Practical jokes are an art form, but playing practical jokes and pulling off pranks on Facebook requires true creativity. This article contains several ideas for Facebook pranks that can help get you started thinking about the ultimate way to use and abuse your social network. Enjoy!
You may already be familiar with the fact that Facebook is no longer just for connecting with friends and family, but did you know that it can provide dramatic benefits to a small business that are seeking to engage with their target market online.
For many small businesses in this difficult economy, it can be tough to spend enough money to create a successful advertising campaign. In fact, with the large number of new startup websites online, you have to be a savvy Internet marketer in order to get noticed whatsoever. Luckily, social media provides a free advertising venue for your small business, and when used correctly, it can help to level the playing field between your small company and a larger corporation.
If you’re a regular Facebook user, chances are you’ve seen eye-catching status updates and “likes” from a friend. You might find that he or she has “liked” something such as OMG! Look at What Justin Bieber Just Did…Captured on Video! or Guys: 10 Surefire Ways to Make Women Addicted to You! Intrigued, you click the link, only to find that it takes too much investment or risks your privacy. You must click the Like button, add an application, take a survey, notify other friends, or complete some other time-wasting, risky task in order to see the compelling video, picture, or article that was promised.
Ever since the development of the hugely successful Japanese video game ‘Harvest Moon,’ the market for games seeking to make farming an enjoyable and engaging experience has hugely increased. One of these games, named Farm Town, exploded recently onto Facebook in the form of a browser-based flash game, and those who signed up haven’t looked back since. In fact, not only is Farm Town an excellent game in comparison to its major Facebook rival Farmville, but also a wonderful experience in its own right.
It feels rewarding to write a Facebook status update that’s funny enough to draw a chain of comments from your friends. But a poorly written Facebook status update can bring shame to your friends and jubilation to your enemies (although, if you’re enemies, why are you friends with them on Facebook?).
This article will provide a handful of useful tips to keep in mind when you’re making your single sentence status masterpieces, and provide you a few clever examples to get you rolling.
You may think it is harmless, but could that photo of yourself with your tongue in a friend’s ear that you put on ‘Facebook’ actually lose you a job? You may be surprised to know that many computer savvy employers now make it a practice of ‘Googling’ job applicants. Comments and photos of you that were funny for your friends on a social networking site such as ‘Facebook’ and ‘MySpace’ may be seen in an entirely different way by a prospective employer.
Facebook is one of the most popular services for social networking on the Internet today. People who use Facebook enjoy keeping in touch with friends and family, making new social connections, and even use Facebook for business purposes. One advantage Facebook profiles have over other kinds of social network services is that they are crisp and clean, easy to navigate and easy to use. In addition to the core products offered by Facebook, an enormous amount of accessories or applications have been developed for use with Facebook profiles, but they have their good and bad points.
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites and now, you can take it with you on your Blackberry Smartphone any time of the day or night and any place you happen to go. Why shouldn’t you be able to keep in touch with your friends on Facebook any time you want? Well, now you can with an easy to download application offered free of charge.
Since the advent of the Internet as a form of communication, emoticons have become an intrinsic part of all variety of electronic communities. They pop up everywhere from e-mail, to instant messages, and (of course) are scattered all across social networking sites like Facebook. In fact, there are even Facebook fan pages dedicated to the subject of emoticon usage. These range from the “I Love Emoticons” page to the “Using Emoticons When You Have Nothing Left to Say” page. There is even a musician who calls himself Emoticon, and who has created a Facebook fan-page where he broadcasts his musical endeavors.
Perhaps this is a familiar story.
I started Warwick University as an undergraduate back in the autumn of 2005, and around about November an increasing amount of my new found friends started talking about this social networking tool called Facebook. Existing members of Facebook encouraged others to obtain a profile on the website.
Within a few months, most of people at University –myself included- had profiles on Facebook and it became a very convent way to share photos from a night out, keep in touch and Facebook poke cute girls, for no particular reason of course.
Editorial on the "Facebook Graduates".
Farmville is exactly what it sounds like – a charming online flash game in which you create a little cartoon ‘sprite’ and waddle around a farm planting seeds, raising cows, ploughing fields and selling your wares to the locals. It may sound prosaic, but there is something incredibly addictive about the game play of Farmville, mainly because it encourages progression. A strong motivation is instilled in the player to expand and improve his farm as much as he or she possibly can – after all, the virtual animals deserve it.
Article reviews the Zynga's Facebook Game: Farmville
Having been on the instant messaging landscape for just 2 years, Facebook has achieved significant market share with its ‘Facebook Chat’. Indeed, according to Facebook’s own statistics, Facebook users send over 1 billion instant messages a day.
Since the release of Facebook Chat, Facebook has in effect rewritten the rule book by which instant messengers for the last decade competed.
This article reviews why Facebook Chat has had such a significant impact on the instant messaging landscape and how Facebook Chat needs to be improved.
“What’s on your mind?” the Facebook status bar queries.
There are a range of possible responses to this simple question. You could write something mundane enough to bore your friends to tears - but no one cares how stressed you are about your job or how cute your kids are. You could go for something zany and outlandish - but you know your relatives will be interrupting your mobile web browsing with phone calls to check that you're (more or less) sane and sober.
This article provides four secrets to writing great Facebook status messages.
On several occasions, Facebook users have lost their data due to either hacked accounts or problems with Facebook’s servers. This article introduces the reader to three tools that allow Facebook users to back up their data: ArchiveFacebook Firefox add-on, SocialSafe and LiveOffice Social Archive.
Google launched its social networking tool, Google Buzz, in February 2010. Already, Buzz has been cited as one of the new major competitors for Facebook, the most popular social networking website with over 400 million active registered users. This article outlines where Google Buzz triumphs over Facebook.
