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How to Avoid the Flood of Unwanted Porn on Facebook


You've likely heard that Facebook was hit with a seemingly endless storm of pornographic and violent images, from Justin Bieber blow jobs to mangled dogs. What you may not have heard is how you can avoid it. Here's how you, your friends, and your grandparents can avoid the storm of Facebook filth by basically doing nothing.

How to Avoid the Problem

How to Avoid the Flood of Unwanted Porn on FacebookFacebook has been proactively removing the unpleasant images from user feeds and profiles, but they aren't gone entirely. You'll have to take a proactive approach if you want to avoid the array of erect penises currently lurking in the shadows. Fortunately, this is pretty simple: don't click on links if you're not sure you know what they do. The regular Facebook interface is safe, of course, and so are any Facebook apps you've already installed.
What you want to avoid are links that read "check out how many people viewed your profile" and promise to show you something that you just won't believe. (Having seen some of the images, I can assure you they are actually rather believable, or even beliebable in a few cases.) Basically, if you're reasonably paranoid about the links you click you should be safe.

What To Do If You've Fallen Victim

How to Avoid the Flood of Unwanted Porn on FacebookIn the event you make the mistake of clicking a bum link, or think you may have clicked a bad link in the past, change your password right away. While you're at it, be sure to make it a secure password like a multi-word phrase, a password based on a system you design, a password based on word association, or one you simply can't remember.
You'll also want to check the apps you currently have installed. You can do this by clicking on the little down-facing arrow in the upper right corner of the page, clicking on Account Settings, and then choosing the Apps section. If you see an app that doesn't belong or you simply don't recognize, click the x across from its name to delete it.
If you do all of this, you should be nice and safe. Happy Facebooking, and enjoy your freedom from porn!
Source - [ lifehacker.com ]
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How To Change Facebook Email Address That Used For Mobile Upload?

Do you already know how to change Facebook mobile email address that used for post status update and upload photos / videos to own account from email client or mobile phone?

1) After login Facebook account, type www.facebook.com/mobile on web browser’s Address bar and hit ENTER key:


facebook.com/mobile"

2) Locate “Upload via email” and click “Find out more” link:

click to open pop-up for refreshing mobile email id


3) Shortly, the “Upload photo via email” page pops up. At a glance, it looks like a help page but there is one “hidden” link that read “refresh your upload email” – click it to bring up “Change your personal upload email” and click Reset button:



tips-tricks for facebook mobile email id & security


Now, note down the new email and update it to contacts so you can continue to send status update, images, and videos to Facebook from Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, mobile phone, etc.
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Hands On: Facebook Messenger App (iPhone)


Yesterday, Facebook released an app dedicated to messaging for iOS and Android. The free app, which quickly shot to the top of the list of free downloads on iTunes, lets you communicate with friends in real time through either Facebook chat (instant messaging over WiFi, 3G, 4G) or via SMS text messages.

Facebook has said that the reason it put out a separate app for its messaging is to make it faster. You still converse with Facebook friends in the main Facebook app—the new app is just faster and includes the option to send a text.
The app seems most similar (and perhaps competitive with) BlackBerry Messenger, which allows messaging between BlackBerry users. It also may be worth pointing out that when you download the Android version of Google+, one of Facebook's biggest competitors, it actually generates two distinct apps: one for the social network, and another for Huddle, its messaging component. So Google+ has a dedicated messaging app (on Android anyway), perhaps also for performance reasons.

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SMS Texts and Instant Messages
As with many Facebook services, the app isn't wholly innovative—others have combined SMS with instant messaging before—but what makes it special for most users is that it leverages their Facebook networks. One of the often-overlooked strengths of Facebook is that it's a central source of data about your friends, including their phone numbers, email addresses, and whereabouts. If you want to send a text message to a friend but don't have her phone number stored in your phone, you can quickly send her a Facebook message instead. And if she's added her phone number to Facebook and granted the appropriate permissions, the app will automatically pull up her number as an option, in case you would prefer to send her a text.
One minor glitch I found is that when I sent messages via SMS to my friends' phones, their Facebook profile pictures didn't turn up. Instead, I saw the stand-in blue and white silhouette. When I sent messages via Facebook chat, each person's profile picture did appear next to the conversation.
Push Notifications and Location Services 
One feature I especially liked in the Facebook Messenger iPhone app was the ability to not only turn on push notifications (those alerts that ding and wake up your phone's screen when you receive an incoming message), but turn them off for a select amount of time. You can choose to keep push notifications on permanently, or switch them off for one hour, or turn them off until 8am the following day, if you want some peace and quiet overnight.
Even better, you can turn the alerts on, off, off for an hour, or off overnight for each conversation. If you're caught up in an important discussion with one group of friends and need to temporarily silence another conversation that's less important, you can. A cog icon for these settings appears at the top right of every dialogue history, so the controls are always within easy reach.
The new app has location services, too, which you can enable or disable with each new message thread in which you participate. An arrowhead icon lives at the far right of the text entry box. When it's blue, location information is shared. Tap it once to turn it gray, meaning your location will be kept private.
Do You Need TWO Facebook Apps? 
If you spend a lot of time communicating with friends from your mobile device, the Facebook Messenger app is worth downloading. I personally like compartmentalizing certain aspects of social networking, so I like the idea of having instant messages and Facebook text messages in their own area, cordoned off from status updates, photos, and all the commenting that comes with them. If you prefer a one-stop-shop for everything Facebook has to offer, the only things you're giving up in not downloading the new app are 1) the ability to find more people's mobile phone numbers and 2) speed.


Source - [ pcmag.com ]
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Facebook by mobile platform: iPhone first, Android second



Extrapolated data shows that iPhone and Android have 86 million and 76 million active Facebook app users, respectively. It’s also worth noting that Facebook’s feature phone app, Facebook for Every Phone app, which has been around for a few months and relaunched just a few weeks ago, already has 7.5 million active users.
Facebook features a separate page for every app authorized to connect to its system, which in turn lists the active users. As a result, you can see how many people are using each Facebook app on each mobile platform, according to Benedict Evans.
Evans compared these numbers to Facebook’s latest figures for its total user base (750 million users as of July 2011) and the number of people using Facebook from mobile devices (250 million users as of March 2011). He took into account the many third-party apps, including on the iPad, which does not yet have an official Facebook app, and on Android, where OEMs make their own (and thus there could be overlap with people using both the OEM app and the official app).
Evans found that all of the apps combined add up to 222 million users. That’s 88.8 percent of Facebook’s total mobile users, though the real percentage is likely smaller as the 250 million number has of course grown since March. The remaining users are people exclusively using the mobile web for Facebook (4 percent in the mobile web only category above). The real mobile web number is likely bigger because of overlap. Either way, Facebook has around half as many mobile users using third-party apps compared to its own official app.
Source - [ zdnet.com ]
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Facebook’s Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures]


So, we just exposed the awesome secret that Facebook’s iPad app is actually already out there, hidden inside of the iPhone app. Now it’s time to show it to you.
I’ve been playing with the app for much of the night, and it seems solid. Of course, there’s no guarantee that this is what Facebook will launch when the iPad app does officially hit, but this looks and feels about right.
After months of downplaying the importance of having an iPad app, and instead playing up HTML5, Facebook has clearly spent some time working on this. At the same time, it is an HTML5-rich experience, with things like the News Feed being populated this way. But other things, like image uploads simply cannot be done without native code at this time.
At the end of the day, would I use this app over the full website, which functions pretty well on the iPad already? Absolutely. I cannot wait for this app to actually launch.
Below, find many images.
Update: We’ve just talked to a source who had previous seen the app and says that this is in fact the app Facebook was intending to launch shortly. We’ll see if that gets sped up now.










Source - [ techcrunch ]
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