Social-Media

Sure, Facebook is a great tool to use when you are updating your family members, or keeping in touch with your friends. Or, as some students put it, “Facebook Stalk” their friends. It’s great to upload pictures, chat with longtime friends that life faraway, and write on people’s walls. Sometimes, going on Facebook is also a great break. It could be a great break from a long homework assignment, or it can also be a good break from your work. Let’s face it, people can’t work 8 long hours without some sort of break. Going on Facebook is considered an acceptable form of a break. It can break the monotony. However, there are also some things that need to be considered when you go on Facebook. ...

Facebook is going to unveil its next massive killer socialize feature – Music, at its f8 Developers Conference tomorrow (Thursday, September 22, 2011). This will allow users to listen to music right from your Facebook page. It is rumored that this music service is set to launch with collaboration Spotify, MOG and Rdio. Meanwhile, Techcrunch spotted an interesting tweet from Facebook’s creative director Ji Lee: The “Listen with your friend” feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE. ...

Are you one of those poor Facebook users who ended up clicking the latest scam of a free Facebook T-shirt? Well, if you’re still hoping that you’re going to receive a free Tee, good luck by the way! You won’t receive one. This latest scam pretends you to claim a free Facebook Tee with an attractive webpage celebrating the social giant’s 7th birthday and saying it has more than 1.9 million official Tees in stock. ...

Anonymous, the famous online hackers group has announced a very dangerous news to make a huge attack on the popular social networking site Facebook on November 5. This hacking group, Anonymous has been known for publishing these kind of threatening statements and successful. If Operation Facebook is real, it could mark a new phase for Anonymous, which in recent weeks has joined forces with the remnants of the more tightly knit hacker group LulzSec to target law enforcement agencies in an ongoing operation called Antisec. Antisec aka Anti Security is a movement of online hackers working to oppose the computer security industry. ...

Sharing is about more than just conversations - it’s about shared experiences too. And now, the Facebook killer, Google+ introduced Games too. To begin with, you will now be able to play some of the popular games like Crime City, Dragon Age Legends, Zynga Poker, Angry Birds, Sudoku Puzzles, etc. You can share your latest high scores with your friends’ circles too. If you are a Game developer interested in building games for this project, navigate to https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/ and proceed further steps. ...

Randi Zuckerberg is leaving Facebook to start her own social media company called RtoZ Media. Randi is the Director of marketing has been with Facebook since near the beginning of the company’s rise to power. She had gone on a maternity leave three months ago, and instead returning to the company , she submitted a letter of resignation. Her resignation letter included a summary of achievements during her 6 years journey at Facebook - ...

If you have your personal Page in Facebook, you know that you are allowed to promote that page to your friends, through only recommendations. Recommendations are not that great in which your friend might miss it as it only triggers email and the actual button resides in a corner of the Facebook sidebar. Today, Facebook introduced new way to recommend your fan page to your friends so that they’ll appear as notifications and also email message depending on the user settings. ...

Facebook introduced facial recognition feature few days ago which lets an option to tag a picture automatically. This automatic photo tagging feature might be good for some of you but it may get creeper nevertheless. Click ‘Edit Settings’ and change the option to ‘Disabled’ if you don’t want Facebook to work in that fashion This auto facial recognition feature basically uses a comparison of photos you’re tagged in to suggest that friends tag you in new photos. ...

Google announced on its official blog that it is rolling out controversial Social Search feature in over next few days. This experimental feature which is launched in 2009 combines regular Google search results with publicly available data created by your friends’ social network activities. For example, if you’re looking for information about low-light photography and your friend has written a blog post about it, that post may show up higher in your results with a clear annotation and picture of your friend. ...

Have you ever imagined a baby girl’s name as “Like”? Well, its real now! More recently, a family in Israel decided to name their child “Like” after the Facebook button. The social networking site Facebook provided the inspiration for the couple – Lior and Vardit Adler. She could be all cute and precious, but how idiotic is to name ‘Like’? They explain it differently - To me it is important to give my children names that are not used anywhere else, at least not in Israel. If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today this is one of the most famous icons in the world, he said, joking that the name could be seen as a modern version of the traditional Jewish name Ahuva, which means “beloved.” ...