If you’ve used Android’s Facebook app recently, you know how slow and bloated its become. If you’re tired of staring at the Facebook loading screen, Fast Facebook is a cool, customisable, blazing fast Facebook client for Android.
OK, most parents now realise that they need to have some kind of idea of what their kids get up to while they’re using the Internet. But a recent survey of 4,400 parents worldwide found that while nearly half of them tracked their teenage children’s activity on Facebook, many don’t have a clear idea of what other potentially nefarious activities their offspring are indulging in.
Facebook just launched a new feature that lets businesses that you’ve “liked” post coupons to your news feed. Undoubtedly trying to get in on the success of sites like Groupon, Facebook’s second venture into the social deals craze (remember Facebook Deals? No?) makes it easy to get coupons for business you like to frequent.
If you keep an eye on your news ticker in Facebook, you’ve probably had the inclination to read a story that a friend posted only to find you have to install a special application to read it. Installing that application means everyone will know everything you read, but technology blog Digital Inspiration shares a simple workaround.
Right on the heels of the release of its Android app, Instagram was acquired by social media giant Facebook. What does this mean for Instagram users? For now, not much. The creators of Instagram want you to know that the service isn’t going anywhere and this should only mean positive change:
It’s a tacky but frequent metric: comparing how many friends you have on Facebook. But when it comes to measuring how easily you can spread ideas or persuade new people to sign up, it turns out that the diversity of your friends and contacts is more important than their sheer volume.
We spend an awful lot of time using social networks to keep up with people, discover news, and bring new functionality to our favourite apps, but they can get cluttered pretty quickly (not to mention destroy your privacy if you aren’t careful). This weekend, take some time to clean up, organise and re-privatise your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts.
Facebook and Twitter consume increasingly large chunks of our time, providing us with a public face to the world and accumulating personal data over time. Those benefits come with significant security risks, however. Make sure your social networking dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare by ensuring you follow good security practices.
If you feel overwhelmed by comments in your Facebook feed, you can set people you don’t often interact with as ‘Acquaintances’ to reduce their visibility. Facebook now has a new tool which identifies people you don’t often interact with and set them as acquaintances.
A new study has discovered a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and how much of a “socially disruptive narcissist” you are — giving us one more reason to tone down our Facebook addictions.
