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What are Facebook Community Standards?

Facebook is a worldwide community where millions of people connect with each other. Each of these people represents unique opinions, ideals and cultural values. Out of consideration for this variety, we work to foster surroundings where everyone can openly discuss issues and express their views, while respecting the rights of others.

As a trust community of friends, family, co-worker and generation, Facebook is largely self-regulated. People who use Facebook can and do report happy that they find questionable or offensive. To balance the needs and happiness of a worldwide community we ask everyone to respect the following content principles:

Threats
Promoting Self-Harm
Bullying and Harassment
Hate Speech
Graphic Violence
Sex and Nudity
Theft, Vandalism & Fraud
Identity and Privacy
Intellectual Property
Phishing and spam

Report, if you find anyone who violates the Facebook Community Standards!

European Commission going to Slap Facebook

The European Commission is preparing a Directive to avert Facebook from sharing users’ information — such as their political viewpoint and place — with advertisers unless users purposely allow it.

According to The Telegraph, the Directive — which will be part of an update to current data protection laws — is scheduled for early January release. Should Facebook fail to adjust its privacy settings in compliance with the new legislation, the social network could face prosecution and/or a heavy fine.

Facebook, for its part, says that it shares data incognito and in amassed to advertisers, and that individuals’ own details are not at risk.

This is not the foremost time Facebook has been scrutinized by the European merger. In June 2009, the EU laid out privacy guidelines for social networks, and in June of this year, EU regulators began investigating Facebook’s facial recognition system.

Earlier this month, Facebook released details about how it tracks its 800 million users across the web.

facebook ticker got monetize

yes, its True! now your Facebook ticker will show Sponsored Stories. so one more change from Facebook.

the ticker first appeared to mixed reviews when Facebook revamped News Feed in early September.

It’s intended to be a repository for those quick, repetitive messages or “vicky and Mack" are now friends,” leaving meatier status updates to the main feeds.

but now, as mentioned earlier, facebook going to show sponsored stories in ticker feeds.

Million's of people already hated ticker, as its leaves the Privacy concern. now if it also going to show some other stories (links) then mostly people going to hate facebook a lot!

The inclusion of sponsored posts among regular ones will be familiar to any user of Twitter, Digg, and other networks. Sponsored content in various “feeds” is rapidly becoming the norm in social media, although most services clearly mark the content as such.

so if any new person who is not familiar with all this social media channel, who want to try this all, are gonna confused, all social media (twitter,Digg, facebook) are showing Sponsored Stories in their regular feeds, that might be disappoint any new user and FORCE him/her to join some other site.

image source: mashable.com

National Unfriend Day - Delete Fack people from Your Friend List

November 17th is a National Unfriend Day. After Huge success from last year, million's of people deleted their Fack Facebook Friends. As every one will agree on this, that their are million's of Fack A/c's are live on Facebook or even in their Friend List.

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel says you should start deleting those folks you barely know.

If you can’t decide whether to unfriend someone, check out this video to hear Kimmel’s point system that will help you decide who stays and who goes.

“Half of the the people in this country are on Facebook and many of those people have hundreds, if not thousands of friends,” Kimmel told the Jimmy Kimmel Live audience last week. “I find this unacceptable that no one has thousands of friends … If you have ten friends in your life then you’re doing very well.”

So will you delete Fack Friends from your FB list this Thursday??

Facebook Reaches 800 Million active Users

There had been a lot of questions going as to if Facebook has pass the 800 million active users milestone yet. Answer to that question is, YES!

Need more proof?

Here Is proof for you. Facebook now officially announcing that they having 750M+ Active users. Even you can find this on your Facebook profile.

Or check it from official time-line of Facebook.

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Here are the milestones of what Facebook users from 2008-2011.

August 2008 Facebook reaches over 100 million active users.

January 2009 Facebook reaches over 150 million active users.

April 2009 Facebook reaches over 200 million active users.

July 2009 Facebook reaches over 250 million active users.

September 2009 Facebook reaches over 300 million active users.

December 2009 Facebook reaches over 350 million active users.

February 2010 Facebook reaches over 400 million active users.

July 2010 Facebook reaches over 500 million active users.

December 2010 (Unannounced) Facebook reaches over 600 million active users.

Augest 2011 (unannounced but declared on fb) Facebook Reaches Over 750 Million + Active Users.
November 2011 Facebook Reaches Over 800 Million + Active Users.

its should be good to note here that Facebook got 750M+ active user when Google+ is already here to overtake FB. in present of Google plus and Twitter, its prefrable to say that People still love Facebook. Much Fight for Google + and Twitter.

Data taken from facebook press

How to get back old Facebook Chat?

Change,we Believe in - Barack Obama

Change isn’t always improvement and New Features aren’t always welcomed by users. Same is the story with New Facebook Sidebar Chat.Users haven’t liked it much for a simple reason that it’s messy. It’s a free service and you don’t have an option to switch to good old Facebook Chat officially. So, here’s how can you get rid of new Facebook Sidebar chat and get back to old Facebook Chat.

How to install Old Facebook Chat UserScript

Go to http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159 and click on Green button saying “Install”.

For Google Chrome,Just install and Refresh your FB page,Simple!

For Firefox users, you must have GreaseMonkey addon installed to install this. For Google Chrome however, it is installed directly and activates automatically on opening Facebook.com

It is important to note here that This Hack doesn’t activate Old Facebook Chat for your Account but only when you access Facebook from the browser where script is installed. And If you want to switch back to New chat for that Change Again, then simply Uninstall this Add-ons or extensions from Your Browser, Simple!

How To : Measure Facebook Page Engagement

Are you trying to figure out how much your fans really like you or your brand? This guide outlines a few things you should never miss when monitoring your Facebook page performance.

Monitoring Active Users

While most companies pay attention to the number of fans as the greatest metric of success, measuring your active users is much more important. Fortunately, Facebook provides detailed information about daily, weekly, and monthly active users on your page. You can find this information in tFacebook’s insights area. While these numbers will differ from one page to the next, the most important thing is to strive to increase the number of active users you have.

The best way to accomplish this is to post regular high-quality updates that get users to post comments and likes.

Daily Story Feedback

While engagement numbers include the number of impressions you get on each post, your ultimate goal should be to boost likes and comments on each posting. Compelling content that drives people to respond to your posts is important to boosting your overall numbers. Ultimately, the more your fans engage with your content, the more people that will see it. One of the best ways to accomplish this is by asking questions which generate a significant response from your fans.

You can monitor all interactions on the main insights page as pictured below.

If you aren’t receiving comments or likes (relative to the size of your overall fan base), there’s a good chance that you’ll begin to see your post impressions drop. As such, comments and likes are the most important metrics to focus on.

Like Acquisition Channels

While the first thing you should focus on is increasing engagement among your existing fan base, you’ll want to also expand your reach. This comes through optimizing your various fan acquisition channels. Fortunately, Facebook provides detailed information about where your new fans are coming from. By visiting your insights area and then navigating to the area labeled “users,” you’ll be able to view the new likes sources chart (pictured below).

You should focus on two things: your largest sources and those sources with the greatest room for improvement. For our page, our blog is the greatest source of new fans. As such, we focus on optimizing the placement of likes around our website. For some pages, suggestions are the greatest source. For those pages, asking fans to refer their friends to your page can have significant results.

Monitor And Adjust

As you monitor your insights, you can make adjustments to the types of content you post over time. This can include the types of media (photos, videos, links/articles, status updates, etc), the time of day, and the frequency of posting. I highly recommend exporting this data to excel or another spreadsheet tool in order to track your performance over time. Alternatively, you can sign up for a free account with our AllFacebook Statsproduct which lets you track your page performance and your competitors’ page performance over time and export that data if necessary.

Do you have any questions or suggestions for other page administrators? Please post them in the comments section below!

via:allfacebook.com

Court to Winklevoss Twins: Facebook Settlement Stands, Time To Move On

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept their $65 million settlement from Facebook and move on.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that the settlement — which was featured in the movie The Social Network — still stands, despite the Winklevosses’ claim that Facebook did not disclose an accurate valuation.

The suit stems from the Winklevosses’ claim that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social-networking site. Zuckerberg and Facebook deny the allegations, but agreed to settle in 2008. Since then, the Winklevoss twins have attempted to secure a higher settlement by claiming that Facebook is guilty of securities fraud.

“The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace,” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in today’s ruling. “And the courts might have obliged, had the Winklevosses not settled their dispute and signed a release of all claims against Facebook.”

With both the district court and appeals court in agreement, it seems this may be the end of the Winklevosses’ claim to any additional shares of Facebook.

“For whatever reason, they (the Winklevosses) now want to back out. Like the district court, we see no basis for allowing them to do so,” Kozinski wrote. “At some point, litigation must come to an end. That point has now been reached.”

Mark Zuckerberg is Mad Magazine’s Latest Coverboy [PIC]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will grace the cover of Mad Magazinein about a week, in an issue whose cover story is entitled “The 50 Worst Things About Facebook.”
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Image courtesy TechCrunch

7 Million Fans Like Leo Messi’s Facebook Page in 7 Hours

Seven hours after Argentine soccer player Leo Messi started a Facebook Page, he has almost 7 million Likes as of Wednesday afternoon.

To put that number into perspective, it’s nearly 40% as many Likes as U.S. President Barack Obama has on his Facebook Page and about 30% as many as Justin Bieber fans have contributed to the pop star’sFacebook Page — but Messi’s Likes were gathered in hours, not years.

Messi, who plays for FC Barcelona and is considered by many to be the best soccer player in the world, wrote in a translated welcome message on the page, “Hola! Welcome to everyone. Thank you very much for the great number of messages that I have received. I am so excited! From now on we will be more closely connected … through Facebook.”

Lady Gaga beat Obama to 10 million Likes last summer, but we can’t remember another celebrity nearing the milestone so quickly. We’ve reached out to Facebook about whether Messi has set a Facebook record.

Update: Some commenters have suggested that Messi may have automatically transferred fans from his unofficial pages to his official page. While Facebook allows businesses to merge place pages with fan pages and to turn personal profile pages into fan pages, there’s not a public option to merge multiple fan pages. We’ve reached out to Facebook about whether Messi’s page administrator negotiated a merge with a Facebook representative.

courtesy : mashable.com

How to Tag Your Friends In Facebook Comments

Tagging friends on updates are fun. First it was launched for Facebook photographs which enabled the user to tag his/her friends on the uploaded photographs. It is a great way of notifying your friends that, dude you are part of the wonderful memories in the photographs.

After a few months they were launched for Facebook status updates to mention your friend having the common interest. Now Facebook have launched the feature that allow you to tag your friend in comment to invite them over the discussion.

How to Tag Friends in Facebook Comments

Tagging a friend in comments is same as tagging some one in the status update. Just use ‘@’ sign followed by your friend name and select the friend from a drop down list.

Its great feature introduced by Facebook and will help one to invite his/her friend over the discussion but one thing that’s bothering me is the notification bar. People misuse the Photo tagging with out giving it much concern leaving the Facebook notification bar in a mess with spam updates. God knows what this change will bring upon us.

Via:Blogsolute.com

Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Startup Beluga

Facebook has snapped up yet a new tech starupTuesday’s achievement is Beluga, a startup that allows users to send instant group messages, photos and location information across various platforms.

The startup’s contribution is similar to other apps like GroupMe (which just got location and image sharing in a recent revamp).

In a report on the Beluga website, we read that the startup’s founders are “excited to continue to build our vision for mobile group messaging as part of the Facebook team. Beluga and Facebook are committed to create new and better ways to communicate and share group experiences.”

Whether that means that Beluga will exist as its own entity, or as a separate Facebook feature, or even as supporting technology behind something much larger remains unknown. The founders did say that the service will continue to function “for now” and that user data won’t be lost.

More details will be available from Beluga and Facebook in the next few weeks.

courtersy : mashable.com

Zynga’s FrontierVille To Hype Premiere of Johnny Depp’s New Film

Rango, the Johnny Depp-voiced chameleon whose self-titled movie is set to hit theaters this weekend, will have a cameo role in Zynga’s FrontierVille to help encourage the release.

Starting at the moment, FrontierVille players will be challenged to find Rango, ask their associates for 10 water buckets and outlook the trailer for the film. If they complete that mission, players get a Rango statue to add to their homestead on FrontierVille.

The encouragement is the first time Zynga has worked with Paramount Pictures, but the group has used its games to publicize movie openings before. currently, Zynga’s Mafia Wars plugged Sony Pictures’s The Green Hornet by offering collectibles within the game. Zynga also promoted DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind on FarmVille with Mega-Farm, a themed attraction within the game.

Manny Anekal, Zynga’s global director of brand advertising for Zynga, says that while there are no figures linking activity on those games to bigger box office take, some 19 million people are active FrontierVille users and 9 million interacted with the Megamind promo.

This is the latest promo to offer a prize for watching a trailer on Facebook. Last week, NBC offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal from Chiptotle for watching a preview for

America

’s Next Great Restaurant, a new reality show.

While such promos are efficient at getting users to click play, it’s unclear if they’re actually watching the video or if they’re more apt to watch the advertised belongings. Chris Thilk, who runs the blog Movie Marketing Madness, says that while it’s hard to tell if the promos actually increase audience, gameplayers at least don’t seem to mind. “The promotions add functionality to game play,” he says. “As long as it’s not just an ad, I think the audience will be more forgiving.”

Apple Testing Gesture-Based Lock Screen for the iPhone?

Apple is testing a new type of lock screen on the iPhone, similar to the gesture-based lock screen on Android phones, 9to5Mac reports.

The screen is based on a 3×3 dot grid, and the user must swipe the dots in a correct sequence to unlock the device.

The lock/unlock system and even the look of the application seem to be nearly identical to the Android version, which is why 9to5Mac speculates that this new lock screen will never reach the hands of the consumers.

Instead, it is likely to be used internally, for example in the apps used by Apple retail store employees. What do you think? Would you like to see this type of lock screen on your iOS device? Please, share your opinions in the comments.

A Mixed Night For The Social Network

It was a great night for The King’s Speech and Inception at the 83rd Academy Awards Sunday — and a somewhat more disappointing outcome for their main rival, David Fincher’s The Social Network.

Fincher’s movie, a fictionalized account of the rise of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, won a total of three Oscars. Writer Aaron Sorkin, also known for West Wing and A Few Good Men, won Best Adapted Screenplay (it was based on Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires”), while Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor won Best Original Score for the movie’s haunting music. It also won an award for Best Film Editing.

But The Social Network had been nominated for a total of eight awards — and had been hotly tipped for Best Picture until The King’s Speech started picking up buzz several months ago. It failed to win for cinematography, Best Actor, Best Director or Best Picture. The King’s Speech won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Colin Firth. Chris Nolan’s dream-within-a-dream Inception also won five, including Best Special Effects for its stunning computer-generated imagery.

For The Social Network‘s fans, it will be especially disappointing that the movie won awards for sound, vision and script — but apparently was not better than the sum of those parts. And in what seemed almost like a snub, Sorkin’s acceptance speech was the only one to be cut short by the Academy’s “play them out” music.