Best Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know

 

Posted by Imran

I already posted many Facebook Tips and Tricks on this blog.But now its something different.This time I wanted to place all the Facebook Tips and Tricks at one place and make a huge collection of all the best Facebook Tricks.I tried my best to include all the Best Facebook Tricks at one place .If I missed any which is worth including in the list then let me know in your comments.I will update the list with your Tricks.

Best Facebook Tips/Tricks of All Time:

1.Watch Streaming TV Live on Facebook:

There is a Facebook Application that provides free streaming live TV channels on Facebook.You can watch a lot of International Channels using this Application.I am able to watch live channels without buffering on my 2G connection.This application is totally at free of cost.2012 Olympics are also broadcasted on this channel.

Application Used:http://apps.facebook.com/tvdream-app/

2.Send SMS from Facebook:

Yes you are right now you can send sms from facebook.There are no country restrictions.You can send sms to any country.The message sending is instant and takes only few seconds to reach the destination.All this is possible with a cool facebook application.

• Login to your Facebook Account.
• Go to this Facebook Chat Application.
• Check the below screenshot how it looks like.

• Select your country.
• Then in the next line enter the mobile number to which you want to send sms.
• After that enter your message that you want to deliver.

Limitations:

• You can send only sms upto 100 characters long.
• You can only send 4 SMS per day.
• Dont do any illegal things with this service as it will first display your name at the beginning of the message.

3.Create a Video With Your Pictures on Facebook:

You can easily create a video with your Facebook Pictures.To create a video with your facebook photos go to pixable.com[click here].

4.Delete Facebook Account Permanently:

Most of them are confused between deleting and deactiving their Facebook Account.Deactivationg is completely different from deleting your account permanently.To avoid confusion just follow the below link to delete your facebook account permanently.

• How To Delete Facebook Permanently.

5.Trick to download facebook Photo Album-Link:

Follow this link to know how to download facebook photo album in  a single click.

• Download Facebook Photo Album in a single click.

6.Trick to see who is online when you are offline:

Sometimes it becomes necessary to check who is online which being offline.At such times there is a very cool Facebook Application which can make your job easy.Use the below application to know who are online while you are offline.

• http://www.facebook.com/onlinenow.

7.Trick to publish empty status:

Login to your facebook account.Then click on update status and enter the following code and hit enter.

@[2:2: ]

8.How to find who deleted/Unfriended you on facebook?

You can find who deleted or unfriended you on facebook using an application called who delete me[click here].
This application will back up all your friends list when you sign up for the first time and notifies via mail whenever there is a change in your friends list.

9.Download Videos From Facebook For Free:

To download videos from facebook go to Downfacebook.com[click here]
There put the Facebook Url of video and your video will be ready to download.

10.Place Facebook Chat on Firefox Sidebar:

• Open Mozilla Firefox browser and press Alt key.
• Select bookmarks and select "show all bookmarks"
• A box will open from that select unsorted bookmarks > organise >  new bookmark.
• Again a box will open in that type "facebookchat" in first boxand type "  http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php " in second box .
• Click on load this bookmark >add.
• Now again press alt key > view > side bar > bookmarks>.
• Then select facebook chat from the bookmarks in slide bar.
• You are done.Now you will be able to see chat bar on the left side of your Mozilla Firefox Browser.

11.Post your Status in All Facebook Groups in a Single Click:

Some times you want to post your status or write message in all groups.If you do the job manually then its a time consuming frustrating process and you end up in posting your status only in few groups.But now your job has become very easy.There is a facebook application using which you can post your Facebook status in any number of groups you wish.

Using Multiple Post Application you can make your job easy to post your status in multiple groups.

12.Tips and Tricks to get more likes for your Facebook Fanpage:

Now a days almost most of the Facebook users have some Facebook pages.May be it is Music,Dance , Actor,Brand Page,whatever page it may be all you need is to get more likes for that fanpage.I listed few Tips and Tricks using which you can get more likes for your fanpage just follow the below link.

• Get more Facebook Likes.

13.Add Images in your Facebook Chat:

You might have known that you can add smileys and emotions in your Facebook Chat Box.Not only smileys but also you can add any picture in your facebook chat box.

• Add Any Picture in Facebook Chat Box.

14.Cool Facebook Chat Tricks-Link:

Chat tricks will enhance your ability of using facebook and with these tricks you can easily impress your friends while chatting.

• Facebook Chat Tricks.

15.Facebook Status Tricks-Link:

I already posted few Status tricks.This is a very cool trick using which you can update your facebook status via Blackberry,Iphone,Android,Ipad etc using Facebook Applications.

There are many such applications, I mentioned few best applications. Follow them and update your status.

Just Follow Below Links To Use Applications:

• To update your facebook status via blackberry

• To update your facebook status via blackberry torch

• To update your facebook status via blackberry playbook

• To update your facebook status via iPhone

• To update your facebook status via iPhone4

• To update your facebook status via iPhone5

• To update your facebook status via iPad

• To update your facebook status via iPad2

• To update your facebook status via iPad3

• To update your facebook status via Android

• To update your facebook status via Calculator .

16.Remove Facebook Timeline Easily-Link:

17.Facebook Timeline Shortcut Keys-Link:

18.Facebook Ghost Profile Prank:

This is the best prank ever that I played on my friends. Ask your friends to check this [ GOST PROFILE ] . It will look like a scary ghost profile.But that's not the interesting part here, Ask your friend to click on photos. 

Here come the scary part, Out  of nowhere a ghost face comes out from the centre with a scary shout.

Your Friends shouts-Our prank rocks.

When I tried this prank on my friends few girls even shouted in fear.

• More Funny Facebook Pranks Here.

19.Remove Facebook Advertisements:

Using this Greasemoney script-Facebook:Cleaner you can easily remove annoying Facebook Ads.

How To Remove Facebook Timeline

Overview of How to Remove / Disable Facebook Timeline

If you have got Facebook Timeline and want to change back to viewing the old style profile pages, or if you haven't got Timeline yet, but just want to view your friend's Timeline pages in the old style profile format, this guide is for you.
Currently, if you visit a personal Facebook Timeline page, with a browser that identifies itself as "Internet Explorer 7", you will be shown the old style profile page for that person, instead of their Timeline page. This is because Facebook haven't yet created a version of Timeline that works with IE7.
When you visit a website, your web browser sends it an identification code, known as the "User Agent", which lets the site know what web browser you are using. This method for disabling timeline works by changing your current browser's "User Agent" to IE7 and tricking Facebook into showing you the old style profile pages.

Guide to Remove / Disable Facebook Timeline

The method for setting the User Agent to IE7 for the following browsers are listed below : Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer.

GOOGLE CHROME

To change Google Chrome's "User Agent" you need to carefully follow the instructions below, depending on what Operating System you are using.

Chrome on Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP

The first 2 steps are very imporant, you need to install FB Purity, and then you also need to download the .bat file that is used to start Chrome with its User Agent set to IE7:

1. First, install the F.B. Purity browser extension, as it will fix a lot of the display glitches that will occur when you set your browser to impersonate IE7.
2. Next, Download ("Right Click" the link, select "Save link as..." and save the .bat file to your "Desktop")
3. Close *all* open Chrome browser Windows and Tabs, then click the previously downloaded .bat file and it will run Chrome with "IE7" as its "user agent".
4. Now visit a personal Timeline page, and you will see that it is now displayed as a normal, old style profile page. BTW If at any point, you want to go back to using the normal User Agent, just close all Chrome windows and then open Chrome using your usual Chrome Icon, instead of the Bat file.
5. Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:

Now click here for further important information on this process.

Chrome on Mac OS X

I've created a simple Mac app that will start up Chrome with its "User Agent" set to IE7.

1. First, install the F.B. Purity browser extension, as it will fix a lot of the display glitches that will occur when you have your browser set to impersonate IE7.
2. Next, Download ("Right Click" the link and save the zipped app file to your Desktop)
3. After you have downloaded the .zip file, click it and it will unzip the App
4. Now Close *all* open Chrome windows, and click the App file that you have previously unzipped, (it has a chrome icon with IE7 written on it) this will run Chrome with IE7 as the user agent
5. Now visit a personal Timeline page, and you will see that it is now displayed as a normal, old style profile page. BTW If at any point, you want to go back to using the normal User Agent, just close all Chrome windows and then open Chrome using your usual Chrome Icon, instead of the Chrome-IE7 app icon.
6. Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:

Now click here for further important information on this process.

Chrome on Linux

If you are running Linux, the command you need to run, to start Chrome with its "User Agent" set to IE7, is most probably something like this: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" But i expect it would be slightly different in each Linux distribution. (If you know the command for a specific distribution of Linux, please share it in the comments below) The command should all be on one line (its broken over multiple lines here, because of the width restriction). I dont have Linux, so i cant create a shortcut file for you, you will have to figure out how to do it yourself.

Please Note: Running Chrome with the spoofed useragent is only temporary, and it will only have the IE7 user agent when you start Chrome with the downloaded .Bat or App File. To revert back to normal Chrome, just close all Chrome windows, then run Chrome from your usual shortcut / icon as you normally would and its User Agent will return to normal.

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FIREFOX (Windows, Mac or Linux)

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Its easy to switch Firefox's User Agent to IE7, the steps are as follows

1. Install the F.B. Purity browser extension, as it will fix most of the display glitches that occur when you switch the browser's User Agent to IE7, and it also has a lot of other cool and useful features for customising Facebook.
2. Install the "User Agent Switcher" Extension from addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
3. Go to Firefox's "Tools/User Agent Switcher/Internet Explorer" menu and select "Internet Explorer 7"
   
   
4. Now go and view a personal Timeline page, it will be displayed in the old Profile format. BTW If you want to at any point switch the User Agent back to normal, just set the User Agent to "Default User Agent" or else just disable the "User Agent Switcher" extension.
5. Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:

Now click here for further important information on this process.

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SAFARI (Mac or Windows)

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1. Install the F.B. Purity browser extension, this will fix most of the display glitches that occur on Facebook when you use the IE7 User Agent, and it also has a lot of other cool and useful features for customising Facebook.
2. To switch the User Agent in Safari, you need to first go into the "Preferences" menu, select "Advanced", then tick the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" option, then exit the preferences menu.
3. Now click the page icon menu (next to the cog wheel icon) then select the "Develop/User agent" menu, there you can choose the useragent you wish to use for the current website you are viewing. Select Internet Explorer 7.
   
   
4. Now view any personal Facebook Timeline page, and it will be displayed in the old style Profile format.
5. Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:

N.B. If you want to restore your User Agent to normal in Safari, just follow Steps 1 and 2 again, but this time select the "Default" user agent
Now click here for further important information on this process.

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OPERA (Windows, Mac or Linux)

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1. Install the FB Purity browser extension, which will fix some of the display problems that arise when you set your browser to impersonate IE7, it also gives you lots of options for hiding spam and other news stories and facebook features that you dont want to see.
2. To set the custom user agent in Opera, enter "opera:config#ISP|Id" into the url/address bar, then enter the Custom User Agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" and click "Save"
   
3. Restart your browser and view your profile page, or any other personal Timeline profile page, and it will display it in the old Profile format
4. Please click the "like" button below, and also share the link to this page with all your friends, that way they will also be able to view your Timeline page in the old style Profile format:

N.B. If you want to restore your User Agent to normal in Opera, just follow the first part of step 1 again, and then click the "Default" button then click "Save"
Now click here for further important information on this process.

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INTERNET EXPLORER (Windows)

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If you are using Internet Explorer 7 you wont be seeing Timeline anyway, you will just see the old style Facebook profiles (though you should really upgrade your browser to a more modern one for extra security and compatibility). If you are using Internet Explorer 8 or 9, you are out of luck and I recommend you upgrade your browser by installing either Chrome or Firefox and then follow the steps outlined above for the specific browser you have chosen to install. The reason for this is Internet Explorer is not a good web browser, which is why Facebook have not bothered to make Timeline work with it.

Test whether you have successfully disabled Timeline in your browser

You can check if the process has worked as Facebook should display a message saying you need to Upgrade Your Browser, you can ignore that and click the X to close that window, you should now try viewing somebody's personal Timeline page (the method doesnt work on Fan Pages), if you have followed the instructions correctly, the page should now display in the old style Profile format. If it hasnt worked for you, try again, but be careful to follow the instructions exactly, otherwise the method wont work for you. If you still cant get it to work, try using the method for one of the other browsers in the guide or ask a more technically minded friend to help you with it.

Important Note - Please Read!

One downside of running a browser with the IE7 useragent is that some parts of the facebook site may not display correctly, also certain other sites might have issues, for instance if you go to the install page on fbpurity.com it will think u are using IE and tell you to download Chrome or firefox, though if you click the browser button of the real browser you are using, it will present you with the correct version of FBP.
If you do have problems when visiting other sites and find they wont work with the IE7 User Agent, one solution would be to run 2 different web browsers at the same time, one with the User Agent set to IE7 just for browsing Facebook and the other with its normal user agent for browsing the rest of the web. For example you could use Firefox with UA set to IE7 for browsing Facebook and use Chrome for browsing the rest of the web, or vice versa if you prefer. The other solution is to just reset your browser's user-agent to the Default setting when you visit sites that dont work with IE7.
If after enabling the IE7 useragent in your browser, you see any big gaps at the top of facebook pages, between the header and the page content and also small comment boxes, make sure you have the latest version of FB Purity installed, as that will get rid of the gap and fix the size of the comment boxes, and if the gap does show up again, just reload your page, and it should go back to normal.
Another important point is that though the Timeline will be disabled when you view it, other people will still see your page in the Timeline format. If you want others to see your page in the old style format, you need to share the link to this page with all your facebook friends ( ), so they will also have the solution to disabling timeline and be able to view your page and others in the old style profile format too.
*Update* Please note, this method does not work on the new "Brand Page / Fan Page" Timeline pages, it only works on the Personal Timeline pages of normal Facebook users.
BTW if you hate Timeline and would like to complain directly to Facebook about it, you can do so via Facebook's Official Timeline Feedback form
I hope this helps you,
Cheers,
Steve
If this solution worked for you or if you like F.B. Purity, please make a donation to show your appreciation for all the work i have put into developing this and keeping it running.

Facebook top search term in 2011

By Emil Protalinski | December 22, 2011, 9:38am PST

Summary: Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US this year, accounting for 3.10/4.42 percent of all searches, depending on how you slice it. It was also the second-most visited web property.

Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US this year. The data comes from competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise, which analyzed the top 1,000 search terms for 2011.
This is the third year in a row that Facebook has been the top search term overall, accounting for 3.10 percent of all searches, a 46 percent increase from last year. Looking at the top 10 terms, there were four variations of Facebook searchesw: “facebook,” “facebook login,” “facebook.com,” and “www.facebook.com.” Together, they accounted for 4.42 percent of searches overall, a 24 percent increase from last year.
As you can see in the chart above, the search term “youtube” moved up from the third spot in 2010 to the second spot in 2011. “Facebook login” was the third most-searched term in 2011, followed by “craigslist” and “facebook.com.” The last one moved up one spot in 2011 to be among the top five search terms.
Facebook was also the top-visited website for the second year in a row. It accounted for 10.29 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2011 – a 15 percent increase from 2010. Google.com ranked second, with 7.70 percent of visits, followed by YouTube (3.17 percent), Yahoo Mail (2.95 percent), and Yahoo (2.47 percent).
In terms of properties, Google still beat Facebook, since the latter only has one website. Google properties accounted for 11.98 percent of all U.S. visits - a 22 percent increase compared with 2010. Facebook properties accounted for 8.93 percent, and Yahoo properties accounted for 6.81 percent.
Facebook isn’t likely to pass Google next year but it has the potential to do so in the next few years. The social networking giant is already beating the search giant in a few other traffic-related areas, including top searches as outlined above, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Facebook was crowned first here as well.

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Facebook Acquires Friend.ly, Maker Of Q&A Application

Posted by Jackie Cohen on October 10th, 2011 1:00 PM

Facebook has acquired friend.ly, creator of a question and answer application for getting to know other people on the social network.

A spokesperson for Facebook told us via email:

We’re excited to announce that we recently acquired friend.ly, a Silicon Valley startup that created a really compelling way for people to express themselves and meet others through answering questions. We’ve admired the team’s efforts for some time now, and we’re looking forward to having [them] make a big impact on the way millions of people connect and engage with each other on Facebook.

Question-and-answer applications on Facebook have waxed and waned in popularity, with the most recent peak for the category occurring a couple of weeks ago; friend.ly’s own user base has tapered off its growth, at least compared to the competition.

According to our own AppData, friend.ly has 10,077 daily active users, down from an all-time high of over 1.6 million, and 291,590 monthly active users, compared to an all-time high of over 6.9 million.

By contrast, 21 Questions has 665,399 daily active users, down from a high of nearly 5.5 million, and over 28.7 monthly active users, down from a high of more than 32.9 million.

Facebook had relaunched its own Questions application this March, although the tool is more focused on creating one-off polls than on encouraging people to get to know one another.

For the social network to acquire something already provided by numerous third party developers and that isn’t the leader in the category suggests that perhaps Facebook might want to use friend.ly’s capabilities not just to enhance the native Questions application but to encourage users to populate their profiles, especially with the impending beta launch of timeline.

Here’s what friend.ly (one of those companies that insists its name doesn’t take an initial capital letter) said about the deal on the company’s official blog:

Two years ago, we started friend.ly to enhance your social networking experience by creating a fun, easy way to express yourself and meet new people by answering questions.

Since then, we’ve seen you compliment each other, ask poignant questions, and tell the world more about the “real” you. The you who could survive with only a copy of Atlas Shrugged on a desert island. The you who has memorized every word of every episode of Dexter. And the you who yearns to meet more people who also love tennis, find ice cream to be therapeutic, and think existentialism is fascinating.

All of you have answered millions of questions, and today we’d like to answer the following question for you: “What’s next for friend.ly?”

Our answer: friend.ly has been acquired by Facebook.

We’re excited about this because we feel the spirit of friend.ly aligns well with Facebook’s vision, and we’re thrilled to be joining such an innovative company. The friend.ly team will be focusing on new projects at Facebook, but friend.ly will continue to operate as a separate service.

We want to thank you – from the bottom of our hearts – for sharing your hopes, your memories and your humor with the friend.ly community. Thank you for your unwavering support of our product and your dedication to helping us make it better. Thank you also to our investors and advisors for your invaluable advice and your faith in our team and ideas.

Best wishes,

The friend.ly Team

Readers, what do you think about the news that Facebook has acquired friend.ly?

5 Most Popular Musicians to Subscribe to on Facebook

17 hours ago by Brian Anthony Hernandez23

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Facebook has for many years been a portal for musicians to share their music, photos and thoughts as well as interact with fans. Now, the world’s largest social network offers them another way to let fans into their lives: the Subscribe button.

While almost every big-name artist and band has a brand Page for fans to “Like,” a handful of popular musicians have also enabled and embraced the Subscribe feature, which allows any Facebook user to subscribe to those musicians’ personal profiles and see anything shared publicly.

But why? The feature has several benefits for musicians: Without the Subscribe button, a musician is limited to 5,000 friends, but with the feature, the musician can attract an unlimited number of subscribers. The tool also is especially useful for band members who would rather connect with their fans more intimately through their own profiles rather than their band’s Page.

Ultimately, Subscribe gives band members and solo artists alike a way to engage with friends and fans all in one central location (no need to shuffle from personal profile to fan Page), while allowing the musicians the option to share anything privately with just friends and not subscribers if desired.