How Brands Can Use Facebook’s Subscribe Button to Drive Referral Traffic to Their Website. Facebook launched the Subscribe Button for Facebook Profiles in September, which allows users to receive the public updates from people with whom they’re not friends without the other person having to reciprocate.
Users can click on the Subscribe Button on any Profile and they’ll begin seeing updates from that profile in their News Feed. Furthermore, the Subscribe Button can be modified on a per-Profile basis, so that you can choose the type and volume of updates you wish to receive. While the Subscribe Button is limited to Profiles (and not Pages), it can be an additional source of referral traffic for websites if implemented correctly. Large businesses in particular could reap enormous benefits by encouraging employees to activate the Subscribe Button on their profiles and begin sharing relevant content, but brands of all sizes should also see a boost in referral traffic from Facebook if they have a strong and professional team. Do You Have Content to Share?
‘Read,’ ‘Listen’ Join Ticker For Some Facebook Users. “Like” is finally welcoming some company at the Facebook verb table, being joined, for some users, by “listen” and “read.”
Sister blog Inside Facebook reported that the ticker on some users’ (but not this particular user’s) Facebook pages is adding buttons for read or listen to posts about users’ contacts reading content or listening to music. For content such as articles from newspapers or magazines, an icon that resembles a newspaper appears on the post, and hovering over it brings up the word read. For music, the icon is a musical note, and hovering results in the word listen. How Your Child’s Privacy Can Get Violated On Facebook. Facebook Timeline: 10 Simple Tips and Tricks. (1) Suggested Subscriptions. Facebook Timeline: 5 Sites for Customizing Your Cover Photo. Google+ Now Lets You Decide Who Can Notify You of New Posts. How To Opt Out Of Seeing Who’s Reading What On Facebook (UPDATED)
News feeds are showing people who’s reading what — but you can opt out of that, either by choosing not to share what you read, limiting what kinds of posts you get from different friends, or combinations thereof.
The recently launched Facebook editions of online publications, along with the upgraded plugins for media websites are together putting updates into news feeds to alert people when friends are reading the same story. Publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian have launched Facebook editions, and news feed posts show articles read by friends. Thumbnail images of the reading friends’ profile pictures accompany the news feed posts, with the most widely read story appearing atop the post.
The more people read the same article, the greater its visibility in the news feed. Apparently, not everyone wants to see what their friends are reading nor vice versa. 50 Facebook timeline covers - examples and best practices. Facebook’s Timeline covers Included in Facebook’s numerous product updates is the new Timeline function which tells a user’s story in a chronological way, literally resembling a traditional timeline.
What is most captivating about the Timeline to us is that it offers a “cover” which is a massive picture at the header of a user’s profile. Five Facebook Changes and What You Need to Know. Are you wondering what to make of all the new Facebook changes?
This article takes a detailed look at how the News Ticker, Smart Lists, News Feed, Subscribe feature and Timeline will impact marketers and business owners. How to Use the Facebook Timeline: A Complete Walk-Through of the Redesigned Profile. Timeline, the redesigned version of the profile that Facebook launched yesterday at f8, gives users much more flexibility in how they present themselves.
Users can customize their banner image, make certain types of content more prominent, and decide what moments of their life they want to feature. Everything users have ever posted to Facebook is now much more accessible, so most will want to browse through their Timeline and ensure all their content is appropriate and has the right privacy settings. Here we’ll walk-through all the new features available in Timeline, how to control what’s displayed, and discuss how Timeline will impact users and the rest of the site.
Public Figures (1) Introducing the Subscribe Button (1) Facebook Revamps Friend Lists [PICS] Facebook is launching a massive upgrade of its Friend Lists feature in an effort to make it more useful for users. The feature, which debuted in 2007, is currently used by less than 5% of users, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook's New "Smart Lists" Keep You From Having to Cultivate Your Own Friend Lists. Facebook Tests Changing User Account Settings to Send Summary Email Notifications. Facebook just posted to its official Page that is testing new summary emails for users “who are very active on Facebook and receive lots of email notifications”.
Rather than sending individual emails, the notifications will be compiled into occasional digests. Those in the test will have their account settings automatically changed to turn off most of their email notifications, which might surprise and annoy some users, though they’ll be able turn them all back on by unchecking the new “Email Frequency” account setting. What's the Proper Way to Tag Photos on Facebook?
Seems fair, but I tag pretty much everyone I can.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine got married and I was one of the groomsmen. Afterwards, a few people put up photos of the wedding/reception/other festivities, only a few of which were of me (and plenty of which I wasn't even present for) and I tagged the crap out of them. I even added a few people as friends and then went back and tagged them, 10 minutes after them accepting my friend request. And if you're recognizable, you're tagged. "You may kiss the bride" picture? I mean, isn't that the point of tags? Facebook Tries Replacing “Most Recent” with a “Ticker” Real-Time Feed Atop the Chat Sidebar.
For the past few months, Facebook has been testing several home page redesigns that add a second, real-time news feed to the right of the central Top News feed.
In the latest tested design, Facebook has removed the Most Recent tab of the news feed and replaced it with a real-time activity feed that is displayed at the top of the Chat sidebar. This design may feel more familiar to users since it leaves birthdays, upcoming events, and ads in their traditional place to the left. However, the design reduces above-the-fold real estate for the buddy list such that might have to do more scrolling to find friends to Chat with. It also makes ads less prominent and thus less valuable than a previous real-time feed design that kept ads visible no matter where on the home page a user scrolled.
Testing Different Designs Top News, Most Recent, and Ticker? Facebook Runs Ads Teaching Users How To Turn Off Facial Recognition. Facebook Users Can Now List in Their Profile That They are Expecting a Child. Facebook users may now display that they have an “Expected: Child” within the family section of their profile beneath their profile picture.
The option is available in the Friends & Family section of the profile editor, and users may also set a due date and name for their unborn child, though no actual profile or Page is created for the child. However, in what appears to be a glitch, users are able to set an existing Facebook friend as their expected child.
This doesn’t make any sense because Facebook’s terms of service dictate that all users must be at least 13 years of age. Update 8/4/2011: This glitch has been fixed and users can no longer select a friend as their expected child. How To Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account. If you are a Facebook user and want to delete your Facebook account and everything in it. So here is the tutorial which will help you to permanently delete your Facebook account. But remember one thing, once you delete your Facebook account all your Facebook information will be gone forever.
All your data like photos, friend list, everything, will be deleted. All the photos, comments, messages, items in your profile, friends you’ve made, everything, will all be deleted for good. Facebook Begins Testing Friend Filters in News Feed [PICS]