Everything Express
How-to: Create a Multi-Photo album on Facebook
You all know how I DON’T do Facebook? Well I look after the FB page for a sports club and finally found a reason for uploading photos there that I didn’t want anywhere else. Only it didn’t work… The Help makes it really simple: To upload photos: Click Add Photo/Video at the top of … Continue reading
How-to: Find Other Messages in Facebook
“Why didn’t you reply to me messages? Didn’t you see the notification? You rude son of a -” As a friend of mine reminded me last month, Facebook filters your messages all the time, so you may not get a notification. It may not be that obvious to you. Go to the messages pane and … Continue reading
How-to: Check Privacy Settings in Facebook
I know we’ve covered this previously, but that was before Facebook revamped the controls! It courteously sent us a ‘reminder’ earlier, which usually means they’re feeling gulty and getting emailed like topsy because no one can find the settings any more… Helpfully, all this stuff is now in one place: on the left of the … Continue reading
How-to: Keep Your Facebook Posts Private
“We’ve made several improvements to the way older content is displayed on Timeline to make the audience and other information clearer” – Facebook. The collective shudder of Facebook users around the world could be felt when this update went live, followed by various scare stories of private messages from 2007-2010 appearing in users’ Timelines – … Continue reading
How-to: Limit Profile Visibility On Facebook
Privacy is dead. Or so Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook would have us believe. And those two gents with brains the size of a planet would have you believe. And just to prove it, every few months, those folks at Facebook change the way the dam’ thing works, circumventing all those settings you tweaked to control … Continue reading
How-to: Permanently Delete a Facebook Account
What does a Facebook account have in common with Freddie Krueger and the Terminator? No matter how often you kill them, they keep on coming back. Perhaps a more apt comparison is the Hotel California, you can check out, but you can never leave. Facebook hates the idea that anyone might want to stop sharing. … Continue reading
How-to: Begin on Social Media – Facebook
Facebook is the largest (if not the first) social network. It took over from Friends Reunited, MySpace and Bebo a few short years ago and now has 800 million users and counting. As a social network, people create profiles and pages, exchange messages and post status updates. It is a broadcast network in that everything … Continue reading
How-to: Reconnect your WordPress to Facebook and Twitter
I don’t know what occurs, but I suspect the Facebook API isn’t as stable or as open as is made out. I do know that sometimes the connections between Facebook or Twitter and WordPress.com break and WordPress stops feeding the social networks. There are periodic fixes, but the breakages are intermittent and ongoing. If this … Continue reading
How-to: Personalise Face Book Subscriptions
Subscriptions is the actual mechanism by which to follow people on Facebook. Subscriptions let you see other people’s public posts in their Facebook News Feed; normally you post to your friends and subscribers by selecting “public” which means everything you post publicly will appear in the subscriber’s News Feed. They automatically subscribe to follow you. … Continue reading
How-to: Write an Essay in Facebook – and Why You Shouldn’t
You no longer need to worry about text limits on posts, as Facebook now allows up to 5,000 characters. You are now free to write complete thoughts and break up your status updates into paragraphs to make your posts more readable. You can be one of those Internet novelists and serialise your Magnum Opus in … Continue reading
How-to: Sort by Top Stories in Facebook
In addition to recent stories, the stream of stories from all of your subscribed friends and pages, Facebook also displays what it considers “highlighted stories” at the top of your News Feed. Facebook tries to show the most relevant news since you last checked Facebook, which is based on a range of factors, including your … Continue reading
Twitter Updates
Find Us on Facebook
BBC World News
Opens the BBC World News page.
