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50 Great Facebook Tips and Tricks
This post is a collection of some of the best apps, tips, and tricks I have discovered from countless hours of research into facebook and the facebook ecosystem.
The tips and tricks in this post come from the firefox plugin directory, the userscripts database, and facebook itself.
If you know of any additional facebook tips and tricks worth sharing let us know in the comments below!
1. Create a Custom Username for your facebook Profile or Page
For example, the custom url of my personal profile is: http://www.facebook.com/garinkilpatrick/
You can customize the URLs of your own facebook profile and pages by surfing to: http://www.facebook.com/username/
2. Export your facebook Status Updates via RSS or Text Messages
If you go to facebook.com/notifications you will be able to choose how you would like to syndicate your status updates, as RSS or Text Messages.
3. Import your Tweets as status updates
With the Twitter app for Facebook. This app will import all tweets as status updates, which may alienate your fb friends with useless @replies if they do not have twitter.
4. Schedule your Status Updates on facebook and Twitter
Sendible.com is a site that allows you to import your contacts from a variety of address books, and schedule status updates to multiple networks.
Status updates supported by Sendible include: your Facebook Wall, Facebook Page, and other Social Media sites like Twitter and Linkedin.
5. Sync Photos of facebook Friends with Microsoft Outlook Contacts
OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook.
This application allows you to select which contacts are updated.
With this app you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
6. Customize your facebook Page
With the Static FBML app by faceboook.
Using this app you can create a custom “welcome” tab for your facebook page, customize the sidebar of your wall, and more!
7. Export your facebook Events to your Google Calendar
Add your facebook events to currently logged in Google Calendar.
8. Download your facebook Albums from Friends, Events, and Groups
FacePAD is a plugin for Firefox. better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader will allow you to download your friends’ entire Facebook albums with a click of a button.
9. Flickr to Facebook
A
n unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader (bookmarklet).
This app allows you to easily upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
10. Upload photos to your facebook account with Picasa
The Google owned Picasa comes complete with an uploader app for Facebook.
This app also gives you the option of uploading the Picasa captions and resizing your photos before uploading them to facebook.
Add a simple button to Picasa that lets you upload your photos straight to Facebook! You can put photos in an existing album or create a new one.
11. Export the emails of your facebook friends as a .csv list.
Facebook turns emails into images so until recently there was no easy way to download the emails of your friends without manually copying them all out. Luckily before I did this I discovered the video below.
The video above shows how Yahoo offers a service that will automatically pull all of your facebook emails into a coma separated list.
12. How to: Remove facebook Advertisements
This Greasemonkey Plugin script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that otherwise will appear on your Facebook pages.
13. Import Selective Tweets as facebook status updates
After you link the Selective Tweets App with your Twitter account, any tweets you select will be sent to Facebook.
Select tweets for facebook by using the hashtag #FB in your tweet and it will appear also as a Facebook status update.
14. Access facebook chat on your desktop
C
hit chat for facebook is a desktop messaging program for Windows.
This msn style chat program delivers a better experience than the browser based version of facebook chat, since it is not stuck to the bottom of a browser.
Chit chat offers tabs for managing multiple conversations at once.
If you are a Mac user you should check out the widely popular program Adium since it integrates facebook chat, and msn messenger!
15. Use facebook Chat Emoticons
Here is an image showing all of the available Facebook Chat Smileys and Symbols.
16. Manage facebook Chat with Lists
Friend lists on facebook make it so you can appear online to some friend lists while appearing offline to other lists of friends.
If you only wanted to talk to your best friends, for example, then simply create a list called best friends and leave in online, and set all other lists to offline.
In the image shown to the left you will see that I have only three of my lists online.
Due to lists in the image in the left I have only 114 of my fiends online at the time I took this screenshot.
Any friends who are within my offline lists will appear offline to me, even if they are online.
17. Update Facebook via SMS Text Messages
If you already have facebook synced with your phone you can send a status update by sending a text message to 32665. Syncing your phone with facebook is a simple seven step process.
- Login to facebook.
- Click on Account, and account settings.
- Click the Mobile tab.
- you will see a link for “Register for Facebook Mobile Texts”. Click this link and fill out the information requested, including your cell phone number.
- A text message with a confirmation code will then be sent to your phone.
- Add in this confirmation code at the website listed in the text. At this point you are registered to update your Facebook message with texts.
- Now you can update your status by sending a text message to 32665.
18. Get Facebook summary updates via email
A great way to stay connected with facebook via a free service called nutshellmail. Nutshell mail delivers well designed facebook updates, and offers a similar service for both Twitter and Linkedin.
19. Update your Facebook Status from Firefox
Firestatus is A status update utility for multiple social networks, including Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, delicious and more.
20. Download the Facebook app for your phone
Simply browse to m.facebook.com from your mobile phone, and you will be able to access the mobile version of fb.
21. Get detailed statistics of your facebook friends with Socialistics
Socialistics is a comprehensive social insight tool.
This facebook app provides an integrated analysis of your friends and networks.
All graphs are a reflection of stats relating to your friends.
But more interestingly Socialistics creates detailed tag clouds that are a reflection of you and your relationships with people in your networks.
This isn’t Top Friends. It’s much more. It’s an attempt to start understanding who you are within the network you operate within.
22. Automatically Poke Friends that poke you
Yes it’s possible, all thanks to a little Greasemonkey script called Facebook Autopoke.
I am hesitant towards this app. What if someone you don’t want to poke pokes you? Do you really want to automatically poke them back?
If you maximize your poking potential and are comfortable poking anyone this app is for you! 
23. Upload photos and video to Facebook via email
Go to facebook.com/mobile and note a special “upload” email address that has been assigned to you by facebook.
Any photograph (or video clip) that is sent to this address via email will instantly get posted to your facebook page.
24. The Konami Code
By entering the konami code you will see a cool lens flare effect that will impress and your friends.
By entering these keys:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter.
You will activate the famous Konami code, which unlocks secret areas of many well known websites.
Entering the Konami code in Facebook causes the Website to Enter Lens Flare Mode:
Try typing or pressing Enter for special effects. This is a cool trick, but gets annoying soon. Just re-enter the code to deactivate the effect.
25. Pirate English
Yarrr matey!
Change the language of Facebook to English (Pirate) BETA.
Make yaaar status updates walk the plank.
26. Update Facebook from Google
This app allows you to view your Facebook news feed and update your status from iGoogle. According to the comments this app works great in Firefox, but not Google Chrome.
27. Find all of your Facebook friends on Twitter
After you export all of the email addresses of your facebook friends (see tip #11) you can import them using twitter’s find friends tool, so that you can connect with your facebook friends on twitter.
28. Keep your friends with you as you surf the web
With the social web browser flock (built from mozilla technology). http://www.flock.com
29. Access Gmail from Facebook With Fmail
Fmail allows you to check your Gmail without leaving Facebook.
Additionally, Fmail attempts to rate your email, so you can quickly differentiate between what’s important and what can wait.
30. Flip your status update text upside down
With fliptext.org
31. Download Facebook Videos
with Downfacebook.com
This site offers two options for downloading videos from facebook, both of which are very easy to use.
32. Get all your facebook notifications right on your desktop
With FBquick.
FBquick is a quick and easy way to get all your facebook notifications right on your desktop.
33. Ping Facebook and all other major social networks at once
With ping.fm.
34. Get quick access to many popular features of facebook
with FBookFriendMenu
Press ALT while pointing to a profile or picture of a use to do common tasks such send poke, message, view album etc.
35. Auto-Colorizer for Facebook
This script adds a custom color scheme to facebook based on profile pictures.
36. Create a collage of Photos of your friends
With the Photo Collage app.
37. Get Facebook and other Instant Messaging in one Program
Digsby is a cool program that integrates email, IM, and Social Networks.
38. The Reviews App for Facebook
With the Reviews App for Facebook, your friends and customers can leave honest opinions about your business.
Reviews lets your prospective fans know what to expect with you and can influence people interacting with your business.
39. Automatically login to Facebook
With Facebook Autologin v2 by installing Greasemonkey for Firefox and this script.
40. Facebook Share Button integration within Google Reader
This Greasemonkey script Places an expandable Facebook Sharer into each Google Reader item so that websites can be shared with Facebook friends and on a Facebook profile from Reader with a couple clicks
41. Advanced facebook Search Features
Not everybody knows how powerful facebook search is.
Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you search like a pro.
A complete list of search tips for Facebook can be found in the Help section of facebook.com.
42. Facebook Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X
Dashboard Widget is a widget developed for the Mac OS X dashboard. It is designed to show notifications from the Facebook website.
43. The Superlatives App is Fun
http://www.facebook.com/superlatives
44. Send RSS Feeds to Facebook Pages with RSS Graffitti
RSS Graffiti is an app that periodically checks the RSS feeds that you specify and posts new entries to the Facebook Walls that you specify.
You can get any feed written on any wall. In fact, multiple feeds to multiple walls. You choose the combination.
This app is used by Seth Godin to bring his blog into his facebook page.
45. Manage Facebook Status Updates and Multiple Twitter Accounts at once
With Tweetdeck.
Tweetdeck is the most popular Social Media desktop tool.
They enable multiple account management and facebook status updating.
Make sure to check out my Ultimate TweetDeck Tutorial on garin.tv.
46. Check out: Facebook for Influencers
Facebook for Influencers is a useful resource developed by facebook, about how to build an effective facebook presence.
This facebook page is for anyone who wants to build a presence, engage an audience, and spread a message.
47. Check out: the Facebook App director
There are hundreds of apps recommended by facebook within the facebook app directory.
48. Export albums to facebook from iPhoto [Mac]
Facebook Exporter for iPhoto is a free plugin for iPhoto that enables you to export photos directly to Facebook, with captions and tags of your friends.
The plugin requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and iPhoto 5 or later.
49. Customize your Facebook profile page sidebar
If you are looking for the right icon to link with check out this facebook icon collection.
50. Install a Facebook Like button into your WordPress Self-Hosted Blog
I just implemented this tip on this very page, as you can see below.
To do so I went to Plugins/Add New, and then searched for: “facebook like button.” I installed three different plugins but none worked well with my theme. I decided to stick with the share button at the top of this post.
I recommend installing code for each button manually. Facebook provides a like button building tool that is quite easy to use, and generates code to copy and paste automatically.
You can get a like button by going to the like button plugin page within the facebook developers portal.
If you have a WordPress blog better way to install this feature into all of your posts and/or pages is with the wordpress plugin: WP FB Like. I installed over five facebook like plugins and this one was the easiest to configure, so I recommend it.
If you don’t want a “like” button you can change the verb to “recommend”, as the image above shows.
10 Facebook Advertising Tips For Brilliant Marketers
Your current Facebook ads don’t suck, it’s just that they could be better. When spending money on Facebook advertising, you must monitor your ad spend closely, as the expense can skyrocket and suddenly kill your campaign’s effectiveness. Too many Facebook advertisers are making beginner mistakes that end up making Facebook rich and the marketer broke. Stop making those mistakes! Use these tips below and dramatically increase your Facebook advertising skills.
Split Test Your Ads
One of the most important things for any advertiser is to ensure that the advertisements you are running are the best that they can be. Too often advertisers/marketers will launch a Facebook ad campaign and see that they just spend $100 and got little results and generalize that this must be the case for all campaigns on Facebook. The reality is that your ad campaign probably wasn’t performing well because your ad wasn’t great. The best marketers know that performance comes from testing things out.
In the image below there are two sample ads. In this case we are testing against two interest groups: those that like tunafish and those who enjoy base jumping. I would guess that base jumpers tend to be more passionate and as such they are more likely to respond to an advertisement. I haven’t actually run these ads so I don’t know. However you should test numerous variations. Switch one component of your advertisement at a time and then compare it to another and see which works better.
There are a limited number of variables that you can change, but here are the four primary groups that you should be testing ads against:
- Ad copy – What does the text of your advertisement say? Asking the user to click “Like” below tends to work relatively well.
- Ad image – Test different images to see which ones perform the best. You can get extremely granular and test images within various demographic groups. You may find things such as that pink images work better for females.
- Interest groups – Another thing you should be testing is which interest groups are more passionate (and hence more likely to click). It’s frequently too expensive to target less passionate and less responsive markets as they click on ads much less frequently.
- Demographics within interest groups – Once you find a passionate group, try splitting the ads by gender or age group. You may find that some groups perform better than others. Narrowing this down will help you increase your ads performance and reduce the effective cost per click and cost per action.
Create A Click Through Rate Threshold
While some ads will perform better than others, the last thing you want to do is throw money away at underperforming advertisements. As such, you should develop a click through rate threshold that is acceptable for your campaign. In the image below, we were testing a campaign to drive more fans to a page. Our target was to generate new fans at less that $0.25 per fan. Unfortunately, this advertisement generated 3 fans at a minimum and 21 at a maximum (if all of the clicks to our page converted into fans).
This means our effective cost per fan would have been between $0.65 and $4.60, most likely further toward the high end. The result is that this advertisement was killed for underperformance. Ultimately we probably let this ad run too long, ultimately hurting our overall campaign performance, however this happens to be a long-term campaign, so the $13.80 we spent on this ad probably won’t end up damaging things too much. The main lesson here, is to figure out what sort of click through rate is acceptable to you and immediately kill those ads which are performing up to your standards.
Use CPM To Test Your Ads
The bottom line is this: CPC (cost per click) is for lazy marketers. Cost per click drives you to perform all of your tests on the landing page (or landing tab of your Facebook Page). This is not the way to do things. Test your ads on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis and find those which drive the lowest CPC. You may end up finding that you’ll get lower CPCs than you would have had you used a CPC bidding model. Using a CPM model will enable you to find which ads perform the best and potentially provide you with the greatest opportunity to minimize the cost of your campaign.
While Facebook previously stated that they were going to position CPC ads in those spots which get the most clicks, we’ve run a number of CPM-based campaigns which perform insanely well. Using CPM you can determine what the real CPC rate should be (based on performance) and you can test which ads perform the best. If you want to let your ad campaigns run on their own without monitoring then, you can switch to CPC, but at least you’ll have discovered which advertisements perform the best.
Monitor Your Campaigns Closely
One thing that you’ll notice when you first begin running advertising campaigns on Facebook is that the performance will degrade over time. That’s because the cost of reaching each subsequent user on Facebook increases incrementally. In other words, the first people who click on an ad tend to be the most responsive to advertisements in general. Once you get through this first wave of people, the cost of reaching the next group will increase.
As such, you need to monitor your daily CTR. Watch how your click through rate performs over time. If you begin to see decreases, you may want to consider either targeting a different target group or switching your advertisement. At a certain point, all advertisements lose their effectiveness. Not monitoring your ad campaigns on a regular basis is for lazy people and those who want to spend more on their ad campaigns.
Test Performance At Different Times
Often times you’ll find that an advertisement will perform better at a different time of day. While Facebook doesn’t let advertisers/marketers select which time of day their ads run, you can turn your ads on and off manually and see which times perform the best. This requires extremely close monitoring however. While Facebook may eventually (and will most likely) ad this type of granular control in the future, no advertiser has control of this right now. If you are spending large amounts on advertising, you may want to test a third-part Facebook advertising partner who will be able to automate the time of day your ads are displayed.
Use A Cost Per Fan Model
I’m personally a huge fan of run advertising campaigns on a cost per fan model. This is because Facebook provides Page administrators with a great reengagement channel: the feed. While email is often one of the best marketing channels, Facebook performs well because quality content gets re-shared by users. That means increasing your fan base increases the likelihood that your content will “go viral” on Facebook. While many email marketing companies, such as MailChimp, are looking at way to make email marketing more social, Facebook Page continue to be one of the best marketing channels.
As such, investing in Facebook advertising on a cost per fan basis is smart because once you get a fan, you can reengage them in the feed. When running cost per fan campaigns, we’ve found that running ads on a CPM basis and optimizing ads on “Cost per action” basis is the best model.
How To Calculate Cost Per Fan
Let’s say that you’ve decided to run an advertising campaign as we’ve described. In order to calculate the cost per fan, run campaigns on a CPM basis. Once you run them, you will see a report like the one pictured below. In order to calculate the cost per fan, simply divide the total campaign amount by the number of “actions” (which is the people who clicked on “Like” in your ad). This will be your estimated cost per fan. The reality is that the people who clicked on the ad (under the column “Clicks”) may have also eventually become a fan, however determining that requires using third party tools or creating your own custom software (which most people don’t want to do).
Even by using the estimated cost per fan model, you should be able to drive fans to a Facebook page for not too much. As you see above, we were able to drive fans at an estimated cost of $0.05 per fan, a rate most people would kill for!
Develop A Creative Reveal Tab
As I mentioned in the last tip, tracking how well those “Clicks” convert to fans is a little more complex. However you should be doing as much as you can to increase the conversion of those clicks into actual fans. One of the best techniques for accomplishing this is by adding a reveal tab. As we previously described, a reveal tab is a simple tool to drive users to click on “Like” to become a fan by rewarding them for their action. The image below depicts a sample reveal tab which promises the “latest breaking terrifying news”, which in all honesty isn’t that big of a promise.
If you wanted to take things one step further you would offer them a free product that they can download as a way to convince the user to click “Like”. We’ll cover this more in depth in a future article.
Bid High To Get Ads Approved Faster
I’m not sure that this is a trick that Facebook wants to be made public, however all frequent Facebook advertisers know that by bidding more, Facebook will respond to your ad submission quicker. Simply put, you can change your bid rate after your advertisements has been approved. However if it’s taking a long time for your ads to get approved, you are losing time that could have been used testing ads. Keep in mind that this trick doesn’t work forever though.
Facebook has a system which prioritizes advertisers based on how much they are spending on a regular basis. If it turns out that you are bidding $1.00 CPMs but always switch it back to $0.03, Facebook will catch on. In other words, don’t use this trick for too long. This is simply an effective technique for new advertisers in the system.
Use Facebook’s Conversion Tracking Tools
While I know I’ve been pushing the cost per fan advertising model on this site for a while, the reality is that not all advertisers/marketers are interested in driving fans. Instead, they’d prefer to drive actions on their own website. Fortunately for those individuals, Facebook has their own tracking tools (which can be found here. While Facebook is still testing this system, it’s an effective technique for determining how well your ads are performing, including how much revenue is being generated from each ad.
Using these tools you can determine if the ads you are running are generating a profit or are instead making you bleed money slowly. Facebook has provided advertisers with the following tracking guide to help them get started. If you aren’t looking to run a cost per fan campaign, then this is probably a tool you should be testing out immediately.
Remember The “Passion Factor”
One thing that many advertisers and marketers frequently don’t consider is that some groups are simply more passionate than others. Base jumpers are probably much more passionate about their recreational activity than basket weavers (although I don’t want to discriminate against my fellow basket weavers). The main thing is this: passionate fans click on ads more often. Your job as the advertiser is to invoke an emotional response to your advertisement and one of the best ways to do this is to target passionate individuals and expose that passion through your ad.
I’ve seen so many boring ads on Facebook, but you don’t need to be one of those individuals who creates the boring ads! Figure out what will generate an emotional response and target those individuals who are most passionate about their interests. Find which interest groups are the most passionate. The more passion, the cheaper your advertising cost.
Conclusion
Use these Facebook advertising tips and you will surely boost the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns. While you can go out and purchase fans directly from companies, the reality is that Facebook’s advertising platform is the single best source of attracting new fans. No matter the size of your Facebook advertising budget, these tips will save you precious dollars which could otherwise be thrown away on low performing ads. If there’s one thing you should take away from this article, this is it: don’t throw your money away at low performing ads, run tests to find the best performing ones. In upcoming articles we will be highlighting additional advertising techniques which will help boost your Facebook advertising campaign performance.
10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks
With Facebook’s ever-changing layout, and the fact that other social sites are encroaching on its real-time update strangle-hold, it’s easy to forget that there are some pretty nifty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status.
We’ve pulled together 10 great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more.
Perfect for newer Facebook (
) users, or anyone who is looking for a refresher, read on and let us know the ones you like in the comments below.
1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update
“Like” buttons are everywhere on Facebook, and they’re everywhere on the web. But what if you want to update your status or share something that your friends can “dislike?” We know, your friends can choose to “comment” on your post, but where’s the fun in that?
The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as “love,” “hate,” “disagree” or even “LOLs.”
2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People
Using Facebook’s general privacy settings (find these by hitting “account” on the top right of a Facebook page) you can select whether everyone, just friends or friends of friends can see your status updates. However, there is a way to narrow those options down even further.
You can select specific friend lists to see your status (relevant for work, special interest groups, etc.) or even individual people by name, which is useful for anyone organizing a surprise party.
To take advantage of these options, click the padlock icon just below your “what’s on your mind” box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting “customize” will bring up more options such as “make this visible to” and “hide from” with the option to make your selection a default.
3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates
While SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite (:)) offer the same kind of service, the simplest way to schedule Facebook status updates is by using the easy, free Later Bro service.
Just sign in with Facebook Connect, select your time zone, type in what it is you’d like to say, set the calendar and clock to when you’d like to say it, and presto!
4. HOW TO: Tag People in Your Status Updates
This was quite a big deal when it was announced this past September, but from the amount of searches on the topic “how can I make someone’s name go blue in a Facebook status?” it seems it’s not universally known.
To mention someone in a status update just type “@” (a la Twitter 
in the status bar and start typing their name as it appears on Facebook. An auto-generated list will then come up with people in your social circle whose name starts with the letters you’ve typed. The feature also works with pages, brands, events and companies.
Hit the name you want, complete the update, click share and the name will become a hyperlink (you won’t see the @ symbol) and will appear in blue text.
5. HOW TO: Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status
Although there are plenty of emoticons that work with Facebook Chat, typing “:)” into Facebook’s status bar will not magically transform into a smiley yellow face. In fact, the only symbol you can create in a Facebook status update through the shortcut keys is a ?, by typing “<3.”
While this won’t bother many Facebook users, others more used to punctuating their missives can copy and paste web-happy, universal symbols into the box, as you can see in the screengrab above.
PC users can also access some symbols by hitting “alt” + various number combinations (on a numerical keypad). So, while smileys are yet to hit Facebook statuses, you can annoy or amuse your buddies with symbols right now.
6. HOW TO: Turn Your Status Updates Into a Word Cloud
There’s a really fun way to visualize anyone’s status updates (even an entire country’s) as a word cloud. The Status Analyzer 3D app will look at what it is you’ve been chatting about lately and generate a list, and then a pretty, colorful, animated cloud as pictured above.
You can share the results with others on the social networking site by posting it to your friends’ walls or by adding it to your profile.
7. HOW TO: Have Fun With Facebook’s Humorous Language Options
While you can always change your setting into more sensible alternative languages, the site offers a couple of fun linguistic Easter eggs.
You can chose to have Facebook display upside down English, or, for anyone feeling a little salty, in “pirate.” Pirate essentially turns your status into your “plank,” your attachments into “loot” and instead of “share” it offers the option to “blabber t’ yer mates.”
Sadly, anything you type in the status bar won’t be upside down, or pirate-y. But with the use of some external sites you can achieve the same effect.
TypeUpsideDown.com and UpsideDownText.com are just two examples of sites that can flip your text, while the Talk Like a Pirate Day site can help you with your pirate translations.
8. HOW TO: See Status Updates From Around the World
If you want to get a glimpse of the thoughts of Facebook users from around the world’s, head over to OpenBook.
Created by three San Fran web developers with a serious privacy message in mind, the site aggregates the status updates of everyone whose privacy levels are set to “everyone.”
You can narrow your searchable results down by gender and keywords to find out what people are saying about a certain topic. Or you can just browse the recent searches.
9. HOW TO: See Your Status Update Stats
Have you ever wondered how many times you have updated your status on Facebook? The Facebook app Status Statistics, can tell you this and more.
The app analyzes your updates and gives you a tidy list of how many you’ve written, the average word count and how many times a day you post. In addition, it generates a graph that shows you what time of day or what days of the week you normally update.
Old statuses are also searchable via the app, so you can find that witty retort you made back in November 2009 without having to scroll back through your history.
10. HOW TO: Play a Trick On Your Friends in Your Status Update
We have a funny one to end on — a way to play an amusing trick on your Facebook buddies.
This clever link “http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363? looks like it could be a URL for anyone’s Facebook profile, actually takes anyone logged into Facebook to their own profile page.
If you try it out, be sure to remove the link preview that Facebook auto-ads. Have fun, and don’t be too mean…
Facebook Applications To Help Ring In The New Year
With so little of 2010 left, it’s the perfect time for a list of New Years applications that will help you look back and prepare for the next 365 days. You’ll see some personal greeting applications, fun applications that will predict your year, and even a way to keep your resolution in check. Check out our picks, and add any additional favorites of your own in the replies.
- My Year In Status
