Facebook Tips & Tricks

Facebook has been the buzz word in recent times. Well, almost all the social networking sites are getting world’s attention. We are enjoying this wonderful phase web 2.0 and we keep on trying our hands on cool tips and tricks to enhance our web experience. Here i come with some facebook tips and tricks.

See all your friend’s pictures in a tiles format
Login into Facebook and in your facebook sidebar click on the my friends link you will see a drop down box next to show, now hover or rollover your mouse and then click on one of the dashed lines (–). You will see a page full of al the profile pictures of all your facebook friends. The profile photos will be shown in a tiled format. It really looks cool try it.

See creator’s profile
Creator in a facebook community is the first profile created in your community. Generally you can’t search for his profile. But by using this cool facebook trick you can do it, just follow some simple steps. Goto your profile page and look at your id in the url in the address bar of your web browser. The first few numbers represent your school ID, so if you change the rest of the numbers to zero and the last number to one. It will show you the first person or the first profile created from your school, college or work place. This profile is known as “Creator’s” profile. This trick is not much of use, but just in case.

Give wooden look to facebook
This greasemonkey javascript will give your facebook pages an antiquated and wooden look. So, don’t just get stick to old boring design, keep trying out new ones. Facebook wooden look

Automatic Facebook login
Aren’t you fed up of keep on logging into facebook everytime you want to check new messages. This cool greasemonkey javascript will keep you logged into facebook as long as the password is stored in your firefox web browser. Automatic facebook login

Remove annoying Facebook applications
Clean out all those annoying applications people add. This javascript will remove all those crappy applications from any facebook profile you are viewing. The profile were never so cleaner before ;) Facebook applications cleaner

Why Social Networking sites are popular?

Why only Social Networking ?, we could have talked about tech gadgets and other technical tips, tricks. The reason being that social networking sites are for every one, from students to housewives and from rich to poor. Social networking sites have brought people on an even platform where everybody enjoys his own space, privacy and interactions with others.

With six crores registered members. Orkut is doing great in terms of traffic and reveneue, and above all it has helped Google to raise their social graph to the next level. Orkut is very popular in south asian countries, Brazil and Latin America. But it has failed to impress people from United States and UK. The reason could be either the orkut could not become viral in USA and UK as it did in some south asian countries and Brazil. The zones where orkut is popular are denesely populated areas of the world which even helped it in becoming a Viral thing.

With orkut becoming more and more popular. Other social bookmarking sites also came into the picture, with likes of friendster, bebo. MySpace has already a large maket share and it seems to continue occupying that much for atleast another few years.

A large event happened in social networking phase when facebook got world’s attention. Facebook brought forward a complete new idea and made a platform where developers are free to create their own applications which could help them in promoting their own websites and other ventures too. WIth that kinda platform facebook is here to stay for long. With facebook, people keep getting new applications and hence new features unlike in other similar social networking sites.

Now with facebook taking over the internet, we can expect Google to do something to take orkut to the next level or atleast somewhere near to Facebook. And as expected they seem to have taken the path of openness as they will be announcing some open APIs for orkut.com which would let developers to orkut more seriously than ever. More developers means more features, more features means more buzz.

So, Social networking is here to stay. The platforms can change, their marketing strategies can change but their popularity is not gonna go anywhere down.