Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Download your Data from Facebook

Download your Data from Facebook

Facebook has added a new download button in your account that will help you move all your data out of Facebook as a zip file. It will have all your photos, videos, messages, and everything else that you may have ever uploaded to Facebook.

The process is extremely simple. Just go to your Account Settings page and click the “Download Your Information” link.

You will receive a mail in your Inbox, follow the link. (You need to login again through the link given for security reasons).


Note: Here "Inbox" refers to the E-mail through which Facebook account has been linked with.


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Sunday, December 26, 2010

New Facebook Scams (Updated)

New Facebook Scams

Facebook users should be careful about survey scams that are quickly spreading across the social network. Many Facebook users are struggling to clean up their accounts once they’ve been tricked into allowing a third party application to post messages from their profile.

Typical scams include messages that read:

“OMG this girl KILLED herself after her dad posted on her wall: LINK”

“Amazing how such a harmless prank could cause something so bad!: LINK”

“OMG OMG OMG…I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile! LINK”





However, by clicking on the link and giving a third-party Facebook application access to their profile, users are helping the scammers to spread the application across their network of friends.

As Per the innocent peoples are using internet, hackers are always interested to do the social engineering on them. Be careful with the email shown below listed come to your Email ID.

Whenever You See All Below Shown Title In Your Email Id Delete Mail Immediately.

12 Most Dangerous All Time Online Scams :-

1. “Help! I’ve been robbed” scam :-
2. Holiday job offers
3. Smishing
4. Hotel and Airport Wi-Fi
5. Suspicious holiday rentals
6. Low price traps
7. Charity scams
8. Grinch-like greetings
9. iPad offer scams
10. Recession scams continue
11. Dangerous holiday downloads


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Friday, December 24, 2010

Invisible in Facebook

Be Invisible in Facebook

You may want to chat with someone without knowing others.
Follow the steps for being Invisible to part of your friends, while Visible to Others.

Step 1: Bottom right of the FB window, there is chat option, click on it.

Step 2: Now click on friends list.

Step 3: Create the list named, say [DearOnes].

Step 4: Now see in chat window there will be a small [edit] written in front of [DearOnes List]. click on it.

Step 5: Then add your friends {Whom you want to do chat in private}

Step 6: Refresh your page.

Step 7: See there will be [Other Friends list] and many other if you have created more before, in the chat box.

Step 8: Now see that is there any [green color oval] after every friend list, now u just have to click on that oval to make that friends list offline and you have to do this for every friends list you created, this will turn you offline to them, and the oval now be showing gray color.


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Facebook Phonebook

Facebook Phonebook

Facebook provides a neatly formatted phonebook with contact numbers all your friends who have shared them on Facebook.

Login into Facebook, visit this page and you’ll get a neatly arranged list of telephone numbers of all your Facebook friend along with their names and profile pictures.

Take a print & have those phone numbers ready whenever you need them.


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