10 tips for Facebook users

Have you signed up for Facebook, added your friends and photos, joined certain community groups or upgraded your profile status? However, the work is not only that, the truth is there are many things that you can do more with Facebook.

Here are 10 tips that can adjust your profile, exploit Facebook's extensive features. These tips are outside of typical operations to better connect with your friends and perform other features.

The first tip

Exploiting your friends' statistics with Socialistics : If you want to know demographic statistics on Facebook about your friends, this app will help you accomplish that task. Socialistics can provide you with information about your friend's age, the language they use, their original nationality, and lots of other interesting information in Facebook.

Socialistics data does not show up on your profile pages and you cannot share Socialistics information with your Facebook friends via your wall. However, if you want to look at the directions for your personal network, add Socialistics to your profile and you can access it privately.

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The second tip

Advanced search tips : Like Google and other search engines, Facebook has a number of search engines attached and terms to help you find loved ones. Want to search your Facebook network or friends list, but want to localize search results at a certain age. Just enter a term using the search filter tool with "name," "y1" and "y2". For example, if you want to find someone named Colin among your college friends, you can't remember his age. Then you just need to enter 'name: Colin Bauer y1: 25 y2: 40'. The search string will ask Facebook to search for people named Colin Bauer and be between 25 and 40 years old and display search results for you within that narrow range.

You can also use two search terms simultaneously by dividing terms into a '|' sign.

If you want people to easily find you when they search, fill in your profile if possible. Your interests such as music, books, movies and . will make you get closer to Facebook's search results page with those keywords. Check out Facebook's help page for more information about search terms.

The third tip

Integrating Facebook information with Google : Firefox's add-on called Xoopit is designed to streamline browsing and sharing files, photos, and videos with friends on other social networks through the Gmail service. by Google. Facebook will remember and display profile pictures, updates about their status. The Xoopit add-on also allows you to upgrade your status within Gmail via a small Xoopit box to integrate within the Gmail interface.

Xoopit Facebook Demo by Jonathan Bruck on Vimeo

The fourth tip

Personalize Facebook URLs: SocialToo allows you to create a custom domain for Facebook profile pages such as username.socialtoo.com. This allows you to share your Facebook site with everyone without asking them to search for you on Facebook to find your profile. However, you may have to explain to your friends that even if Facebook.com is not in the website address, it will still get you to your Facebook page. However, this method will make it easier to remember than an 8-digit profile ID.

Signing up for SocialToo is easy and completely free. You can set up your Facebook settings under 'preferences' in SocialToo's website. Remember to choose your username wisely.

Another way to create a custom domain for your Facebook page is to go to the Profile page in Facebook and copy the web address that appears in your browser's address bar. Then go to Tiny.cc. Paste the web address of your Facebook profile into the "Enter a long URL field" of Tiny.cc. On the right, you will see a Custom option. Here, you can create a custom URL to lead http://tiny.cc/username.

The fifth tip

Hack photos in your profile : Do you want to adjust photos in your profile? Learn how to hack Facebook profiles. You will learn how to maximize the image size up to 200 pixels x 600 pixels and how to create some effects with it.

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The sixth tip

Put Facebook Chat in the browser sidebar : Can Facebook be the main IM tool for you? You can set it in your browser sidebar. In our testing, we used Firefox, but you can also proceed with Opera. Here's how: In Firefox, go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks and click on Bookmarks Toolbar. Select New Bookmark and name it Facebook Chat. Then paste it into the following URL: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php. Make sure you have selected "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" and click Save. Now you are ready for the next implementation. In this regard, IE fans can't do it, but they can paste the URL into a new browser tab if they want.

Saturday tips

Back to the old Facebook interface : Have you ever felt awkward by Facebook's layout or its new interface? If you have problems, you can completely change the look of your Facebook page with a Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey, which will allow you to use Java Scripts to change the look of Facebook. However, this new interface is only you see, and your friends will still see you with the old interface of Facebook. Once you've added Greasemonkey to Facebook, visit the Greasemonkey companion site, UserScripts.org and dozens of layout options for your Facebook page. Click "install" on the new Facebook layout you want and allow Greasemonkey to do the rest of the work.

Note: Before you can download the layout for Facebook, be very careful. The script Greasmonkey is used for changing Facebook layout using JavaScript. JavaScript can be harmful to your computer if created by a deliberate person. Scripts on UserScripts.org can be granted by anyone and are not carefully considered by Greasemonkey. So before you download the layout, you need to check the user reviews for it before installing.

Here are some favorite settings:

Remove Facebook Clutter: This is almost the previous appearance of Facebook. It will hide the filters to the left of the "stream" and "highlights" sections, removing rounded corners on the profile image.

Facebook Color Changer: Select the color scheme and change your FB color. This scenario allows you to change the Facebook icon to the top left of the screen.

Facebook Twitter Style: Have you ever heard of Twitter inflating Facebook's new look? Why not try an experiment with it and see how your Facebook home page looks like?

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Eighth tip

Upload mobile photos or videos to your profile: Take a picture or record a video with your mobile phone, you can post it to your profile. Set the settings for the profile to allow you to upload such things.

Go to the Mobile tab located under your Facebook account tab and set up your phone to send photos to the Facebook page directly. One point to note is that if you set up Facebook to do that, set up Facebook's mobile settings and adjust them properly.

When the Facebook Mobile feature is activated, you can allow Facebook to send notifications to the phone. However, this feature has only been implemented in the US, Canada and the UK.

Ninth tip

Tweet your status : This is one of the pretty interesting things. Adding a Twitter application to Facebook's profile allows you to have more options to adjust Facebook status updates. Not only that, Twitter is also smart enough to filter out replies so that messages don't spread over your profile.

The tenth tip

Using third-party applications: There are many third-party applications for Facebook that you can use. This is one of the applications that we recommend for you:

Digsby (Windows Only): Digsby is a small Facebook application located on your computer's system tray and can drag into Facebook Chat, other IM accounts, email notifications and upgrade Facebook from your friends network.

Facebook Desktop Client (Windows Only): Provides notifications like friends' requests, post walls, viewing notifications and status updates.

MyFacebook (Vista): This widget adds Facebook information to the right of the sidebar on Windows Vista operating system. With this app, you can change the status, see status, groups, notifications, albums and events about your friends.

Facebook Dashboard Widget (Mac): Like Windows Facebook Desktop, this widget will notify you of requests, notifications, groups and, . in your friends group.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto (Mac): If you don't plan to buy iLife '09, but prefer to post photos directly from iPhoto, use this plugin. Select or create a new album, tag your friends and add snippets to the right of iPhoto, then send it directly to Facebook's profile.

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Here are 10 very effective tips for Facebook. While it may take a bit of time on these tips, it certainly gives you lots of interesting things to add to what you still have with Facebook.

Ian Paul