The launch of new Facebook smart lists is a good feature in terms of privacy and making Facebook updates more relevant. But if you are using Facebook friends list from a long time and after the launch of these new smart lists you are dealing with so many lists then this post is for you. We will tell you how you can merge two lists together to make one.
Let’s tell you the use of merging two lists. Suppose that I was previously using a list ‘Hidden Content’ with all my private updates hidden to friends in that list. Now it’s very inconvenient to add each one of my friend from ‘Hidden Content’ list to the new restricted lists. So you can merge your older list into newer one with just few clicks.
How to merge two lists:
Open a Facebook friend list in which you want to merge another list. You can open a list from Facebook left sidebar on your homepage.
Once you open a list click on ‘Manage List’ on the top right side of page and select ‘Merge List’ from the drop down menu.
Now select the list you want to merge with this list. You can select a list from the lists given in the pop-up. After that click Merge Lists to merge both the lists into one. That’s it; your two lists now will be shown as one with all the friends in both the lists excluding duplicates.
Don’t forget to tell us whether you like the new smart lists feature or not?
Facebook recently changed lots of stuff on user profiles. As usual people do not like these changes due to the same reason, that is these changes are confusing and users are not habitual of them. Let’s tell you everything about these changes and what’s the use and purpose of launching them.
Sticky bar at the top (header):
Facebook’s header is still the same but Facebook made the new header bar sticky. That means header will stick to the top of page and will always show you whenever you use Facebook. Even when you scroll down to the bottom of a page it will remain at the top.
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Purpose: The purpose of this change is to keep search bar always with you so that you can easily search for your friends without going to the top of page. Also it makes easier to access the homepage and profile page easily with just one click without scrolling.
Top and Recent Stories:
Unlike older buttons of Top post and Recent posts on Facebook, we have now selective Top stories where you can select yourself which post should be there as a top post and which shouldn’t. You can select a Top story by clicking on a Blue corner with every update. Facebook will show similar stories as top whenever you visit Facebook next time.
Purpose: Well there no such use of this feature and it makes Facebook’s homepage damn confusing as there are no separator between the top and recent posts. But according to Facebook this feature lets you to select your kind of top posts rather than showing every post with likes and comments. It might be a useful feature once we get familiar with the new interface.
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New Lists:
This feature isn’t new and we told you about this few days back. This is a new automated way to add people into lists and read more updates from selected friends only.
Purpose: The major reason for launching this feature is to make users to use the old lists and to get updates from selective friends only. It also gives you an option of hiding your updates from some people in your friend’s list without unfriending them.
Bigger photos in News Feed:
A feature copied from Google+, Facebook also started showing bigger pictures in its news feed. Also if you upload a group of photos it will show once bigger picture and two smaller pics side by side.
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Purpose: The purpose of this feature is to attract friends to the pictures you upload. Obviously a user easily gets attracted to a bigger picture rather than three smaller ones, so the chances of opening the picture increase. This is a good change in Facebook even if it’s a copied one. 😉
Ticker:
A new updates section on the sidebar which shows updates from all your friends and their recent activity. This is more like a news channel’s Breaking News. 😛
Purpose: Facebook Ticker is also launched to increase user interaction. It gets updated every second and user checks it time to time. Also watching an update is easy as you don’t need to visit a new page for every update, just roll over your mouse cursor to an update and it will show the whole post there. It’s not liked by Facebook users but I’m sure they will get habitual of it.
Birthday and Event view:
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Facebook birthdays and events are shown in a new way now. The placement is still the same but when you click on a birthday or an event it will show it on your homepage itself without opening it in a new page.
Purpose: This is a good feature and user friendly too because by using this you can wish all your friends who are having birthday on that day on a same place without visiting everyone’s profile and wishing them separately. Also you can see current and upcoming events with a single click.
People don’t like most of the new features at the moment as they hate changes but they will start liking it. But it’s true that people visit Facebook because their friends are here and to stay connected with everyone. The fun part in Facebook is missing now. Let’s see whether people like the new timeline feature or not which is not yet available for everyone.
Some people use Facebook pages for their business. But most of them misses the most important thing in it which is so useful for the growth of their business, that is the way a member is going to contact them. It looks good and professional when you add a separate section of contact form on your page rather than communicating through comments and wall posts. If you don’t have a contact form for your page we will tell you how you can easily add it and that too for free.
To add a contact form, the easiest way is to use a Facebook app. For that the best application available on Facebook is Contact Form. Go to the application page and click on “Go to App”. Now fill up the details to set up a contact form on your page. First of all select a page from the drop down list which shows all the pages you admin. Then enter some basic details and the details you need in the contact form. After that click on “Submit Form”.
With basic settings your contact form will look like the image shown below. Also a tab ‘contact’ will be added automatically to your page’s sidebar.
Just give it a try on your page. Drop a comment below if you got stuck somewhere.
With Facebook’s recently launched smart and friends list feature, you can now categorize people in different ways depending upon how close are they. But with these two lists, Facebook also launched a new restricted list which is a good way to hide your updates from people you don’t know much or hiding from friends you met online.
You can easily add someone to restricted list but by default this list is empty. To access your ‘Restricted’ list go to this page to see all of your lists and click ‘Restricted’. After that on the right sidebar you will see a space to enter your friends name whom you wish to add to this list. Select your friends from there. You can also click on ‘Manage List’ on the top right side of page and click on Add/Remove people.
Once added in your Restricted list, your friend won’t be able to see updates from your profile unless and until that update is public. It’s a good way to keep few people away from your private content without unfriending or blocking them. Facebook is changing lot’s of things in it’s design and the good thing is that most of the changes are good and important. 🙂
Banning a user from a Facebook means completely restricting him from the page. A banned user can neither post anything on that page nor he can join/like it again. Sometimes admin of a Facebook page bans a user and later he doesn’t know how to unban him. And sometimes admins just mistakenly bans a user. Let’s tell you how you an remove a ban i.e. unban a Facebook page’s member. Just follow the steps below.
Open a Facebook page that you admin. After that click on ‘like this’ link given with the number of fans of that page on the left.
Now you will see the list of people who liked that page. On the top of list there will be a drop down list ‘People’. Click on that list and select Banned to see the list of banned people from that page.
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Click unban button given with every name to remove the ban from that user. You don’t need to save it, just click on close.
That’s it, the banned user will now get the access to your page again and he can post comments and like wall posts. Removing a ban is so easy but strategically placed by Facebook that’s why admins get confused. Drop a comment below if you got stuck somewhere.
Are you tired of getting useless updates from different apps? Then the best way to stop them is to block or remove that application. But in some cases user doesn’t want to remove an application but definitely wants to stop updates of friends from the same application. For example if somebody wants to show daily horoscope on his profile but doesn’t want to read others horoscope. In such a case you can hide updates from an application rather than removing or blocking it.
Hide updates from an app:
To hide updates from an application in your news feed, go to any update from that application and click on the cross mark given with that app on right side.
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After that click on ‘Hide all by (app name)’. For example here I’m hiding all the updates in my news feed from ‘ZooZoo Characters’ application.
Unhide updates from an app:
If you want to switch back and receive all updates from an application again then you have to click on ‘Edit Options’ link on your Homepage. You can find this ‘Edit Options’ link on the bottom of your ‘News Feed’ or Homepage.
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After that you will see a list of friends and applications that you have blocked on your homepage so that you can’t see updates from them. Now find the application name and click on the cross mark to start receiving updates again. Click Save and you’re all done.
Drop a comment below if you have any questions. Stay connected for more Facebook updates.
Good news for all Apple iPhone owners. One of the best racing games for iPhone, Asphalt 6 by Gameloft is free to download for a limited time period only. You can download Asphalt 6 full version from Apple’s app store and install it on your phone. Like it’s previous version Asphalt 5, this version comes up with high quality graphics, good user interface and awesome audio and video clarity. Asphalt 6 is a racing game where you can play a single race, career or even online with friends with a total collection of 42 cars and bikes which unlocks as you win races in career mode. The race tracks are also beautifully designed with HD graphics.
Facebook is doing a major change in its present feature of Friend Lists, currently an unpopular feature which is used by very few Facebook users only. The reason why Friend Lists feature is not used my many users is just because its quite boring and time consuming to create a list and update it. So Facebook finally unveiled automated lists which will add people to some ‘Smart Lists’ according to their Workplace, School, City e.t.c. so that you can see ‘News Feed’ updates from a particular group of friends or list only.
Smart Lists: Automatically created lists that includes different group of people sorted according to Work, Family, School and City. This feature is just like Circles in Google+. Facebook will automatically add people to smart lists however you can anytime manually add or remove a friend from a particular list. Facebook will suggest you to add people to Smart Lists so that you can easily update these lists and make them more accurate.
Close Friends and Acquaintances Lists: Close friends list is a list where you can add your best friends or family members so that you can see updates only from them only. You will also receive a notification when someone from Close Friends list posts an update or a photo. Acquaintances list on the other hand is for those people who are not much close to you like old classmates or strangers you met online. Add them to this list to see only important updates from them hiding other daily status and photo updates.
With these lists, you can also share an update with a particular list only so that friends in other lists cannot see it. What do you think about these new lists? Seems useful or not? Drop a comment below and tell us your views.
Last time we told you how you can add a new tab to your Facebook page. This post will tell you how you can change your default landing tab. Defualt landing tab means the tab which opens when someone visits your page. Mostly people choose a welcome page to welcome its visitors as a default tab. Now if you have already created a new welcome tab it’s important to change it to default tab as it’s of no use to welcome a person after he likes the page.
Steps:
Open the Facebook page you admin and you want to change the landing tab.
Click on ‘Edit Page’ on the top right of the page.
Go to ‘Manage Permissions’ from your sidebar and select your new tab in ‘Default Landing Tab:’ from the drop down list.
After selecting the tab click ‘Save Changes’. You can also select Info, Photos, Discussions or any other tab as your default landing tab.
Using welcome tab as default:
If you are using a welcome page as default tab then it’s important to customize your welcome page first in prder to make it attractive. You can add a text note to of you can add an image to welcome your visitors. To add a welcome image read this post and add the following code in the box provided.
<img src=”#”>
Replace # with your welcome image URL including the http:// part. You can also upload that image to Facebook and give the link here. Stay connected for more tech and Facebook updates.
Like Facebook, social networking and microblogging website Twitter is also going to launch its services in Hindi soon. Hindi will be launched with 4 new languages that are Filipino, Malay, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. After launching these new languages Twitter will support 17 different languages for more than 100 million users all around the world. Twitter made this official announcement on its blog after crossing 100 million users milestone.
Both Facebook and Twitter now have a large user database from India. We already have an option of choosing Hindi as our default language on Facebook. Some other Indian regional languages supported by Facebook are Bengali, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Addition of this new language in Twitter will definitely increase its Indian user’s database but I’m sure that most of the Indians will continue to use it in English as it’s accepted worldwide.
Twitter is now 5 years old social networking and microblogging website but personally I still prefer Facebook when it comes to social networking due to its design and features. Twitter is good when you love to interact and stay connected with famous people, politicians, celebrities, blogs or even newspapers and magazines. Don’t forget to share your views about this new service launch on Twitter.
Now select the list you want to merge with this list. You can select a list from the lists given in the pop-up. After that click Merge Lists to merge both the lists into one. That’s it; your two lists now will be shown as one with all the friends in both the lists excluding duplicates.
Like Facebook, social networking and microblogging website Twitter is also going to launch its services in Hindi soon. Hindi will be launched with 4 new languages that are Filipino, Malay, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. After launching these new languages Twitter will support 17 different languages for more than 100 million users all around the world. Twitter made this official announcement on its