Are you still Addicted to FarmVille?

How many people in Philippines alone log in to Facebook or FB as we internet dwellers call it. I think almost every time we use the internet, the first thing that we think of is notifications or other may be so eager to check if they have some unread messages in their inboxes. But there are an exceptional portion of the population who log in to FB just to check their Farm.. Oh what farm?


FarmVille, it's the hippest game on Facebook. A lot of teens are hooked up on Farmville, me personally, honestly, I was also hooked up to it for a while until I grew tired of the same routine, and wanted to try some other games on Facebook.

Okay some facts about FarmVille, this game has become the most widely played game this year, second to Cafe World which I also had an account which I forgot to check.

Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too

The industry P.R. frenzy over scams in ads and offers on social networks goes on: Facebook announced on Thursday evening in a post on its developer blog that since it updated its developer platform terms of service this summer, it has disabled two ad networks that it says were running deceptive advertisements.

This comes in the wake of allegations that some companies that power offer- and survey-related moneymaking operations for social-gaming applications on platforms like Facebook's have effectively been scamming users into paying for services without disclosing those costs. One of them, Offerpal Media, has been particularly visible in the crosshairs.
"This battle is not new and it's far from over," the post by Facebook's Nick Giano wrote. "We faced stimulus scam ads on our own system earlier this year and pushed them off the site with rigorous enforcement. We did the same months later when deceptive ads from third-party ad networks appeared in applications. We're doing that again now as we see them appear in the form of offers."
Additionally, Facebook--which has said for quite some time that many of the activities highlighted in the "app scam" controversy are already banned by its terms of service--included in the post that more than 100 developer applications have been either "suspended or brought into compliance" over advertising issues, and that more than half of them were used by at least 1 million Facebook members per month. It's not clear whether these were all related to scams, or to other advertising-related infringements like the Burger King marketing campaign that encouraged users to "unfriend" their contacts in exchange for a free cheeseburger.
Facebook representatives declined to name which ad networks or applications it has banned.
Earlier this week, MySpace--another big destination for social-network apps--announced that it had updated its terms of service to ban app scams. Prior to that, several prominent application manufacturers announced that they had banned potentially deceptive offers, despite the fact that they are responsible for a big chunk of virtual-goods revenues.

Facebook password scam circulates online

The Tech Herald covers a new Facebook scam that was recently distributed through spam email. The spam email asks appear to come from the Facebook Support Group and ask the user to download an attachment to change their password. In reality, the attachment is malware and makes the victim's computer part of the Bredolab botnet.

"'This spam email attack is designed to play on the subject at the forefront of users minds – their password security. Falling for this scam could lead to the unsuspecting user becoming part of a botnet. With the recent hack of Web email accounts, users would feel more compelled to open an attachment that purports to hold their new password, as they’d be worried who changed it in the first place,' said Carl Leonard, Websense Security Labs Manager."
Steve Ragan of the Tech Herald advises users to be weary of such scams and further mentions that Facebook wouldn't e-mail a ZIP file, let alone even have to notify a person in order to take any administrative action as "they can do so without you even knowing until you next sign on." Click here for the full article.

Ways to upload pictures to you Facebook Account

Ever wondered how to upload pictures without logging in to your account on the computer. Here are 3 great and convenient way for you to upload pictures to your Facebook account.Let's tackle these options 1 by 1 shall we?

First, we have the e-mail option, although it would still require you to go to your computer, it removes the hassle of logging in to your account. Before you can use this option you need to get a link from the website allowing you to connect from your cellphone using Wap, GPRS, and 3G. Facebook will also give you your own personalized e-mail address, you will use that e-mail address as your recipient where you will be sending your photos. Remember to save that e-mail address so that you wont have a hard time trying to remember the address as it can be quite long.

Second, we have the Facebook mobile application. This works if you have a high-end cellphone, cellphones that have OVI features. You can also get this application through m.facebook.com or Facebook Mobile you can download this application from there. This application will open a mini browser just for Facebook that will allow you to use you camera feature so you can immediately upload pictures to your account.

Third and the last option, we have the MMS option, now we are all pretty familiar with this technique, since most uploading tasks is commonly done using this technique. We have been using this option ever since we started to utilize the convenience of mobile uploading, to those who are not yet familiar with this techique, here is how it works. But before we go there, you need to check if your phone have already activated the GPRS or MMS function. If you have not yet activated this function yet, it is best to contact your network service provider for assistance. Now, assuming that it is already activated, first thing that you need to do is compose a message on your phone,  select create an MMS your cellphone, attach the image that you want to be uploaded, instead of typing in the number of your recepient, type in the email address, for you are sending this message to an website. Send the message to mobile@facebook.com. After that is done, wait for a confirmation message that will associate your Facebook account with your mobile phone number. Using this option would not be recommended if you have a tight budget, as it is not 100 percent successful. Rate is for this would charged per picture sent.

Hope this will be of great help to you. Enjoy!

Facebook launches Facebook Lite

Facebook has recently launched a new version of it's website, it's called Facebook lite. This is the stripped down version of the popular social networking site.



This version is called Lite because it is much more simpler, all those apps that people are getting hooked on are not available in this version, users are only limited to using the wall, post photos and videos, view events and most importantly view people's profiles and basically do the most basic things that you do in a social networking site, of course that is to make friends and connect.

Basically this version was created for the purpose of catering regions that has a slightly limited bandwidth, causing the current version to disable some apps. Apparently this version is only available in countries like India and America.



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Facebook Buys Friendfeed

San Francisco - Facebook is buying a Web Service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media site, including Facebook's rivals.



In an interview, FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said the two services will eventually merge, though FriendFeed will operate seperatrly for now. He said FriendFeed was drawn to Facebook's much larger base of 250 million users.


"Facebook has a really unique opportunity for our team to reach a significant percentage of the world, and that was an opportunity I think everyone on our team was extremely excited about," he said.


<Facebook said all 12 employees of Mountain View, Calif-based FriendFeed will work for Facebook, whose headquarters is nearby in Palo Alto. FriendFeed's for founder - Taylor, Paul Bucheit, Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh - will take on senior positions on the engineering and product teams at Facebook.


It's Unclear what exactly Facebook pland to do with FriendFeed, which centers around the idea of instantaneously aggregating information from online destinations like short-messaging site Twitter, review site Yelp and photo-sharing Flickr.


Gartner Inc. analyst Ray Vades said FriendFeed acquisition should help Facebook open up site and boost features that show users more information in real time.

"They needed to do something to meet the Twitter challenge," he said, referring to the messaging site that shown the type of buzz Facebook once enjoyed.

Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of products, said the companies has been talking about a combination for sometime, as they're both working on solving the same problems: how to help people connect with one another over time, how to make these connections work on various devices and how to filter information through friends.


"I think both companies start with the premise that the most valuable information in the world is the one that comes from the people you care about," he said. "Building technologies that leverage those relationships everywhere you go is where we're both starting from."


Cox would not say if Facebook plans to incorporate FriendFeed's real time search capabality onto it's site. He said Facebook has already been testing real-time seacg that FriendFeed has done a great job with own search. Financial terms were not disclosed.

10 List to Improve Facebook Ettiquette

As people becoming more familiar with Facebook. Since Facebook has a different social networking style it also requires a different approach from users.

Here are some tips to better improve you Facebook experience.

Filter Friend - This means that you should always consider who you should let in on your friend connections or not. Cause if you just click accept all the time somebody adds you in their list by the time you get 100 + friends then you'll be flooded with all kinds of request.
Limit your updates - While Facebook is connected to Twitter and that offers a convenient way of letting your friends know what you are up to. It doesn't mean that you keep on clicking and pounding on that tweet button all the time. Because not every thing you do is interesting to some people.
Let is pass - Now, if you are bored and you see a very intriguing survey poll or a test. And you take it. And you find it amusing. You don't have to always share it with a friend.

No pokes. If you are over 16, don't "poke" people -- seriously.

Stay away from Groups - Don't just create groups. Create groups that you are interested in. For example make a group for your own friends or your classmates or co-workers.

Beware of embarrassing photos. Resist the temptation to post every last photo from your birthday party on Facebook, particularly images that may cast your guests in an unflattering light. If you have any doubt, ask the subjects of any iffy pics in advance whether they'd mind your posting the shots; then abide by their wishes.

Tag lightly. The same thing goes for tagging: The people in a picture might not object to its being online as long as their names are not associated with it.

Or … untag thyself. It is no breach of etiquette to untag yourself from any photograph. Remember, though, that untagging is permanent: You can't be retagged to a photo once the tag is removed.

Don't accept - Sometimes when we open our account to see if somebody sent you a message and you feel excited about it. And get dissapointed because nobody sent you a message but somebody sent you a friend request. Don't accept it immediately just because you are in dire need of Facebook activity or you want to fill out those empty spaces in your friends box. Think twice before accepting requests.


Limit Chatting - When you see that somebody is open for a chat session, think twice before clicking that button. Cause that person may be on Facebook but they may be not in the mood for a chat session.