Facebook. Friend Manager is an Easy Way to Manage Facebook Friends. Facebook Profiles Accurately Predict Job Performance [STUDY] Do you want to know how that applicant you just interviewed will actually perform on the job? Check out her Facebook profile. That's the advice of a new study from the Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University. The researchers recruited a group of four Facebook-savvy human resources professionals and students to evaluate the Facebook profiles of 56 users. The four perused each of the profiles for about 10 minutes each before grading them according to the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).
Six months later, the researchers compared the evaluations of the 56 users' work supervisors and found a strong correlation for traits including intellectual curiosity, agreeability and conscientiousness. The evalauations are, of course, subjective, but job seekers shouldn't necessarily worry that they need to clean up their Facebook profile. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Silvrshootr. Facebook Launches 'Listen With,' Lets You DJ for Friends. Facebook wants you to listen to music with friends — even if you're not in the same room.
The social network announced a new feature Thursday called "Listen With" that gives users a chatroom in which to share songs. They get to DJ the tunes they are streaming via services such as Spotify and Rdio. Real-time sharing from such services was introduced with Open Graph in September. Users can already see in that chat sidebar what friends are listening to, and click on those songs to play them, but they don't have the option to listen together in a unified virtual environment. The new feature, as Facebook's introductory blog post puts it, makes it so "when your favorite vocal part comes in you can experience it together, just like when you're jamming out at a performance or dance club. " The feature will start rolling out within the next few weeks. To use it, look for a music note in your chat sidebar. 10 Things You Can Fit Into Your 63,206-Character Facebook Status. Facebook Begins Official Timeline Rollout.
On Facebook? Like the Mashable Facebook page and check out our favorite articles covering social media, tech news, and digital culture! Facebook officially took the "beta" label off its much-publicized Timeline this evening, but it's rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog post this evening. Other regions will get it in the "near future. " Facebook first unveiled Timeline in early September, and quickly provided the means for developers and curious users to enable the feature. A more general release was planned for later that month, but it never came, ostensibly to address technical issues and privacy concerns having to do with the software.
Timeline, you may recall, is a way to illustrate your entire life — not just the part you've been living on Facebook since you joined — in a graphical way. iPhone vs. Android: The Social App Activites That Set Users Apart. Okay, so maybe Mac and PC people have their differences — a lot of them. But, the same can't be said about Android and iPhone users. Or can it? New analysis from mobile data management startup Onavo, shared exclusively with Mashable, sheds some light on the differences between iPhone and Android users, at least when it comes to their mobile social networking behaviors.
Onavo analyzed data from a representative sample of more than 100,000 mobile owners, and looked at more than 40 terabytes of anonymized mobile data over a 30-day period. The startup discovered some interesting tidbits. "The social networking activity on mobile clearly differs according to which mobile you have," Onavo CEO Guy Rosen tells Mashable. In case you're wondering, the usage percentages in the infographic below show what percentage of iPhone and Android populations use the social apps over mobile networks, and the mobile data usage ratios represent the average MB per user, per app, per month.
Facebook timeline is a rare win for the social media giant and its users. Facebook has begun to roll out its new timeline feature to users Facebook has begun to roll out its long-awaited timeline to its 800m-plus users. The timeline replaces a user's wall, and improves on a few aspects of a user's profile: namely a more accurate sense of time and a much more appealing aesthetic. And though it has taken a few more months than initially expected – likely due to its scale and the technological magic required to achieve it – I think most people will find it has been worth the wait. The new timeline is basically just that: a reverse chronological history of all things you've done on Facebook (and increasingly anywhere on the web.) And it looks great. There's a new place to put a banner image that stretches nicely across the top of your profile, replacing the often awkward vertical spot where most people used to put a photo of themselves.
The profile page has also had a refresh. And it's easy for me to check if any particular person is privy to more than I'd prefer. Facebook Timeline Now Available to Everyone. On Facebook? Like the Mashable Facebook page and check out our favorite articles covering social media, tech news, and digital culture! After months of slow, gradual rollout, Facebook Timeline is now available to all users. The Timeline is a radical redesign of Facebook's user profile pages, introduced at Facebook's F8 conference in September. Instead of merely listing your interests and personal info, the Timeline shows a detailed overview of your life on Facebook, with the ability to check out what you've been out to at a particular point in time.
SEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline: How to Enable It With One Click Timeline comes with a new tool called the Activity Log, which enables you to finely tune what appears on your Timeline; you can "promote" a post to featured status, you can hide it from the Timeline or delete it altogether. Like all major Facebook redesigns, Timeline was greeted with a fair share of criticism.