Bold Characters
Surround your text with stars to get bold text in the chat box. For example: *Hi! How are you?* will show up as Hi! How are you?
Underlined Characters
Surround your text with underscores to get underlined text in the chat box. For example: _I’m doing well. How are you doing?_ will show up as I’m doing well. How are you doing
Shapes
There are several different shapes you can use when chatting.
<(“) = penguin
(^^^) = shark
<3 = heart
:putnam: = man’s head/face
The list of smiley faces you can use in chat is lengthy, but here are a few unique options:
8-) = glasses
:-* = lips
8-| = sunglasses
O:) = angel
:|] = robot
Use alt + any combination of numbers on the number pad to add characters to your status, chat and posts. For example:
Alt+14 = ♫
Alt+13 = ♪
Alt+3 = ♥
Alt+5 = ♣
Alt+36 = $
Privacy
When you’re friends with co-workers or family members, there may come a time when your one-of-a-kind status might not be something that one of these ‘friends’ would appreciate. Here’s how to select who gets to read your status and who doesn’t.
- On your profile page click in the ‘status box.’
- Click on the pad lock icon so a drop down menu appears.
- Choose ‘customize.’
- In the ‘These People’ box select ‘specific people’ and type in who you would like to be able to see your status. Or, if there are just a few people you’d like it hidden from, simply fill in the ‘Hide this from these people’ box and click ‘Save Setting.’
Interested in linking to someone’s name in your status? Simply type @Joe Smith and a drop down menu will appear. Once Joe’s name appears and you click on it, it will show up as a blue hyperlink in your status, but the @ sign will disappear.
Want a Lens Flare Effect On Your Page?
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| This cheat code, if input properly will add a
very unique effect to your Facebook while you are browsing. Only you can
see it, and by logging out and then logging back in will return your
page to normal. This code is very cool, and a lot of you probably did
not even realize that the Facebook masterminds had this feature coded.
What this code does is adds a Lens Flare Effect to your Facebook
browsing experience (see screenshot below). It shows up everytime you
click the mouse or move your mouse. When you move your mouse the lens
flare changes its angle according to where your mouse is moving.
Code Input:
1. You can either start on your homepage where your news feed is, or go to your profile.
2. Once at the area where you want to input the code, click on the page to make sure that Facebook is your active window/tab. 3. Next, simply input the code below using your keyboard then click anywhere on the page (not on a link!). 
4. Enjoy your new Facebook Lens Flare effect! Read below for how to get rid of it.
Removing The Effect:
To remove the lens flare effect just log out and then log back in and it will be gone!
Lens Flare Effect In Affect!
More Facebook Tutorials
»TUT: Create an Event »TUT: Friendslist or Friend Group |
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Keys and secret codes on Facebook | New
Do you ever know that Facebook has its own keys and secret codes?
For you who don’t know what I am talking about and are really wondering
for what I want to tell. Here I am ready to tell you the new Facebook
secret by using keyboard key combinations and codes. Some combination of
these buttons will bring you quicker and more interesting browsing, and
possibly it’s the first article which discussed about it.
How to try it?
Log in first to your account FB. While you are on FB. Click these following buttons to have a try:
+ + =Will be sent to main page (Home)
+ + = Profile
+ + = Friend Request
+ + = Messages
+ + = Notifications
+ + = Edit Account
+ + = Privacy Settings
+ + = Facebook Fans
+ + = Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
+ + = Help
Trick to remove links on FB
* Log in to FB and click Home or else
* Remove Link Address
* Copy and paste the following code in the address bar
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0
* EnterHow to try it?
Log in first to your account FB. While you are on FB. Click these following buttons to have a try:
+ + =Will be sent to main page (Home)
+ + = Profile
+ + = Friend Request
+ + = Messages
+ + = Notifications
+ + = Edit Account
+ + = Privacy Settings
+ + = Facebook Fans
+ + = Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
+ + = Help
Trick to remove links on FB
* Log in to FB and click Home or else
* Remove Link Address
* Copy and paste the following code in the address bar
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0
3 Secrets To Success Of Facebook’s Most Engaging Page
The Facebook page Jesus Daily generates an incredible amount of engagement, especially compared to pages with much higher fan counts.Disclosure: Jesus Daily uses our Vitrue Social Relationship Management platform to manage the page. But aside from that, here are three things that brands can learn from Jesus Daily to create an equally engaging and successful social presence.
1. Both Content And Context Are King
Jesus Daily‘s social success is quite simple: Create engaging content that is valuable and relevant to fans so that they want or feel compelled to engage and share.The page nails this successful recipe every day, and it’s a classic example of how social communities thrive within a certain niche. After all, social communities are about creating vibrant arenas where like-minded people can comment and share topics of importance.
It’s no surprise, really, that religious social communities thrive, especially when managed correctly, like in the case of Jesus Daily. People of faith are passionate and create vocal and dynamic communities.
2. Offer Variety
Jesus Daily has a great mix of engaging content delivered via text, images, photos and engaging apps like polls and quizzes. Of course we see content about specific faith issues, religious topics and news.But we also see tremendous interaction coming from simple uplifting, positive and inspirational content both from Jesus Daily postings and its fan base. Many times it’s not religion-specific, but just inspirational and spiritual.
For example, an image post of baby animals, showcasing God’s amazing creations, generated more than 315,000 likes and 16,000 comments. That’s just one post!
An earlier image post of mother and baby animals garnered 219,000 likes and 7,000 comments. Another post asking the simple question”What Are You Thankful For Today?” generated almost 35,000 comments.
And videos and wall apps also generate tremendous likes, comments and shares. People clearly like to engage with and share positive, uplifting and inspirational content.
Again, Jesus Daily knows what its fans want and delivers it every day.
3. Keep It Fresh
Since June, there has been an increase in content related to the American political and economic situations and hardships. And, of course, with the recent 10-year anniversary of 9-11, we have seen a significant spike in 9-11 content.It’s certainly quite normal for people to draw close to their faith and religion during times of crisis, conflict and tragedy.
Also there is a steady flow of regular content not related to specific events or issues, as for millions of people worldwide their faith is an essential part of their everyday lives. But significant events do trigger participation and the data shows that.
Bottom Line
Jesus Daily has created a social community where fans actively and
regularly participate because they find content that they want to share,
is of value and is engaging.Smart brands know that creating a vibrant and active social community is understanding what your fans want and delivering it through engaging content that includes a variety of options including images, videos and interactive wall apps like quizzes, polls and other advanced social technologies.
Organizations are learning to balance their fan growth goals and content strategies, with an eye towards better, ongoing fan engagement through delivering real and relevant content fans want to interact with either. Jesus Daily is a prime example.
Guest writer Reg
If
you're like us and Daily Beast's Thomas Weber, you're a daily
Facebook visitor. The social network has become an integrated part of
our life, often bridging between online and real world interactions. But
as recent news about Facebook apps leaking personal information and the
Social Network movie reveal, not everything is all rosy in the
world of "Likes" and sharing. Weber had a team dig into Facebook for a
month and discovered ten bits of information that every user should know
about how the site works...
The month long study
conducted by Weber revolved around a 60-year old Facebook newbie,
alongside two dozen volunteers who recorded the new user's
experiences/feeds during his month-long foray into the world of
Facebook. Within this time, ten tidbits were uncovered:- Facebook's system makes it difficult for new users to be heard via feeds.
- The
Catch-22: friend interaction requires friends to comment, but for them
to comment they must see your updates in the first place.
- "Top News" system is not based upon the amount of activity, but the type of updates posted.
- "Most Recent" feed is censored and you can cap the number of friends in the feed in Edit Options.
- Perusing your friends' pages and photos have no effect upon the Facebook algorithms.
- BUT
stalking in the other direction - friends checking out your pages -
aids in your Facebook popularity (aka addition to Top News feeds).
- Links are more powerful than status updates.
- Photos and videos are more powerful than links.
- The more comments per posted item, the more powerful your Facebook visibility
- Facebook operates much like high school, rather than college. The "cool" users with 600+ friends have the most power to proliferate their ideas and content to Top News or Most Recent.
You might think you've shared those adorable new baby photos or the news of your big promotion with all your friends. Yet not only does Facebook decide who will and won't see the news, it also keeps the details of its interventions relatively discreet.
The full findings in greater detail are available over at the Business Insider's, How Facebook Decides What to Put In Your News Feed - These 10 Secrets Reveal All. And it might be a good time to brush up on some of the easy Facebook security options and privacy tips...and a reminder overall just be a little more cognizant about what and how you share your information.Perhaps sharing all this information with your mom, dad and relatives will scare them off from posting embarrassing information and comments in your feed now. But probably not.
The 13 Secrets To Facebook's Success
1. Move fast.
He didn't endlessly ask friends and advisors what they thought of the idea.
He didn't "research the market," apply for patents or trademarks, assemble focus groups, or do any of the other things that entrepreneurs are supposed to do.
He just built a cool product quickly and launched it.
And Facebook was born.
2. Remember that ideas are a dime a dozen--it's all about execution.
This led to a legal fight that has lasted for nearly a decade.
Meanwhile, outside the clubby world of Harvard, there were dozens of other entrepreneurs who had similar ideas. And lots of them launched those ideas. But, today, there's only one Facebook.
Why?
Because ideas are a dime a dozen.
What matters is making them happen.
As the fictional Mark Zuckerberg told the fictional Winklevoss brothers in the movie: "If you had invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook."
Don't waste time congratulating yourself for having a good idea. Just go make it happen.
3. Keep it simple (don't overbuild).
The first version of the "thefacebook" was very simple. It did one thing well.
Then Zuckerberg and the Facebook team improved it over time. And, each time, they made sure that the service was still easy to use.
(Okay, the privacy controls are ludicrously complex, but no one pays attention to those).
4. Figure out what will kill you... and make sure it doesn't.
(The latter, called Club Nexus, had been around since 2001. But, in violation of Facebook Success Secret No. 3, it was too complex. So it never really took off.)
Out in the real world, meanwhile, Friendster and MySpace were taking the world by storm.
But then Friendster committed suicide.
How?
By failing to restrict usage until it had the back-end infrastructure in place to support it.
Demand for Friendster became so intense that the service slowed to a crawl. By the time the company finally fixed the back-end, a year later, most of Friendster's U.S. users had defected to other networks.
When Zuckerberg and his co-founders rolled out Facebook, they carefully controlled new registrations. They added one school at a time, waiting until they were certain that their infrastructure could handle it. Thus, Facebook always "worked."
In other words, Zuckerberg correctly identified one of the things that could kill Facebook--and he made certain not to fall prey to it.
5. Make your primary focus the product, not the "business" or "shareholder value."
Facebook Roadshow
As Facebook grew, Zuckerberg retained his focus on the product. He then hired senior executives--Sheryl Sandberg and David Ebersman--to run the company's business and finances.
As Facebook prepared to go public, Zuckerberg wrote a letter to shareholders in which he stated the company's intention to focus on its "social mission" first and its business second.
On Wall Street, not surprisingly, this is heresy. In Wall Street's view, companies are supposed to focus all of their efforts on creating value for their shareholders (translation: making the stock price go up.)
As Amazon and other companies have demonstrated, however, one of the best ways to create huge amounts of shareholder value over the long-term is to focus obsessively on the your product and your customers. If you do that, the business will follow. And you won't make the mistake that a lot of companies make, which is to focus on the business at the expense of the product. Nothing exposes you to the risk of disruption or mediocrity like emphasizing "business" and neglecting the product.
6. Get really really good at hiring... and really really good at firing.
Dylan Love
Even Steve Jobs was quick to admit that no one can do it alone.
So if you want to build a great company, you have to build a great team. And building a great team means two things:
- Hiring well, and
- Firing well.
Firing well, meanwhile, is critical for two reasons: First, no matter how careful you are, you're going to make hiring mistakes, and you need to fix them quickly. Secondly, if your company is growing rapidly, it will eventually outgrow some of your early executives--and you'll need to replace them. In short, if you don't "fire well," your company will slip into mediocrity.
In Facebook's early days, the company made lots of hiring mistakes, but it addressed them quickly. Facebook was also good at replacing executives as the company outgrew them.
7. Maintain control.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
- Customers
- Employees
- Shareholders
Weaker companies, meanwhile, emphasize the interests of one constituency at the expense of the others. They pay employees too little to make ends meet, for example. Or they try to save on manufacturing costs and produce crappy products. Or they pay their managers so much for mediocre work that they lose their edge.
One of the reasons some companies fall into this trap is that they end up controlled by short-term shareholders who have very different interests than the company's customers and employees.
If Facebook had been controlled by its venture capitalists, it is likely that the company would have sold out long before now. If, as a public company, Facebook were beholden to the short-term needs of public shareholders, it might be tempted to cut research and development costs or take other shortcuts to meet its quarterly numbers.
But Facebook has always been controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. And Zuckerberg has always been more focused on building his long-term vision than on capitalizing on short-term financial rewards.
One way to ensure that your company won't get pulled off course, therefore, is to maintain control of it. If not by owning complete voting control, the way Mark Zuckerberg does, by having key shareholders who support your vision.
8. Don't endlessly "focus group"--just roll out new features and adapt to the screams.
Facebook has always operated the same way.
Instead of "focus-grouping" new features, Facebook has just rolled them out. Sometimes, these new features have been met with outrage and screams. Facebook has then adapted or killed the new features based on what it learns from the screams.
In the case of "News Feed," for example, Facebook kept the feature but tweaked it to address some of its users' concerns. And this feature, which was initially hated, has gone on to become one of Facebook's most important features.
In the case of "Beacon," meanwhile, Facebook ultimately withdrew the feature completely.
Each time Facebook has rolled out a product that was greeted with screams, some observers of the company have concluded that the company "made a mistake." Although in a limited sense, these features might have included "mistakes," the process itself is deliberate. And it works.
9. Cultivate smart advisors and learn everything you can from them.
As venture capitalist Ben Horowitz puts it, CEOs are made, not born.
Mark Zuckerberg's skill as a CEO, which is now prodigious, was deliberately acquired.
Early in Facebook's development, Zuckerberg was such a lousy leader that one of his executives cornered him to tell him he needed "CEO lessons."
From then on, Zuckerberg dedicated himself to learning as much and as fast as he could.
To help with this, he cultivated a group of advisors, including some of the best entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in the country. This group included Steve Jobs, VC Marc Andreessen, investor Peter Thiel, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, Warren Buffett, Donald Graham of the Washington Post, and many others. Zuckerberg learned as much as he could from each of these men, as well as from many of the executives he recruited to Facebook. And, gradually, he became a great leader.
No one has all the answers. And the more talented people you surround yourself with, the more likely you'll be to be exposed to some good ones.
10. Grow skin as thick as a pachyderm's.
Na Son Nguyen/AP
You don't have to enjoy the criticism, but you do have to learn to tolerate it. Because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.
People will be jealous. They will be angry. They won't understand. They will have agendas (the media, competitors). They will be frustrated at the way they were treated (ex-employees). They will want money and credit.
In short, they will lob no end of hell-fire your way. And, sometimes, the criticism will be accurate.
Some of the immense amount of criticism directed at Mark Zuckerberg over the years has been accurate. In the beginning, he was a lousy leader. He has made many mistakes. He did do some things (very early on) that were questionable ethically. He pissed a lot of people off.
This criticism had to have hurt. How could it not? But Mark Zuckerberg never let it derail his desire to continue to build Facebook. And he never let it get to him to the point where he quit.
No matter what you do in life, if you're successful, people are going to throw rocks at you. If you're going to keep succeeding, you have to grow skin thick enough that they'll just bounce off.
11. If you ever think that you're done--you're done.
When Facebook finally blew past the collapsing MySpace a few years ago, it "won" the social-media race.
At that point, it could have settled back and congratulated itself for a job well done.
Fortunately for everyone at the company--and its users and shareholders--it didn't.
Facebook kept running as fast and hard as it could, putting as much distance between itself and its competitors as possible. It kept poaching talent from competitors and would-be competitors. Every time a new startup invented something cool, Facebook copied it. It kept its progress in perspective: Mark Zuckerberg is fond of saying that the company is only 1% done. And so on.
Andy Grove famously said that "only the paranoid survive." In most businesses, that's accurate. If you ever think that you're done, you're done.
Fortunately for everyone at the company--and its users and shareholders--it didn't.
Facebook kept running as fast and hard as it could, putting as much distance between itself and its competitors as possible. It kept poaching talent from competitors and would-be competitors. Every time a new startup invented something cool, Facebook copied it. It kept its progress in perspective: Mark Zuckerberg is fond of saying that the company is only 1% done. And so on.
Andy Grove famously said that "only the paranoid survive." In most businesses, that's accurate. If you ever think that you're done, you're done.
12. Ignore Wall Street and other would-be deal-makers (unless you really want to make a deal).
Some of these people will be extremely smart, rich, and powerful. They'll talk a great game. And they'll talk your ears off.
Some of the these people may also actually be able to help--doing favors, providing information and suggestions, making introductions, etc.
But what these folks won't do is help you produce a better product or service. And mostly they'll just distract you and waste your time.
If you ever need bankers or other service providers, they won't be hard to find. Pick up the phone, and dozens of highly qualified ones will instantly appear at your door.
The same goes for most other would-be partners and service providers.
There are only 12-16 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. If you let would-be partners and service providers drive your agenda, they'll take all that time and then some. So don't let them. Focus on your product and your customers. Let would-be partners and service providers "learn where you're headed" by watching you.
13. Focus on the long term.
Ignore them. It's just noise.
In case you don't realize it yet, these quarterly rituals are usually staged rituals: Companies issue "guidance" to analysts, publicly or privately. The "guidance" is designed to set expectations so low that even a mediocre quarter will "beat expectations." Investors know this and therefore have "whisper numbers" that represent their real expectations. And that's why stocks often go down even when companies "beat expectations."
Meanwhile, some companies get so focused on "making the quarter" that they begin to warp their sales processes and pricing just to meet this random time hurdle. Customers soon learn that if they wait until the end of the quarter to sign their deal, they'll get a much better deal. And, soon, no one signs anything until the end of the quarter.
So the short-term quarterly game isn't just about wasting time managing investor expectations...it also hurts the business.
The best approach to this whole quarterly game is to minimize it as much as possible. No great companies are built by obsessing about quarters. Great companies are built by focusing on a vision that will create many years or even decades to create. In addition to Facebook, think Walmart, Google, Apple, and Amazon.
Put differently, it's a marathon, not a sprint. And you should obsess about getting to the finish line in the marathon, not about each "beating expectations" with each individual mile-time.
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