What Facebook knows about you

A wake-up call to those who like placing loads and loads of personal information and spends loads and loads of time on Facebook.

Share YouTube video in Facebook

This seems quite an easy enough task, but that's where it can become frustrating.  With so many changes Facebook is making to its interface, it is also changing the way other applications interact with it.  YouTube, for example, has a Facebook button right under the Share options.  But when you use this, what comes up in your profile is only the url and not the video itself.

I discovered by trial and error how to circumvent this.  And this one works now; who knows, it won't work in the next Facebook facelift?  But until then, on to this very easy method!

Link Facebook to Twitter, and other link-ups

This is old news I know, but in case you are still not aware of it, this may be a good thing to have for your social media efforts.

Warning: phone information available on Facebook

I've just received this information from a friend on Facebook.  I checked it out and it is true.  This can become a significant problem, especially for those who add every Dick, Tom and Harry who requests to be their friend as they may be sharing more information than they bargained for.  Here is the message:

PHONE NUMBERS OF ALL YOUR FRIENDS are now on Facebook! No joke - go to the top right of the screen, click on Account, then click on Edit Friends, go left on the screen and click on Contacts. All phone numbers are published. Please repost this on your Status, so your friends can remove their numbers and thus prevent abuse.

Add the Notes App on your Facebook Page

I was helping out an organisation put up their Facebook Page and was asked to place a welcome message.  Unfortunately, there is a character limit on the Wall, so the next best thing is to add it as a Note.  But Notes is not one of the default Apps on the Page.  Here is the easy procedure to add the Notes App.

Secure connection for your Facebook session

Security Tip : While on FB, look at your URL address (the very top box on your screen.) If you see "http:" instead of "https:" then you DO NOT have a secure session and can be hacked. Go to Account - Account Settings - Account Security - click Change. Check box (Browse Facebook on a secure connection), click Save. FB has automatically set it on the non-secure setting.

(this is a tip that has been making its way around Facebook.  I've done this about a month ago and I have been on a secure connection ever since)

Adding Facebook button / like box in your Google Sites

I wanted to add a Like Box at the sidebar of a website hosted at Google Sites.  However, I learned that Google Sites sidebars do not accept custom codes.  I have verified that myself because I tried to place the Like Box onto the sidebar before Googling an answer for it when I found that it won't work.

However, the Like Box might just work on a page itself through a Google Gadget Editor, as discussed in the Google Sites Forum.  But I do not want to place the Like Box on a page....

In the meantime, I have found out that a Facebook Banner will work on the sidebar.  I'm just not sure yet if the "status" line will update itself, because I've found out that this does not update in Blogspot.

If that does not work, then I will just chuck in a "Find us on Facebook" button instead.