#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
Read MoreAs 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
Read MoreMarianne 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
Read MoreTwitter, 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.
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 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
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.
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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