Barack Obama dominated on Facebook through out the year which really helped him in his political career; he also had hired Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in early 2007 for his assistance on social media. Obama uses the age of technology in a right way as he started working on very early on it. Internet, the boom of social networking helped him too. In this regard he uses Facebook that provide him a great platform to carry on his campaigns. Facebook is the most crowded place on Internet today and an easy way to convey messages to millions in no time.
The trend most social networking sites follow is to attract more users towards them by providing new functionality according to the interest of the user and updating/modifying the previous. The two biggest competitors in the social networking arena are MySpace and Facebook. As Facebook contain huge number of social applications therefore it is getting more traffic than other sites. Although MySpace still have the most number of users than any other site but Facebook fame is still on top. (more…)
Does Facebook need cash badly? Has its growth caused to far outpace the revenue Facebook generates? All these any many more questions and rumors regarding the financial dire of Facebook are in the air these days. Although it’s against the policy of Facebook to comment on any sort of market speculations or rumors regarding its financial position.
Today, social networking is open for everyone, from business men to high school students, all are there on a single network. There are lots of applications available on Facebook which you can find according to your interest.
Facebook applications for patient are a new area to start working on. People are sensitive and hesitant to discuss on social networks with friends and social group. (more…)
There are many social websites available on internet like MySpace, Orkut, Hi5 and most importantly Facebook. So, what is the difference in among them? Why Facebook is still on the top? The answer is that Facebook kept revolving the interests of the people by introducing new functionalities every few months. The big advantage of Facebook on other social networking sites is Facebook has plenty of applications to enjoy, work and play with. Facebook is also helpful in promoting your business in many ways.
Facebook is still living to the expectations because it doesn’t let the users get bored by amending according to the latest trends and interests of the users. On the other hand, other social sites just provide you the facility of changing the profile layout with some drag drop functions while Facebook knows what the users want and gets it done before the users ask for it. Every day more and more applications are added to its database, giving the users something to work on. Facebook applications are not only an entertainment but also facilitate you with business services by promoting your website among the users and much more. The main thing about Facebook is that its users are mostly authentic and its not easy to make a fake user profile. Research and development team of Facebook is working to keep facebook live till eternity and they aim to provide the best of social networking site to its user.
Facebook provides its users with two great free tools, Fan Pages and Groups, both have their own utility. There are several options with theses tools that you can use according to your need. Suppose if you want to publicize your business via Facebook then the best choice is to have Fan Pages rather to use Groups. Facebook Fan Pages act as personalized business pages.
These two tools differ from each other in the sense that Fan Pages are visible to guest users and search engine recognizes them as index pages, which also helps in SEO tasks. Fan Pages get you traffic on your site or Facebook Application.
In Groups, members can send invitations to other users, even to the non-members, making Groups work as a viral/events-oriented marketing tool.
The following table displays some facts about Fan Pages and Groups on Facebook:
We are looking for Facebook to introduce Groups and Facebook Applications’ interactivity. Fan Pages provide you this opportunity. Groups also are a good way to host discussions and getting attention by the user. On the other side Pages are the best in keeping long-term activities and also improve search abilities on social media.
Facebook provides you a platform for newbie developers, designers, game designers and other people related to such fields to check their worth and demand amongst people. Traditionally, conducting market researches was the sole means of reckoning the worth of your product. However, the popularity of Facebook has lessened the distance between consumers and producers offering a bridge for them to communicate. A producer can actually check how well his product interests people. For instance, a game designer can launch a demo mini version of his new game and check whether it is appealing to the users or not and accordingly can amend the game.
Facebook has introduced API methods where developer can see their Facebook applications’ analytics on daily, weekly and monthly basis. These information will definitely assist developers in telling how popular is their application is? What are interests the users? There are many specialized analytics services also available. You can also build your own analytics system that is able to gather the user info related to your application. After seeing the analysis, you can check your app credibility and would be able to modify your Facebook application according to the trend and users’ interest. There are lot more things you can do with having those analytics.
With this, a rating system is also provided which alert developers about the “spaminess” of their applications. Easy to know when they are having high spam and make changes accordingly. Facebook strictly consider SPAMs and now the back-up actions of Facebook are visible to developers and they should know about their application, going to be banned for having over-activity.
A new scam was revealed today which is spreading on internet. The scammers are using the old Trojan mailing methodology attracting users to click it on the name of Facebook. These methods were introduced in the early days of emailing and it seems that Trojan horse models aren’t going to be obsolete. If you accidently or unknowingly download the file containing Trojan attached to the mail, anybody can have unauthorized access to your PC controlling it remotely.
The renowned emailing services like Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL etc, provides scamming filter. If a spam mail succeeds to deceive the filters, still you have a chance to safe yourself from those. First don’t open emails or download/open .zip files you receive from an unknown person.
Facebook applications don’t contain attachments so, if you get any email notification from Facebook or Facebook Applications don’t open it. It probably must contain Trojan/Virus. Think, Why Facebook mail you a friend’s picture? What Facebook needs by sending you zip files? They probably wouldn’t!
These are simply steps to avoid potential risk of having a Trojan virus in your system. There are several others ways to stay protected.
The popular social networking site like Facebook is becoming the center of attraction to hackers with some scamming techniques that can extract users’ login and passwords.
Facebook is working hard to avoid these kinds of risk, especially on the Facebook Applications. This can’t be completed overcome but can be minimized to some extent because internet is a wide word to explore.
Real Life Facebook wonderful video clip that is actually showing how Facebook works. Just that it is online or it is virtual so people take it as a joke or something but it is not. Whatever happened with guy who opened the door is actually what is happening with every one of us. This could include invasion into our privacy of people we don’t know and the like.
Politicians are now converting Facebook to a new platform to enhance their political career. With the popularity in youth of technology, many politicians are realizing the significance of Facebook. They are trying to find their votes on Facebook, as it seems effective to convince the youth. The last election young people are boosted on “Vote or Die” situation.
Marketing director for Facebook, Melanie Deitch said, “We wanted to provide a forum for politicians to have their ideas heard.”
The observers on political issues have noticed that Facebook is becoming a center of attention to people all over the world and it’ll prove to be effective to carry an election campaigns there. In addition to this Politicians are also taking Facebook Applications under their consideration, many applications are already present on Facebook promoting some candidates.
Professor of political science, University of Saskatchewan, David McGrane, in an interview to CBC News said “Facebook has picked up where blogs left off. This is sort of the first Facebook election,” he said. “Though blogs have been used in past federal elections, the feeling is — the feeling I’m getting — is that technology like this, information technology, is going to become more and more a part of elections.”
Larissa Shasko the candidate of Green party in the Saskatchewan riding of Palliser has a Facebook Fan Page and a Facebook Application. Within three days of campaign, she got 44 supporters on that politician page. She said that she uses Facebook to send messages to her supporters, but avoid being a spammer.
She also said, “I don’t believe in spamming. I think to use Facebook to spam people is irresponsible and it just hurts those of us that are trying to get our message across to a younger age demographic who believe Facebook is a great way to let us all speak.”
Ralph Goodale, Liberal candidate, had more than 600 supporters on his Facebook page. There are many like these on Facebook and all of them are seeking for more. Some Political candidates have their own Facebook Applications to promote their ideas and motives.
