More than 500 million people have an account on Facebook, although this is a matter that has to be discussed, because there are many who have multiple accounts, have more companies, and have for each company an account and so on. But still, there are more than 500 million accounts on Facebook, which are supposed to be also active.
To enhance the experience of using this social network, you can use several “blings”, to make your Facebook account to be a bit different than all the others. I read an article on Mashable where the author presented some tips for creating a better experience on Facebook. The author said that it is good to use the Dislike button. Attention, this button is not created by Facebook. There are several applications who let your users dislike your posts on your wall. Some of the applications do not work as you might imagine, others work. But whatever the situation, I know that last year was a problem with the Dislike button, Facebook telling the users not to click on this button, because they have not created a button like this. You can lose your personal information if you click on a button like this. Still, there are applications that work properly and that will not take away your passwords or other private information.
When you want to say something on Facebook, but you don’t want that everybody to see that, you can use the privacy settings on Facebook. There is an option there related to posts, which says Make this visible to.. and you have to select the person that you want to see the post. The option below says to hide this post from.. and you also have to specify the names of those from whom you want to stay hidden. In my opinion, if you don’t want certain people to see what you are saying, you can unfriend them. Why should you have to hide from your words? Aren’t you capable of saying something, without hiding?
If you want to say something to your friends, but you will get out of town for two weeks and you will not have your computer with you, you can use Later Bro to schedule your posts. So, you have to write them and then schedule them to appear like you are using Facebook day after day. If your friends will ask you something, and you will not answer, they could realise that there is something fishy in here. But you will be back, and the things will be again on their normal track. You will have to explain though why you did not answer for two weeks at their questions.
You have to enter the Later Bro site, sign in with your Facebook account and write the updates. They will be visible for your friends when you will set them to be.
Here is a funny thing that you can do on your Facebook page. You can turn your updates into a cloud. Status Analyzer 3D application will provide you information about what the people in your community discuss about. The cloud looks like every normal online cloud, filled with words colored in different colors, being smaller or larger, depending on how many people use that word at a certain moment in time.
You can add various symbols to your Facebook updates, by using the Alt key with other keys on the keyboard. Even though there are many emoticons that can be used when chatting, when you update a post on Facebook, you don’t have those many option. Because of that, you have to create them. You can read more about them in the following article: http://facebook-symbols.com/characters/. You may copy and paste the symbols you meet there, but they will look a lot smaller on your Facebook page.
Perhaps you have seen by now that many people use this method when they want to use someone’s name and to make that person attentive to what they are saying. This is called “tagging”, but not by using pictures, but by using updates on your own page. You can do this by adding the “@” character. Immediately after you write the first letter or the first letters, you will see the variants that appear based on that letter. The name of the person that you use in your update will be highlightened in blue and it will be transformed into a hyperlink. If you click on the person’s name, you will be directed towards the page of that person whom you referred to.
To make your page look a bit different from others, you may use the Pirate option, to see the texts upside down. You may also talk like a pirate. You can learn more about this if you enter the next site: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/. The next site allows you to write upside down, but not only; the text you write will be inversed and you will have to read the text from right to left, just like the arabs do. Ant the words will be upside down. http://www.upsidedowntext.com/ is the name of the site.
You can read statuses from all over the world if you use the following application: OpenBook. Search for this application on Facebook. Status Statistics is another application that lets you see what were your Facebook statuses throught the years. You can see how many words you use in a normal status, in what time of the day do you post statuses more, how many statuses do you post and more.
The last tip presented on Mashable in the article: http://mashable.com/2010/07/10/facebook-status-tips-tricks/, explains how you can amuse your friends by telling that their profile is the worst profile met on Facebook. They will be really shocked to see this. If you use the following link: “http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″, your friends will be redirected to their own personal page. You can imagine what face your friend will have when seeing his profile.
