Facebook is a great way to connect with others. Although Facebook users enjoy connecting with others, they may not want some of their contacts to see the friends they have made or the contacts on their account. In order to make friends invisible on a Facebook profile page, privacy settings must be adjusted. This can be achieved by the following process: Log on to Facebook. Select the “Account” tab from the upper right corner of the page. Select “Privacy Settings” from the drop down list. This leads to the ‘Choose Read More

ActiveX is a framework that allows software to be constructed from multiple programming languages and run on a platform that is independent from any specific programming language. ActiveX is often used in web design to provide functionality for various tools and control mechanisms, especially when an external platform stores or runs it. ActiveX can often be found in online flash games, interactive menus, and “widgets,” which are tools that run on one platform, but are controlled by another. What can ActiveX do for Facebook? ActiveX plays a critical role in Read More

In addition to social networking, Facebook provides users with many ways to entertain themselves while connecting with friends. One of these methods is Facebook Games, a collection of applications that third party companies that make money from in-game money, advertising, and publicity provide. Several of Facebook Game’s most popular applications are outlined below.   Mafia Wars One of Facebook Game’s oldest and most popular applications, Mafia Wars, allows users to create their own mafia and compete against other players to become the strongest mafia on Facebook. Mafia Wars allows users Read More

Facebook is currently the most popular social networking website in the world and has over 300 million active users. Facebook has revolutionized the social networking industry by creating status streams and the ever popular “Like” button that is found on Facebook as well as thousands of third party websites. Facebook allows each user to create a personal webpage and interact with friends, relatives, and co-workers by commenting on their pictures and status updates.   How to Search for People on Facebook In order to find friends, relatives, and co-workers on Read More

Facebook users have access to a wide variety of services and utilities. One of the readily available options is Facebook Chat. Chat on its own can be exciting, but it can be enhanced with a variety of emoticon codes that create simple graphical representations with the text based codes within the chat window. The official Facebook chat emoticons range from smile faces to sharks. To create a smile face emoticon, type in one of the following codes: 🙂 🙂 :] =) To create a grin face emoticon, type in one Read More

A Facebook application is an application hosted on the popular social networking website, Facebook. Facebook applications differ in function and can range from dating to gaming. While Facebook has many different applications that allow users to perform a wide variety of tasks, the most common Facebook applications are Facebook games. Although Zynga creates and sponsors most Facebook games, anyone can create a Facebook game or other application by using the appropriate software.   How to Create a Facebook Application Users who wish to create a Facebook application can receive more Read More

As Facebook’s popularity continues to expand, many computer users spend the majority of their online time solely on the Facebook portal. As a result, the desire to avoid wasting time opening the computer’s web browser to a default page that is not Facebook has increased. Although not difficult to change, many computer users do not know how to change the computer’s default homepage to Facebook. The following provides steps for the common web browsers: How to Make Facebook One’s Homepage Internet Explorer Step 1 – Open Internet Explorer by double Read More

Facebook has blossomed into a massive social media site where everyone and anyone can create a page and upload as many photos as they want. On Facebook, it is actually a little tricky to get the photos uploaded and then captioned because of how acute the link is. However, the process is straight forward once you know where to find the link. How to Upload Photos to Facebook Log in to your Facebook account. When you've logged in, you'll be brought to the news feed where all of your friend's Read More

Many businesses have realized that a fan page on Facebook is a very inexpensive way to get more traffic to their website and to bring more customers in the front doors. By getting people to become fans, a business is able to target them, send them messages and let them know about specials and deals. Big businesses and small businesses alike have all started creating pages. Doing so isn't difficult at all. To begin with, login to your Facebook account. You'll need an account to do this so create one Read More

Changing a Facebook layout at the moment is only possible through single sided, third party applications. Most of the services that allow this only work on the user’s side and no one else is able to see any of the changes that have been made. It is important to note that a majority of the Facebook layout services take the form of spyware/adware, which generally make them bad for computer systems. The other problem with these limited Facebook layout services is the fact that they do not work on all Read More