We have covered quite a few Facebook modifications and tips in the past that let you get more out of Facebook Chat. A userscript for instance to add easier access to emoticons in chat or how to hide from friends on Facebook chat. Pretty Facebook Chat is a Google Chrome extension that lets you customize [...]

Google has a distinct advantage that other companies on the web do not have. Google Search at the time of writing controls more than 50% of all search on the web, which can go up in some countries to more than 90%. Google uses this to their advantage by promoting their own services in search. [...]

When I discover a great video or music track on the Internet I often want to share it with friends who I know have a similar taste when it comes to entertainment. What I really like to do is to watch videos together with friends. This works considerably well as we are often using Teamspeak [...]

When you sign up for a Facebook account you are asked to enter information about you including your birthday. The majority of Facebook users will probably get that right, but it can happen that you pick the wrong date either accidentally or on purpose if you do not want to reveal you true age to [...]

A recent redesign on Facebook has changed the look and feel of the user start page on the social networking site. Some of the changes, the ticker for instance, have mostly received negative feedback from users of the social networking sites. Many smaller more subtle changes have also been introduced in recent times. The Pokes [...]

Facebook recently rolled out a new user profile design that the company calls Timeline. These new profiles change the layout and design of user profiles fundamentally. Facebook Timeline is currently an opt-in option, which means that users need to enable the new feature to turn their profiles into timeline profiles. Users who have not changed [...]

With the popularity of a service and an api come third party services that either use the service’s authorization system or add functionality to the service. A prime example is Facebook. Sites on the Internet may allow you to log in to the service with your Facebook credentials. This is useful as users do not [...]

First information about Facebook’s plan to release their own instant messaging program appeared on a Facebook support page about a month ago. Facebook Messenger for Windows, according to that page, offers chat, messaging and notification functionality. The program was initially only available to a group of alpha testers. A direct link to Facebook’s Messenger has [...]

Timeline is the name of the new Facebook user profile that was previously only available to beta testers and developers. Interested users can now activate Timeline for their profile on this page before everyone else gets a notification that it is now available to all users. It is not clear yet if all Facebook profiles [...]

Sometimes you may want a clean slate. Maybe you have realized that you are communicating only with a handful of friends on Facebook, and that you have added the majority only to feel good or to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. On Facebook it is only possible to remove one friend at a time. If you [...]

Most Facebook users probably have one or two page elements or features that annoy the hell out of them. This can be a small recent change like the top posts feature that promotes some posts and modifies the timeline by doing so, or something bigger like the new photo viewer interface or the highly annoying [...]

The Facebook Ticker is a controversial new feature that Facebook introduced in August of this year. It basically displays a history of friend activity on the popular social networking site; It notifies you when friend’s like something or when they leave a comment on Facebook. The core difference between the ticker and the main news [...]

It’s been less than a month since Google opened up it’s new social networking site, Google+.  Now data collected by Chikita insights is suggesting that traffic to the site has recently dropped by as much as 60%. The sudden drop, reported by Dvice, showed a huge surge in traffic last month of 1,200% but now [...]

All Internet users were recently made aware of the fact that social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter had the power to track a user’s movement over the web. This is done with the help of scripts such as Facebook Like or Twitter buttons that webmasters add to their websites and pages. While it [...]

One of the biggest sources of spam in my opinion are tags on Facebook. The reason for this is that it is possible to tag friends in photos automatically. Those information are then not only available on the profile of the user who tagged the photo, but also on the profile of the tagged user. [...]

You may know that your browser sends information to Facebook whenever you visit a web page that hosts a Facebook Like or Share button or other Facebook content. That’s true even if you do not have a Facebook account. If you do have a Facebook account, Facebook gets to know which sites you visit. Some [...]

I have to admit that I’m not playing games on social networking sites like Facebook or Google Plus. To be honest, I’m annoyed by status messages that contain gift, bonus or game information. Thankfully though the networks have improved filtering so that those information have been reduced to a minimum in recent time. Still, I [...]

I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now displaying on every page on the social networking site. The ticker displays the latest activities of friends on Facebook. The annoying thing about it is that it updates in real-time, which means that you see constant movement [...]

If you are not visiting Facebook on a daily basis, you may have had to read a lot of news stories that had accumulated in recent times. Facebook then did not sort the stories on your homepage which meant that you had to go through everything to find the news that were interesting to you. [...]

Up until now it was not really that easy to customize what appears in your news feed and what not. That’s a big issue if you do not want to see game updates in your feed, or would love to read new posts from a Facebook user that you do not want to or cannot [...]

Facebook users log in to the social networking site with their username and password. Normally you would expect that the password is unique, and that no one else could access the account by entering a different password in the login prompt on the website. If you have thought that then you have been wrong, and [...]

Facebook has just announced that they are updating and improving friend lists on the social networking sites. The improved friend lists are said to make it easier for users to see updates from particular lists and share with lists of friends and contacts. Three improvements have been made to lists. Smart Lists are created automatically [...]

It is an incredible number; The 250 million photos that get uploaded to Facebook every day. Imagine that: 250 million photos. That’s a lot and some Facebook users must really be active in this regard. The current photo viewer on the social networking site has caused lots of controversy since its introduction. Facebook users who [...]

One of the most annoying elements on Facebook in my opinion is photo tag spam that is running rampant on the social networking site. Especially so since spammers take advantage of the fact that you do not really need to be on a photo to be tagged on it. Even worse, those new photos appear [...]

Over the weekend Martin here reported that Facebook had released their own Guide to Facebook Security “aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site.”  It’s a 14 page, fairly academic piece that doesn’t address the fundamental issue that Facebook need to get their own house [...]

Facebook on Thursday has released a security guide aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site. The 14 pages of the pdf document are packed with information that range from general account protection information to using Facebook’s advanced security settings or recovering a hacked Facebook [...]

A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list.  Sanford Wallace, from Las Vegas developed a program that was able to circumvent Facebook’s spam filters.  The software then lured over 500,000 people to hand over [...]

It does not happen often that software updates ship with critical security updates. But that’s exactly the case with the Skype 5.5 release for Windows. Skype 5.5 is the first version with Facebook integration. Skype users with a Facebook account can now use some of Facebook’s functionality right in the voice over IP software. This [...]

Google’s new social networking service Google Plus has been off to a good start, thanks to Google’s determination and the invite only system. There has been lots of talk about the growth of Google Plus, and some sites did not fail to mention that the networks growth is a lot faster than that of Facebook’s [...]

Google+ is probably the most hyped service on the Internet these days. This stems from the fact that many of the early adopters are first movers that run their own blogs, websites or are very vocal on social networking sites. It still remains to the be seen how the general public will perceive Google’s social [...]

Chance is you have a Facebook account. And if you do, you are likely using a few apps or playing some games on the Facebook website. Most users who do, load the games and apps after they have logged in. That’s not overly handy. It is on the other hand possible to bookmark games or [...]

While many people online thought that the battle between Google and Facebook might cool off once Google+ was released, the events of the past week have proven quite the opposite. First, Google+ surprised the world by being remarkably good. After a number of failed social networking projects there was a great deal of speculation around [...]

I’m watching Facebook’s live video stream right now like many other tech interested users. Facebook promised to announce something awesome today. The rumor that it was live video chat, or video calling as they call it, proved to be true. But that’s only part of the announcement. Facebook is actually announcing three new features today, [...]

It seems the Facebook development team is not at all amused by Google+’s way of handling groups. The new social networking network utilizes “circlets” – small units in which you can arrange your groups of friends. The idea is that you might find the process of choosing and organizing friends less fabricated than on Facebook. [...]

Video chat has not met up to the standards that we, the people of the world, hoped it might. The hope was the perhaps webcams could become the way of the next generation and that they would become the prominent means of communication with other people. The telephone would simply be replaced by the webcam. [...]

In an unexpected twist to begin the day on Thursday, technology news agencies began reporting that Facebook may be working on a brand new mobile application platform to challenge Apple’s App Store. Code named “Project Spartan,” the top secret undertaking poises Facebook to take on Apple’s dominance in its own self-created bubble. Rather than focusing [...]

Facebook introduced a new facial recognition technology last year that offered a semi-automated way to tag people in photos uploaded to the social networking site. Back then, that technology was only available to users from North America. Since yesterday, that feature is available for the rest of world as well. Facebook will basically analyze photos [...]

I just received a handful of emails from different individuals who all wanted to know how to change their primary Facebook email address. While it could be all the same person sending me emails from all of their accounts, I’d say it is still worth an article. When you sign up on Facebook you have [...]

One of the dumbest ideas ever on Facebook is that friends can automatically add you to groups. I’m not sure why Facebook thinks that giving friends the power to add you to any group out there is a good idea, but the feature is there and it is actively used. So, if you ever wanted [...]

Facebook has been rolling out new or improved security and privacy features in rapid succession for the past year. Many of the changes have only been announced on the official blog and third party sites like Ghacks that report about them. Facebook users who do not read the official blog or third party sites like [...]

Bing back in February announced the integration of Facebook likes into the search results. Friend recommendations appeared only on some results pages at that time. This changed yesterday with the roll out of the second stage of Facebook integration. What’s the reasoning behind adding friend likes to the search results? According to Microsoft, it stems [...]

Didn’t I write recently on Facebook’s general lack of privacy, intentional or otherwise? How ironic is it then that Facebook chose to attack Google on its general disrespect for personal data privacy? This would have been bad enough, but the way that Facebook chose for its attack turns the story from just plain ridiculous to [...]

Facebook about a month ago began to roll out a two-factor authentication system designed to protect user accounts from unauthorized access. Two-Factor authentication is designed to add a second form of authentication to the login process, usually in form of a code that is send to the user. PayPal for instance is offering VeriSign ID [...]

Web of Trust is a community driven website reputation service. It is available as a look-up service on the company website, and as an automated software for various web browsers. The service is being used by millions to verify a website’s reputation before the site is visited. The browser extensions handle those checks automatically and [...]

Security has been one of the top topics of the last 30 days. We have had the Last Pass incident and the Sony PSN hack. Both incidents demonstrated that your data may be at risk, even if you play by the book and use the best security practices available. If you thought that’s all for [...]

The reaction of web developers to Facebook’s introduction of the send button last week has been decidedly mixed. But no matter your view on the subject, it’s worth knowing how and why the button might be useful on your site. Tapping into the marketing potential of the large and active Facebook user base in any [...]

One of the more annoying things on Facebook.com as of late is a relatively new feature called Facebook Questions. It basically allows anyone on Facebook to create polls. These polls then appear not only on your own Facebook wall, but also on the news feed of your friends, which can be pretty annoying when a [...]

Facebook has a new button. It is called Facebook Send and it is available in addition to the Like Button that has been around for quite some time. Facebook Send basically allows you to send a web page or message to select friends, groups or email addresses. That’s different from Like which posts the message [...]

I’m well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have to keep repairing problems in Windows one of the best ways to achieve this goal is to keep installing software into it. There’s [...]

Two-Factor Authentication seems to be the next big thing to protect accounts from unauthorized access. Google recently enabled the feature for Google Accounts and now it is Facebook’s turn to introduce a similar feature for all Facebook users. Two-Factor Authentication is being rolled out at the moment which means that the new feature is not [...]