Author: sauravjit

An Engineer, Blogger, Photographer who loves Coffee, Driving, Apple & iPhone ♥

Categories
Tips

8 Tips to avoid getting blocked from adding people on Facebook

Most of the people on Facebook are blocked these days for adding new friend. We already told you the reasons behind this ban and its after effects (Click here if you missed it). Here are few tips to tell you how you can avoid such bans and why you should avoid them.

Avoid getting blocked from adding people:

  • Don’t send a friend request to every profile you visit. Facebook Algo might ban you if you add people with no mutual friends.
  • You can add strangers but avoid sending so many requests together. Give at least one day gap and wait for the other person to accept the pending request first before you send a new one.
  • If someone’s not accepting your request and kept it pending, it is highly recommended to cancel your friend request.
  • In case you are adding a stranger, try sending a message first, talk and make sure that he/she will accept you request. Only then you should send it.
  • Please note that sending messages to strangers is now considered as a spam as well. Even if you are sending too many messages to users who are not in your friends list, Facebook might ban you for adding friends.
  • Don’t try to add people when you are banned. Facebook may increase your period of ban.
  • Once banned, there is no need to cancel pending friend requests, this hardly makes a difference. But there’s a possibility that someone you added might report you as unknown to Facebook.
  • Accept incoming friend requests from the ‘Friend Requests’ page i.e. https://www.facebook.com/reqs.php not from the sender’s profile directly.

You should always avoid such type of bans as Facebook won’t allow you to add persons after the ban even if you know them. This will also ban you from sending messages to people who are not in your friends list. Personally even I don’t like this feature of Facebook where we cannot make online friend whom we don’t know personally. But since we’re addicted to Facebook, so we have to accept it in the way it is. I recommend you not to add any stranger directly; you can always poke someone with a mutual friend. If you get a poke in return then there’s a possibility of request getting accepted. 😉

Categories
Tips

Stop getting useless notifications from a post on Facebook [How-to]

The latest trend on Facebook these days is to tag friends on a picture in order to get more likes and comments. Tagging friends on a picture is the best way to share it with large number of people on Facebook but most of the times it annoys users mainly because of the comment notifications they start getting after the tag.

Well not just the post, you will start getting notifications even if you comment of someone’s status, picture or any post. Let’s see how you can stop such notifications.

How to stop getting useless notifications?

  1. Open the picture or post you’re tagged in or any other post where you’ve posted a comment.
  2. On that post, there will be a link ‘Unfollow Post’ given with the ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ links, click on that. This ‘Unfollow Post’ link will be there only if you are getting notifications from that post, else it will not appear. Check the screenshot below:

Once you click the ‘Unfollow Post’ link, you will be unsubscribed from that post and Facebook will not send any notification to you related to that post. Same thing can be done for tagged pictures as well. You will still be tagged but you will not get any notification. If you want to get notifications again; click on ‘Follow Post’. This link will appear when you click on ‘Unfollow Post’.

So next time there’s no need to remove a tag, you just have to click a link that’s it. 🙂

Categories
Tips

How to combine your profile and cover picture on Facebook

We know that now we have an option of adding Cover Photos to our Facebook profile in the Timeline profiles. But it’s a difficult task to select what to upload as your cover to make your profile look cool. Don’t worry we have something for you which will make your profile design awesome. A way by which you can merge your profile picture and cover photos. Let’s see how you can do it.

Merging your Cover and Profile Picture:

Step 1: Open the website www.trickedouttimeline.com and click on Merge Profile and Cover Photo. There are some other effects too. You can check them out as well.

Step 2: After that upload a picture that you want to make as your cover picture, that website will make your profile picture according to your cover pic. You can also use your current cover photo directly, just click on “f Cover Photo” button on the website.

Step 3: Now select the area that you want to make as cover picture and that website will make profile picture accordingly. See the screenshot below. Click “Done” after the selection.

Step 4: Like their page if you are using the website for the first time. After that you can download your cover and profile picture separately. Upload respective pictures to Facebook.

Don’t forget to share your profile links below. 😉 Click here for more Facebook related tips and tricks.

 

Categories
Tips

How to leave a message conversation on Facebook

There’s a feature in Facebook messages where you have an option of starting a group message thread. In such message conversations anyone can post a message in that thread which will be delivered to all of the members of that conversation.

This is a useful feature but most of the times it ends up spamming the inbox. Unfortunately deleting the thread is not going to work as it will start showing the thread again once somebody posts a reply.

This is a quick post for solution of this problem; here is how you can get rid of such conversations:

1. Open the conversation in your inbox.

2. Now click on “Actions” button on the top of that conversation and select “Leave Conversation…”

3. Then you will see a message “You will stop receiving messages from this conversation and people will see that you left.” Click “Leave Conversation” again to confirm.

Then you will see “You left the conversation”. After that you won’t receive any message from that conversation. Click here to read more Facebook tips and tricks.

Categories
Tips

How to change Role of a Facebook Page Admin

Facebook finally added a much awaited feature which is very useful for Facebook Page Owners. This feature was missing from Facebook pages from a very long time and that’s why we suggested you to keep your Facebook Pages with a single Admin only.

Different types of Admin Roles:

Facebook now added five different types of admin roles i.e. Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insight Analyst. The manager is same as the owner or admin of page having all the privileges and highest degree of permissions for that page. Content creator is the same as a Manager but he can’t add or remove any other member as admin. Moderator can comment or delete comments but cannot create a new post. Advertiser can create an ad and view page insights and the Insight Analyst can just see the page insights. Check out the table below for more clarification.

How to Change Admin Roles:

To add an admin or change the role of an existing admin click on “Edit Page” on the top of page and then select “Admin Roles” from the drop down list. Then either add the name of new admin or select their Role from the drop down list given with their names and click “Save”. Check the screenshot below:

Click here for more Facebook related stuff.

Categories
News

Facebook’s new feature; get to know when your friend reads your message

A couple of days back, top social networking website added a new and a very clever feature. As usual there was no official information about this feature as they have not updated their official blog since January ’12. The new feature is related to the messages you send to your friends.

This feature is just like the delivery reports of SMS on our mobile phone but we can say it as an advanced version of it. Now whenever you’ll send a message to your friend, you will see a text at the bottom of chat window which will show you the time when your friends reads your message. If it’s not showing anything that means your message is still unread. See the pic below:

Here the 1 shows that the message is delivered and read by my friend at 4:36AM but the 2 shows that the message is delivered (as there was no error message) but the message is still unread. This new feature is only available in the chat box and if your are chatting offline from your inbox then you need to open your chat window. There is no need to be online on chat to use it.

So next time be careful if you’re ignoring someone’s messages on Facebook. 😉 Don’t forget to share it with your friends. Stay connected for more Facebook related stuff.

 

Categories
News

Airtel’s new slashed 3G tariffs [Official Data Plans]

The news of new slashed tariffs of Airtel’s 3G data plans is in the headlines from past few days, but now we have the official data on their website. Since India’s top mobile phone service provider company Bharti Airtel started rolling out their 4G services, they decided to slash their 3G data plan tariffs in order to boost up its usage among normal internet users who are still using 2G wireless internet. The new tariff for 3G services seems really affordable and value for money. There’s also a small Rs.10 pack where a user can access high speed internet for 30 minutes. Let’s have a look at their new tariff and plans in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and other circles.

Delhi:

Mumbai:

Chennai:

Kolkata:

Other Zones:

To check the new Airtel 3G tariff in your circle, please check out this link.

Now even Idea, Vodafone and Reliance cut their 3G tariffs by 70%, all because of the big competition they are getting from other service providers like Bharti Airtel. For any other information, please drop a comment below. 🙂

Categories
News

Facebook’s new ‘Poke Suggestions’ or ‘Poke Flooder’?

Facebook just added a new feature where it started showing “poke suggestions” on the sidebar of Facebook poke page. Poke suggestions is a list of random friends on Facebook whom you can poke. Well this is just an initiative by Facebook to increase interaction between users as people are now losing interest in keeping a touch with each other by sending messages or writing on friend’s wall.

But ‘Poke Suggestions’ seems more like a ‘Poke Flooder’, all I can see are useless poke notifications. And when you will poke someone back, all you get is another poke in return from them.

Well I don’t think this is going be a very successful thing and Facebook should start working on other features rather than introducing such features or new designs. They should spend more time in making Facebook technically better and increasing user privacy. So what do you this about this feature of Facebook?

Categories
Tips

Unfriend someone directly from your newsfeed on Facebook [How-to]

If you have so many friends on Facebook, then you must be annoyed like me due to useless and irrelevant updates in your News Feed or Homepage. Obviously you can unsubscribe from anyone like we told you earlier, but the thing is that what’s the use of keeping someone in your friend’s list if you don’t want to read their updates and what they are upto.

I don’t know why, but the world’s most popular social networking website Facebook loves people to unfriend each other. That’s why there are so many ways to unfriend a friend. Facebook also blocked people from adding strangers for user privacy.

How to Unfriend someone directly from your newsfeed on Facebook?

  1. To unfriend, click on the arrow given on the right side with each update and then click “Unsubscribe from”. After that you will see a direct link of unfriend. Click on that link to delete your friend. Check out the screenshot below.

  1. Another way is to roll over your mouse on your friend’s profile name or picture on your homepage and keep it there for a couple of seconds, then you will see profile badge of that profile, roll over the mouse again to the place where “Friends” is written and then click “Unfriend”.

That’s all what you need to do to unfriend strangers from your profile. Stay connected for more tips and tricks.

Categories
Analysis

iPad 2 vs the New iPad; which one is a better option for you

Finally the iPad 3 new iPad is in the market and once again we can see long queues outside apple stores in ten countries where Apple launched its new iPad. But as the changes are minor in this 3rd generation iPad, the crowd outside Apple Stores isn’t crazy like it was for iPad 2. Some people are happy with their iPad 2 and they are not planning to upgrade it while some already sold out their iPad 2 and got this one cuz the display of the new iPad is much better than older iPads. But which one is suitable for you, iPad 2 or the new iPad? Let’s have a look at both of them.

iPad 2:

Apple discontinued 32Gb and 64Gb versions of iPad 2 so only 16Gb model is available in the market now with a lower price than the new iPad. In United States you can get the iPad 2 Wifi only model for $399 (Rs.25000 in India) and Wifi+3G for $529 (Rs. 32500 in India) which is definitely a value for money deal. iPad 2 is itself a technically very advanced device with good processor, User Interface, Battery Life, Screen e.t.c and awesome for Applications.

iPad 2 for you?

ADVERTISEMENT

If you work online and you need a tablet to access internet anytime and anywhere you want, with loads of additional features too then this is definitely a good option for you. iPad 2 still complete your basic needs of a tablet. iPad users don’t have the latest technology in hand but this tablet is still very powerful and with the slashed prices this is a good option for you.

The New iPad:

The new iPad is seriously a revolutionary device, the new Retina display is unbelievable and it’s the highest resolution screen on any mobile device till date. The processor is upgraded with A5X chip and there a Quadcore graphic processor as well. Camera quality is much better than iPad 2 with 5Mp iSight camera. Also this iPad is 4G compatible but this feature isn’t useful for Indian users as we are still testing our 3G connection :(. The new iPad is $100 expensive than the iPad 2.

New iPad Pictures:

ADVERTISEMENT

New iPad for you?

This iPad is definitely for you if you are a Gamer and you like playing video games on PS and PSP, this will change everything for you with its graphic quality. Secondly this device is great for watching movies as the clarity is even better than HD TVs. This new screen will also support some new HD and high quality apps and hence you’ll have an iPad with much more features.

Verdict:

I must say that if you are planning to buy an iPad and you can spend $100 extra then you should definitely buy the new iPad. You get many new features and apps in new iPad and this device is way more advanced than any other tablet in the market. You are definitely going to enjoy your experience with this tablet.