Many of us use Facebook chat in order to chat with friends. However long you may talk, you just can’t spice it up without inserting smileys in-between, while chatting. Isn’t it true? Emoticons or smileys are the best way to express yourself, even when you are not in a mood to talk.
Few days ago, we wrote about some commonly used abbreviations on facebook. With this post, you will get to know about all the official smileys that can be used on facebook chat to make it more interesting!
Facebook has recently had problems regarding privacy and many felt passionately enough about the ‘Privacy Issues’ that they decided to form a community which has decided to quit Facebook. This is basically a way to protest and probably gather Facebook’s attention on how strongly they feel about privacy concerns and that their loyalty to Facebook cannot be taken for granted. The group is called 31st May: Quit Facebook Day. Their number though small compared to 300 million daily users is quite significant at 30,000.
The reasons are quite valid and some points they have raised are quite revealing.
It suggests that Facebook’s privacy policy is now longer than the US Constitution. The point being that it is almost impossible for Facebook to expect to read and follow the whole privacy policy.
The ambiguity of Privacy settings is taken further by 50 settings and 170 plus options on Facebook.
The problem mainly has been also the lack of clarity on what Facebook plans to do in the future.
There are many who are wondering if these Privacy concerns will hurt Facebook and end up losing users to other alternatives but I doubt that will happen. Facebook has responded with simplified changes to Privacy settings but I still they could have handled it better by being more open and forthright.
So do you think you will ever leave Facebook or is this just a sort of token opposition to Facebook? Do drop in your comments with your views.
Pakistanis has launched much controversial Facebook rival Millatfacebook.com two days back. Pakistan government has banned Facebook due to a controversial draw of Prophet Mohammed. This site is known as Millat Facebook and aims to appeal all Muslims to raise the voice against social networking giant Facebook.
Last month Facebook failed to remove Prophet Mohammed’s image from the Facebook in the time which agitated many Muslims all over the world. The ban will be reviewed on 31st May 2010 which is highly unlikely to get lifted. Millat Facebook looks like a replica of Facebook and believed to be offering Facebook like features(?). From the front page you can easily make out that they are targeting Facebook. It is also a good news for many Pakistani people as they can connect to their friends using the new social networking website.
Pakistan Facebook
Pakistan government has blocked twiter, YouTube,Wiki and many other websites beginning of this month. According to homepage quote of the website
MillatFacebook helps you connect and share with more than
1.57 Billion Muslims and Sweet people from other Religions.
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Millat Facebook also offers features like wall posting, photo, video sharing from the website. It is the only social networking website by the Pakistanis for their own people. Millat means nation, MFB is also claiming that more than 4300 people has already joined the website within a day of its launch. They are also working on providing more features like Facebook.
A new virus attack called “clickjacking worm” is targeting thousands Facebook users and spreading very quickly. The affected profiles can be identified by seeing the “Like” in the following links:
“LOL this girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE,”
“This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!,”
“The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School”
“This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!”
Whenever a user clicks on the text, he is landed to a blank page stating “Click here to continue”. As soon as he will click on that page, the above message will be posted on his Facebook profile. This way there are lots of chances to spread this virus quickly.
Security form Sophos has identified the linked pages as being infected with the Troj/iframe-ET worm. If this worm has attack your profile also then delete entries related to the links above and be safe while checking out Facebook pages.
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Nearly two weeks after ordering Pakistan Telecommunications Authority(PTA) to Ban Facebook in Pakistan, Lahore High court has reversed its orders by lifting the temporary ban imposed on access to the social networking website. The ban came in as a result of the nation-wide protests in Pakistan due to Facebook event “Everyone Draw Mohammad Day” organized by a group of people on a community page.
In a statement, Justice Chaudhry told the court,“Restore Facebook. We don’t want to block access to information” .
Ban was lifted this morning after assurance from the government that they will soon develop a system that blocks offending images, referring to it as “blasphemous material” from the internet, that arouse resentment among the people and brought them on to the streets. Similar to blocking of un-islamic content from you-tube that was un-banned last week, after similar orders from the court.
Yesterday, Facebook was also Banned in Bangladesh due to the offending images from the page as a result of the contest, which led to on-street protest in the country. After the orders from Pakistan High court, we expect that the ban will soon be uplifted in Bangladesh also.
You all might have aware of the recent dubai-manglore flight tragedy which took off more than 160 lives. In that 160 people, I know Facebook and twitter profiles of the two people who died in the tragedy. When media and other websites published their Facebook profile link, people flood their comments on their Facebook wall etc.
So, the question is How to reduce the unfair and unwanted comments in the deceased users Facebook profile ? and also I find other social networks find it difficult to tackle such issues. It is better to report Facebook and they make the profile to set some privacy etc.
Facebook has put some effort by having a separate page for reporting a deceased users profile page. I’m not sure how many knew that Facebook has introduced such kind of things. But anyway, I wanted to share with you all.
So, you can use the link to report to Facebook, if you find some one has died and if you want to memorialize or remove the person’s account.
Recently we informed you that Facebook is banned in Pakistan due to a Fan page in Facebook which is letting users to upload images of Prophet Mohammed. Anyways, hackers got lots of way to access blocked Facebook soon. After Pakistan, now Bangladesh also banned Facebook for indefinite time due to publishing drawings and cartoons of Prophet of Islam on Fan Page “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”.
According to Chief telecommunication regulator Zia Ahmed, Facebook has been blocked temporarily and it would be restored if the offending material will be removed.
On Friday, Many Islamist groups protested in Dhaka to block Facebook immediately. There are approx 1 million Facebook users in Bangladesh. Thus on Saturday, the Officials of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission [BTRC] confirmed government’s decision for blocking Facebook.
Another reason for blocking Facebook in Bangladesh is publishing cartoons of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition leader Begum Kahleda Zia.
All this is really upsetting, Facebook is for fun and connecting with other people with different religions and cultures. Hope this all end soon and no other country again bans Facebook or any other social networking websites.
What you think is the best solution to stop and avoid all the religious matter on social networking website? I single step from us will surely help to make Facebook a better place to connect with others.
You must have seen a notice as soon as you logged in to facebook yesterday telling about Improved Privacy Controls.
I visited the privacy settings and Facebook showed a message saying:
Since, You are under 18, we take extra steps to protect your information. Learn More
That learn more link redirected me to a help topic which gave a clear explanation about facebook’s new policy:
Minors (anyone under 18) who use Facebook have a slightly different experience with privacy than adults. Both adults and minors have some basic information (name, profile picture, gender and networks) appear when people navigate to their profile. This information may be accessed by applications that they and their friends use. Adults and minors both appear in search results on Facebook. However, minors do not have public search listings created for them.
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The “Everyone” setting works differently for minors than it does for adults. When minors set information like photos or status updates to be visible to “Everyone,” that information is actually only visible to their friends, friends of friends, and people in any verified school or work networks they have joined. The only exceptions are for “Search for me on Facebook” and “Send me friend requests”, where if the minor has set those to Everyone, we respect the Everyone setting.
Yesterday I shared with you about the new Privacy setting of Facebook in order to make our Facebook more secure. I am glad to share with you that finally you can edit your privacy setting in your Facebook profile.
I am happy that these simple controls setting rolled out soon and now we can be more secure on Facebook. Here are the new settings which are provided by Facebook.
Here are the steps to change the settings:
Go to your Facebook home page, click on “ Account” and then “ Privacy Settings”.
Here are the settings which you can edit to make your Facebook profile more private. It includes 4 major settings :
Share on Facebook, this will help you to give control on who can see your shared the information and content like status updates, images etc.
Basic directory information, By default your profile information like gender, name, place is visible to others so that they can search your easily on Facebook.
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Applications and websites, with this control you can easily choose whether you want to share your information with third party application or not.
Block List, This control will help you to block people from interacting with you or seeing your information on Facebook.
There are few additional features also like recommended settings, control each time you post, control for what you are tagged and many more. It will hardly take few seconds to change your settings and I would recommend everyone to change the settings as soon as possible.
There are many critics who are not happy with the new privacy settings. Do share with us, What’s your insight for these privacy settings, are they enough for maintaining privacy?
After lots of problems and feedback, Facebook finally decided to come up with few simple controls so that we can handle our profiles in better way and make it more secure and safe from hackers.
Mark Zuckerberg , CEO of Facebook came up with few plans to make changes in Facebook to make it safer to use. Facebook has focused on main 3 things which are:
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Single Control for your content:
This single control will help you to set the option about who can see the content of your post. You can also change the option to view the content by everyone, your friends or friends of your friends.
More powerful controls for basic information:
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This is the next step of Facebook for maintaining privacy. Facebook have reduced the amount of basic information to be visible by everyone. Now you can control who can see your friends, pages etc. But, I guess we have to make this option public otherwise, it would be tough to search us and know more about us and Facebook is all about knowing each other better.
Sharing information with third party:
Now you can choose the option that any Facebook application or website can access your information or not. If you are like me who don’t like to access games or other applications , you can easily turn them off , thus your information will be secured to you and third party applications or website won’t able to access it.
All these settings are expected to roll out in next two weeks. Hope all this options ends up with positive and useful note.
Do share with us what you think about these changes by Facebook, are they worth for securing our accounts by hackers?
Many of us use Facebook chat in order to chat with friends. However long you may talk, you just can’t spice it up without inserting smileys in-between, while chatting. Isn’t it true? Emoticons or smileys are the best way to express yourself, even when you are not in a mood to talk.
Here are the settings which you can edit to make your Facebook profile more private. It includes 4 major settings :
