Social media entrepreneur Daniel Offer, owner of Chit Chat for Facebook, looks back on what social media and Facebook did for us in 2011. He outlines his ten social media and Facebook predictions for 2012.
Offer considers the possibility of Facebook's stock market listing, the problems with Facebook timeline and third party developer engagement in social media.
Rumour has it that everyone on Facebook will be rolled out to the new Facebook timeline in time for Christmas, the bad news is that you can't stop this happening. However, if you're like me and slightly impatient for the impending moment when Facebook swaps over our Facebook walls to a Facebook timeline. Following a few easy instructions within this article you too can show off and play with your new Facebook timeline ahead of schedule.
Fraping isn't everyone's idea of fun. However, nothing is funny unless you take the mick out of someone right? If you've ever considered what the most horrible ways to Facebook frapes are, then you'll want to read this article.
This article describes 10 of the most horrible ways in which you can Facebook frape someone. Prepare yourself to be horrified by some of the funniest Facebook frape ideas.
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!
Surveys are interesting because you can fill them out and then tag a friend (or several) to read your answers and also to fill out the same survey. They can then tag more friends and the survey will act much like a chain status update or chain mail. It can be a way to get to know a lot of friends in a short period of time. Surveys also have the potential to make your profile interesting. If friends know they can find a fun, interesting, revealing survey on your profile, they may make it a habit to visit often.
This article describes a variety of Facebook surveys that you can do - the random note survey, the how old survey and more are revealed within!
Turning status updates into games is a nice way to add some flavor to your profile and learn more about friends. If you get creative enough and do it often, people may start visiting your page just to see what updates you are providing.
Within this article, I've described a variety of fun Facebook status games that you may like to play with your friends.
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".