non secure) connection. In Session Hijacking attack, a hacker steals the victims browser cookie which is used to authenticate the user on a website, and use it to access the victims account. Session hijacking is widely used on LAN, and WiFi connections.
#5 Sidejacking With Firesheep
Sidejacking attack went common in late 2010, however it’s still popular now a days. Firesheep is widely used to carry out sidejacking attacks. Firesheep only works when the attacker and victim is on the same WiFi network. A sidejacking attack is basically another name for http session hijacking, but it’s more targeted towards WiFi users.
#6 Mobile Phone Hacking
Millions of Facebook users access Facebook through their mobile phones. In case the hacker can gain access to the victims mobile phone then he can probably gain access to his/her Facebook account. Their are a lots of Mobile Spying software’s used to monitor a Cellphone. The most popular Mobile Phone Spying software’s are: Mobile Spy, and Spy Phone Gold.
#7 DNS Spoofing
If both the victim and attacker are on the same network, an attacker can use a DNS spoofing attack and change the original Facebook page to his own fake page and hence can get access to victims Facebook account.
#8 USB Hacking
If an attacker has physical access to your computer, he could just insert a USB programmed with a function to automatically extract saved passwords in the Internet browser.
#9 Man In the Middle Attacks
If the victim and attacker are on the same LAN and on a switch based network, a hacker can place himself between the client and the server, or he could act as a default gateway and hence capturing all the traffic in between.
#10 Botnets
Botnets are not commonly used for hacking Facebook accounts, because of it’s high setup costs. They are used to carry more advanced attacks. A Botnet is basically a collection of compromised computer. The infection process is same as the key logging, however a Botnet gives you additional options for carrying out attacks with the compromised computer. Some of the most popular Botnets include Spyeye and Zeus.
The giant network Facebook being used by billions of people today and this network is worldwide famous. Almost all facebook users spend their time by chatting with friends, sharing pics and videos on Facebook and liking different pages and joining many groups. But sometimes you really get frustrated by frequently clicking on like button, as there are list of news feed that gets displayed in your feed and sometime you are bound to like your friend’s post. So here we have a cool solution by which you can easily like all the Facebook status and comments with a single click. Yes its possible you can do this with a simple guide that we are going to discuss right here. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.
The method is quite simple and you just need is a google chrome extension that will allow you to like all the posts and the comments at a single click. And you will not need to visit the single group and leave it to stop all its notifications and the post. So follow up some simple steps below to proceed.
1. First of all you must have the latest version of Google chrome as the extension we are going to discuss here might not work properly with the older version of Google Chrome.
2. Now in your Google chrome, add the extension Facebook Social Media Toolkit.
3. Click on Add to Chrome button there and a popup will appear and click on Add Extension.Facebook Social Toolkit
4. Now the extension will start downloading and within few seconds it will get added to your browser depending upon your internet speed.
5. Now login into your Facebook account and where you want to like all the post feeds and the comments.
6. After that click on the extension that you installed and under the free section click on Click All Like Buttons.Facebook Social Toolit2
7. Now you have to again confirm in the popup that appears and click on click All Like Buttons.Facebook Social Toolit3
8. That’s all and you are done, now all the posts will get liked and their respective comments too. Now you will not need to visit every single post and like it.
So this is all about Like All Facebook Posts And Comments With Single Click. Use this method and you will have to no longer like each and every post, you just need facebook social toolkit chrome extension and that will automatically like all the post feeds. So give a try to this cool method. Hope you like our work, keep on sharing with others. Leave a comment below if you have any related queries regarding this.
Facebook Social Toolkit is a collection of Facebook automation tools that are created to save your time while using Facebook. But the major problem with the tool is that only few of features are available for free and many of the other very cool features are in reserved for premium version and to upgrade it to premium you have to pay to developers for it. Thats why we are here with a cool solution by which you can get this cool extension in your browser without paying anything. Yes its possible and personally tested by me. And you just need is to follow up the complete guide discussed below to proceed.
The method is quite simple and straight and you just need is patch the social toolkit to use all its premium feature all for free. So follow up the below steps to proceed.
1. First of all remove the extension from your browser if you already had installed this on your Google Chrome.
2. Now download the Facebook Social Toolkit Premium zip file from here.
3. Now extract the folder and drag and drop the fcachklhcihfinmagjnlomehfdhndhep-2.3.1.crx file from the extracted folder to Extensions page of your google chrome.Free Toolkit 1
4. Now click on Add Extension button there and the extension will get added.Free Toolkit 2
5. Now in your windows PC head to the below address in the Explorer. C:\Users\Hp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\fcachklhcihfinmagjnlomehfdhndhep\2.3.1_0\content\js\global Replace HP with your PC name.Free Toolkit 3
6. Now from the extracted zip file folder you have validate.jsp file that you have to move to the above location by replacing with the existed file.Free Toolkit 4
7. Now open the Google chrome and login into your Facebook account and simply click on extension icon there and you will see all the list of tools.Free Toolkit 5
8. Now try to use any of the premium tool and it will ask for your email and serial key, enter any according to your wish and click on unlock.Free Toolkit 6
9. Thats it you are done, with this, now you have all the premium tools for free to try in Facebook. Enjoy all for free as the tool is fully activated now.
So above is complete guide for How To Get Facebook Social Toolkit Premium For Free, With the guide discussed above you can easily unlock this cool extension with the help of which you can unlock lots of cool features to try in Facebook. So use this guide and get the premium version of the tool. Hope you like this, do share with others too. Leave a comment below if you have any related queries with this.
Till now you must had read lots of cool tutorial for Facebook that we had discussed in the site and today we here again come up with an another cool post. That is the cool method for sending a single message to all your Facebook friends and that too with a single click. Yes its possible and can be easily done. Mostly on the time like New year you keep on sending the greetings to each and everyone and what if you have this trick, you just need a type a universal greeting message and simply send it to all. It will be cool and super fast. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.
The method is quite simple and you just need is a google chrome extension that will allow you to send a message to all Facebook friends at a single click. And you will not need to visit the each chat and message the same thing to all. So follow up some simple steps below to proceed.
Steps To Send Messages To All Facebook Friends At Once:
1. First of all you must have the latest version of Google chrome as the extension we are going to discuss right here might not work perfectly with the older version of Google Chrome.
2. Now in your Google chrome add the extension Social Media Toolkit For Facebook there are some features in extension that are actually paid thats why we had given the tutorial to activate this extension all for free.
3. After getting this extension in your browser login to your Facebook account where you want to send a single message to each and everyone.
4. Now click on Toolkit icon and there click on Messages All Friends At Once there.
5. Now a popup appears where you need to send the delay time that must be minimum so that your complete friend list completes on time, now you need to send the friend number and that will last on the number of your total friends.Message ALL
6. Now type the message and simply click on send button there, also you can send sticker too there.Message ALL2
7. Thats it you are done, now the message will got send all to your friends with the time delay that you had set.
So above is all about How To Send Messages To All Facebook Friends At Once. Use this method and you can broadcast a single message to all your friends using the cool extension that we had discussed right here. So use the method and save the tome of sending the same message again and again. Hope you like this, do share with others too, Leave a comment if you have any related queries with this.
Extract Emails Of All Your Facebook Friends With Single Click
Extract out all the email ID of your Facebook friends using Facebook Social Toolkit Google Chrome extension
Till
now you must had read lots of our cool tutorial for Fcaebook where you
must had learn lots of cool things that you can try in Facebook. And now
days we are sharing about the cool things that you can do after
unlocking the premium version of Facebook Social Toolkit Google Chrome
extension. And in this post we will tell you a way by which you can
extract out emails of all your Facebook friends that associated with
their Facebook profile. Many time you need your friend’s email for
either due to privacy reasons or sending some files or any other and at
that time you keep on checking their profiles to get the email address.
But what if you get the complete list of all the emails addresses of the
friends at a single click. Yes its possible and you can easily do this
by following up the complete guide discussed below.
How To Extract Emails Of All Your Facebook Friends With Single Click
The method is quite simple and you just need is a cool google chrome
extension that will allow you to Extract Emails Of All Your Facebook
Friends at a single click. And you will need to visit the each and every
profile to get that. So follow up some simple steps below to proceed.
Steps To Extract Out Email Of All Facebook Friends:
1. First of all you must have the latest version of Google chrome as
the extension we are going to discuss right here might not work
perfectly with the older version of Google Chrome.
2. Now in your Google chrome add the extension Facebook Social Media Toolkit there
are some features in extension that are actually paid thats why we had
given the tutorial to activate this extension all for free.
3. After getting this extension in your browser login to your
Facebook account where you want to extract out the email address of all
your friends.
4. Now click on the extension icon and under premium section click on Extract Friends Email.
5. Now the process will get started at the right corner box and
withing in few moments all the emails will start getting extracted and
you cam see all of them there. And when the process completed you can
export the CSV file too and save it in your computer.
6. Thats it you are done, now you have email address of all your Facebook friends.
So above is all about How To Extract Emails Of All Your Facebook Friends With Single Click.
Use this method and extract out all the email ID of you facebook
friends with a single click. And you will not need to visit each and
every profile. Hope you like this, keep on sharing. Leave a comment
below if you have any related queries with this.
Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 Billion in year 2014. It has not
changed much in its features, apart Voice Calling Features between Whats
App users. It seems that Facebook and Whats App have been acting as two
different bodies.
According to new leak, WhatsApp is looking forward to allow cross communication between WhatsApp and facebook accounts.
Just a week after WhatsApp proclaimed that it is not charging $1 as
annual fee, and it further said that they are seeking to see new
information that points to a convenient relationship between messaging
service “WhatsApp” and its parental company, Facebook.
A German based blog leaked screenshots of a new beta build, which
adds a new option for WhatsApp users to share their account details with
Facebook to improve facebook user experience. It is still doubtful that
how this integration will benefit facebook user. The users will have to
agree some new service terms in the new build.
Facebook and WhatsApp worked like two different companies, even after
facebook acquired this for $19 Billion in 2014. WhatsApp’s founder Jan
Koum said that, WhatsApp Messaging Service will remain unchanged and
will operate independently and user’s will not be affected. However, it
seems that Facebook is entirely changing the statement as said by
Whats’s App’s founder.
WhatsApp is popularly know for end to end encryption that safeguards
users from being snooped on. The latest beta feature of WhatsApp is
enabled with security tab which allows users switch on a setting to see
whether their messages are encrypted. By default, messages are
encrypted, depending upon what you select, but it provides user a new
option which enables the user to see whether their messages are really
safe.
Latest WhatsApp build reveals Facebook linking option
A post on Reddit discussing about the WhatsApp’s new beta build also
revealed screenshots about its new build. It also revealed a tool for
users to confirm whether their conversation are encrypted by scanning QR
codes. The screenshot leaked at Reddit also shows about an upcoming
feature which will allow the users to manage files received through the
app
The use of linking of WhatsApp and facebook may not be clearly known,
the doubt of all the features will be cleared only when it is released
publicly. Also, one thing is clear that WhatsApp user will be able to
post concurrently on the timelines of both WhatsApp and Facebook
respectively.
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging services earlier made WhatsApp
free rather than charging $1 as annual fee. The Messaging Giant is
currently working to provide Video Calls feature in WhatsApp.
So, this was all about the integration of Whats App and Facebook to
allow cross communication. We hope that you enjoyed this article, feel
free to share this with your friends.
Social media giant Facebook said that profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Net profit for the three months to December rose to $1.56bn (£1.09bn), up from $701m.
The
company also said that 80% of its advertising revenue in that period
came from mobile advertising, up from 69% a year earlier. Shares jumped 8.7% in after-hours trading in New York on the better than expected results.
Revenue for the full year jumped 44% to $17.9bn, with net profit rising about $800m to $3.7bn. The results mean that Facebook has now beaten analysts' expectations for ten consecutive quarters.
Rob Sanderson, an analyst at MKM Partners, described the growth as phenomenal. Ken Sena, an analyst at Evercore ISI, said the advertising growth was much better than expected.
"It signifies the importance of what they're providing to advertisers," he said.
Mobile growth
"They're
providing a very efficient method of distribution for them, they're
making big investments and evidenced by their quarterly performance it
seems to be working."
The number of monthly active users rose 14%
to 1.59 billion in the fourth quarter compared with the same period in
2014, with 1.44 billion accessing Facebook on mobile devices - a 21%
increase.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that 2015 was a
"great year for Facebook. Our community continued to grow and our
business is thriving."
He returned to work on Monday after taking two months of paternity leave following the birth of his first child late last year.
It's the world's biggest social network — with 1.49 billion users to its name — but even if you spend a lot of time inside Facebook's Android app,
you may not have explored everything it has to offer. We're here to
change that with a comprehensive list of tips, tricks and features to
look out for.
Here are our best tips for the Facebook for Android app. Whether you're running Facebook on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge or a trusty Nexus 7,
you'll find these tips helpful for sorting through your news feed,
improving the security of your account, finding the best content faster
and sharing status updates more easily, plus more besides.
1. Use the widget
Facebook's
widget is simple but useful. It gives you a scrollable window for
tapping through your friends' status updates without the extra adverts
and other baggage in the full app.
You can update your own status from the widget too, by tapping Share. It's a handy way of getting important information right there on your home screen.
The Facebook widget offers easy access to the most important updates.
2. Manage your notifications
Drowning in a deluge of
updates and alerts from your friends? You'll be relieved to hear that
Facebook actually makes it pretty easy to switch particular types of
notifications on and off.
Head to App settings > Notification settings
and you'll be able to enable or disable alerts for wall posts,
messages, comments, friend requests, photo tags, event invites and more.
Get those notifications under control.
You don't have to settle for
the standard news feed list of updates. The Facebook app gives you
access to your customized lists from the main menu too. To change the
list someone appears in, simply head to their profile and tap Friends > Edit Friend List.
If you want to add or remove any whole lists ('family' or 'best friends', for example), you'll need to do this from a computer.
Use lists to filter your friends and family.
5. Share from other apps
Sharing across apps is one
of Android's great strengths, so make use of it: tap the Share button
while you're viewing a photo gallery, web browser or anything else, and
Facebook will appear as one of the options.
This is a great way of
sharing something to your timeline without having to actually go into
Facebook, and you still get all the usual status update options.
Android makes sharing straightforward.
6. Stop videos from autoplaying
One of the most
useful entries in the Facebook app settings is Video Auto-play. It lets
you turn autoplay on or off, or enable it when you're on a Wi-Fi
connection only.
This will save on data usage while you're out and
about, as well as stop your news feed turning into a dizzying list of
looping cat clips and funny animations.
Take control over video auto-play in your news feed.
7. Save videos and links for later
So many friends
to browse through, so little time in the day... luckily there's a
solution to this problem. If you tap on the drop-down arrow next to a
news feed post containing a video or link, you can save the content to
come back to later.
Bookmarked content is kept under the Saved heading on the main app menu (tap See All under Apps if it isn't visible) so you can return to it at your leisure.
Save videos and links for later
8. Check your account security
From inside the Facebook app, tap Account Settings, Security and Active Sessions — here you can see all of the places and devices associated with your Facebook account.
If
you spot anything suspicious, click on the cross icon to log out from
it. It's better to be safe than sorry: if you make a mistake and log out
from one of your own devices or browsers, you can still log back in
again.
Check that you recognize all the sessions.
9. Disable chat heads
Messenger is now a separate
app on Android, and one of its most distinctive features is the way
conversations appear as 'chat heads' above other apps on your device.
If
you don't like this behavior, you can turn it off — tap the cog icon
inside the Messenger app to access its settings, then tap Chat heads to enable or disable the feature and tweak the way it works.
You don't have to put up with chat heads if you don't like them.
10. Pick your favorite friends
Your list of online friends is accessible via a tap on the portrait icon in the top-right corner of the Facebook app.
Select Edit and
you can bring the contacts you interact with most often to the top of
the list, saving you the time and effort of hunting through the list to
find your favorite friends.
Keep your favorite friends close to hand.
11. Hide a friend's feed
Sometimes you may wish to
stop seeing someone's updates without actually unfriending them
or blocking them. You may wish to keep up the pretense that you are
friends despite never wishing to see or hear from them again.
To do this, go to their page, tap on Following, then select Unfollow. They won't know it, but you'll never see their posts, or posts they are tagged in again.
Don't want to see a mate's posts? Hit Unfollow.
12. Prioritize a friend's feed
If you want to do the
opposite of above, you can choose to see a certain friend's posts
before all others. Simply go to their page, tap Following, and then See First.
Any posts that this friend makes will jump to the top of the news feed so that you never miss them.
See what your closest friend has been up to before all the other posts.
13. Use a lighter, third-party app
The Facebook app
is not only enormous, but it is also a resource hog. You can save space
and memory by using an alternative app, such as Metal or Tinfoil, which
are basically custom skins for the web version of Facebook. Metal is a
bit prettier and offers more features, such as a notification tab, and
floating window.
Otherwise, you can just add a shortcut to the
Facebook website on your home screen and use that. In Chrome, you can
also allow notifications from the site by heading to Settings > Site settings > Notifications and making sure they're turned on and unblocked for Facebook.
Add a shortcut to your home screen or use a custom wrapper to save on space and RAM. What are your favorite tips for Facebook for Android? Tell us your top tricks in the comments.
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Facebook on Thursday announced its new Sports Stadium -- built with no taxpayer dollars or city leases required.
About 650 million sports fans already make Facebook the world's largest stadium, the company reasoned.
The new hub will compile and chronologize game-related content in real time so that "you can get the feeling you're watching the game with your friends even when you aren't together," said Steve Kafka, a product manager at Facebook.
The hub itself is organized by tabs labeled "Matchup," "Friends," "Experts" and "Stats."
Matchup offers an overview of the action, highlighting the latest big plays and fan reactions to go with them. Novel here is the ability to share plays from the hub to a timeline.
Remarks from paid and unpaid experts are funneled into either the Friends or Experts categories. The Experts tab is reserved for individuals discussing the game from verified accounts -- people such as sports analysts, journalists and chatty celebrities.
As for the Stats tab, it's dedicated to the facts and statistics related to a given game.
The Facebook Sports Hub is available via iOS, but it isn't a standalone app. It's a feature that lives inside the core Facebook app, and it will be available on other platforms in the coming weeks, according to Facebook.
While starting with U.S. football, Facebook plans to add other sports soon.
With just two more NFL games left before its season finale, Facebook Sports Stadium has arrived at a good time to interest people in trying out the new hub, suggested Justin Garrity, President of Postano.
"The Super Bowl is one of the most watched global sporting events, so it will be a great first introduction for Sports Stadium to a huge audience that will hopefully use it again watching their local sports teams," he told TechNewsWorld.
While the timing may help with adoption, Facebook will have to battle user behavior to get people to break away from what they relied on before Sports Stadium was a thing, said Ben Hordell, a partner at DXagency.
"That being said, I think the stadium will be visited by those who are already on Facebook while watching the game," he told TechNewsWorld. "Facebook has been integrating an 'I'm watching' feature based on your tastes, to start the process leading up to the stadium reveal."
For the most part, social networks have been timid in plunging into sports, because leagues tend to try to control their online media, observed Andy Abramson, CEO of Comunicano.
Facebook Sports Stadium takes on a news role and avoids royalties, while the voice of the fans get stronger and more compelling, he told TechNewsWorld.
"The ease with which content can be put onto the Facebook platform, the speed with which fans and journalists alike can publish and share in an era of declining metropolitan media, and the rise of social media and influencer led journalism, means sports properties have to view influencers and what they are covering with a much wider view of the impact a local blogger could have on team, league or event news," Abramson explained.
Twitter stepped up its sports presence in 2014, when it launched the NFL on Twitter. The ongoing campaign has brought fans unique insights into the NFL, but it now faces serious competition on another front.
"I think Facebook's gain will be Twitter's loss," said Hordell, "as Facebook steals some [share of voice] in being the preferred social second screen to accompany live sports viewing
Facebook today being a very power-packed tool for effective interaction, communication and consultations which can be done at the shortest time possible, the popularity of the medium has increased enormously. Today it is possible to upload a video on Facebook to share it with others and also get to know through their comments and responses what they think about the video.
If you are relatively new to Facebook and want to know how to upload video on Facebook, here are a few tips to help you:
1. Video formats
Some of the video formats supported by Facebook include:
.mov – this format can be used to save your movies and your video files on Facebook. Compatible with the Windows as well as the Mac system the format is very convenient to upload and replay.
.avi Or Audio Video Interleave is another format that is supported by Facebook and is compatible with Window OS in any computer. This is also a highly preferred format by the Facebook community.
.mpg : The format of .mpg can be used on Microsoft Windows media player as well as Apples’s Quick Time Player and is compatible to both operating systems. The format of .mpg is well accepted by Facebook.
.mp4 – The most preferred format is the Mp4 as it allows the uploading and storing of data both audio and video at the same time. It can be done together in a single file making it easy and time saving. One of the biggest benefits of the format is that it is easy to edit whenever required.
Solutions: Video Converter is one of the best tools to convert one format to the other. In case you find a format of a video is incompatible with Facebook, you can easily convert it into a more compatible format by using it.
2. Video Size:
The maximum size a video supported by Facebook is 1G. But in most cases Videos are usually large files that consume a lot of storage space. Though Facebook offers a time limit maximum of 20 minutes, there is still a problem faced by many on Facebook when it comes to uploading videos. Solution:Firstly check a couple of times if the maximum upload size of the video file is within the limits of 1G specified by Facebook. Secondly with the use of the video compressoryou can compress the video file to suit the specified size.
3. Maximum length of the video:
This is an important aspect to consider when uploading video files on Facebook. The maximum length of the video allowed on Facebook is that of 20 minutes so you need to check out its length first before uploading. Solution: Using a video editor to generate the right size of the video is a perfect solution to upload videos on Facebook that is as per its stipulations. By using the video editor, the video clip can be cut to its desired length without affecting the quality of the video.
4. Steps on how to upload videos to Facebook:
There are basically four steps involved to upload video on Facebook as below:
Log in to your Facebook account
On the top you will find the option “Upload Photos/Videos” on the status bar
Browse and select the video you want to upload
Click on “Choose” to choose the video to be uploaded
After learning the 4 tips explained as above, uploading Facebook video would be just a piece of cake, right? You can also share your own tips about Facebook videos if you got anything in mind. And you can also check more Facebook video uploading tips here.
Social networking website Facebook is testing an improved in-app browser that would allow users input their own URL should they want to check another page without leaving the Facebook app, a media report said.
Besides the aesthetic shift, a new bar on the bottom tells you how popular a post is, includes back and forward buttons, lets you bookmark pages, and has a menu button which likely includes a few more features too, thenextweb.com reported on Sunday.
The only big feature that appears to be missing is tab support, but the new browser is quite close to approximating a full-fledged app. With a good enough browser, the Facebook app could essentially become a self-contained ecosystem of its own, it added.
The browser is only available to a small subset of users (iOS only), but most public test features end up receiving a wider roll-out a few months later.
Despite Facebook users losing out on a privacy policy vote earlier this week, the social network moved today to make its privacy tools easier for users to take advantage of.
Facebook updated its privacy settings, adding shortcuts, an activity log and a new Request and Removal tool for photos users are tagged in. The tools, according to one analyst, are aimed at making privacy easier for users to navigate.
"It sounds like despite the vote and user apathy, Facebook is trying to make some changes that will benefit users," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "These all seem like steps in the right direction.... Giving users more visibility into what they're sharing and with whom is very welcome. Plus giving them more control over what is visible is a benefit, as well."
Samuel Lessin, a product manager at Facebook, said in a blog post today that the site wants to help users understand who can see the information, photos and videos they're sharing.
"Up until now, if you wanted to change your privacy and timeline controls on Facebook, you would need to stop what you're doing and navigate through a separate set of pages," wrote Lessin. "Today we're announcing new shortcuts you can easily get to."
For instance, if users now want to get to their key privacy settings, they can simply go to the toolbar to manage "Who can see my stuff?," "Who can contact me?" or "How do I stop someone from bothering me?"
The new privacy changes also include new notices that help people know where their information appears. Lessin pointed out that Facebook is adding pop-up messages to notify users that even though they may have hidden something in their timelines, it may still appear in a news feed or search.
Facebook also has updated its Activity Log, which was first introduced last year. The new log has better navigation, designed to make it easier for users to review the history of their photos, posts, likes and comments.
Simply put, Facebook rules say that 30% of all active registered users must vote to make a decision binding. That means 300 million users would have had to vote on privacy changes; less than 700,000 users did so.
Olds, though, pointed out that users can always vote with their feet. If they don't like what Facebook is doing with their information, they can move to another social network.
"The voting issue is and was largely irrelevant," he said. "Like any other business, Facebook is going to respond to what they think is important to their customer base. Privacy is important to users, even if they don't participate in a formal online vote."
Olds added that Facebook is responding to this last vote by making its privacy policy more understandable and usable.
"This should allay the fears of users who believed that once the privacy policy voting went away, Facebook would do whatever they wanted without any concern for users," he said. "I don't think the voting has had any relevance to Facebook privacy decisions for a few years now."
