1. Want to know how much Facebook knows about you?
Go to Account Settings in the Home menu and click “Download a copy of your Facebook data.”
2. You may not see every post from your friends, and only a fraction of your friends may see all your updates.
Facebook wants users to see posts that
will keep them on the site the longest, so it moves up the posts that
are the most liked, shared, and commented on.
3. If you are signed in to Facebook, we track you while you surf the Internet.
Anytime you visit a page that has a Facebook Like or Share button, Facebook log that information.
4. Posting big news like your engagement, the birth of a baby, or your acceptance to university?
Facebook will know. It targets those
types of announcements by using something called natural language
processing, and this sticks around in your friends’ news feeds until the
next time they log on.
5. Not seeing enough posts from friends you care about—and too many from those you don’t?
Set your news feed to sort by ‘Most
Recent’, rather than ‘Top News’. Then add your favourite people to your
Close Friends list and unsubscribe from any friends whose updates you’re
not interesting in receiving.
6. Lots of users hate Timeline, but it’s not going away anytime soon.
It’s a more effective way for people to
share, it’s visually appealing, and brands love it because it gives them
a better platform to market their business and show people who they
are.
7. You can limit your posts to Facebook
friends who live in your city, those who went to your college, or your
colleagues in the office.
You can even choose to allow everyone to
view a post except your boss. Click the arrow in the lower right-hand
corner of the status update box, and you’ll see all the options.
8. Never leave your computer while you’re logged on to Facebook, especially if your co-workers are around.
9. Be selective in choosing friends and Liking pages.
If you say yes to everyone, you’re going
to see lots of things in your news feed you don’t care about, and you’ll
have to take the extra time to filter them out.
10. Hide from all your friends on Facebook Chat by going to the chat box and clicking Go Offline.
If it’s just one particularly annoying
friend that you want to avoid, click on his name in the chat window, hit
the cog icon that’s in the top right, and choose Go Offline to (Name).
11. Some information can’t be made
private on Facebook. Your name, profile picture, cover picture, network,
gender, and username are always publicly available.
12. Noticed fewer fans on your favorite Facebook pages?
That’s probably because the company has
recently been cracking down on phony profiles created en masse by shady
companies to boost a page’s Facebook popularity. In a recent filing,
Facebook estimated that as many as 83 million of its profiles are fake,
though some are duplicate pages set up by real people.
13. Here’s how to get the site to work faster and more efficiently:
Connect to a Wi-Fi network before using your phone to log on to Facebook.
14. Watch when you Like a company, or
post about a product. Your interaction might be shown to your friends as
an ad for that company.
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