Protect your Facebook account from fake friends - "Fake OFF"

Getting more friend requests? Do you feel that they are your friends or your known ones? Many of you may feel that what is the reason to ask these things when Facebook actually asks when you accept any friend request. 

People who are behind making new friends daily and want to increase their friends base, they don't feel it is important to even know whether the request is real or fake. 

But sometimes it is necessary to know who these people are who without you knowing them are sending friend requests. Facebook informs the mutual friends between you and the new friend one who is known to both of you.

Taking this situation into consideration, finding a solution for finding out who actually are the people who send you friend requests must be known to you. So, Facebook has an app for that too. 

FakeOFF app - an app to protect your account from scammers or fakers. This finds out the bogus and fake accounts. 

How to use Fake Off App and find out fake friends in account: 

• Log in to your Facebook account
• Go to the link : Fake Off App 
• On the screen click, Connect With Facebook 
• All your friends will be displayed on the screen 
• If you know them not to test them but if you find out one who is fake then click Lets check him / her
• Then click Basic Investigation 
• The app will ask your permission. Click OK. 
• The app will display some questions for you to answer. Like do you know him / her outside Facebook or is he / her a celebrity, etc. Answer those by clicking on the check boxes below them. 
• Click Submit And Get Basic Results
• The analysis process takes some time to display the results. It will display in the score from 1 to 10. 

Depending upon the score of the analysis, you will have to decide whether you can continue to be friends or not. 

On this same lines, there is another app called FB Checker app that also informs you who is fake and who is real. 

Better late than never. Better keep protected by people who just enter in your friends list and then grab all your details. To avoid being a victim and getting accused, better have a proper way to judge who your real friends are and who are not. 

If you have any other app that helps finding out the fake Facebook accounts, please share with us. 

 

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11 Important ingredients every Facebook Fan Page must have

People who set "Facebook" as their high priority social media marketing for their business, need to know which are the key ingredients for making fan pages impressive or engaging. 

In the books of social media marketing, Facebook comes the first in the place and then comes others like Twitter, Google+, etc. Facebook, due to its versatility, has many aspects for every individual to use it. 

The success behind every fan page is different as the intention behind creating the fan pages are different. Mostly business' credibility and popularity is judged with the fan page likes or comments and what people share about their experiences. 

In a post on Facebook Marketing Bible, the writer has beautifully mentioned the best ways to market a product or a brand. Where there is a need to brush up your fan pages is important. Just by creating it and waiting for likes and fan following will not work. If you have missed an article on 4 best Facebook Marketing tools for small and big business, then have a look at that to know what you have not added in your fan page.

Marketing is not just promoting the product on your fan page but it is based on how best you manage to engage your fans or new visitors.

In this post, I have added some important key ingredients for making your business fan page work more better.

The 10 most important ingredients that every fan page should have are: 

• First Look of your fan page : Most important aspect for visitors to become a fan is the first look. As the saying goes, "First impression is the last impression", make sure that your first look is very impressive for visitors.
• Image or cover : Again it is based on the look. The images speak more than text, and hence make sure the image or cover of the fan page is best suited and tells more things about your fan page like what is this fan page for, etc.
• The Tabs: Working on tabs is bit dicy. According to the type of fan page you are owning, you need to work on the type of tabs that you install. If you are arranging events, then best tab would be adding Google Calendar to fan page, so that your viewers would know what is scheduled and when.  If you are having a charity fan page, then having the latest feature called Donate Now button will help. If you have to display the most lovable images from your Instagram, then find out the way for it. Add Instagram tab to fan page. 
• Surveys : Conduct some surveys for better information about what your fans expect from your fan page. 
• RSS Feed: Always display updated posts according to your blog or website by using RSS Feed button to your fan page.   
• Videos:  This is an important point for every fan page, whether it is a business fan page or a normal fan page. 
• About section:  This section is the way to bring new customers and convert them to fans. Have a good "About" section. Include your website details and links. 
• QR code:  You may not have heard of this point anywhere. But let me inform you that this is one of the key features that your fan page will bring you more business. Having confused about how to add QR code for fan pages? Not to worry. I have provided the link for the same. Utilize your skills to add this for getting more customers.  
• Good content and Best SEO: After all your fan page displays the face of your website and your business. Content is the king in the books of SEO. For getting searched by Google or major search engines you should use best SEO tricks. There are about 12 tricks for improving your fan page. Read the article and act accordingly for your fan page. 
• Engage more fans: Fans, visitors will bring more public and audience to your fan page. So giving importance to them is best way for growing your business. To engage your first time visitors conduct some video contests, One more is use Facebook Places for making the visitors know about your office when they are in the vicinity of your place marked in "Places".  
• Highlight some important posts: If you have an important message to share to your visitors or any post is of much importance on your fan page, then highlight the posts. 

Creating fan page is a creative field. Create more points of yours to grow your business via Facebook. If you have some, you can share them here for others to know. Share yours and others will share theirs, because each one of us have some or the other trick which can be used.

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Best browser Add-On's for checking who are your Facebook profile visitors

Facebook users know how to set options to limit audience to their profile or posts via "Who can see my stuff" option from the Settings option. But here I am not discussing that option here. A start to say that users can limit their audience either to "Public" or Private" or "Friends" etc. 

Either you can use Facebook Apps to check the profile visitors or there is another way to deal with it. That is installing the Extensions or Add - On's for a specific browser. Depending upon the browser you are using, you can install that add on and instantly get notified.

For Firefox users : If you are using Firefox, then an add on called "iFrameBook" is useful for information of who is visiting your profile. This add on is completely free to download.

Steps to download iFrameBook for Mozilla Firefox:

• Visit the link "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ifamebook/"
• Click Download 

Please note that if your friend also has installed this add on on his or her browser then it is possible for you to know that he has visited your profile. 

For Google Chrome users : If you are having Chrome, then you can have this extension called "Profile Visitors". 

This extension is for Firefox and Chrome both browsers. To get it for Chrome, 

• Go to the link Profile Visitors
• Select the option Chrome from the drop down list
• Then click "Activate" button  

Facebook App Profile Visitors: There is another way to find out the profile visitors. An app called ProfileVisitors2013  will help you. 

When you visit the link, you will be directed to a Facebook page. On that you have to click on the link from About section. The link will direct you to the download link. 

Any way you use or any browser you use, there is a possibility of finding out the profile visitors of your Facebook account. To keep your account safe and secured from hackers, this is very necessary step. People may hack or get the details which are not shown on your profile. 

So, get it secured by downloading an add on. 

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Facebook's Trending topics display latest buzz in News Feed

There was buzz around "Trending Topics" at the end of 2013. Facebook introduced this feature which was in the testing mode. Now the feature is launched successfully. 

The trending news and updates all around the world is displayed in the News Feed section where people can go through the news and share it or give their comments on. 

Now News Feed will not only display the trending posts of your friends and connected people but it will have a platform for other important stuff from around the world. 

As discussed in the earlier post, the feature will show the topics that are based on factors that include your interests and the post's that you comment on etc. Mainly the feature will act according to the interests of users. 

By clicking on the topics or trending posts, you will open the door to the article based news. So, that's "Trending Topics" feature.

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Facebook's "Paper" app will feed the news on mobile

A fresh new app called "Paper" will be launched by Facebook in the near future. As "Flipboard" app that curates news from various topics on mobile devices, Facebook also is stepping into the same way to build a new app called "Paper" that will curate and aggregate news. 

Facebook's Paper News Reader is mainly and intentionally developed for mobile devices. The in charge of this program is Product VP Chris Cox.

Cox says that people should enjoy waking up to and scanning each morning with Facebook's Paper. People who are always are in touch for new updates and news around the city and world in different categories, will be satisfied with this latest feature of Facebook.

When you will on your mobile device, with the news stream you will get updated the latest news around.

There is a latest update which was stated in the news that, Paper app will include new set of features for its users for enhancing their experience.

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Instantly get notified who has unfriend you or deleted you from Facebook Friends' list

Everyone is always searching for new friends and adding new friends in Facebook. The Facebook's friends list is constantly updated. One who is added new can delete you or unfriend you after some time. May be or may not be depending upon the relation between you and your friend. 

Unfriend finder or Who Deleted Me and many such sites help you to find out who has unfriend you from their friend list in Facebook. In my post, how to find who unfriended you in Facebook, I mentioned some sites where you can find out. But that you you don't get notified instantly. You have to check in those sites when you remember about this.

There is an easiest way to get notified instantly. An extension Social Fixer in Firefox or Google Chrome displays the alert that someone just has unfriend you in Facebook. 

What you have to do is :

• Go to Add-ons manager in Firefox or Chrome
• Search for "Social Fixer" add on in the search bar
• If installed then it will activate 

Note : If the add on or extension is not installed in your browser, then search it in Google and get it installed for your browser.

When your Facebook account is on, and if any friend unfriend's you then directly at the right corner below of the screen you can get instant results displayed.

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Latest feature in Facebook - "Create Post" button on Fan Pages

Facebook has added a small but useful feature in the fan pages, called as "Create Post" button. If you have created a fan page in your account, then being an administrator, you need to add new and fresh posts or content to your fan page. 

The "Create Post" button which is seen at the top of the fan page besides other buttons like Edit page, Insights, Hide Page, etc, is basically added for directing the admin person to go directly to the Status box, where you can add the content or post. 

Earlier you have added posts to your fan page without this button but now due to this latest feature by Facebook in 2014, one can directly start posting in the text box as the cursor is already placed inside the box and blinking for the user to type. 

What are your thoughts about this new change by Facebook? Do you feel it is useful? 

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How to add "Google Calendar" Tab to Facebook Fan Page

In Facebook, fan page plays an important role for many individuals who use it properly for their business to expand or display information. Sometimes fan pages need other party tabs like Google Calendar that will get the details of your calendar with events scheduled. People who follow you are waiting for the schedules of any event you are organizing and they are participating. After all, the basic intention of creating fan pages is to engage fans in it and participate in the things arranged by you.

Your "Google Calendar" which has dates added with the forthcoming events. To inform fans about the actual time, date and details regarding an event, just add calendar to your fan page. It is simple as you have read in my earlier post regarding how to add or embed Google Calendar to Facebook Group.

Steps to add Google Calendar in Facebook Fan page are:

• Log in to your Facebook account
• Type "Simple Google Calendar Tab" in the Graph Search
  
• In the site click "F Log In" button 
• Click "My Account" tab at the top of the web page
  
• Now at the right bottom corner, the list of fan pages that you have created are displayed with an option to add or edit tabs to. 
• Select the fan page for which you want to add the tab and click the "*" symbol besides the name
• The option will redirect you to a page which displays the tabs that are installed and not installed separately. 
  
• At the right below "Apps Not Installed", select the "+" sign to add the particular tab. In this case, its Google Calendar. So click the "+" sign besides it. 
• At the very next moment, the message is displayed as "Installation successful". 
  

• Check whether the tab is installed on the fan page by opening the Facebook site on the other browser. 
• To do so, click on the fan page and click on the pencil where the tabs are displayed. The list of tabs that are installed on this fan page is shown. Also the latest one "Google calendar" tab is also added. 
  
• When you click on the Calendar tab, it displays  the following message: "This tab has not been fully configured by the administrator. Please check back later." So, you have to go to your Google Calendar and change the settings. 
• Go to Google, and select "calendar" from the list. 
• Log in to your Google Account
• Click on the calendar name under your account. Click on "Manage Settings" option. 
• Select "Share the Calendar" tab
• Tick the check box to make the calendar public. 
  
• Now lastly click "Save". 

When you go step by step in adding Google Calendar tab to Facebook Fan page, then easily you can get through. The process is not so lengthy as it is appearing here. 


So, add your personal Google Calendar to your business fan page and let your fans and visitors accompany you in the events you have organized. 

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Facebook trick to embed "Google Calendar" to Facebook Group

Facebook Group that you create is specifically made for adding members or making a group of people who are interested in your topic. The topic is discussed and shared with other members who can see it on the group feed. Once a person becomes a member he or she can share and add their information in the group. 

In a group you manage events, converse, message to each other, inform, share, etc. 

If your group is based on specific topic, then you may think of arranging some events for your members. The events need to be scheduled on some dates. For this if you have written or added the events in Google Calendar then that needs to be imported to the Facebook Group.

Google Calendar is a online calendar that keeps the record of important events.

The dates that you have marked as important for an event in your personal Google Calendar will not be seen in Facebook unless you embed the code of the calendar in to your Facebook Group. 

The post is regarding the ways or technique to embed or add your Google Calendar to your Facebook Group. 

The steps to embed Google Calendar to your Facebook Group are :

• Log in to your Google Calendar 
• Click on "My Calendar" option at the left side of the screen
  
• Now click "Create New Calendar"
• If you already have one created then click on the name of the calendar 
• Then search for "Calendar Address" option on the page. You can see 3 buttons with different colors. 
• Select "Html" and click that button
• The code is displayed on the screen. Copy it. 
  
• Copy the entire line of code. 
• Now log in to your Facebook account
• Click on the name of the group
• Click "Link" tab 
• Paste the URL in it
• Click "Attach" option and type description below
• Click "Share"

Easy and simple. Now whenever a member from your group clicks on this link then he will get the event details in the calendar. 

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