Would Facebook Go Dark To Boycott Online Piracy Bill?

We highly doubt this particular rumor would ever come true, but the blogosphere and Twitterverse are chattering that Facebook could pull the plug in protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act pending in the U.S. Congress.

Consider a day without Facebook — or Google, Twitter, Wikipedia or Yahoo, for that matter. 

These heavily trafficked web sites are joining Facebook in considering a coordinated blackout as a powerful demonstration of what the Internet might look like if SOPA went into effect.

While implementation at this point seems unlikely — it’s dubbed the “nuclear option” after all — the rumor mill went into high alert after Markham Erickson, an executive with the industry trade group NetCoalition, confirmed to Fox News that companies were mulling over a blackout of services, despite what a boycott would do to users.

“Companies typically don’t want to put their users in that position,” Erickson said. ”The difference is that these bills so fundamentally change the way the Internet works. People need to understand the effect this special-interest legislation will have on those who use the Internet.”

So what might a boycott look like? Would Facebook go completely dark, or would users be re-directed to a site that posted a message about SOPA.  And, would Facebook ask users to take action–write a letter to a member of Congress, sign an online petition, or share a message with friends?

Actually, Facebook is a great platform to launch that type of advocacy campaign. Anti-SOPA ads andsponsored stories could be developed,  and of course, the option to share links to anti-SOPA news stories would spread quickly on the social networking site and could build support against the legislation.

Opponents claim one provision of the controversial bill would require Internet providers to monitor customers’ traffic and block web sites suspected of copyright infringement, which sets off alarms among Facebook and its counterparts.

SOPA is scheduled for a debate in the U.S. Senate in late January before its put to a vote.

Readers, what would you do if Facebook went offline for a day?

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10 Ways To Keep Your Facebook Fans Following You

Facebook has over 800 million members, all of whom might bepotential customers for your company.

That’s great, but it doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t interact with those who currently like your page. 

Here are 10 ways to keep your page in your your followers’ news feeds — and in their minds.

Ask Questions

Whether you’re posting a status update asking a question, or constructing a poll, people love to be asked what they think. Giving your followers a forum for their opinions will surely inspire some responses. 

Most people spend hours on Facebook daily; this is a much easier outlet to share their thoughts than old-school letters. 

Ask something creative or personal. If you sell cars, ask, “What was your first car?”  If you just started a new line of shoes, ask your customers which pair is their favorite and why.

Respond

People enjoy giving their two cents, but they don’t like talking to a void. Reply often to the responses posted by your followers; ask follow-up questions. 

If your site receives a large volume of traffic, you can inspire fuzzy feelings by posting blog entries that address the most popular or intriguing questions you receive. You can also host free webinars to discuss topics that are getting a lot of wall time on your Facebook page.

Personalize Your Comments

Facebook doesn’t have threaded commenting, but we’ve all seen people addressed as “@username.”  Simply acknowledging the person who asked a question or offered a brilliant response will make that person feel special, and it gives him a great reason to post something on his own wall. 

You’d be surprised at how often a personalized greeting can inspire a glowing status update.

Post Often, And During Peak Traffic

Condition your followers to expect new content from you. If you post daily, or several times per week, your readers will naturally start checking your page to see if you’ve posted something new. 

Best of all, take it to them: Post during times when most of your users will be online — somewhere between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in your time zone, when everyone’s at work. Popping up in their news feed when they’re online will guarantee you’ll be on their radar.

Host A Promotion

Many of your fans started following companies on Facebook in order to qualify for giveaways or contests. Offer something for free to your users occasionally, on the condition that they “like” your page or update. This increases your number of fans, but it also ups your traffic – your users’ “like” activity will pop up in their friends’ news feeds and provoke more activity.  (Imagine the goodwill you’ll receive from the person who wins!)

Utilize Cross-Exposure

 

Integrate your website, your Twitter account, and your other social media sites with Facebook. 

This will enable your clients to visit one site and contribute to a conversation on another, without leaving the original site they visited. 

For example, if you’re a microbrewery asking fans for name ideas for your newest beer, you’ll increase the exposure for your marketing campaign by engaging both your Facebook and Twitter audiences.

Provide Information And Sneak Peeks

If your hours or location have changed, you have new products, or your policies are being updated, let your Facebook fans know. 

Your readers will appreciate a heads-up, and it may remind them to stop by or place an order. When you are releasing new products or services, giving your established followers a preview of your new items will inspire curiosity and convey a sense of loyalty. 
Your Facebook fans are interested in you; they need to feel that you’re interested in them. Reward their investment by engaging with them regularly, and take their feedback under consideration. 

They are your fan base, so they’re going to have the best insight into what your current and future customers want. You may not actually earn 800 million fans, but you’ll garner the ones who are the right fit for you.

Guest writer Louis Rix is the marketing director of NetCars.com.

Images courtesy of Shutterstock.

 

 

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Facebook Built Most Of Timeline In Six Months

Facebook’s new timeline profile took about six months to build, from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test.

Infrastructure Engineer Ryan Mack explained how those six months went in a post on the social network. Here are some of the highlights:

• Timeline was built on four core Facebook technologies:
  • MySQL and InnoDB storage and replication;
  • Multifeed, which already powers the news feed was used for ranking;
  • Thrift communications ; and
  • Memcached caching.
• In order to support Facebook’s ranking model for timeline, the social network would have had to store its entire data set in cache, including non-displayed low-value data, so “a massive denormalization process was required.”
• The timeline aggregator began as a modified version of the Multifeed aggregator, but it now runs locally on each database, allowing Facebook to use its disks to maximum capacity without sending data over the network that won’t be displayed.
• The results of large queries, such as ranking a user’s activity for the year 2010, are small and can be cached for long periods without invalidations.
• Recent activity changes frequently, but it can also be regenerated quickly.

Mack also said:

Timeline started as a Hackathon project in late 2010 with two full-time engineers, an engineering intern, and a designer building a working demo in a single night.

The full team ramped up in early 2011, and the development team was split into design, front-end engineering, infrastructure engineering, and data migrations. By doing staged and layered prototyping, we achieved an amazing amount of development parallelism, and rarely was any part of the team blocked by another. Early on in the project we were simultaneously:

1. Designing user interface prototypes with our pre-existing but non-scalable back end
2. Building production front-end code on a simulation of the scalable back end
3. Building the scalable back end using samples of denormalized data from a prototype of denormalization migration
4. Building the framework to run the full-scale denormalization process
5. Collecting and copying the data necessary for the denormalization
6. Performing simulated load testing to validate our capacity planning estimates

In retrospect, that’s pretty crazy. We had to move a lot of mountains to go from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test in just six months. Done another way, this project could have taken twice as long — and that’s being generous.

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Unlike all Facebook pages at once easily....

 I have nothing like that or any tool by which you can Unlike all the Facebook Pages in a click but i have an easier way to unlike all the Unnecessary Facebook Pages rather then visiting all those pages to Unlike.

Let see How to do this as you have not shared which version of Facebook you are using the older or the New Timeline Therefore i am sharing for both.

First start with New Timeline

If you are using the TImeline Then visit to your Timeline profile and then click Likes tab their as shown below

STEP 2

This will open a new page now you click on the edit button on the top this will change some buttons on the page Now here you can see some Pages you like Just click on that press delete from your keyboard this will unlike that page  and then click on Show other Pages you like This will open a box from where you can unlike all the pages you want just you have to click on unlike and if you want to unlike the pages As shown below

By using this simple steps you can easily Unlike the Facebook Pages in the New timeline IF you are using the Older one then Visit Here and follow the second step written above  Just Click on the pages and press the delete button and for more pages click on Show more pages and further steps are already explained above in step 2.

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Disable Official Facebook Timeline | Revert to your old profile

This trick is only available for Firefox users. If any update for Chrome users are available, we will post here.

• Install User Agent Switcher [Link]
• Restart your browser.
• Goto Tools→ Default User Agent→ Internet Explorer→ Internet Explorer7
• Refresh your Facebook page, now you can see your old profile. 

This happens because IE7 doesn't support Timeline.

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Facebook Update Now your status can be of 5000characters

We are seeing some new updates in Facebook in previous some days and we all know that it's due to launch of the Google+ and Facebook is updating himself in a series like The subscription button new type of friend lists changing the way of sharing the status. And now in the same series Facebook is going to update a new things that is the number of characters in the status update this is one of the most demanded thing by the Facebook users and after the launch of Google+ now Facebook is updating it to compete Facebook.


As it is not yet officially announced this is according to a talk between Facebook users and employees which shows that this Facebook is now changing the Number of characters in the status update earlier it was of 500 characters now it is going to be of 5000 characters which means 10 times of the prsent whereas Google+ has no limitation of characters in their Streams.So let see what happens.
Yes i have earlier said that it's not an official announcement but it is said by an facebook employee so we can't say that it's an wrong information. It's just an news taken from a conversation may be this feature will be available from tomorrow or in some days.and remember it's not Official

Blake ross is working in Facebook as an director of product.So this can't be a rumour it must be the correct news.So It may be announce tomorrow officially or in some days.

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How to Send Free SMS via Facebook

There are lots of websites over the internet that offers free SMS (Short Messaging Service) or even anonymous SMS services. But you will be amazed to know that your all time favourite Social Networking website Facebook  also offers free sms service. You can send free SMS all around the globe for free. There is a Facebook Application ChatSMS that provides this awesome feature. The limitation of this App is that you can send only 100 character long SMS.

How to Send Free SMS via Facebook:

• Login to your Facebook Account and go to ChatsSMS Application.
• When the Request and Permission window opens then click on Allow button.

• In the next window select the country and country code where you want to send the SMS.
• In the Phone Number field give your Friends mobile number and in the SMS text field type your message that you want to send.

• After this click on Send SMS button and your SMS will be delivered within few seconds.

The sent message will contain the First name of your Facebook with your precious message.

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Wish Your Facebook Friends Automatically on Their Birthday

Everyone Uses Facebook and Most of Peoples Have More then 500 Friends and some has this numbers in 1000 so it is a little bit difficult to wish your every friend on his or her birthday because you can be busy too on that day.
So i have a chrome extension which can make your work little bit easier This extension automatically wishes your Facebook Friend on His Birthday.
Let see How it Works
First Download it From Here.
After installing this it will ask you to allow you to access your Facebook profile

You have to allow and now you have done 

You can change the settings from here 

Go to extension click on that after that click on options and you can change settings from here

Note There is Only one problem with this extension that when it posts on your friend wall and your friend replies on that then you will be not notified for this on your profile and not by email too

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Trick to check who unfriended you on Facebook!!!!

Hii Friends..... I hope you all are fine. As we all know that Facebook plays an important part in our lives. And mostly people are addicted to Facebook. Well, Facebook  has been bringing out many awesome changes in it to make it more attractive. Facebook includes various helpful features. Though,there is something missing that is Facebook does not provide any notification if someone unfriend us. So, Today am going to tell you how can you know that who unfriended you on Facebook.


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Well,this is the most easiest method to check who unfriended you on Facebook. So, Follow the given steps to perform this trick:-

• Go to this site Who Deleted Me .
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  • Now, Click on Login with Facebook.
  • Enter your Facebook Id and Password.
  • Now, you will be redirected to a page where you can see all your unfriends.
  
  
  Using this,  you only know your daily,weekly or monthly unfriends. You cannot view the unfriends that are older then one month.
  
  
  
  So, I hope you have enjoyed my article!!!!!
  Please do comments on this post!!!!
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Facebook Shortcuts

Internet Explorer And Chrome Facebook Shortcuts

Alt+1: View your News Feed

Alt+2: View your own Profile

Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests

Alt+4: View pop-up of messages

Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications

Alt+6: View Account Settings

Alt+7: View Privacy Settings

Alt+8: View Facebook’s own profile

Alt+9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.

Alt+?: Search

Alt+m: Compose a new message

Firefox Facebook Shortcuts

Shift+Alt+1: View your News Feed

Shift+Alt+2: View your own Profile

Shift+Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests

Shift+Alt+4: View pop-up of messages

Shift+Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications

Shift+Alt+6: View Account Settings

Shift+Alt+7: View Privacy Settings

Shift+Alt+8: View Facebook’s own profile

Shift+Alt+9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.

Shift+Alt+0: Open Facebook Help Center

Shift+Alt+?: Search

Shift+Alt+m: Compose a new message

The above shortcut keys only work with the numbers on the top of your keyboard, not the number pad

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GEt Facebook Time line Profile

Hie Friends Here iam going to teach You how to get Time line profile Special Forfile for facebook Click here to View


IF U WANT PROFILE LIKE THIS GO HERE 

Follow The Following Steps & Get Your Own Time Line

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