How to download your Facebook account (v2) ? How to backup your full Facebook account data onto your computer ?

Do you have memorial Albums on your Facebook ? Do you write quality Notes and good articles ? Do you upload rare Videos to your Facebook ? Do you ever wonder how to archive your Facebook Messages ?
Here's the answer; download your backup of Photos, Videos & full HTML version of your Facebook data including your Wall Posts & Chat conversations.

Here are the steps (updated for new Facebook Account Settings interface)

From the top right Account Menu, go to Account Settings

Press Download a copy of your Facebook data. at the bottom of the page.

Press the button  Start My Archive 

Confirm this by pressing  Start My Archive 

Then  Okay 

Once you receive an email saying that your download is ready, go to Account Settings again, or follow the link in your email

Press Download a copy of your Facebook data. again.

Type in your password to verify it's your account

And now download your Archive in ZIP file

Hope you make a good use of this...

دي أول بوست أكتبها بالعربي، والسبب إني فكرت في حاجة كدا وأنا بحط بوست بدري عن خاصية جديدة في الفيسبوك لما تعمل مشاركة لرابط. قبل ما أكتب البوست عملت بحث على النت عشان أتأكد إن أنا الوحيد اللي كاتب عنها وفعلا ملقتش حد لحق يكتب قبلي، كنت بدور طبعا بالانجليزي مش بالعربي.
لما عملت البحث فكرت في حاجة.. كل المواضيع التانية اللي أنا كتبت عنها تقريبا لقيت لها مقالات مماثلة بالانجليزي. انا لما فكرت في الأول في البلوج دي فكرت فيها على انها يكون لها قراء من كل حتة عشان كدا اخترت الانجليزي باعتباره أكتر لغة منتشرة على الانترنت. لكني دلوقتي لقيت اني لو عملتها عربي هتكون أحسن عشان ساعتها هكون بكتب في محتوى محدش كتب فيه قبلي وهي مش بس مجرد أخبار الفيس بوك التقنية.. لأ وكمان الحاجات اللي في الموقع نفسه من تغييرات وبرامج وحاجات مهمة للمستخدمين.. انتو ايه رأيكم ؟
أهتم بمحتوى عربي وأكتفي بالقراء العرب؟ ولا أخليه انجليزي ومش مهم التفرد؟
عملت تصويت في شمال الموقع قول رأيك فيه وتحب تقرأ ايه هنا ؟

When I was trying to share a link this morning, that was posted on a group wall, i was surprised with the new sharing options that Facebook added to the popup window.. Facebook made it easier for you to share links, video or photo or normal content with friends, so you don't have to go to friend's profile or a group to share the link... Now you can do all this with One-Click !
Take a look at the images I took for the sharing window

As you can see, the design was modified to get two drop down lists at the top, one for "where to share" and one for "sharing visibility"

Here are the new option to share links:
  - On your own wall
  - On a friend's wall
  - In a group
  - In a private message

Here are the new security options for the visibility of the link:
  - Everyone
  - Friends of Friends and Networks
  - Friends and Networks
  - Friends of Friends
  - Friends Only
  - Customize

As you can see, now it's easier with full-options to share links. I would go vote for this new add, as I was frustrated with the last change they are making to old Groups.. What do you think ?

Facebook will begin archiving all groups created using the older format, in a push to get everyone onto the newer version of the feature.
Some group owners are seeing the following message at the top of the group admin page:

Over the next few months, Facebook will be archiving all groups created using the old groups format. Moving forward, you can create groups using the new groups format, which makes it easy to share with the important groups in your life.

Facebook offers pretty thorough guidance about the forthcoming archiving and upgrades in the site’s help section, fleshed out in three different questions.
The site explains that old groups that get archived will automatically also become available in the new group format. Most of the associated content will remain available in the upgraded version, with some notable exceptions.
The things that won’t make it over are:

- Recent news
- Group officer titles
- The information box under the old group picture
- The group network
- The members of your old group.

Yup, you’ll have to redo your membership list in the new group if you wait for Facebook to do the archive and upgrade for you. The archived version will include:

- Group photos and wall posts
- Group discussion threads, which become wall posts
- The group description, which can be found at the top of the page when you click “see all” members in the new group

Facebook recommends that save backups of their group content before the archiving. Plus, the site wants all businesses using groups to promote themselves to switch to pages instead.
At some point, a link saying “upgrade this group” may appear at the top of the owner’s admin screen — only for old groups, of course. Ones created in the new format won’t go through any of this. And groups that have less activity might not see an upgrade prompt at all.
For now, the messages that readers have said they are seeing come as friendly early alerts, which we appreciate. Putting the word out early seems like a wise move, based on how people reacted to recent upgrades of profiles and pages.
Readers, what do you think about the way Facebook is handling the eventual phasing out of the old groups format?

MEMPHIS, TN - (WMC TV) - It's amazing what a punk in his momma's basement can do with Photoshop.

E-mails are pouring in from folks who've received unsolicited Facebook postings promising exclusive access to alleged photos or videos of the raid and assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

Never mind that President Barack Obama announced the government will NOT release the photos or videos.

The postings contain breathless language about how the footage is "insane" or "crazy." One even includes an alleged picture of Bin Laden's lifeless face -- with the curveball that it came from the BBC, the British news agency.

They're all fake !! The real curveball is what will happen if you click on them or open any of their attachments.

"Just the act of clicking on it can download a virus to your computer and then who knows what they can do with a virus or some other sort of malware," said Randy Hutchinson, President/CEO of the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. "In some cases, they may be asking you to provide some sort of information on the web site you click to, and then they're going to use that to commit some sort of identity theft."

If one of these Bin Laden scams crosses your Facebook page, for goodness sake, do not click on it.

Destroy it -- like we did Bin Laden.

If you ever receive an unsolicited Facebook posting with photos or video allegedly from a news source, STOP & SEARCH THE NEWS SOURCE.

If it says it came from the BBC, don't take it at its word. Go to the BBC's site and search for the content. If you can't find it, you'll know why not.

NEVER CLICK ON UNSOLICITED LINKS, even if they appear to be sent by one of your Facebook or Twitter friends. Chances are, someone hijacked your friend's account to make it look like your friend sent the links.

BEWARE CELEBRATION INVITATIONS ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. Get Tweeted to attend a "Bin Laden is Dead" party? Don't reply! It's bait to unlock your account.

Unless your buddies are Woodward and Bernstein, they're not going to blow the lid off of the secret Bin Laden photos or video.

For more guidance on these types of scams, click here for the BBB's warning: http://www.bbb.org/us/article/bbb-warns-of-online-scams-in-the-wake-of-osamas-death-27130.

Copyright 2011 WMC-TV. All rights reserved.

As an Internet powerhouse, Facebook is now using its girth and influence to try to get a bite out of the daily deals market. With established leaders like Groupon and LivingSocial, Facebook faces fierce competition, but is aiming to provide a differentiated product offering that stays consistent with Facebook's core value of bringing people together. Unlike some of its competitors, who focus on deep discounts, Facebook Deals will focus on group activities that bring people together and the process of sharing them.

The difference between Facebook and other companies who are taking initiatives to establish this trend of "deals" is that Facebook has a much bigger membership base than its competitors. According to Mashable.com, LivingSocial has a membership base of 28 million plus users and Groupon reaches 70 million plus users.

Facebook Deals will begin testing in the San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin and Dallas areas. After opting to receive deals, users in these locations will have a chance to see a list of discounts available in their communities via a link on the left side of their Facebook pages.

Emily C. White, director of local at Facebook, wrote in a recent company blog post that following the success of the trial in these five major cities, Facebook plans to expand Deals to other cities. Deals launched with discounts on wine tastings in Napa Valley, restaurants and children's sleepovers at the California Academy of Sciences.

While Groupon offers many popular individual pampering services, such as massages and yoga classes, White shared a different strategic edge that Facebook plans to take with Deals. "While many Deals on Facebook offer discounts," White said, "it's more important to us that you find interesting experiences around you to do with friends."

Benny Evangelista, a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, shared his insight on Facebook's potential in this market. "With Deals on Facebook," Evangelista said, "the Palo Alto firm could further tap lucrative local advertising revenues using the hot trend popularized by firms like Groupon, which offer daily deals with often deep discount prices for everything from yogurt to wine country excursions."

Ever since Groupon allegedly rejected an offer from Google to buy the company for $6 billion, other websites have jumped into the market, smelling an opportunity for profit. Google even launched its own coupon website, Google Offers. There is now an abundance of websites trying to get a piece of the pie by offering a different kind of twist on the idea of "social shopping."

Because Facebook has so many users, competitors realize its potential to gain market share. The success of these daily deals sites relies on loyal clientele to share the discounts with their friends, a department in which Facebook has an edge with more than 600 million active users.

While daily deals websites rely on their members sharing deals with friends, Debra Aho Williamson, principal social media marketing analyst for the research firm eMarketer Inc., explained to the San Francisco Chronicle why she believes Facebook might have an edge in the deals market. "It weaves the sharing and buying of deals into its social networking platform," Williamson said.

Despite being such a large company, Facebook must find ways to tap into the local scene, and Deals may be the perfect way to do that. "What Facebook is tapping into is the power of friends' recommendations," Williamson said. "Facebook has been wanting to get more into the local markets. Local advertising is really tough to crack if you're a national company."

While Groupon forces members to log in to view a daily deal, Facebook can take advantage of the fact that they don't have to woo customers in; there's already significant traffic to the website regardless of what they choose to do with Deals. This means that the users who have opted in will be exposed to Deals offerings even when not seeking out the service. Facebook also has a competitive advantage with access to user information. User information can be used to direct deals to users their interests. As a marketing tool, this could be extremely effective.

Although Facebook has garnered a lot of attention by entering the daily deals market, its status as a powerhouse company doesn't necessarily equate to success. Twitter made an attempt to enter the daily deals market with its Earlybird Offers last year, but stopped it just two months after launching. Twitter's failed entry shows that no matter how much influence a company has in one market, this does not directly translate to success in other markets. One can't jump to conclusions like, "The early bird always gets the worm"; in Twitter's case, the Earlybird never took flight.

Organizing all of your Facebook friends into separate lists can help save you time and enhance the privacy of your posts and profile information.

You can set up friend lists for family, close friends, college pals, coworkers, industry friends, exes, and, well, whatever else you like. Then you will able to selectively share information using your Facebook account.


For starters, you’ll be able to post messages that are viewable only to the lists you designate. What’s more, you’ll be able to adjust your privacy settings so that your profile details are accessible only to your chosen friend lists.


Six Really Easy Steps

Follow these six simple steps to create a friend list on Facebook. You can create up to 100 friend lists and each list can contain up to 1,000 friends. If you like, friends can appear on multiple lists.

1. On your Facebook homepage, click on the friends icon in the navigation bar running down the left column.
2. At the top right of the page, click on the icon with the pencil that reads “Edit Friends.”
3. At the top right of the page, click on the icon with the plus sign that reads “Create A List.”
4. A box will appear that reads “Create New List.” In the text box below this, that reads, “Enter A Name,” type in the name of the friend list you want to make, for example, “Industry”.
5. You will see all of your friends appear in this box. Click on the names of the people you would like to add to the list you just made. Once you select a name, a check box will appear and the name and photo of the person you selected will be highlighted in blue. As you view all of your friends using the scroll bar at right, you can toggle at the top left of the box between “All” (which shows your entire friend network) and “Selected” (which shows the friends you have chosen to be to part of the list).
6. Click on the link labeled “Create List” to save the changes you made

Modifying Friend Lists

At any time, you can change the name of the list or change the people on the list by selecting the “Edit” link that appears to the right of the list name.

To view, add or delete friend lists, go to your friends page and click on the “Edit Friends” button. Your friend lists will appear in the column at left. Click on each list to modify or delete it.

Limiting Who Sees What

When you post a status update, you can make it visible only to a selected friend list. To do this, after you type your message into the status update box, click on the lock icon. Scroll down and select “Customize.” Click on the drop-down menu under “Make This Visible To.” Select “Specific People.” Type in the name of the list you want to be able to see the status update.

To limit the people who can view your profile information to a friend list, click on “Account” at the top right of your screen.

Click on “Privacy Settings.” Then click on “Customize Settings” at the bottom left of the main text box.

For each option listed at left you can select from the drop-down menu at right “Customize.” Then, where you see “Make This Visible To”, click the drop-down menu and select “Specific People.” Type in the name of the selected friend list that you want to be able to view your profile.

Keep in mind that Facebook may continue to change its friend list interface in future. In the meantime, we suggest you forward this post to people you know who don’t have any lists set up yet — this might help get them started.

More Traffic! Could You Use Some?


Application chosen for this post are based on my personal view of their usefulness and my personal usage, so be sure to experiment as nothing should be taken for granted! Original Source

Notes

Notes is a superb application and one of the absolutely MUST have if you write to a blog or two, And here is the reason why:

1. It allows you to basically subscribe to your own RSS Feed and will automatically import it to your profile each time a new post was made!
2. Every time a new post imported as Note – all your friends will get a notification that a new status update is made on your profile – increase your branding!




Blog Networks

Blog Networks application allows you to claim your own blog and have it appear within the main Blog Networks interface. But how and where you will appear directly depends on your popularity!

More people subscribe to your blog – more popular it is seen and higher position you can get. Subscribing to blogs is very simple and it ads them to your profile. See image below and if you like my blog - Subscribe To My Blog!

Blogvote

Blogvote is a very simple application that does one thing – allows people to vote on blogs. Obviously your blog popularity will be determined by the score and probably number of votes. So – do vote, good or bad, either way appreciated!






Twitter

Twitter application is great in one perspective – it ties very popular micro-blog network that is currently all the rage and allows you to post status update directly from Twitter. Basically – every time you make an update in Twitter – it will be imported as your new status in Facebook and also gives you an opportunity to post directly from Facebook to the Twitter.

Friend Feed

Friend Feed is a swiss army knife of the the aggregation. Once you have setup your profile under the Friend Feed service properly – you can aggregate your actions and content from multiple sources into one location. And facebook app allows you t import all of that into your Facebook Profile!

Better yet, it allows you to see all the actions of your friends! In one single location, as long as they took the time to configure their profile. This is an app that will become the future of social interaction!

Talk about visibility! See an example below





Ping.fm

Ping.fm application allows you to do actions such as status update from Ping.fm application. This one is a MUST for every WordPress blogger and I have already explained why and how in my post on social influence and will not be repeating myself.

All I can add here is that by not using this service you are loosing out!



SubmbleUpon

And last but by no means least is StumbleUpon app. Every action you take via Stumble Upon bar is posted to your Facebook profile and shared with your friends! As you can see below – many of my own friends using this tool and falling behind is simply not an option.

StumbleUpon has a potential of generating to your blog massive amounts of traffic when you don’t abuse the system and Facebook app simplifies the process!



 Conclusion

As I have stated in the beginning of this post – it is not mean to be an All Inclusive list of the Facebook Applications but rather those that help you as a blogger to get traffic and recognition and have proven to work for me – in one way or another.

And that reason is what makes them in my opinion 7 Facebook Apps Every Blogger Must Have

Keeping track of Facebook's updates can be confusing. Here's how to protect your privacy in the wake of recent changes to ensure your information remains safe.
By Kristin Burnham @ PCWorld

1. Facebook Privacy Settings: "Instant Personalization" and "Like" Buttons

What the "Like" button is: Facebook's big announcement this week from the f8 conference was the new "Like" button, which you'll start seeing on blogs and news sites across the Web. When you click the button on an external website, you authorize Facebook to publish your activity to your Facebook profile (which, in turn, will also be published to your friends' news feeds). Also, when your friends visit the external site, they will see that you've visited that site, too.

What "instant personalization" is: The second part to Facebook's announcements this week was it's announcement of "instant personalization" on partner sites, which (right now) include Pandora and Yelp. Without adjusting your privacy settings, when you visit these sites, they can pull in information from your Facebook account, which includes your name, profile picture, gender and connections (and any other information that you've made visible to the public). If you visit Pandora, for example, the site could also pull in your favorite music artists, create playlists accordingly, and then notify your Facebook friends.
[Want more Facebook tips and tricks? Check out, "Facebook Freek"]

How to change the privacy settings: The answer to the first part is easy--if you don't want your online whereabouts known, don't click any "Like" buttons.

The second part is more complicated. Click the "Account" option on your Facebook toolbar, then choose "Privacy Settings" and select the "Applications and Websites" option. At the bottom, you'll see, "Instant Personalization." Click "Edit Setting," then uncheck the box on the bottom of the page.

Note that unchecking the box will be enough to prevent partner sites from viewing your public information on Facebook, but when your friends visit these sites, your public information can be shared through them. To prevent this, you need to block the individual applications.

Next, visit the Pandora app page and Yelp app page, and choose "Block Application" for both.

2. Facebook Privacy Settings: Application Settings

What it is: When you add Facebook applications to your profile, you agree to allow the application to access certain information in your profile. Sometimes this includes which friends can and can't view the application from your profile, and whether or not you give the application permission to post stories to your wall and your friends' news feeds.

[For more on Facebook apps, read: "4 Facebook Apps That Add Professionalism to Your Profile.]

How to change these privacy settings: Go to your "Privacy Settings" page and choose "Applications and Websites." Then, click the "Learn More" button next to "What you share." Follow the link at the bottom of the page that says, "You can view the full list of Applications you have authorized on this page."

Here, you can view which applications you are using, delete any you no longer use and edit the settings for each individual one.

3. Facebook Privacy Settings: What Your Friends Can Share About You

What it is: Sure, you may have painstakingly weeded through your privacy settings and think your information is secure, but much of your information can still be accessed through applications that your friends use.

For example, lets say your friend uses a greeting card application. This application can access the information you've made publicly available (such as your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, friend list and pages), unless you change your settings.

How to change this privacy setting: Go to your "Privacy Settings" page and choose "Applications and Websites." Then, click the "Edit Settings" button next to "What your friends can share about you." This page will show you all the options that your friends' applications can access. Check or uncheck them based on what you're willing to share.

4. Facebook Privacy Settings: Search Results

What it is: Do you know how searchable you are, both within the Facebook community and on the Web? This privacy setting is defaulted to create a public search listing so others can see a preview of your Facebook profile on search engines, such as Google. That means that when someone searches for your name, they'll see your Facebook profile picture, as well as any other information you've made public, such as your networks, friends, groups, and more. This privacy setting also determines how searchable you are on Facebook.

How to change this privacy setting: Go to your "Privacy Settings" page and choose "Search." There are two privacy settings you can change: your "Facebook Search Results," which determines who can see your search result on Facebook (you can set this one to everyone, friends and networks, friends of friends and only friends); and "Public Search Results," which you can allow or disallow.

5. Facebook Privacy Settings: Photo Albums

What it is: You may have set photos of you to be private, but what about your photo albums? Many people forget that the albums entitled "Profile Pictures," "Mobile Uploads" and "Wall Photos" are usually visible by everyone, unless you edit the privacy settings.

How to change this privacy setting: Go to your "Privacy Settings" page and choose "Profile Information." Scroll about halfway down, and you'll see the "Photo Albums" option. Click "Edit Settings." Here you'll see every one of your photo albums, and each of their assigned privacy settings.

Remember, you can choose the "Custom" option if there's a person or group of people you want exempt from viewing your album. And, if you're ever concerned that you've chosen the wrong privacy setting, you can view how your profile is seen by individual people. To do this, visit your "Profile Information" page of your privacy settings. At the top right corner is the option to "Preview My Profile." Enter in someone's name, and you'll see which parts of your profile are visible to him, and which ones are not.

Staff Writer: Kristin Burnham covers consumer Web and social technologies for CIO.com. She writes frequently on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You can follow her on Twitter: @kmburnham.

How to Invite ALL Facebook Friends to a Group, Event or Page ?

Update May 1, 2011 Once again, Facebook changed the way you invite your friends to an event or page, it was updated in the mid of March 2011. So here is the new code:

Text file here:
http://www.v3im.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FB-Event-Javascript.txt
If doesn't open, here's another:
http://tinypaste.com/8ed39

Copy (ctrl+C) the above script.
Go to the event page and select "invite friends". When the menu opens, select your friend list (or just leave "all friends"). Scroll to the end of the panel, and then past the script (ctrl+V) into the URL bar (address bar).

Wait a bit (maybe more than a bit!), and you should find all of your friend selected.

just hit “Save and Close.”
Since now the facebook system uses lazy loading, You should scroll to the end of the friend list before applying the script!

This method can be used to invite all your facebook friends to an event, invite all your facebook friends to page, invite all your facebook friends to group, ask you facebook friends a question... etc

A video is also available here.
http://giacobam.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-use-facebook-script-video.html

Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?

Don't worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can't see anything you post and here's why:

The "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you've recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa - you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!  So you will miss out on all those people that you love hearing from, but it only happens infrequently.

Here's The FIX in the pictures below...

Edit Options

Friends and pages you interact with most

All of your friends and pages

The annoying thing is that your friends who don't do this won't be able to hear from you unless you have interacted with them recently - hopefully by sharing this, it will get through to eveyone and facebook will be about engaging with your friends once more.

Social networking giant Facebook has removed dozens of profile pages of British activist groups prompting accusations of political interference.

Facebook denied that the Royal Wedding had anything to do with the removal of the profile pages, instead saying the pages were removed due to policy violations, chiefly profiles representing an organization rather than a personal.

The distinction is often the source of confusion with organizations instead expected to create 'pages' rather than 'profiles'. The social networking giant is, however, rammed with thousands of fake identities, whether they be parody pages or protest groups.

A Facebook spokesman said that the site's 'culture' gives rise to "accountability among everyone who uses the site and it is our most important safety and security mechanism," according to a New York Times blog.

Facebook said that they had already been on contact with the groups in order to tell them how to move the profiles to pages which are "designed to represent companies, groups or causes."

One of the reasons organizations prefer setting up profile pages is because 'friends' of profile pages receive regular updates.

We all know – or at least we should know – some important characteristics of the information we post on social networks. One, it’s public. Two, it’s public. And three, even your private information can be found if someone wants it badly enough (in other words, it’s public). I know this, and so should you. But while researching a paper on social networking sites for my information technology class (which is awesome, by the way), I came across some facts that reminded me once again of the publicity of Facebook.

I was researching the potential uses of Facebook by law enforcement personnel – the kind of stories we’ve all heard by now, about the police who track down dumb and not-so-dumb criminals through their Facebook post, photos, or status updates. But I also ran into some stories about average Facebook users who found their pages being used as evidence against them.

In some of those cases, the charges were criminal, as in a USA Today story about three individuals who in one case injured and in the others killed other people while driving drunk (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2008-07-19-facebook-trials_N.htm). In each case, prosecutors found Facebook photos of the defendants, taken after the crashes, in which they were drinking. One young man even posted a picture of himself wearing a prisoner costume at a party – a joking reference to the fact that he had a court case pending. For all three defendants, their Facebook information became character evidence that landed them with harsher sentences – more years in prison.

Other stories revolved around civil cases where, not surprisingly, Facebook evidence played a star role in divorce cases. According to a story in the ABA Journal, 81% of divorce lawyers reported an increase of evidence springing from social networking sites over the past five years. (http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facebook_is_unrivaled_leader_for_online_divorce_evidence_survey_says/)

It’s sobering to think of the impulsiveness that characterizes so many Facebook decisions, especially when those decisions could be staring you in the face in court one day. The way to prevent that happening is obvious: don’t cheat on your spouse and don’t drink and drive. But sometimes the unexpected happens. If it does, the last thing you want to worry about is whether you incriminated yourself because you couldn’t think twice about the information you shared.

Ultimately, the use of social media as a source for legal evidence should remind us once again of the publicity and permanence of online information. Posting is like publishing. No matter how much you may think it is, it’s not the same as talking to a friend, unless you assume that all of your friends are bugged.

In a very real way, this is all very cool. We can record our most momentary thoughts permanently, give them the eternal life that information attains once it’s put online. We just have to remember that they can be seen by anyone with the right amount of know-how, or a warrant.

I’m going to try to drive this home to myself by saying “Hello, world,” after every post or upload. Eeeeeeevery single one. I’m serious (or at least kind of). Maybe it will remind me that it may not be read only by the friend who’s wall I’m posting on (and her friends, of course, and their friends, if she allows it, and so on) or seen by just the friends I tag, but by everyone – and their lawyer.

Within about two hours of reports first surfacing (and since confirmed by the President) that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, a Facebook Page titled “Osama Bin Laden is DEAD” has already accumulated more than 150,000 “likes.”

The page appears to be adding thousands of likes by the minute with users also sharing hundreds of comments and links to stories about the news.

Interestingly, the page itself appears to have been setup well prior to tonight as a way to advocate the theory that Bin Laden had actually died long ago.

The page description reads in part: “Osama Bin Laden has not been found and will never be found because he died a long time ago. This may be news to you because it wasn’t in the news. His death is critical to the CIA because they want you to believe in this so called ‘War on terror’ which has made the world a more dangerous place. If Osama Bin Laden was alive, he would’ve been found – just like Saddam Hussein.”

Nonetheless, the page is now serving as a real-time discussion board for the historic news.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters, May 2, 2011) - Facebook Inc's business is growing faster than forecast several months ago and the firm is on track to top $2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in 2011, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Facebook's growth is above the growth expectations that circulated when Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies invested in the closely held Internet company, the newspaper said in its online edition.

The newspaper did not say by how much Facebook may exceed expectations.

Goldman's and Digital Sky Technologies' investment was at a share price that implied a $50 billion valuation for Facebook.

The Wall Street Journal said Facebook's profits were now growing at a fast-enough rate to justify a valuation of $100 billion or more when it goes public.

Facebook is expected to go public early next year.

The company could not be immediately reached for comment.

Facebook
Facebook - in case you don't know - is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Full Def here


Facebook Freak
Typically someone who stays on facebook all day everyday,even when they have nothing to doon there anymore.
Shaynah:Omj, Megan is a total creepity! Shes been on facebook all day! She commented 10 of my pictures,like wtf. Source is here


www.FaceBook-FreeK.tK
This blog is all about facebook, you will find out about facebook news, useful and awful apps, any updates, good tips, hidden tricks & hacks, security and privacy settings ! I will blog about everything you can't find on facebook official blog.
In fact, the author of this blog is a facebook freak himself !