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Saturday, 4 January 2014

Latest Facebook Tricks and Tips 2013

I have already given nice tricks and tips for Facebook Chat and just because of lots of request from all of you, I am writing this article on Latest Facebook tricks and tips of 2013.

Though there are lots of simple Facebook Tricks, but I have listed Best tricks for Facebook users.

Latest Facebook Tricks

Also See: Facebook Security Settings 2013

1. Schedule Facebook Post in Advance

Lots of time we forget to wish someone on his/her birthday and so many times we are traveling around but wants few fix posts to be posted daily on our Facebook wall. No worries, now it’s quite easy to schedule your Facebook posts in well Advance.

We can simply use Hootsuite Facebook client, which will provide Free and Paid plans as per your requirements. There are few more option and complete step by step information onHow to Schedule Facebook Posts in Advance.

2. Create Single Name Account On Facebook

Yes, you can have single name account on Facebook and after doing this you can have your Facebook display name as your name and without your last name. You can hide your surname from Facebook display name easily. So let’s learn How to Hide Last Name on Facebook Profile.

3. Create Facebook Shortcut or Icon on Desktop

It’s always headache to open web browser, type URL and open Facebook. Specially for elder computer users it’s not much convenient. There could be lots of other ways like bookmark FB or may be few more. But I would suggest best and fastest way to create a Facebook shortcut on your computer desktop/laptop. Which can be double clicked by any user andopen Facebook without doing any further exercise. So, you want such Icon placed on your Desktop? Here you go, click Create Facebook Shortcut on Desktop.

4. How to Identify Fake Account on Facebook

These days Facebook is not much safe. You can see lots of beautiful faces account on Facebook, but don’t run behind the Faces, it could be Fake account of some boy who might wants to increase number of their friends and hence using Face of others. If you act little smart and follow few tricks I have suggested, you easily can figure out if the Facebook user is real profile or Fake profile. Just visit this article How to Identify Fake Account on Facebookto unveil the truth.

5. Find old answered Questions or Poll

It was never easy before to track Activity you are doing on Facebook. But after timeline implementation by FB team, it’s quite easy to find out your previous activities on Facebook and one can find old answered questions or Poll using few simple steps.

6. Remove Unwanted Facebook Applications

Facebook is very safe as well as very unsecured. Its purely user’s wish whether to keep theirFacebook profile Secure or invite outside applications to use the sensitive information and post on user’s wall. Yes, your profile can be hacked also if you don’t look into Facebook Security Tutorials. Lots of 3rd Party applications you might be using into your day to day use, but those can be risky. Hence I strongly suggest to remove unwanted Facebook Applications and Keep your profile safe and secured.

7. View your Facebook profile as someone Else

Even though we follow Facebook Security Tutorials we sometimes miss lots of securities to be checked. I strongly suggest to double check your Facebook profile security and ViewFacebook Profile as someone Else, so you will be sure that what others can see while accessing your FB profile. You easily can figure out if any sensitive information is still visible to your friends.

8. Hide Facebook Cover Photo

Well, after introducing Timeline, lots of Facebook users are Happy and few of them are unhappy as well. Reason could be anything, but few are not much comfortable with new look and feel of Facebook Timeline. Though it’s not directly possible to Hide Facebook Cover Photo, but you may get lots of workaround in order to Hide Facebook Cover Photo.

9. Hidden Facebook Smileys, Chat Symbols

Most of Facebook users using Facebook Chat and as part of that always wish to learn something new and better to impress friends with new tricks. Click here and you will be amazed with lots of new Chat symbols like Kitty, Santa, Pokeball, Gangam Style etc. But keep in mind that, These Hidden Facebook smileys and chat symbols works only if you are using in Facebook Chat, these cannot be used in Facebook comments.

10. Hide Mutual Friends

We often get friend requests because of huge list of Mutual Friends, which is managed by Facebook itself and we ideally not able to Hide Mutual Friends on Facebook. But there is a secret Trick to Hide Mutual Friends on Facebook, which is very popular post amongst my Facebook Tricks and you definitely love to learn this trick.

Facebook Security Settings 2013 | Latest Guide To Secure Account

Faceook security Settings are most important part of Facebook Settings before you start adding friends on your Facebook profile. Security Settings will help you to secure yourFacebook Account, profile, photos, Videos, status etc. I would strictly suggest to belowsecurity checks for your Facebook security Settings.

5 Essential Facebook Security Settings

1. Check for secure browsing

Always do secure browsing when you are exploring Facebook using any web browser. I highly recommend to use https:// if currently it’s not enabled as above.

You can enable secure browsing by following Settings –> Account Settings –> Privacy –> Secure Browsing

Also Check: Latest Facebook Tricks and Tips

2. Active and Previous Facebook Sessions

You can randomly check your active Facebook session and few previous sessions, which will help you to identify if any unfamiliar activity. You can check this using Settings –> Account Settings –> Privacy –> Active Sessions

Don’t Miss: Hidden Facebook Chat Tricks

3. Login Approval from Unknown Browsers

You will need to enter approval code in order to successfully login to your Facebook account, incase you are browsing internet from unknown browser. Your approval code will be sent to you via SMS on your mobile. Enable login approval feature from Settings –> Account Settings –> Security –> Login Approvals

facebook security settings tips and tricks

Also See: Hilarious Prank Status Ideas

4. Secure your Status, Photos, Videos

vMost important and critical part of Facebook Security Settings is who actually can see your status, posts, notes, videos and photos. And how to control that. Ideally for better securityreasons, you should only allow your FRIENDS (Members of Facebook Friend-list) to see your status updates and photos and other posts. You can do this settings before posting status, photos or videos or default settings can be done using Settings –> Privacy Settings –> Privacy –> Who can see my stuff

Above Facebook security settings will be applicable for all future posts, similarly you can select “Limit Past Posts” option in similar window to control your previous posts.

Don’t forget to see: How to Unhide Facebook Ticker

5. Secure Friend-list Visibility

Your Facebook Friend-list is again very important to secure, else Fake profiles holders can view your friend list and send requests to all of your friends, which could be very irritating for your genuine Friends to receive anonymous requests from unknowns. You can secure your Facebook Friend list by going to your wall and then click Friends –> Edit (top right corner beside Find friends) –> Edit piracy and select “Friends” or “Only Me” to make it secure.

If still it’s not clear, you can always see detailed post on How to Hide Facebook Friend list.

Here you go, check all 5 essential Facebook Security settings of 2013 and your Facebook profile will be secured and safe.

Invite All Facebook Friends to page/Event | Single click for Firefox, Chrome 2013 working

We have seen Facebook page is becoming very popular in social networking these days and as an Admin of any Facebook page, you always wish to have lots of followers or fans for your page. But when time comes to Invite your existing friendsto your Facebook fan page or any Event you might have created, it’s always a lengthy and tedious task as selecting all your friends manually one by one will end up wasting hours just to select and invite them for your Facebook page or event. After getting into Javascript I learned that using some scripts you can easily and quickly invite all Facebook friends to page or event. Though there were lots of scripts and solutions you may get on internet by exploring but many of them are not working script. I will help you to get latest 2013 working script which can be used to invite all Facebook friends to page or event in single click for your Firefox or Chrome browser.

How to Invite All Facebook Friends to Page

Also Check: How to Stop Facebook Addiction?

Firefox – Invite All Facebook Friends to Page/Event

1) Open your Firefox browser and goto your Facebook Page or Event

2) Select “Invite Friends” option from “Build Audience” menu on top right corner

3) By default it will have “Recent Interaction” , please change that to “All Friends” to have all your Facebook friends in the list

invite friends on facebook page event single click

4) Once above done, you can use keyboard shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + K and it will open a small window at bottom

5) Copy below code and paste it at bottom textbox on new opened window and press Enter

javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");
for (i=0;i < elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox")elms[i].click()};

That’s it, Now all of your Friends are selected, you doesn’t need to tick their names one by one. Just click submit button and they will be notified and invited for your Facebook page or event in single click.

Also check: Latest Facebook Security Settings 2013

Google Chrome – Invite All Facebook Friends to Page/Event

Invite all Facebook friends to page or event quickly using single click can be done easily even if you are using Google Chrome web browser. Though there were old methods and few chrome extensions but they all failed after sometime.

Latest 2013 method to Invite all FB friends to page using google chrome is same like Firefox we have just seen. You can use the same script only difference is Step 4 where you need to enter keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + L or F12 Function key.

I have heard even this script is giving error to some of the chrome users, though I can’t find any issue with my browser nor any solution from others except some paid extension can be used.

Anyways, now you will be able invite all Facebook Friends to Page or Event with easy tricks which is latest trick of 2013 and working fine for firefox and google chrome browser.

How to see who has viewed your Facebook profile | Apps Works ?

Well, I am getting lots of messages and email where people asking me to preparea tutorial and help on How they can see who has viewed your Facebook profileand if there is any free or paid apps which will tell who has viewed your Facebook profile. My answer is I AM SORRY. I can’t promote such spam applications which will enter into your profile and spread into all of your friend’s profile like a virus.

Of course you always wish to know who might have viewed your profile, but myfriend WHY? If you want to keep your profile secure, you always have it restricted it till yourfriend-list and you know very well that only your friends can view your profile. And if you have make it visible to Friends of Friends and Public, then you have made your mind thatyour profile can be viewed by lot other people on Facebook and you should not really worry to identify who has viewed your profile!!

It’s long time we still can see various apps tags into pics and title is something like

Who has viewed your Facebook Profile?

Example of Apps who will offer such data

OMG OMG OMG.... I can't believe this....
It's possible to see who has viewed your Facebook profile.....

Also it’s annoying when you are tags in such images and if someone click on that link they also get similar spam on their wall like below image.

Let’s understand why people are making such free or paid apps where they offer you to understand who has viewed your Facebook profile?

What such Apps gain from your Clicks

Very first reason can be they have their own other business which they wants to promote you through you and collect maximum data from Facebook.
Another thing is whenever Facebook users wants to know “who view Facebook profile” , such apps asks users to like their Facebook pages and get maximum readers on their FB fan page.
Collect your mobile number, email address and other personal info which can be shared/sold with other people with handsome money
So, I hope now I explained you with fundamental reasons that it’s just a spam which can help you to understand who has viewed your Facebook profile and such apps doesn’t work as per your expectation.

How to Save yourselves from such Spam?

First of all don’t ever click on such spam links
Always follow Essential Facebook Security Settings
Delete not required applications from Facebook
Check and configure and view your profile as someone else
Have complete backup of your Facebook Data
I am sure by following above tips, you can have a safe Facebook profile and by now you might have learned if you really can see who has viewed your Facebook profile . Appreciate if you can share this article with others on your social media if you found this worth.