Facebook Friends Likes and Comments

With Facebook's latest revamp, one can easily become overwhelmed by seeing friends' likes and comments on other friends' walls.

I personally would rather not see people's photos and posts if they're not on my own friends list. So what to do?

The reason I am interested in this feature is that I accidentally commented twice on other people's walls or photos because I thought they belonged to my friends when they appeared on my feed.

Unsubscribing from a Facebook Friend's Comments and Likes

There's a reason I don't have some people on my friends list, and there's no reason why other people's friends need to have me posting on their pictures and uploads! Otherwise we'd all have all our posts set to public. Right?

Apparently there isn't a mass-unsubscribe option, which of course would be a fantastic and easy service to users.

Instead, you can target each instance of TMI sharing as it happens on your feed. Just click on the upper right hand corner of a particular "offending" post--you'll see a little white down-arrow where you need to click. A pop-up menu will appear. Look for the very last option on the bottom, that says "Unsubscribe from the comments and likes by XXX" and you're done.

Cheers!

PS - doesn't that baby jaguar in the photo look like it's ready to hurt someone? ^^;

Hide Your Facebook Photos

My niece asked a very good question: can you hide your profile photo from all others who aren't your friends?

Because Facebook changes its settings and layout so often, it was some time before I found a possible solution. However, people will still be able to see your profile pic. They won't be able to click on it and make it larger though. I think...

This page on FreeMailTutorials.com, "Hide, remove or delete your Facebook profile picture" the section titled "Hide Your Facebook Profile Picture" helped me shed light on a difficult-to-find option to change the photo albums settings.

For some reason, Facebook has different ways to access photo settings instead of just accessing the settings directly from the photos section of your profile.

Under Account / Privacy Settings select Customize Settings, and at the bottom of the first section, Things I Share, you'll see a link to Edit Album Privacy For Existing Photos. That's where you can set who sees what for your photos.

I hope this helps someone out there, because I know it's something useful that's not exactly intuitive to find on the privacy settings.

Facebook's New Instant Personalization

FB Personalization

Facebook recently implemented a new connectivity option with partner sites for users.

The aim is to provide users "social and personalized experience with every app and website you use." Your activities outside FB can now be tweaked when you opt to, to obtain a sense of familiarity and connectedness.

Participating partners include: Bing, TripAdvisor, Clicker, Rotten Tomatoes, Docs, Pandora, Yelp, and Scribd.

To turn this off, if you're concerned about privacy, go to Account / Privacy Settings / Apps and Websites: Edit Your Settings / Instant Personalization.

Rotten Tomatoes FB Login

To test this out I went on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't usually use the other websites, and since I was listening to a CD I didn't feel like logging onto Pandora.

I went to Rotten Tomatoes. The page looked unusually busy. On the upper, right-hand corner there is a FB Login button, which I clicked on.

FB permission window

Upon clicking on the button a typical access approval window popped up. Once I allowed the access and then the Rotten Tomatoes website updated to reflect this login.

Once the page has been "personalized" by your FB login, you'll see a little icon up where the FB login button was, saying your name and with a little hyperlink saying "what's this?" that if you click on tells you how the site can or has been personalized to your FB information that's been accessed.

At first glance, the personalization bullet points aren't all that enlightening. It isn't that different from a typical login at Rotten Tomatoes though...unless I'm missing something.

Personalized Rotten Tomatoes

Of course you do have the added social element that you're aware now what your friends' activity is on the left pane...you find out on their FB walls as well if they selected that option on Rotten Tomatoes.

I'll need to play around with this some more to see what the dealio is. Looks promising tho! Easier to get pals to go out to the movies when you find out you're all wanting to go see the same one this weekend :o)

Facebook Updates Mobile Places Logins

Today the big news on the interwebs was how Facebook updated mobile apps to enhance their Places login feature.

Here's an article by CNet (Facebook to Foursquare: You're out, by Caroline McCarthy)
pondering if perhaps, Facebook is trying to pull one over on Foursquare.

I'm very eager to try out that "deals" feature, to help figure out where to have a nibble or sip of something delectable whenever I'm out and about...especially useful for workday lunch decisions!

Adding Facebook's Like Button to Blogger Posts

If you want to add visibility and traffic to your website, it seems like the new Facebook "Like" button is just the thing.

However, if you don't just want to recommend a blog, but rather, a particular post on a blog, there's a walk through I found that you might want to look into. I found this how-to on Blogger Plugins, and it's titled Facebook Like/Recommend Button for Blogger. Hope it helps!

Facebook Like?

So Facebook this week gave up on their "Become Fan" button and replaced it with "Like." I'm not sure why but I guess they felt this was important.

So now they released their web like button, which allows you to share/connect with friends and to be recognized on partner sites with a personalized interface. After reading this FB landing page, I found out that the like button shows up automatically on partner sites as you surf.

Here's a screen print of what the message at the top of my FB page looked like. This "web like" button announcement is being called the Connect with Friends.

TheNextWeb.com says you shouldn't ignore the little graph -- or do so at your own peril. *insert suspense music here*
Thoughts? Does anyone care?

Facebook's New Security Features

The only "new" thing that Facebook is doing, is making you needlessly go through the security setup message and options. Because in reality, all your settings are still dispersed in various areas, such as your profile's info tab under edit for each of the sections there, and the usual privacy section up on the right-hand of the page under the wall/profile sections.

I couldn't figure out why my groups/pages and sex were showing up to non-friends, then I realized after about a day of looking, that my sex was under my profile, info section and there was a checkbox that needed unchecking. However, I've yet been unable to find out why my groups/pages are still showing up.

Before this more "visible" and "easier" Facebook security messup, I was able to hide everything except a few select photo albums, which by the way, don't show up on my profile when viewed by a non-member which makes no sense to me if I selected the album to be viewed by everyone.

I think that, at this point, even the Facebook engineers are confused about the nonsensical privacy runaround system.

Very disgruntled right now.

Posting to Facebook and Twitter

There's a great how-to page on Mashable about how to post to and from Twitter and Facebook.

Apparently there is a Twitter app on FB that you can use! None showed up when I searched months ago, it's either new, or my search results failed me.