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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Monday 20 May 2013

Tips for preventing your facebook account from hacker in 2013

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F
acebook is a social utility allowing you to create friends and share photos, status with them, Facebook is being very popular nowadays, but one thing you should know that facebook is secure from hackers? No one can guarantee you that you’re secure on facebook, just you have to maintain your privacy setting on facebook to prevent your account from hackers access !
Recently, facebook have introduced graph search, which enables you to search everything in the world, if you’re liking a page publically or updated your information publically then you’ll easily searchable within graph search, For Example if you’re doing job in company named ‘Facebook’, then when any of your friends or any of in the world types “Facebook Employees or People Who Work at Facebook”, you’ll be in list of them, if you have poor privacy in facebook.
So now its time to tweak privacy setting in facebook for preventing your account from any unauthorized access.

Understanding The Privacy Shortcuts

Understanding The Privacy Shortcuts
  • Who can see your stuff?
Who can see your stuff
In this option you can set various options for your post related privacy, As shown in image above, you can set who can see your future post, it is recommend to limit it to friends only because if you have public option selected, then anyone which is not your friend can view the any post of your profile, and this will available you publically in graph search.
Second option is for managing tags and posts you are tagged with, It is strictly recommend you to enable activity log for tagged posts and photos, because if it is not enable then your timeline will be full of tagged photos and posts without notifications.
Third option is just for your checking purpose that how your profile will look with a particular person or stranger on facebook.
  • Contact Privacy [Who Can Contact You Directly]
Contact Privacy [Who Can Contact You Directly]
Who can contact you on facebook?, The first option is for filtering inbox messages, there you can choose basic filtering which is recommended by facebook, but if you have choosen strict filtering, your inbox will have less spam as consider to basic filtering.
The another option is for friendship request, If everyone can send you friendship request then it is still in your hands to control whether you’re accepting a person’s request or reject., if you choose friends of friends then people which have mutual friends in you can only send you friend requests.
  • Blocking Someone
In third and the last option you can directly block a person who is bothering you or sending you spammy messages or it is some other matter, you can also report to facebook to take action against you have reported.

Privacy Setting Not Included In Privacy Shortcut

This is yet just a privacy shortcut but for some more privacy setting you may hide your public profile.
More privacy settings can be adjusted by clicking small setting [Gear] button, right next to privacy shortcut and select privacy settings option in it.
After opening you’ll have navigation on left which will be on Privacy?
You can control who can search you on search engine and facebook,
You can control who can search you on search engine and facebook,
Who can look you, you can control whether your friends or anyone can find you by just entering email or phone number you’ve given to facebook, so to ignore availability of you with typing your email address, you can set it to friends of friends or Just friends.
If you do not want your search result in any search engine then you may select second option off. It will make your profile “nofollow” for search engines.

Securities Settings

Apart from privacy setting you must maintain your security on facebook too, in the setting, go to Security Settings,
Securities Settings
In security setting you’ll find option shown in image above, now if you’ve disabled secure browsing then immediately enable it, Enable Login notifications also, app passwords are helpful for login securely in app. Also watch your active sessions if there are too many or more than one then you should go for inspecting it from where your account is being opened.

Some Quick Tips For Maintaining Privacy

  • Open your facebook profile and go on about page, if your information are available publically then maintain availability to friends only or only you.
  •  Change your facebook password frequently.
  • Approve tag only with proper post you want to shown within timeline.
  •  If you had liked a page publically, make this only visible to friends or just you by adjust settings for likes inside profile.
  • Remove tag from unwanted pictures, if you’re not approving it on timeline, you’ll be still there in tag list.
  • Never underestimate unauthorized access, always change your password if you’ve been notified for unauthorized access.
  • If you’re tagging a friend in post or photo, just keep this in mind that these posts are still available to view for your friends of friends.
  • Always check you are accessing facebook over a secured connection (https://).
  • Make less use of unwanted spammy apps, many spammy apps that automatically post spam on your timeline.
  • If you’re tagging a location with your posts, you’ll be on people were here list in location page.
  • Makesure you’re following all the steps, because
Prevention is better Than Cure.
Share this tips among your friends to prevent your facebook profile from get hacking.

Posted By Unknown21:28

How to Save/Download Videos From Facebook Directly ?

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Save Videos From Facebook How to Save/Download Videos From Facebook DirectlyThere are numerous ways to save videos from the internet to your computer. An easy way to download the videos and save them to your computer is by viewing the full video and then searching in the cache for it. But this really consumes a lot of time and will be difficult for novice users. Like Orkut, Face book too allows to view and share videos from their site. Here is an easy way to Save Videos from face book to your computer.

Save Face Book Videos For Mozilla Firefox Users

  1. Download the Grease monkey addon For Firefox.
  2. Now After Restarting the browser grease monkey will be enabled.
  3. Download the Facebook Video Save User Script From here.
  4. Now browse to the required videos to be saved in facebook.
  5. You will find the option to download video at its right.
  6. The downloaded video will be in .flv format.

Saving Facebook Videos in Opera

  1. Grease Monkey scripts can be made to work in Opera Browser.
  2. You can see this tutorial on How to Run Greasemonkey Scripts in Opera.
  3. Now grab the Facebook Video Save User Script From here.
Related : Download/Save Flash Videos in Opera

Save Face Book Videos in Internet Explorer

Greasemonkey addon is not available for internet explorer. But a similar alternative called Trixie is available. Trixie works same as the Greasemonkey for Firefox.
  1. To run a script in Internet explorer, save the script file (from userscripts.org) in Program FilesBhelpuriTrixieScript.
  2. Start internet explorer and navigate to tools>Trixie Options and>Reload Scripts.
  3. Now you can run scripts from usersscripts.org in Internet Explorer Too.

Saving Facebook Videos in Chrome

  1. Google Chrome has the ability to support user scripts from Version 4 onwards.
  2. So all you need to do is to go to the download page of the Face Book videos save script page and click on install script.

Posted By Unknown11:46

Find Out Who Removed You on Facebook

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Sometimes you may notice that the number of Facebook friends you have has decreased.Then your first urge is to find out who were theFind Out Who Removed You on Facebook Find Out Who Removed You on Facebook ones who removed you. Well here is one way to find out the people responsible for the decrease. Here is one way to do it.
>First you need to download and install Unfriend finder for your browser.At the moment it is only available for Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.If you are using Mozilla you will also need to install Greasemonkey.
>The next step is to login to your Facebook account. You will see an additional option “Unfriends” to the options on the on the upper right side of the Facebook window.Click it to see the people who have deleted you from their friends list.The only problem is that you will get to know of your Facebook friends removing you from their friends list only after few days of removing.
Another great feature of this application is that you can see the people who ignored your friend request now just like Facebook notifies you when someone accepts your friend request in Notifications in Upper left side of the Facebook window.
Please remember that by installing this application you will have access to information which may cause you to become sad and bitter.Maybe this is one of those features Facebook left out for the sake of the users.

Posted By Unknown11:45

How To Block Someone on Facebook ?

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Facebook is now one of the most, perhaps the most popular social networking site on the world of internet. You could chat and send messages to your friends, use interesting apps etc on Facebook, and all these features along with much more makes it more interesting and entertaining.
You could get many friend requests in facebook and if you have approved someone once and want to block that person for a while, then here is how to do it. Follow the below given steps to block someone on Facebook.
1. Login to your Facebook account.
2. Click on the ” Account ” option on the top right which brings a drop down menu.
block people facebook How To Block Someone on Facebook
3. From that, select ” Privacy Settings “.
4. Click the ” Edit your lists ” link under ” Block Lists ” at the bottom of the page.
block facebook How To Block Someone on Facebook
5. Now type the name or email address of the person you want to block in the respective fields and block him/her.
block people facebook 1 How To Block Someone on Facebook
If you feel that you need to unblock someone whom you blocked in the past, then go to block lists and click on the ” Unblock ” option available there.

Posted By Unknown11:43

Hide Friends On Facebook Without Unfriending.

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If you add a lot of people as Friends on Facebook then you might constantly be annoyed with people you don’t really know all that well or interact with, filling your News Feed with their updates and making it hard to see updates by the people you actually interact with. But since you have already added them as Friends, Unfriending them would just hurt their feelings.
There is another option to get rid of this frustration.
>First Install Eternal Sunshine Extension for Google Chrome.
>Now you need to collect the usernames of the people you want to hide. Getting the username is simple. While some people like to set their over unique username which you can find from their profile link, others have their username shown as a number after http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= . This number is what you need to use to hide them. If you want to hide a lot of people I suggest copying all the usernames first into a notepad file, its just easier that way.
Region Hide Friends On Facebook Without Unfriending
>Now that you have the usernames copy each username, click on the eternal sunshine icon near the address bar. Just paste the username using Ctrl +V then hit Enter.
After hiding a person on Facebook with Eternal Sunshine:
  • His/Her Updates will not be shown in News Feed.
  • If the person was added as Family earlier, then the Family status will be removed.
  • His/Her Photo Album or Photo Page will not be suggested in the Side Bar.
  • He/She will be removed from Frequent Friends on Chat List.
Using Eternal Sunshine is a great extension if you have a lot of friends, out of which you do not stay in touch with many of them. It helps ignore the person without Unfriending them.

Posted By Unknown11:39

Prevent Facebook from Automatically Tagging You In Photos.

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facebook prevent tagging photos Prevent Facebook from Automatically Tagging You In Photos Though facebook introduced automatically tagging photos, the feature is bothersome for some. Though the face recognition feature introduced by Facebook does sound cool and useful it can get very annoying for many when they get tagged a lot.To prevent  Facebook automatically tagging you in photos all you have to do is edit a few settings in your Facebook Account. It doesn’t require any special plugin for your browser or anything. So without going on about the new feature let’s begin the tutorial.
Capture2 560x301 Prevent Facebook from Automatically Tagging You In Photos
Just follow these simple steps to prevent Facebook from tagging you Automatically:
  • Click on Account drop down menu and then select Privacy Settings.
  • Now scroll down and click on Customize Settings. Scroll to the Things Others Share section and click Edit Settings near Suggest photos of me to friends. Now a dialogue box will appear as in the picture above. Just click on the drop down arrow near Enabled and change it to disabled.
  • That’s it. Now photos of you won’t be automatically tagged.
If you ever feel like re-enabling this option just follow the same tutorial and change the Disabled to Enabled again. For more such helpful tips subscribe to the Computing Unleashed

Posted By Unknown11:37

How to Turn Off / Disable Annoying Facebook Notifications

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Facebook constantly updates and revises its security and privacy settings. Albeit some changes are annoying, some turns out to be really useful like the facebook notifications feature. Though you might tamper with a lot of settings in facebook, its usual to go some of the changes unnoticed. One such small tweak that facebook has added is the ability to turn off the notifications without playing with any of its settings in your account. The notification area is pretty useful as facebook notifies you with the latest happenings around your network. Though this might be a useful feature, it could also turn out to be an annoyance at times when you get peppered with updates from Farmville, Mafia Wars etc. You might also get added to certain group or you might subscribe to certain group in facebook for the time being, but things gets worse when these groups have their activities going on at a rapid rate. You need to drive through all those hurdles to peek on the updates you really need to see. So, if this is your case then here’s how you could remove those unwanted updates in facebook easily.

Disabling  Facebook Notifications

  • Click on the notification icon and to see the notification bar popping up.facebook notifications disable How to Turn Off / Disable Annoying Facebook Notifications
  • Now hover over a particular notification you wish to disable.
  • You would see a small cross mark ‘ x ‘ to the top right corner of that particular notification.
  • Just click on the cross mark and you will be asked to turn off that particular notification. Just click Turn off and proceed. Its good that facebook prompts you again to confirm the action, as this would help is disabling notifications accidentally.turn off facebook notifications How to Turn Off / Disable Annoying Facebook Notifications
  • You dont have to worry about getting notifications from that particular place again from now.
This is just a simple method to selectively disable the unwanted notifications in facebook notification center. You may also consider tweaking the settings in your account area, to get more control over the notifications you are receiving.

Posted By Unknown11:29

Tuesday 14 May 2013

15 Stunning Ways to Increase Facebook Page Likes

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Facebook is one of the best free blog marketing tools out there, where you can always find or create a group of target audience. You can create a Facebok Page for your blog, which will help your readers to connect with your brand on Facebook, and interact with you. With over 1 billion users on Facebook, you can always go viral, and this will happen, only when you have such a user base on your Facebook fan page. Here I will be sharing few tips which will help you to get more likes on your Facebook page.

Tips to get more Facebook Fan Page likes:

Add LikeBox widget to your Blog
The best way to get more likes to your Facebook page to add Like Box to your blog.Create Text widget & get code from FaceBook Developers. It is recommended to show Faces of your Fans.You can put your text widget according to your design.Sidebar is always good option.
  • How to add Facebook Fan page to a Website
Welcome your users with LikeBox Pop-Up
If you want to notify your uses to Like your Facebook page before they read article,you can add Pop-up box. Facebook Page Promoter LikeBox Plugin is free plugin to add Pop-up to your blog. If you want to wait your users for few seconds if they don’t like your page then you can also use premium Facebook Traffic Pop for WordPress plugin.This may lose your readers until you have written great content or have a brand blog.
3. Invite Friends
Invite friends is in-built functionality of Facebook which let you to invite your Facebook friends.Facebook will send notification to your friends when you invite your friends.
Go to your page -> Open Admin Panel -> Click on Invite Friends ->Select option “Search All Friends”.
See below image.
Facebook Page invite Friends
4. Invite E-Mail Contacts
You can also invite your all E-Mail Contacts from same tab.Check above image.Click on E-Mail friends & you will have almost all E-Mail providers to choose your contacts. You can invite maximum 5000 Contacts.!Don’t worry,Facebook won’t store your password.!
Invite Email contacts Facebook Page
5. Make more Admins to invite Friends & to invite E-Mail Contacts
You have only 500 Friends,don’t worry you can make more Admins & invite more E-Mail Contacts & friends.Make your friends Admin or from your blogging circle. Let do a little Math,If you make 5 Admins which have 500 friends.This will give option to invite 2500 friends & 25,0000 E-Mail Contacts.!
6. Share pictures &  Latest News Updates  which is highly sharable
People like to updated with latest news & affairs.So sharing useful information make your Facebook page popular.Users also love to read motivation quotes & funny things over Facebook. So when you share photos,people will start to share your pictures.Remember photos are shared more than status,so even if you have 200 Facebook page likes,you can reach up to 2000 people.
7. Held a Fan-Only contest
You can held a Fan-Only Contest to increase more Facebook Page Likes. You can offer free domain for 1 year, software who liked your page. Announcement on your Page,Create event on Facebook,announcement on your blog,some Groups,your wall etc. will make your contest more popular.
8. Create attractive Cover Photo
Creating attractive photo will make Facebook users to like your page.You can use your Blog’s niche like Technology,Mobiles which inform Page visitors to page is all about.
Many of Page owners also use their Fans photo in their Cover photo which encourages others to Like page.
9. Use Facebook Page URL in your E-Mail Signature & in Forums
We have conversation with clients & friends everyday. So why not to add a signature of your Facebook page link?It will make an eye of your page to your circles.
10. Share your page to your Wall as well as other Social Networks
Often,We share lots of status updates,photos to our friends over social networks. Why not to share your page?
You can share at least in a week to your wall,Google,LinkedIn etc.
11. Engaging more to your Page Fans
Often we talk about engagement with our commentators on WordPress blog.So why not to on your Facebook page?
Engaging & giving answers to their queries will make your Fan as your permanent reader as well as it will encourage others to engage others to your page.This will surely increase your page’s visibility in Facebook News Feed.!
  • Read: Which brands rule Facebook & how they do it
Take a look How ShoutMeLoud with their fans.!
Engagement with facebook Fans
12. Create a short memorable URL & About Section
Graph Search for Facebook has already started over lots of users.According to Facebook,the pages will available according to user’s interest & query.
So to make your page search easily over Graph Search,use 3 things.
  • Create short,memorable URL as your page or blog e.g. www.facebook.com/shoutmeloud
  • About Section should be short,informative.
  • Categorize your Facebook page properly like website or community etc.
Facebok About Page Section
13. Connecting your Page to Twitter
Twitter will also help you to get more Facebook Likes.
  • Share your URL in cover photo.
  • Share page updates to your Twitter account via tweets directly.
14. Paid Facebook Ads
If you have a good amount of budget to increase Facebook Likes,why not to choose best option?
Facebook is having different type of option to target your fans.You can select any of the option according to your budget.They can advertise your Facebook page as a sponsored story,on Home page.
You can select audience according to your interest like U.S.,India countries or gender wise,college wise etc. Check https://www.facebook.com/greatlfun
Facebook-Sponsored-Page-Like
15. Buy Facebook Page Likes
You can always buy Facebook likes, but I would suggest you to stay away from it. As Facebook has strict policy for spam likes, and you might notice your number of fans decreasing. It’s better ton invest money on Facebook advertising, instead of buying fake Facebook likes.
  • How to make a Facebook page popular
Hope,you enjoy article & get more likes from above tricks.Do share other than this with me & readers by commenting below.
This is a guest post by Pratik from WebTechMiner. If you would like to write for ShoutMeLoud, check ShoutMeLoud guest posting guidelines.

Posted By Unknown12:26

Monday 18 March 2013

How To "Friend" Someone On Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

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A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.




Posted By Unknown07:25

How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

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X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.

Posted By Unknown07:24

Download Facebook photo album - Cool Facebook Trick

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Wanna download photo album of 1 of ur friend?? If yes, then here you go..
Now you can download your friend's photo album easily by just a single click. For thata you need to download Facepad - facebook photo album downloader, which allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.



Facepad is freely available on internet, you can download it easily.

Posted By Unknown07:23

Place facebook chat on Firefox sidebar - Cool Tricks

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Facebook Chat allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However its chat bar is not so handy, being at the bottom of the page n what if you have left Facebook but still wants to remain chatting with your Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.


Just follow these steps:

1). Open Firefox.

2). Go to Bookmarks on the top navigation. Select Organize Bookmarks.



3). Click New Bookmark tab.

4). Enter Name: Facebook Chat and Location http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php.


5). Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.
6). Click on Add.

7). Now launch Firefox sidebar. To launch firefox go to view and then on sidebar and click on bookmark select Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.

Its done.
Enjoy chatting with facebook contacts from Firefox sidebar....

Posted By Unknown07:22

Some intresting facts about facebook

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As we all know facebook is best social networking site, most if us are completely familiar with facebook as we have account on it.

Here are some intresting facts about it like when it was discovered... what was he purpose behind this and so on..



Lets start from here...
  • Facebook was launched by Harvard Student Mark zuckerberg and his roommates in february 2004.'
  • It was initially called The Facebook.
  • It was a site for Harvard students to connect with one another.
  • Within a month of its launching, more than half of Harvard's undergraduate population had a profile on facebook.
  • More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex.
  • More than 30 million users update their status at least once each day.
  • Around 85% of all college students use Facebook and 70% of them log in everyday.
  • The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
  • The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
  • There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook
  • It is the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
  • As of july 2010, over 500 millions people are using facebook.
  • Facebook revenue stems from Ads, applications and credits.
  • Facebook's games are really popular.
  • Farmville Claimed over 83,000,000 active users in feb 2010.
  • Mafia Wars claimed over 25,000,000 active users in feb 2010.
  • Current valuations of facebook are upwards 20Billion $.
  • Facebook was operating with more than 60,000 servers in 2009.

Posted By Unknown07:20

How to Beautify Your Facebook Timeline

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Many Facebook users are not a fan of the new timeline. Some don’t like the design, while others just don’t like the change and prefer the old profile pages. If you’re one of those users that truly dislikes the new Facebook timeline, there’s a service called Octofeed that can fix that.
Octofeed is a tool that you can use to beautify your Facebook timeline and makes Facebook a joy to use again. Plus due to its responsive design Octofeed not only works in Web browsers, but also on mobile phones and tablets as well.
So if you’re ready to start the beautification process, let’s get started.

Getting Started

1. Sign into Octofeed with your Facebook account by clicking the “Sign in with Facebook” button on the home page. This of course, gives the service permission to use your Facebook account and get your basic information, “likes” and stories.
2. Your timeline should now be transformed into a one or two column page – depending on what type of device you’re viewing it on. The content is displayed on the left side, while the right side shows the name of the person along with comments and likes.
Octofeed - Facebook Timeline Two Column View in Web Browser

Usage & Navigation

You’ll find that navigating your new Facebook Timeline via Octofeed is quite simple. Here are a few tips to keep in mind.
1. Octofeed allows you to view both your “wall” and “feed.” By default your wall (timeline) will be selected, but you can click on “The Feed” at the top of the page to switch. The page that you’re on will be underlined as seen in the screenshot below.
View Your Facebook Feed and Wall on Octofeed
2. Your wall and feed can be viewed by content type. By default it shows all content, but you can also view playlist (music, videos), photos, links or status updates. Just click on the content type that you want to see and Octofeed will do the rest.
Filter by Facebook Content Type on Octofeed
I really like this feature because lately it seems that my Facebook friends are sharing photos more than anything else. With this filter option, I can just view status updates and links and skip over all the images.
3. You can see your Facebook notifications at the top, far right of your wall or feed. Octofeed uses the same icon as Facebook and the number of notifications displays on it as well. Clicking on the icon opens a few notifications and you can click a link to see all of your notifications.
View Your Facebook Notifications on Octofeed
Note: If you click to see all notifications, Octofeed will direct you to the actual notifications page on Facebook.com (in a new tab).
4. You’ll also notice a countdown timer next to your notifications. The timer lets you know how long it will be before Octofeed checks for new posts (it checks every 2 minutes). You will know that Octofeed is checking for new content because the site will show diagonal stripes moving in the background. Once it’s done checking, the stripes will disappear. This is a pretty neat way to let you know that Octofeed is doing it’s job.
Octofeed Checking for New Data on Facebook
If you have any new posts it will also show you how many new items you have. In the above screenshot it says “5 new,” which lets me know that I should refresh the page because there’s new posts to see. Octofeed does not automatically refresh, so you have to do it manually.
5. Of course, you can also comment and “like” posts just as you can on Facebook. You can see comments from others and how many likes a post has.
Facebook Photo Album View on Octofeed
Also, if you want to view a friend’s profile you can do so “Octofeed style” by clicking on their profile picture. You can even view photo albums in a scrolling format, as opposed to Facebook’s lightbox feature. Clicking on an individual photo will open it larger right below the photos (as seen in the above screenshot).

Final Thoughts

Octofeed definitely delivers as promised. When used, the Facebook timeline looks nothing like it used to. Not only is it easier to navigate, but it loads faster than Facebook and it looks great on mobile devices. This is not just a plus, but a huge time-saver – especially if you just want to check your wall or news feed quickly.
How do you like Octofeed? Can you see yourself using it on a regular basis instead of Facebook?

Posted By Unknown07:16
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