10n unknow facts about facebook gives a clean and clear picture of using facebook smartly. arise roby

1. 10 UNKNOWN FEATURES
Of
FACEBOOK
By
Arise Roby
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2. View Photos in a classic way:
• If you don‟t like the pop
up black box appearance
of the photos, you can
simply revert to get a
classic view of your
photographs by pressing
F5 on your keyboard.
With this you can flick
through your album
photos rather than
clicking on each photo
separately.
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3. CREATE AN INTEREST LIST
Based on your interests you can make use of the option for
creating an interest list. You can either follow other people‟s
list or else you can make an interest list. For example you
can make a list of “Must Visit Non Popular Places” in
India.For creating an interest list Visit
https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/interests and click the
'Add Interests' button. Then click 'Create List' and search
for the people or Pages you want to add to your list, or
browse the categories towards the left. After selecting the
things you want include, decide a name for your list and
select a privacy setting .Choose „Public‟ if you want others
to subscribe to your list. In case if you are following a list
then you can see the updates from the list by clicking the
topright of your homepage.
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4. VIEW FRIENDSHIP HISTORY
• This feature can be used to brush up your old
memories. If you want to look at the Facebook
interactions that you‟ve had with a particular friend, go
to their profile page, clicking the arrow in the top right
corner and select „See Friendship” from the dropdown
menu. In case if you have added a relationship to your
timeline with the friend you are searching then go to
https://www.facebook.com/us to see the friendship page
for you and your friend. For getting the friendship page
for two of your friends you just go to a friendship page,
and then click 'More' and type the names of
your friends.
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5. CHECK YOUR OTHER MESSAGES
Facebook highlights some stories in your news
feed that is relevant to you according to the
information it carries. Similar way it also sorts
out the messages. The main inbox carries
messages from your friends and their friends. All
other messages go to other folder from where you
can access them separately. Facebook doesn‟t
send a notification when a new message arrives
here, thus there will be a lot of unread messages
piled up in the other box.
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6. Prevent tagged posts from automatically
displaying on your Timeline
• Facebook has a wonderful option of dismissing or approving the
tags that people add to your post. If you turn it on then when
someone tags a photo or post you made, then the tag won‟t appear
until you approve it.
•
To turn on tag review, click on the arrow at the top right of any
Facebook page and select 'Settings' in the left-hand column. Then
click Timeline and Tagging and look for the setting 'Who can add
things to my timeline?' and click 'Edit' next to the option 'Review
posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline' to turn
this on. This will but only controls the things that will appear on the
timeline, posts you are tagged in still appear in the search, newsfeed
and other options.
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7. Turn your profile upside down
In the language feature of Facebook there is
option to turn all the words on it upside down.
Even if you select the option, it‟s something
that you can only see, not your friends. To
activate this option you first have to go to your
Facebook profile "Settings", and then click on
the "Language" tab. From the language drop
down box choose "English (Upside Down)".
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8. Download your Facebook data
• In the Facebook general account settings there is
a useful and interesting feature that allows you to
download all the information available in your
account like posts, photos, messages. To add up it
can also save various other information that
cannot be accessed by a simple logging like the
ads you have clicked on, data like the IP
addresses that you were on when you logged into
or out of Facebook, and many other such things.
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9. Send a private message from a
traditional email account
• You can send a message from your traditional
mail like Gmail or Yahoo to one‟s Facebook
account. The general format for this is
username@Facebook.com. The messages will
be delivered to your Facebook folder. When
you send messages to external mail address
they will look similar to Facebook messages
with your name and profile picture.
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10. ACTIVITY LOG
Activity log helps you to do a review on your
activities in the Facebook like the details on the
photo shared by you, when you added a particular
person as friend. It is record of all your posts and
activities from the very time you opened your
account. Get to your activity log by clicking the
arrow at the top right of any Facebook page and
choosing Settings, followed by 'Privacy'. Next to
'Who can see my stuff?' click 'Use Activity Log'.
This feature you can also use to review the photos
you shared, posted and hidden on timeline.
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11. Turn off Mobile push Notifications
• Getting regular Facebook updates on your
mobile phone can be irritating. Push
notifications can be set on and off from the
phone or your Facebook apps. To make
alterations in the mobile puff notifications go
the privacy settings, then notifications, mobile
push and un-tick the things that you don‟t need
notifications about. Nowadays it‟s not possible
to change the push notifications from mobile
browsers or via feature phones.
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