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Two Good Google Drive Templates to Create Fake Facebook Pages. Five Facebook Threats That Can Infect Your PC, And How They Work. Do you remember how life was without Facebook? Probably not. The site has pervaded our lives and it is no surprise that Facebook is now prime hunting ground for anyone with nefarious intentions. They employ stealth and cunning, like a predator stalking its prey, looking for the slightest weakness to pounce on you. By simply visiting Facebook, you potentially expose yourself to viruses and malware. Criminals can make you take some unintended action, steal your data, spy on you or “enslave” your PC for their own illegal ends such as launching . We take you through some of these Facebook threats and outline the precautions you should take to avoid becoming another statistic of cyber crime. Clickjacking Threats Clickjacking is one of the oldest tools used by scammers on the Internet and most common ingredient to all other threats listed below.

On Facebook and other social media websites, clickjacking has been employed in a variety of ways. Precautions Phishing Exploits The “Facebook Team” In Your Face. Facebook Help Center | Facebook | technologies. 100 Ways To Use Facebook In Your Classroom | Edudemic. 100 Ways To Use Facebook In Teaching & Learning | technologies. eLearning Tools-Resources-etc. eLearning Tools-Resources-etc. eLearning Tools-Resources-etc. Facebook-Spamming-Reports. Why Do I Hate Facebook’s Timeline | MakeUseOf Geeky Fun. Using Images in Facebook Chat Box [Quicktip] Chat on Facebook connects us with the friends in our Facebook lives, but given the limited features, chat on Facebook has never been a ‘fun’ chat platform. There is wide range of smiley codes available, but among all the disadvantages, there isn’t a single option to share a photo via FB chat.

The usual way is to share a photo with your friends on your Facebook wall then share the link with your friends, but in this case, everyone else would be able to see it and comment about it. Recommended Reading: Facebook Chat: Emoticons, Tips & Tricks To Enhance Conversation Send Image in Facebook Chat To start sending image in Facebook chat box, go to the Smileytime homepage and scroll down until you see the ‘Choose File‘ button, click the button to upload an image, insert your captcha and click ‘Upload Now‘.

After the file is ready, you will see lines of code, copy that code. Paste the code to your chat box. Press enter, and you will see the image is shown in your chat box. And that’s it! Conclusion. Tutorial – Managing your Facebook Timeline | Demo Girl. The World Without Facebook. The Truth About Facebook and Grades. Does using social media help or hurt a student’s performance in school? Does it aid in studying or comprehension? The debate has been ongoing ever since Facebook hit the mainstream. Thanks to a new infographic by OnlineEducation , we get a simple and straightforward look at the role Facebook plays in education.

As we already knew, it’s not about the platform or app. It’s all in how you use it. That’s why it’s no surprise to see this infographic point out this fact at the very top. Other interesting tidbits in the below infographic are similarly not too surprising. 92% of all students polled use Facebook. The social network only significantly hurts your grades if you go totally overboard. Social Networking (Facebook) LinkClick.aspx. How Facebook Can Help Market Your Library | Tampa Bay Library Consortium. According to Facebook statistics, more than 800 million users have an active account. Facebook has taken social media interaction to a new level of communication. It provides an outlet to market your library for FREE, interact with your patrons or students, and share valuable information. Below, I will share why creating a page will help your library, the benefits, and what steps to take next.

If you don’t have a library page set up in Facebook yet, take into consideration all the benefits you can receive from having a library page. Library patrons can “like” your page, allowing them to follow the library and receive any updates that you post.Every time someone “likes” your page, all their friends see that they “like” your library. This leads to easy promotion that attracts other followers to your library Page.Your Facebook library page will allow you to share information like hours, programs, special events, online resources, and updates. You can share information for free. How Do I Block Specific Ads from Facebook? Recently a tech-recipes fan dropped me an interesting question. She was seeing political ads that offended her on Facebook and wanted to know how to keep these ads from appearing. Here is how to block any ads that you find offensive. Facebook makes its money by knowing as much as possible about you.

Because of this, the ads can be very targeted. Occasionally, this can pepper the side of your Facebook news feed with ads that are painful to see. For example, if you are trying to lose weight, maybe you get tired of seeing all the weight loss ads. One of our fans dropped us with such a question: I have enjoyed using fb during this political season because I get to debate my friends about all the issues. Users can blocking specific ads on Facebook using the same method as blocking specific apps. 1. 3. It’s Here! Facebook Timeline Now Available To Users Worldwide.

You’ve been anxiously waiting for it, and now it has finally arrived. Facebook Timeline, which MG likened to ‘the story of your life on a single page’ when it was first announced back in September at the F8 event, that is. We told you how to get it early (and millions of you did) and what it looked like, but most of you earthlings – not living in New Zealand – had to wait patiently until the glorious day Facebook decided to flick that on/off switch.

This morning, they did. Wait, are you still here? Go click that “Get It Now” button and revisit your life (or at least the parts of it you or others shared on Facebook). You’ll have seven days to review everything that appears on your Timeline before anyone else can see it, and you can choose to see how it appears to a specific friend or the public. As a commenter on this post put it: “Today will be the most unproductive day in America this year”. And, of course, the rest of the world and stuff. Facebookstudy. Facebook & Twitter Guides for Educators. Facebook Adds Admin Roles: This Week in Social Media. Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Gives Granularity to Page Admin Roles: Businesses with Facebook Pages can now set five different roles for their admins: Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insights Analyst.

This is a useful tool for Facebook managers. Businesses on Facebook can now grant page admins varying degrees of permissions, depending on their role. Facebook Adds Post Scheduling: You can now schedule posts directly on your Facebook Page. ”You can prepare a post and schedule it to appear later by adding a date and time in the future before you post it.” "You can schedule a post up to 6 months in advance in 15-minute intervals," and you can also "choose a date in the past" and your post will appear at the appropriate place on your Page's Timeline. Check out Bit.ly's new bookmarking feature, the Bitmark. FACEBOOKERS. Eurovision 2012 San Marino - Valentina Monetta - Facebook. Connecting with Learners: Facebook. Chat Codes Maker | Smiley Time Facebook Smileys. 7 New Facebook Changes Impacting Businesses. Facebook pages are changing. And that means your business strategy will need to change. In fact, Facebook has made many new changes that will impact anyone with a Facebook page.

These changes emerged from Facebook’s fMC 2012 Conference. The overall message was that Facebook is looking at pages as a “mission control” point (which is where the MC comes from in the conference title). Here is an overview of the changes and how brands can take advantage of some of the new features. #1: Cover Photo and Profile Image Obviously one of the biggest changes that we all knew was coming was the cover photo. The new Timeline cover photo. One of the biggest restrictions is the fact that you can’t have any calls to action in your cover photo.

The profile picture size has been changed to 180 pixels by 180 pixels. . #2: Larger, Highlighted and Pinned Posts One of Facebook’s mantras during the conference was the way we tell stories with Facebook. Use Highlight to emphasize a particular post. #4: New Applications. 60-Second Guide To The Facebook Timeline. 5 Things That Shouldn’t Be On Your Facebook. I just read an interesting infographic about crimes that were committed and solved on Facebook. In one of the featured stories was a break-in in a victim’s house by a man, whom she later found out had just befriended her on Facebook a week before! (Image source: Cheth) This just goes to show that the things you put on Facebook: your private details, your photos, your thoughts and preferences; they can be used against you. So despite the therapeutic feeling Facebook offers you, you really should take into account what you put on your Facebook page. Here is a list of five things that I suggest should not be on your Facebook page, beginning with: 1.

The friend’s list is a very personal place. While it may not be a good career move to speak ill of your work place, it is a valid form of stress relief, particularly when you get to vent without worrying about a backlash. 2. We can’t really resist sharing photos of our lives. (Image source: Prashish Rajbhandari) 3. 4. 5. (Image source: Free Vector) 5 Must-Know Facebook Timeline Tips/Ticks. Have you embraced the changes? The new Facebook Timeline lets you change the way your entire life is showcased over the Internet – in the form of colorful scrapbook, with highlights to enhance excitement and emotional feelings.

There are those of you who have embraced the changes and loved it and then there are also those who haven’t really gotten into the full experience yet. In this article, we’ll share with you some tips and tricks to help you configure your Facebook Timeline and exercise your full control over your personal information. Maybe then, some of you will be convinced that the Timeline isn’t all that bad after all. Recommended Reading: 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know 1. Feature Photos/Links/Status There are 2 sides of your timeline on Facebook, your life stories, and updates; this makes your featured photos cramped in half. Once the ‘Star’ button is clicked, you will see that your photo is now featured page-wide like this one. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Bonus – Activity Log. 10 Ways to Add Facebook Functionality to Your Website. Integrating Facebook into your website is an easy and free way to include a social dimension with the rest of your website business activity. Facebook provides a selection of free plugins. By the time you’re finished reading this article, you’ll understand your options for turning your website into a social hub and how to get started. Why Facebook on Your Website?

Facebook has a grand vision: to connect the entire Internet, and every website on it, with a layer of social integration. The social network behemoth has been developing tools to assist in the spread of this vision since the introduction of the Open Graph in 2009. Now, with over 10 social plugins available to the public (and free of charge!) , website owners need to decide how best to utilize the available tools for their businesses. Let’s look at some of the stats from SearchEngineLand: #1: Like Button The Like button lets users share pages from your site back to their Facebook profile with one click. . #2: Send Button #3: Comments. Why the Facebook Group My Students Created for Themselves is Better than the Discussion Forum I Created for Them. « Douchy’s Weblog. Since 2004 I’ve created a website of some kind for each class, with a discussion board – a place where students can ask questions or make comments on our class any time of day or night and get a response.

I think it’s an essential component of any modern class. This semester something new happened, though. My students created a Facebook group for my class (and then invited me to join it!). Slowly I’ve watched and noticed more and more, that students are posting on that Facebook group instead of the discussion forum I’d created for them! While at first, the control-freak in me wanted to send them all back to the “official class discussion forum”, The advantages of the Facebook group have become increasingly compelling and I’m wondering whether it’s time to let the forum I created go the way of cassette tapes and typewriters. Why is a Facebook group better? Some other advantages of the Facebook group over the discussion board I created are: