Top 20 Facebook Tips and Tricks
Right now almost half of the world is on Facebook, no wonder it is the
#2 ranked website in the world. I sometimes start my day off by doing a
bunch of stuff on Facebook that I realize if I don’t share with my
readers, how selfish of me! So today I decided to share some of the
wonderful tricks and some tips of Facebook that I have discovered. If
you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free
to share in the comment box below.
1. See all your friend’s pictures in a tiles format
Login
into Facebook and in your facebook sidebar click on the my friends link
you will see a drop down box next to show, now hover or rollover your
mouse and then click on one of the dashed lines (–). You will see a page
full of al the profile pictures of all your facebook friends. The
profile photos will be shown in a tiled format. It really looks cool try
it.
2. Appear Offline To
Selected Friends
Appear Offline to those who are pestering
you. Simply, open FB Chat and
click Friend’s list, then Create a new list with whatever name you want
and include all those people you don’t want to chat with in that list.
Now you can appear offline to them by moving the green slider to offline
whenever you come online.
3. Facebook Pirate Language
This is my favorite
Facebook tip and if you are a fan of “Pirate Movies” it will become
yours too. Instead of seeing “Share
with friends” you can see “Blabber
t’ yer mates” and other pirate words/phrases. Basically, to make
Facebook communicate with you in old Pirate Language, Simple go to your
Current Language Settings (located at the bottom of the page) and click
the language as English (Pirate).
4. See creator’s profile
Creator
in a facebook community is the first profile created in your community.
Generally you can’t search for his profile. But by using this cool
facebook trick you can do it, just follow some simple steps. Goto your
profile page and look at your id in the url in the address bar of your
web browser. The first few numbers represent your school ID, so if you
change the rest of the numbers to zero and the last number to one. It
will show you the first person or the first profile created from your
school, college or work place. This profile is known as “Creator’s”
profile. This trick is not much of use, but just in case.
5. Hide Your Online Status From Selected
Friends:
So you want to use Facebook chat but don’t want some people to see your online
status? Simply open up the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new
list called BlockList.
Once
the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to
appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the
little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. Bingo! You will now appear
offline to everybody in the BlockList.
6. View a Friend’s Profile Without Messy
Applications:
If you are like me, you often get annoyed by
the dozens of silly applications that people have added to their
profile. Here’s a
Grease Monkey script that allows you to view any profile without all
those applications. Remember: the Mozilla Firefox web browser is a
prerequisite for running Greasemonkey.
7. Display Your Facebook Status On Your
Wordpress Blog:
Want to display your Facebook status
updates on your Wordpress blog? There is a plugin that does exactly
that. StatusPress
lets you display your status updates to a widget on your Wordpress
blog.
8. Give wooden look to
facebook
This greasemonkey javascript will give your
facebook pages an antiquated and wooden look. So, don’t just get stick
to old boring design, keep trying out new ones. Facebook wooden look
9.
Automatic Facebook login
Aren’t
you fed up of keep on logging into facebook everytime you want to check
new messages. This cool greasemonkey javascript will keep you logged
into facebook as long as the password is stored in your firefox web
browser. Automatic
facebook login
10. Remove
annoying Facebook applications
Clean out all those
annoying applications people add. This javascript will remove all those
crappy applications from any facebook profile you are viewing. The
profile were never so cleaner before ;) Facebook applications
cleaner
So, that’s all with facebook tips and tricks for
today, just stay tuned, you will see many more tricks and hacks shortly.
11.
Download Videos From Facebook
There
are so many times that you see these awesome videos on Facebook and
just wish you could download them to your computer. Well to do this
first you must copy the video’s link and then go to.
12. Tweet on your Facebook Status
Most
members of Facebook will tell you that they have a Twitter account. So
if you are a Facebook Freak and a Twitter addict then you can update
both at once using the . Stay on your Twitter page and whenever you want
to send the tweet simultaneously to Facebook, just add #fb to your
tweet and it will get posted on Facebook.
13. How To Download Facebook Photo Albums:
Ever
felt the need to download complete photo albums from Facebook. You can
easily do it with either a Windows desktop application named FotoBounce or a great Firefox
add-on FacePad.
14.
Automatically Poke Friends That Poke
You:
Don’t have enough time to poke back friends who poke
you on Facebook? Automate it with a Grease Monkey script called Facebook Autopoke.
15.
Search Facebook Like A Pro:
Not
everybody knows how powerful Facebook search is. Similar to any large
search engine, Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you
search like a pro. For example if you are looking for a person named
John Marsh and filter your results down to only people who are married,
you can try name: John Marsh status:married. A complete list of search
tips for Facebook can be found here.
16.
Import Facebook Friends To Twitter:
FB140 is a simple tool that
lets you find all your Facebook friends that are using Twitter so you
can easily follow them.
17. Display
Your Facebook Status Upside Down:
This is a cool and fun
trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to FlipText and type in your status.
Then simply click on Flip Text
and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.
18.
Update Facebook Status Using Twitter:
Wouldn’t
you love to update your status on both Facebook and Twitter at the same
time. Just install the Twitter
application for Facebook. Once synced, your tweets including the #fb tag would automatically be posted
as status updates on your Facebook.
19. How To Insert Cool Symbols In Your Status
Updates:
Make your status updates interesting by inserting
cool symbols. Simply copying them from this
list and pasting in your status updates.
20. Magic Circles On Facebook:
You
might have heard about the Konami code that makes red blurry circles on
your Facebook page. This might be one of the most popular Facebook
hidden tricks. Here’s how to do it:
Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter
key then press up & down & Magic circles will appear!
To
stop them simply reload your page.
If
you know any others interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please
feel free to share in the comment
