Tag: Facebook

Always told not to put links in Facebook posts? Think again. My recent experiment shows Instagram links might actually BOOST your engagement. Here's what I discovered.

Tired of algorithmic noise? One simple URL trick lets you view Facebook posts in order they're shared. Reclaim your social media experience!

I was only scrolling on my homepage of Facebook. Then I got a message saying: You’re Temporarily BlockedIt looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it. If you think this…

Can you think of any other companies with an unnecessary double-vowel?

Loving the simplicity of life in chronological order, not through an algorithm.

You can now have multiple personal profiles on Facebook. Laughs. Just a couple weeks ago, I did the opposite. I MERGED two of my biggest personal profiles.

You can download your Facebook data archive and look through all the various things that Facebook has collected about you. One of the items is a list of all the Facebook Pages you’ve liked and Facebook Groups you have joined.…

The Muppets have Facebook Pages for Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, and Walter, but not Rowlf the Dog. Unbelievable. A Facebook search for Rowlf the Dog yields only his Wikipedia page. Rowlf totally needs a Facebook…

Chinese for “face book” is: 臉書 (according to google translate). If you go to 臉書.com, Chrome brings you to xn--rovv01d.com, which is an available domain. “Amazon” in Chinese is: 亞馬遜. The 亞馬遜.com brings you to: xn--nlqs61nl3f.com (also available). “Linked in”…

Walgreens writes some unrelevant posts on their wall. I am starting a project where I write silly responses on their wall. What sort of silly stuff am I writing? Find out on my Google Plus post, “Unrelevant Facebook posts?” (if…

Tired of giving the same old Facebook birthday greeting? Mix things up and share a fun image. How about using a 15 pixel by 15 pixel balloon? It’s unique and funny. Sometimes people post obnoxious photos on their friends wall…

Remember Pieces of Flair on Facebook? The app were you could add a bunch of glossy buttons to a bulletin board. Here’s what my board looks like now: It’s got a lot more buttons on it than when I originally…

Two questions: 1) Do I know you? (in real life or from online) 2) Do you administer a Facebook Fan Page? If the answer to both questions are “yes” then I want to follow your Page, and actually read it…

Facebook Pages. Do you read them? I like Pages, but I never read them. It’s kinda sad, because I have friends who administer Pages. To solve that problem, I’m making a list in Facebook of all the Pages that my…

I’m going to start a new project. I was looking at all the stamps I have and how they are unused. So I want to do a mail project. When looking at Facebook, instead of liking something on someone’s wall,…

People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m…

I got so excited when Facebook showed an ad for the 2010 Olympic mascots. Especially since it showcases my favorite mascot, QUATCHI! When I clicked on the ad, I was totally expecting to go to an Olympic mascot page. Instead…

Here’s a funny domain swiping technique. I was wondering if faceback.com was taken (a play on facebook). But it is. What about other domains where you take the second word and keep the first and last letter? Available: facebask.com facebaulk.com…

Here’s a growing collection of the funniest Facebook status messages I have seen. Feel free to add to this list by leaving a comment with hilarious facebook status messages you have read. — Erik M. Transformers 2 comes out Wednesday.…

I’d love a facebook app that shows which of my friends has the most friends in common. For instance, my brother has 59 mutual friends with me. Tom Saaristo and I have 27 friends in common. Jeff Millies and I…

What is the next facebook app that will grab attention? Here’s eight apps that have gotten me addicted for periods of time in the past year: (fluff) Friends: pick a cutesy pet, and feed other cutesy pets Friends for Sale:…

Let’s say you want to know which of your friends are fans of the tv show “Lost.” Just search for “lost” and hit the “people” tab, and it will bring up all your friends who are fans of Lost. Recently…

Facebook retooled their website and totally changed the user experience. Now users have to click through to several pages to read what used to be on one page. You know why? To increase pageviews. The formula for why facebook did…

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

There’s some funny smack talk on the Facebook Wrestler application. This blog post will be an archive of all the funny ones. Feel free to submit any to the comments. KEEP IT CLEAN. (I will delete anything that I don’t…

A columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, doesn’t understand Facebook. People’s expectations are too high. They think it’s some sort of savior or fix-it-all website. It’s not. But it does enable you to keep in touch with your larger…