Top 10 Facebook tips

Below is a listing of our top 10 tips for the popular social networking website Facebook.

• Hide users, games, polls, etc.

It quickly gets annoying seeing some users posts, game invites, polls, etc. Hovering your mouse to the right of the post and clicking the Hide button as shown below can hide any post. After pressing the button you'll have the option to hide that user or in the case of a Facebook application the option to hide that application from ever showing up on your profile.

To unhide someone or unblock an application click the Edit Options link in the bottom right corner of the news feed as shown below.

Greasemonkey and FB Purity

Although Facebook does not give you the option to hide friends, friend requests, or various notifications, these can be hidden using browser add-ons. If you're running Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari we suggest installing the Facebook Purity add-on.

• Update your privacy settings

Click Account in the top right corner of the Facebook window and then click Privacy settings to adjust who is capable of seeing what on your Facebook profile. We highly recommend going through all the privacy settings to verify your privacy is properly protected.

Anything that is not set to friends only or friends of friends can be seen by anyone searching on the Internet. Below is a few things we recommend for most users.

1. Under Search in Privacy settings uncheck Public Search Results. Adjusting the settings prevents users from finding your account and profile picture in search results such as Google
2. Under Application settings, make sure you're only allowing applications you want to have access to your information. Applications that you grant rights to can have access to your Facebook profile information.

• If you're curious to see how a program or web page connect to the Facebook API can see your profile see Tip135.
•   Use the Facebook top bar for navigation

Knowing how to properly navigate is vital if you want to get the most out of Facebook. Below is a brief description of each of the available options in the top bar as shown above.

Home (facebook logo) - Clicking this logo takes you to your wall (News Feed) that shows all friends recent posts.

Friend requests - If any friend requests are waiting to be approved this icon shows a notification of how many friends are waiting for approval. This icon can also be clicked when you want to view any friend recommendations or search for friends on Facebook.

Messages - This section allows you to send and receive private messages between one or more of your friends.

Notifications - Any time a friend or Facebook application creates a new post you'll be notified in this section. Clicking this icon shows all recent notifications. To change notifications including any Facebook applications or games click the See All Notifications link at the bottom and check or uncheck what you want to be notified on.

Search - Finally, the search box in Facebook can be a powerful tool that can be used to quickly find any current friends or people on Facebook. Also, searching for terms such as a company name, product, sports team, music band, etc. will find fan pages and groups that can be joined.

• Modify your account notifications

Keep your e-mail and your cell phone clean by updating or eliminate Facebook notifications or keep more up-to-date by adding new notifications. Facebook notifications can be added and removed by clicking Account link in the top right corner, thenAccount Settings, and then clicking the Notifications tab.

• Top News and Most Recent

By default Facebook displays your wall postings in the News format, which means it only displays posts it believes are most relevant to you. These results are based on your past interaction with your friends. If you want to see every post made by all your friends that are not hidden click the Most recent link in the upper right section of your news feed as shown in the above picture example.

If you want to adjust who shows up manually click the Edit Options in the bottom right corner of your news feed.

• View High School work friends

If you've added your High School or previous Work locations to your profile, quickly see all classmates and co-workers on Facebook by clicking the link in your Info tab under your profile.

• Quickly change profile picture

Your profile picture can be changed by visiting your profile, hovering the mouse over your current profile picture, and clicking the Change Picture link in the top right corner.

• Don't post private information on friend's walls on in comments

When you make a post on a friend's wall or in any of their comments realize that any of their friends are going to be able to see that post. If you want for something to remain only between you and a friend send them a Facebook message instead.

• Suggestions and random friend invites

As you get more friends on Facebook it will begin making friend, groups, and fan suggestions. These are suggestions made by Facebook and not your friends. Unless these are something you're interested in they can be ignored.

This same rule can be applied to people who may want to be your friend that you don't know. If you don't know someone don't accept his or her friend invite. Once someone becomes your friend they'll have access to any information your friends are capable of seeing.

• Tag your Facebook friends in your photos

Always make sure to tag any of your Facebook friends that are in pictures you upload. However, never tag someone who is not in the picture. When someone is tagged in a photo that picture is automatically added to that persons profile and is a great way to share pictures with all friends.

How To Change Facebook Timeline Background Theme [2015 Updated]

Facebook is one of the best and world's top social networking site where we can share our thoughts and experience with our friends and family members and Facebook also connecting the people which are lives in far away from us. As we know that the color of the Facebook is blue and sometimes we feel boring to see every time the blue color, Facebook does not provide any method by which their users can customize their Facebook profile and change their theme from boring blue to other color.  Facebook is not open source as compare to Myspace where users can change some features according to their likes. But don't worry with help of some Mozilla Add-ons and with some chrome extensions you will become able to change Facebook theme and you can change any color according to your like. There are many plugins by with the help of you can change some features like appearance, color and background images. Whenever you will do the customization with these extensions or add-ons it will only appear to you, not other users. So here we collect some Mozilla and chrome extensions

Facebook Theme Creator - Chrome Extension

Facebook Theme Creator is a chrome extension, with the help of this extension you can change Facebook theme, because there are many different Facebook themes in this extension and you can apply any theme according o you.

1. First of all open chrome browser and download Facebook Theme Creator extension for chrome from chrome web store.

2. Click on +FREE on the right side. It will add extension automatically on your browser. To use this extension it will tell you sign in chrome after this you can change background , bar color and appearance according to you. To use this extension it will install app on your Facebook apps, click on themes creator app then apply any design you want.

My Theme For Facebook - Chrome Extension 

My Theme For Facebook is another chrome extension for changing Facebook theme. In this extension you can change background image, bar color and appearance with your favorite color. Just download the extension and enjoy it.

1. Download My Theme For Facebook extension from chrome web store.

2. Click on +FREE on the right side. The icon will show you on the right side on your Facebook browser page. Click on the icon and it will show you dialogue box from where you can change Facebook theme according to your like.

Note:- To Remove these extensions Go to your chrome browser >> settings >> Extensions >> and then tap on  disabled or you can delete extension.

Stylish - Mozilla Firefox Extension 

Stylish is a Mozilla extension for change Facebook theme. You can install any style from stylish extension it has many themes and you can install any theme according to you.

1. Open Firefox browser and download Stylish extension for your browser.

2. Click on +ADD to Firefox and it will install extension automatically on your browser. After this open Facebook and click on stylish icon on the top right side of your browser. You can manage style according to you and add new styles.

There is also another Mozilla extension Black Facebok Theme.  

Note:- To remove these extensions Go to your Mozilla settings >> click on Add-Ons and disable or delete extension from add-ons.

Disconnect To Connect : How I’m Fixing My Addiction To Internet

“This is a story of my last 2 weeks when I’m mostly away or not using Internet, and I realised things I was missing and I was doing wrong.”

When I was a child, my mother used to tell me ” Don’t over do it” ” Don’t over eat sweets” or in short; don’t over do anything. I was an infant then and never understood the meaning of it, and now at the age of 27, I’m understanding every single meaning behind it. In my 5 and half year of blogging life, I was constantly connected to internet. Be it on my laptop or on iPhone or on iPad, I was constantly connected to the world. I never realised when happiness of meeting people in real life turned into those quick and meaningless Facebook or whats app chit-chat. I completely missed out to draw a line between my professional and personal life, for internet use. Here are some of them;

• I started skipping meeting people in real-life and started video calls on Skype or Facetime to interact.
• I stopped myself from saying what I truly felt, and started writing status updates for being acknowledged.
• I started listening to valuable comments and opinion from others and started focusing only on likes and ignoring dislikes.
• I read a lot about life hacks thinking I have learnt something new; without implementing them in real-life.
• I started ignoring advice from experience people around me (Real-life) , and used google to find an answer for my queries. I forgot that those answer was written by someone like you and me, and it could be best or couldn’t be the best advice.

This was just the beginning and it took me 5 and half years to realize I was becoming anInternet addict.  Before you judge me too fast, It didn’t happened over night, but this change happened in small and gradual manner.

How I used internet in wrong way?

As a blogger by profession, being online is a part of my daily job and routine. 8 hour is the minimum time I used to stay online, and rest of the time I was online for non-work reasons. I started replacing my regular and healthier habits with online counter-part. I have already mentioned some of them above, and it all happened in this due course of 5 and half year.

I didn’t realize that “Slowly, instead of me; Internet was consuming me“. Something which should be used only for work and learning purpose, become a part of my daily non-work routine. Internet Become a part of my entertainment, mode of communication and a way to stay in my comfort zone at any where and everywhere. One of the biggest challenge which I faced was “Distraction“. With the urge of consuming too much information in little time, I wad reading too much but learning nothing.

My day used to start with checking Emails and Facebook notifications and ends up with reading articles online and checking mails. Occasionally I used to get so stressed with information overload, I started using sleep apps on my phone to put my mind into rest.

I was so close to any information which  I needed that I stopped learning. Over the time, I didn’t see all this as a problem; since I was living a life of an internet addict.

How I realised my internet addiction and How I fixed it?

I will be lying if I say I’m not addicted to internet at this moment, because I’m practicing what I have discovered in my last 2 week of “Disconnect to connect!” period, and making sure I don’t get into all Internet zone again in my life. From past 2 week, I was completely away from internet and I was living a life of 27 year old person with no job, and living in real-world.

I was occasionally checking my emails or occasional whatsapp use (5 minutes a day), rest I was completely off from internet. Even I was not publishing anything on my blog or writing anything.

This all happened unintentional but the finding and self-realisation was scary. When I was away from internet, I realised I was missing a lot of things in my life. I was seeing world as “like or dislike” and informations which I have consumed online was half cooked. Without practice, those information were as good as nothing. I also developed a weird issue of “distraction”, as I was finding it hard to concentrate on one thing at a time. My attention span was very low in real-life and it was uncool!.

Well, I had no issues making conversations with people who work online or are online, but the problem was making conversation with people who are never online. Imagine yourself not looking into your mobile screen or laptop the whole day, and having a conversation with someone who don’t know anything about online. Well, this may sound funny to those who never faced these issues, but if you can relate yourself to any of the above things, I’m sure you can relate yourself to every word of this article.  This is my first write up in last 2-3 weeks and I’m making a note for myself for future reference. Here are few things that I’m doing and will be doing to ensure I make most out of my online and offline life, and don’t get back to my addiction of staying online.

Minimize Social Networking:

Social networking comes with it’s own taste of good and bad. For me, staying online on social-network is not only important but mandatory. Being a public person, It’s important for me to stay online and one thing which I worked upon is; using social networking for the practical use rather than hypothetical use. I have made friends online but they are more like you just connected with 0 sense of knowledge about each other. Well, I have started using my personal profile on social networking sites for my personal documentation or not using it anymore. Specially Facebook is something where I’m being the most careful. Using Facebook too much not only affect your self-esteem but it also bring out the narcissist personality disorder. This could be avoided if you focus on having meaningful interaction with others via comments and completely ignoring likes. More over, limiting your personal Facebook profile to your close group of offline network (Friends and family) is a wise thing to do.

Stop Multi-tasking:

I have read a lot of stuff online on benefits and downside of multi-tasking, and one thing which I learned from my experience. Online Multi-tasking is good for tasks which doesn’t require much brain-work, and things which doesn’t require your brain work, should not deserve your time. Such works should be outsourced. So I’m sticking to one task at a time, and will refrain myself completely from doing multiple things at one time. My complete attention should be on one thing at a time till it completes.

Read and watch to learn something new:

Another bad habit which I formed was reading a lot without actually learning anything new. In this era of information overload, It’s hard to filter good information from too many informations. I was bombarded with news, articles and updates everywhere (Fb, Twitter, G+) and I started first filtering useful information from all information and later on reading them as fast as possible. Half of the time I was busy adding useful information to read and add it to Pocket app to read it later. I still have over 40+ great articles on Pocket to consume. I was missing out the most important part about digital media and that is I can control what I should see on my social media feeds. I don’t need quantity rather I need quality stuff with dedicated time.

So I started going back to old school day, and started taking notes in old school style (Pen and paper) so that I also remember it. More over, when reading something, I started reading it loud, to read it slowly and in a way that my brain  process every piece of information. I also started  thinking about stuff which I read-learned at the later part of the day. The whole goal turned into processing the information that I have learned online, and putting them in daily-life use. I’m not talking about all those internet marking skills, but talking about life hacks or self-improvement tips which we learn online.

There are few more things which I’m still working on:

• Use my smartphone as minimum as I can. That includes just having only very important apps and no Facebook or candy crush on my phone.
• Unlike all pages and brands pages on Facebook and use it for seeing updates from real friends and people in my network. I can always consume news and updates via other medium like Zite and Google alerts. In short using Social media for talking to real people and not to become an advocate of brand pages. I’m still subscribe to few websites pages whose informations and updates are crucial for me. Same goes for all other social-network.
• Switching off Wi-fi router after my work hours, and live an internet free life.

There are few more things which I’m doing and I will keep sharing in coming days. Do remember the only rehab for internet addict is world away from online gadgets. If you also faced the problem of internet addiction and found your way out to this addiction, I wold love to hear your suggestion.