Did you ever think that your brain has something that manages your social network? A new study shows that it all depends on Amygdala.
Well, how you manage your real social network, the number of friends you make, it all depends on amygdala, which is a small almond shaped structure, deep in the temporal lobe. This manages your friend circle.
Larger the amygdala, larger group of friends. Facebook has almost taken over our lives. Whether its status updates, number of likes or just comments. Some people look at their status as good or bad according to the number of Facebook friends they have.
In my opinion I think this is a very nice way to stay in touch with all your friends. Facebook if done in a limited way can be a great way to make friends, stay in touch and enjoy. More of anything sure leads you to addiction. Right!
Share your views with me through the comments below.
How was your Christmas? Did you spend it on Facebook? Well, the statistics say that you have. 🙂 On Christmas this year there were more visits on Facebook than on Google.
This Christmas Facebook received more UK visits than Google, which is surprising. Well, people do love to spend their time on internet now. More Facebook, more happy. This is what people are doing now.
What are your views ? Feel free to share them with me.
Have you ever given a thought about status updates that people do on Facebook? What lies behind, the data, what matters and all ? Well Facebook’s Data Team has analysed it all.
The words, timing, age and popularity and many more things matter while gaining popularity on Facebook through Status updates. 🙂 They analysed the words that come most of the time in status updates. Things that come into picture when a person updates his status and effects later are as follows:
Age and popularity : Young people tend to express thoughts in an aggressive way by using angry words and more sentences with I, me, myself. Whereas older people write longer updates with more prepositions and articles, more about other people including their family.
More popular people use less angry words, talk less about their families, less emotional and use less past and present tense verbs or words that may be related to time.
Timing : People tend to write positive updates in the morning and negative updates at night. People generally tend to talk about a preferred time of the day. That is words about sleep increase at night and peak in the early mornings, when people should actually be sleeping.
What your friends like : Very surprisingly, negative status updates receive more comments and positive updates receive less comments. Whereas positive updates gets more Likes and negative updates get less Likes.
Birds of same feather flock together : We know that friends with same likes and dislikes stay together. Just like that the words we use in our status updates are almost similar to what our friends use.
So well this explains us all what we write what we don not and how it affects on our Facebook lives. 🙂 You can use this as a guide to rock Facebook. Use more of ‘you’ , less emotional status updates… In short you know what to write and what not to accordingly.
Have you applied any of this and seen any difference ? If not use this analysis and see what happens. 🙂 Share your views with me.
I personally feel the answer to the above question should be ‘YES!’. I see no harm in befriending one’s parents on Facebook unless you tend to share stuff which is not family friendly :-P. As in my case, my mom IS on my friends list and is an active Facebook user, and my dad just joined in! The following flow-chart can definitely help you to decide if your parents should be your friends on Facebook or not ! Go ahead and give it a try !
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Well what do you think? Should you friend your parents on Facebook? Do share your opinions below 🙂
Facebook has revealed the top 10 trends among status updates of this year. Almost every blog, website does this so why not Facebook. Even we have a look at the year that is going away and the things we did most or we did not do at all.
HMU: This is the abbreviation for ‘Hit me Up’. According to the Facebook blog, in September this pattern emerged and started rising like never before. Many folks were writing this on their status update to say that they are free, want to hang out or lets party. Just to tell that a particular person is free, this was used.
World Cup: World Cup is a much awaited thing for the sports lovers. Obviously it was mentioned more and more on the status updates of people. They loved to share about their teams, winners, goals and what not about World Cup on Facebook.
Movies: “Toy Story 3,” “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” “Inception,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Iron Man 2” were the five most discussed (in that order). I remember having a discussion on Twilight movie for more than a month, and who can forget the talks on Inception! 🙂 Well, we do talk about movies and stuff on Facebook and this list is a result of what we love to do most. 😉
iPad and iPhone: With the rise of technology such talks were expected. People here and there still keep talking about the new iPad or the iPhone they have purchased or just saw in the advertisement.
Haiti: The impact of the earthquake on Jan 12 was shared and tweeted everywhere in the World. I remember even Farmville and other games launched some seeds etc that were dedicated to Haiti relief fund!
Justin Beiber: With his song ‘Baby’ being at the top of the charts he was the most talked celeb on Facebook. He is the 15-year-old Pop star with the maximum followers on Facebook as well as twitter.
Games on Facebook: Farmville, Fronterville and now CityVille these are so famous games that many people login to Facebook daily for the games only. This year with ‘Barn raising’ Facebook had maximum number of people asking other people to raise their barns and play Farmville.
Mineros / Miners: 33 Chilean miners were trapped underground for 69 days. The whole world shared their story of being trapped and rescued later. Facebook has become a platform to talk about something world-wide.
Airplanes: International song “Can we pretend that Airplanes in the night sky are shooting starts ! ” by B.o.b had such a catchy lyrics that people world wide used this as their status update. 🙂 If you have not listened to this then do hear it once. 🙂
2011: Just as the new year appears people are talking about what they would love to do the next year that is 2011.
This is one list of top 10 status updates. The number game and cartoon character thing was also very famous but only in the month of December. If you remember any other thing that was famous and worth mentioning do drop in the comments.
Paul Butler a Facebook Engineer just tried his hands on visualizing the Facebook Data. He was interested in seeing what Facebook Friendship looks like on a canvas.
Well, he took data from all the places, matched them through latitude and longitude and went for more techy stuff! I will tell you what he got back as a result.
This is what he got, a whole big network of Friendship. These are people who are connected with each other in some or the other way. Some may have met during a journey or some may be connected through their common friends. Reasons may be many but this is huge.
Looking at the world through Facebook’s eyes. 🙂 All I will say is thank you Mark Zuckerberg for making us all so connected. What do you think? Feel free to share your views through the comments below. If you have any tips mail me at tips[at]fbknol.com.
What do you do when you get up in the morning? Read newspaper, is the general answer. If I ask you what a Facebook addict like me would love to have? Yes, a Facebook paper. Now you can read all the Facebook feeds like a newspaper. This new service is being provided by PostPost.com. Data management and rapid application deployment solutions company ‘TigerLogic” has launched PostPost. There is a Facebook page also dedicated to it. It searches for Real Time results and posts them in a newspaper format.
You will be shown Facebook paper with all the feeds in less than 30 seconds. 🙂
Some features of PostPost!
Posts from your friends.
Recent posts are on the top and older posts are below.
The Photographs are easier to navigate.
You can search links , videos whatever you wish to.
I am also including a video of PostPost , from the official website. This can be a fun application to be used. Share your views on it through the comments below.
Facebook recently hit the 500 million mark and is gaining popularity at an exponential rate. Naturally, anything related to Facebook is gaining the same adoration. One such example is Facebook merchandise which has been made available on the web. Loads of people are buying these items which portray Facebook, Twitter or Farmville in a funny way!
Here are 10 cool Facebook merchandise that you can collect for the 2010 holiday season.
Facebook and Friendship goes together now. I wonder who doesn’t use Facebook to make friends or to be in touch with old friends.
There can be many ways to find friends on Facebook, some of them are:
Find a Friend: You can find this on the down right hand side of your Facebook Profile. Click on ‘Find a friend’ . You will be asked your id and password. Facebook then runs a check of the emails in the address book of your profile to see if any of the addresses match people who currently have profiles on Facebook. It gives you an option to select which people you would like to send friend requests.
Classmate search: You can search for your classmates. Be it your school friends or college friends, all of them can be searched through this. Go to Classmate Search and write the name of school or college you had been to.Facebook searches for people on Facebook that have included that school or college and gives you the names. Choose and send friend request to them.
Co worker Search : Now instead of going to your coworker’s desk and asking him to send a friend request, you can now search them nicely. Go to the Coworker’s page and mention the company’s name. You can enter the name of a certain person for whom you are looking else you can ignore that.
Name Search : Any time, anywhere you can write the name of the person you are looking for in the search tab provided on the right upper side of your homepage. There are chances you will get him until and unless that person has chosen to be not visible to search queries.
Facebook Directory : This is an online directory of the names who are present on Facebook. Just write the name and you are provided with a long list of people having that name. You can also type the email id of the person if you are finding someone specific and you know the id. 🙂
There is one more way , you can find all the above except the directory ones, in just one go. Go to this link and you may enter the name and choose the options as you want.
Earlier we could import our contacts from Gmail but now that feature has been removed, so we can add people from these links. Feel free to share your views through the comments below. If you have any suggestions or post idea that you want me to write send your tips at tips@fbknol.com. All kind of suggestions are welcome.
