How to change your Facebook relationship status without alerting friends

February 14, 2012 |  by  |  Facebook, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

#1 Facebook Relationship Status - The new Timeline design makes much of your relationship status, so we'd recommend erring on the side of caution about what you choose to broadcast. #2. The Break-Up - If you change your status from being in a relationship with someone to being single using the default settings, Facebook will alert all your friends to this via their News Feeds. If you want to change your status in a more subtle manner, we can show you how. #3. Edit Your Profile - From your Facebook profile page, click on the "About" link under your profile picture. #4. Edit

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Lovebirds or Heartbreak: Top valentine’s day playlists on Facebook

February 14, 2012 |  by  |  Facebook  |  No Comments

As a Valentine’s Day experiment, Facebook looked at the top 10 songs users are listening to as they make new relationships “Facebook official” or announce recent breakups on the social network. The Facebook Data Team looked at songs U.S. users played on Spotify after changing their relationship statuses. Among lovebirds on Facebook, Jason Derulo takes the top spot with his hit "Don't Wanna Go Home". When users fall in love they feel like celebrating, so along with romantic songs like "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars, users also play songs like "No Sleep" by Whiz Kalifa. "The Cave" by Mumford

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Watch out for fake Facebook stock

February 11, 2012 |  by  |  Facebook, News  |  No Comments

Marianne Oleson, 46, made her initial appearance in Winnebago County court Wednesday afternoon. Oleson, who is also known to go by the last names of Jansen, Milock or Maloney, is charged with 31 felony counts relating to theft and forgery for the sale of fake stock for the social media company Facebook. “I was scammed,” said Randy Stafford. Stafford, a construction worker, did work on Oleson’s home in Nekimi in Winnebago County. According to the criminal complaint, after Oleson couldn’t pay up, she offered to pay Stafford in fake stock in Facebook. “I think it’s a great opportunity, it’s a growing business so

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Facebook Names Top Games of 2011

December 22, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, News  |  No Comments

Social gaming was a big trend in 2011 and you can expect the market to continue to grow in 2012. Facebook, the biggest platform for social games, released its list of the most popular games of 2011. In addition to highlighting the variety of games people played and recommended to friends, the list also shows that innovation in the space is reaching Silicon Valley and beyond. Apps were built by developers around the world from Seattle, Santa Monica, Canada, Germany, Japan, Serbia, and Prague. Facebook say it is basing its ranking on “games that drew the most active users and

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Condom ad disguised as Facebook friend request from your future son

December 3, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, Video  |  No Comments

An advertising campaign from Olla Condoms, which sends Facebook users unsolicited friend requests from their yet-to-be-born sons, has attracted plenty of attention — but is also a violation of Facebook policy. The promo video for the “Unexpected Babies” campaign from Brazilian agency Age Isobar details the ad’s concept: Take a male user’s name, create a new profile using that name with “Jr.” tacked on the end, and send a friend request to the unsuspecting user. When he visits his virtual son’s profile, he sees a condom ad from Brazil-based Olla. A birth control strategy for the social media age. :) Olla

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Your new Facebook status can be of 63,206 characters

December 1, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook  |  No Comments

Twitter, as everyone and their tweeting dog knows, limits your status updates to 140 characters. But Facebook? In September, Facebook increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, Facebook announced that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters. In a blog post, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik announced that the limit of Facebook status updates has now been upped to “more than 60,000 characters.” Lavrusik explained what that meant, exactly: You can now post a status update measuring 63,206 characters.

Facebook releases desktop messenger client for Windows 7

November 24, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, News  |  No Comments

TechCrunch reported that Facebook has released a desktop messenger client for Windows 7 that brings you access to the site's chat, ticker feed and notifications without everyone in the office spotting the blue-bar-of-lost-productivity across the top of your browser. There is no public download link, and the client is only compatible with Windows 7, though it was developed entirely by Facebook and does not constitute a new partnership with Microsoft.

SlingPlayer now adds streaming video through Facebook

November 13, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, News, Video  |  No Comments

SlingPlayer has added one more platform to its pile, check out the video below for quick demo of streaming video through Facebook. While the old Sling streaming will works as it used to be, this one adds extra flavor in from of social features to the mix, which will let viewers share the shows and what they enjoy watching easily while not-so-coincidentally making sure their friends know they're watching TV via Slingbox. There's no word on when this will actually hit the streets. SlingPlayer for Facebook

How to link your Facebook profile to Twitter

November 1, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, Tips n Tweaks, Twitter  |  No Comments

Now you can now easily link your personal Facebook account to your Twitter account, and publish your “public” status updates directly to Twitter. #1 Go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter #2 Choose your personal Facebook account and then click “Link to Twitter” #3 Choose which items you’d like to send to Twitter, of course they’ll have to be marked as “Public” for them to be shared.

Facebook Video Player a chrome extension to watch videos while you continue browsing your news feed

October 29, 2011 |  by  |  Chrome, Extension, Facebook, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

You love watching videos on Facebook and equally love browsing news feed, so if you want to scan through your Facebook news feed without stopping for each YouTube video someone posts, the Facebook Video Player extension will play videos in the upper right-hand corner of your window, allowing you to keep browsing as it plays. Facebook Video Player moves that video to the other side of your browser and "floats" it over the rest of Facebook, so you can keep scrolling while the video stays in place. The extension allows to play video on facebook in a fixed block so

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