Tag: STATUS UPDATE

Facebook changed its privacy controls a few times in 2010, and while it's now quite easy to block entire groups from seeing your location or contact details, there's no obvious way to hide your recent activities. Recent activities are everything you do on Facebook, from commenting on a friend's wall to posting photos or changing your relationship status. If a friend visits your profile they ...

By default, Facebook uses a magical algorithm called EdgeRank to decide what makes it to your News Feed, and what falls by the wayside. Lots of factors affect what ultimately appears in your News Feed, but mostly it's determined by a) things you've explicitly signed up for ('liking' pages), and b) updates from friends that you regularly interact with. But what if you're bored of reading dull ...

This week's set of tech tips are all about the most popular website in the world: Facebook. For more tips, check our tips index! Facebook, despite the blogosphere's perpetual bickering, actually has good, granular privacy controls. You can control exactly who can see each section of your profile, and easily block specific people from even finding your profile. One lesser-known feature, ...

Today I tried doing something which seemed really simple at first glance: I set out to get a list of Facebook status updates on my desktop. Just the updates. No pictures, no pokes, no Farmville. I kind of wanted to be able to post replies, but that wasn't super-important. And after spending quite a bit of time, I simply couldn't find anything worthy. I found Seesmic and TweetDeck. Beautiful ...

... well, not really, but almost! The title of this entry probably really excited you, eh? How sad is that... Anyway, while you can't actually update Facebook from your calculator (at least, I don't think you can?), with 'Funny Facebook' you can do the next best thing and pretend. The website has seemingly been crafted by someone with a limited grasp of English, and I've not heard of half ...

Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps. The new product will be unveiled tomorrow, and it could be anything from integrating Gmail status updates with Twitter and Facebook to launching a full-scale Twitter-like service of its own. Here's what we're hearing so far: TechCrunch says the new product will ...

Looks like Seesmic is still trying to position itself as the Twitter client that does it all. Loic LeMeur and Co.'s most recent move -buying Ping.fm - will enable Seesmic users to cross-post status updates to 50 different social networks at once. Ping.fm has half a million registered users who post hundreds of thousands of updates a day via the service. Ping.fm will be fully integrated into ...

Facebook announced the next round of changes and additions to their "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," -- the terms of service document that governs -- the popular social networking website. The document has received some criticism in the past (ahem). One of the more interesting changes? Users are now prohibited from using their Facebook profile for direct profit. That means selling ...