It’s the time when most of the people have started using Facebook too along with other social networking sites specially orkut. But it’s so difficult in the begining to find each friend by name, search it and then send a friend request to add them as your friend. Don’t worry FacebooKnol readers don’t need to do all this, we have a simple method for you. Just follow the steps given below:
Click on this link(new window) which will open the “find friends” page of facebook (for orkut).
Click on “Click here to Login to Orkut” botton given on that page.
A new window will open, just enter your Orkut Login details, verify the captcha there and download the .CVS file (here CVS stands for Comma Separated Value).
Upload your .CVS file on the same page in “contact file” box and click “Find Friends”
That’s it, after this a friend request will be sent to each friend you want to add. 🙂
“Facebook for iPhone” is a very important application for iPhone or iPod Touch users from all over the world. By using this application you can start a conversation on Facebook chat, update status from anywhere, upload photos, view your friend’s status or photos updates or simply find a phone number of your friend.
Download Application:
To download this application go to the official application page here. Click download application button which will open your iTunes page.
Features:
By using Facebook for iPhone application on your iPhone you can,
Recent Facebook launched a very nice feature of “Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts” on which you read an article by our Editor- Aditya Kane on Devils Workshop. This post is just to clarify it further. The official blog of Facebook clearly says that “Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts”, but the reality is that you can tag anything in your status and posts like friend’s profile, groups that you have joined and even pages of which you are a fan.
To tag a friend, page or group, just use @ symbol before you start typing the name that you want to tag. To know more about it read this post on Devils Workshop.
Facebook tagging is a nice and important feature cuz it gives the information about the exact person, page or group about which we are talking or writing something about it. So next time don’t forget to tag the person or anything in your status. 🙂
I recently came across a post on Devils Workshop on Facebook Lite. As I went through the comments I found out alot of readers are facing problems of auto- login to lite version instead of original facebook version.
It took me a while to get to the root of the problem, as I am not facing this problem and also none of the friends around me. 🙁
Here are a few possible solutions that may help:
Change the URL from http://lite.facebook.com/ to http://www.facebook.com/
Click on settings tab, select “Friendships” option. You will get a page as the one shown below. Click on “main site“, that will redirect you to the older version.
On most of the occasions facebook lite is supported only in English, so a change in the language may do the trick. To change the language click on settings tabs and this time select the “Language” option. This will show you a page to select a language. Select a new language. I would suggest English (Pirate) 😉 and click on “Set Language”. Voila, we are back to good old facebook. Go to settings again and switch back to previous language. If you face problem finding language settings in non-English language, go to this link http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?language
Another way is to flush the DNS cache of your system.
o To flush DNS cache in Microsoft Windows (Win XP, Win ME, Win 2000):-
Open Command prompt (Click on Start -> Run -> type cmd)
Type “ipconfig /flushdns” and hit enter key.
Type “ipconfig /registerdns” to register back dns.
o To flush the DNS cache in Linux, restart the nscd daemon:-
Open terminal, type “/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart”, hit enter key.
o To flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X Leopard:-
Open terminal, type “lookupd –flushcache”
ex: bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache
o To flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X:-
Type “dscacheutil -flushcache” in your terminal to flush the DNS resolver cache.
ex: bash-2.05a$ dscacheutil -flushcache
I hope these solutions helps you out and get you back to Facebook 🙂
“Block people” is one of the most advanced feature by Facebook. There are 300 million Facebook users now but still mostly aren’t aware of this “block people” option and they don’t even know that what happens when you ignore somebody on Facebook. Don’t worry we have all your answers, after all you are on FacebooKnol 😉
How to ignore/block someone on Facebook?
Well there are two ways of doing that,
Method 1:
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To ignore somebody on Facebook, simply click here(or go to your privacy settings) and add either the name or the e-mail id you want to block in the box given below on that page and click “block”.
(check the screen shot below for more clarification)
Method 2:
You can also ignore somebody directly by visiting his/her profile. To do so, you first have to delete that person and then click “Report/Block this person”. Check “block this person” and click submit.You can also report a person for any particular reason.
(check the screen shot below for more clarification)
What happens when I “Block People” on Facebook?
Blocking users on Facebook is much more advanced than “ignore user” option of Orkut. If you block someone on Facebook he/she won’t be able to,
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See your profile on Facebook search results.
Either open your profile, if the ignored person is having a bookmark of your profile, that will be automatically re-directed to his/her homepage.
Send pokes/message or any friend request in future.
See your comments in public pages.
See you in anybody’s friends list.
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Obviously that’s a very good feature and important too in order to make Facebook clean.
Blocked person is sending me messages using fake profiles, what should I do?
Well in that case simple make your profile invisible, that means only you will be able to see other Facebook profiles and nobody can access your profile. Read “Set Your Profile Search Visibility on Facebook” for more information related to it.
So make facebook beautiful with “Block People” option and make Facebook better with FacebooKnol. 😉
Yes the heading clears it all, you can now loging to your facebook account just by entering your username in place of your e-mail address. The best thing about this feature is that it is not only for facebook.com web browsers but also for m.facebook.com from your mobile and any website that suports facebook connect.
Let us clear you one thing that you can use your user name in place of your e-mail, it’s not your name. Top find your username you can go to,
Settings >> Account Settings
or simply use this link. You can find your username there.
Login:
Please remember that is is an additional feature, you can also use your e-mail to log in as we do usually. Below are the two screen shot for logging in using your username. Note that we are entering our username in the space which is given for e-mail.
We welcome you to new blog in our rtBlogs network – Facebooknol.
Facebooknol is our attempt to help existing facebook users get maximum out of this most popular social network in this world. Many users find facebook complicated as compared to social networks like Orkut. We will put our best efforts to help you smoothly adapt to facebook!
Actually, we think facebook is simplest and most secure social network out there. Its just we are so used to our yesterday’s social network that we find its hard to migrate to new social network.
At Facebooknol you will find….
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Latest and most updated information about facebook
Insight into its somewhat overly complicated features like privacy settings
Undocumented things you can do with facebook using small tricks
Best and coolest facebook apps
Helps from fellow bloggers on your facebook related queries
and more….
If you really think we can make a difference to your facebook life you can…
Just when I thought Facebook has done quite a bit in the past month of so with a new version and added features it has gone ahead and announced that soon its users will be able use voice chat in the near future.
Facebook’s voice chatting service will be powered by Vivox Labs.
So gear up to voice chat with your Facebook friends very soon.
How does Facebook plan to do it?
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Facebook has got Vivox Labs a voice chat provider for Video Games to allow voice chatting for Facebook Users.
Facebook users will be allowed to use voice chatting for even playing games online on Facebook.
Vivox Labs announced that these results should be out in Q4 of 2009. So Voice chat on facebook should be up and running before the year ends.
What this will do finally is make Facebook a very active competitor to Skype and other voice chat providers.
I wonder whats next for Facebook! Video Conferencing? 🙂
Do you know Facebook has more users than the population of most countries in the world? Actually only three countries have a higher population than Facebook.
That’s China, India and the US. At the rate Facebook is growing only 2 may remain. No prizes for guess which two 😉
If you take the world population as 6 Billion and compare 300 Million as Facebook users, it means potentially about 5% of the entire world is using Facebook.
How does Facebook service 300 million?
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Facebook has 10,000 servers which includes 1800 MySQL servers which are overseen by only 2 data administrators !
Facebook has planned to spend over $100 Million over the near future to acquire about 50,000 servers.
The ratio of Facebook engineers to Facebook users is 1 Engineer to a Million users.
Facebook’s gold mine.
Facebook is expanding and doing it fast. They also are adding different services to keep that base growing. Facebook is being lent money by many financiers including Microsoft!
You have to log into your account to actually access any information Facebook provides. That means Facebook literally controls the content you can access and that’s a dream come true for any advertiser.
Facebook already is the largest Social Networking site and is still growing. With a IPO being planned next year it looks like Facebook will over the next couple of years become more than just a social networking website. Wonder what it would mutate into? What if it mutates into something like Google! 😉
If copying is the best form of flattery then Twitter must be feeling really flattered by Facebook over the last few days.
First the advent of Facebook Lite and its pretty obvious way of makings its interface look like a Twitter layout on steroids. Now the latest form of flattery shown by Facebook towards Twitter is that you can use the ‘@’ symbol to tag your friends like you do in Twitter.
How does it work?
Where you type in your comment start with ‘@’ and then type the name of the friend you want to tag.
Immediately you will see a drop down list of your friends as you start typing. See the above pic.
The messages will be displayed on your friend’s wall and he/she will also receive a notification.
If the message is unwanted, the person receiving the update can also remove the tag.
The ‘@’ function does not work while adding a comment to a message and Facebook Lite too does not support it.
Facebook has made the ‘@’ functionality look far better than it does on Twitter and that is a credit to them.
Twitter has grown phenomenally because it is a public forum and its profiles are all open to public. Now I doubt that is something Facebook would want to copy! 😉
