Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Facebook Giraffe Riddle
Friday, November 1st, 2013
If you’ve spent any time on Facebook in the past day or so, you may be wondering: What’s up with all the giraffes? It’s a riddle. But there’s a problem. An argument. Seems social media can’t decide what’s the right answer. Is it door or eyes?
For those of you who don’t know what is it all about, here’s the riddle again:
“It’s 3 a.m., the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors! It’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?”
How the new Facebook Timeline looks like
Monday, October 10th, 2011
On the upcoming new features in Facebook, we have drawn attention in our previous article. Even if the public launch of the “Timeline” delays because of a lawsuit, here we want to give a deeper insight into the new Facebook “life archive”.
Facebook as a life archive
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Meanwhile, more than 800 million people use the online network Facebook. A week ago, the Facebook founder in San Francisco presented a lot of new features for its social network. When Facebook turns to the future, all new Timeline will replace the existing profile.
Zuckerberg described the timeline as “all your stories, all your apps, a new way to express who you are.” Means that, the Timeline contains all of your content posted on Facebook. Time Machine for your life, so to speak.
Whether photos, videos, music, or status messages what the user just cares – everything is in the Timeline, reminiscent of a colorful diary that every second get new entries.
Facebook News Feed Changes
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Many Facebook users are unhappy on Wednesday after discovering the social media giant made significant changes to the look of news feeds.
Hide and Block – Control your Facebook
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011How to Facebook? – Part 3
Not everything you like what your friends like, not everything you are interested in what your friends find interesting. You want to unfriend your friend at Facebook cause he plays FarmVille and your News Feed is flooded with his FarmVille posts? Wait a moment! It is your friend, isn’t it? Don’t worry, you do not need have to bear with all that posts or requests you are not interested in. You can just hide and block it without loosing your friend. Here is how:
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Minimum age for social networks
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Did you know that the minimum age allowed to use Facebook, is 13 years? This is based on the U.S. federal law COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), which currently prohibits U.S. companies to store personal information from children. Standing in the opinion of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, this network should also be open for children under 13. Zuckerberg, sees its network as an educational platform, which has something to do with upbringing. So students should learn online together and motivate each other.
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Phone numbers visible at Facebook?
Thursday, August 18th, 2011How to Facebook? – Part 2
At present, once again a message on Facebook provides nervousness, and is spread by many people. According to this Facebook make all the phone numbers for friends visible. But do not worry, at Facebook is only visible, what is allowed in the privacy settings.
Here is a guide on how to set the visibility of the telephone number (or multiple phone numbers).
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See all of your friends activities in your news feed… (Facebook Settings)
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011How to Facebook? – Part 1
Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates or getting comments from the same people lately? That’s because Facebook made a change so that you only see posts from people you interact with regularly.
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Facebook launches video and group chat
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The world’s largest online network with over 750 million users, Facebook launches group and video chat features!
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new features at a press conference.
The video chat in cooperation with Skype is now available and easy to operate.
With just one click the function can be activated. Users do need a camera and a microphone at the PC.
Another new feature is the ability to chat with multiple friends. According to Zuckerberg, Facebook has worked on the changes about half a year.
Google+ – competition for Facebook?
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Facebook dominates with about 700 million users the social networking market. Now Google launched with Google+ a project what looks at first glance like a better Facebook. Will Google+ become a serious competitor to Facebook?
As usual the company launched Google+ initially in an early test version, but this time without the otherwise typical beta-lettering. Who wants to use Google+ can be put on a waiting list. This is flanked by a near-launch presentation to send along with small videos that are fueling the interest.
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