Facebook Tips and Tricks That You Should Know

Facebook, widely known as FB, is one of the most popular social networking sites people of all ages are addicted to these days. It has millions of subscribers to date. Unfortunately, not all of them really know how to navigate and make use of all the cool apps that Facebook offers. What a waste! If you’re one of these FB-newbies, you need not worry any more.  This post will help you to make most out of your Facebook profile. There are not some Facebook secret tips but most of these Facebook hacks and tips are uknown to many Fb users.

However, with people adding anyone and everyone they know (long lost friends, friends colleagues, Distant relatives),organizing and maximizing the value out of your time on Facebook also becomes a challenge. We give you these Facebook Hacks & tricks to make your life easier.

Are you ready to have your FB profile be the subject of your friends envy? Just follow these simple Facebook tips and tricks and your Fb profile will become hip and cool in a zap.

Useful Fb tricks for Enhanced Facebook experience:

1. Appear Online Only to Selected Friends:

Facebook chat is one of the coolest and most useful features in FB. My dilemma, however, was how to limit the number of people I chat with every time I log in. I certainly can’t accommodate them all but I don’t want them to feel like I’m rejecting them when I don’t send them a reply. I didn’t know back then that it is possible to appear online only to a few selected friends. A friend of mine actually gave me this idea which I’m sure would be of use to you, too.

Here’s how to do it: 

Go to Chat found at the lower right side of the page and then, click on Friends List. A small window will appear where you can type and create a new list.  You could name it anything you want. In this example I named it “Blocklist”. On your newly created list, select and start dragging those names that you wish to block. Then set your status to appear offline to this particular group of friends. With this, you now appear completely invisible to them. Try it now.

2. Upload Photos and Videos Using Your Mobile Phone:

The last time I went to Bantayan Island, I met this cool new friend who has uploaded his fresh photos and videos directly from his Blackberry Phone onto his Facebook account instantaneously. Interestingly, this process is quite simple and you can do it on all smartphones. Just visit this link and learn how you could start sharing your videos and photos via phone and email.

3. Cool Magic Circles on Facebook: This is really simple, though I admit I didn’t get this the first time. This cool magic circles appearing on your page is just one of the many secret tricks you’ll find in Facebook. You might want to give this a try.

Here’s how: Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key then press up & down.

Now, just in case it doesn’t work on your first try, try reloading your page again by pressing F5 and repeat the process.

4. Quickly Upload Photos from Picasa Application to Facebook:

It was a great challenge for me to find an alternative photo hosting application, an application that would really work to my liking. Picasa happens to be it. I find this application to be useful in sharing and organizing photos of various events like reunions and parties. It has plenty of exciting features; one of them is the ability to upload photos directly to your FB account. Here’s what you need to do to download and install PICASA version 2 or 3:

• Click here to download.
• Once the installation is complete, click Picasa application here to install the plugin.
• Next, add the new Facebook button to your Picasa.

That’s it. You may now start uploading and sharing your photos using Picasa.

5. Display Animated Gifs On Status Update With A Play Button

Why aren’t animated gifs on Facebook yet? With giphy gifs it already is. Just find a gif that you want from giphy.com then share the link at your Facebook page.

6. Use Facebook search like a pro:

Have you experienced looking for someone in Facebook with such difficulty? If yes, then perhaps you might want to try using the Search Box. This is a powerful tool that can help you find your old friends, celebrities, organizations, or your favorite band with no difficulty. Go ahead and be like a pro – click here to learn how.

7. Facebook flip status updates:

Are you in the mood to have a little fun? Try flipping your FB status upside down. I’m sure your friends will be tilting their heads too trying to read your message. Ain’t that funny? It sure is!  Go ahead and flip your Facebook status now. Click here.

8 : Changing fonts on Facebook status:

And I’m saving the best for the last. By default your status update have only one font, but you can always use 3rd party service to change the font of your status update. Here is a cool website which you can use to change font for your Facebook status updates.

9. Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

So there are keyboard shortcuts on Google+, and also on YouTube, it’s no surprise that Facebook has their own set of keyboard shortcuts as well. Here are some Facebook keyboard shortcuts that you can use while browsing Facebook on Chrome for Mac.

Shortcuts	Descriptions
Ctrl + Opt + 0	Help
Ctrl + Opt + 1	Home
Ctrl + Opt + 2	Timeline
Ctrl + Opt + 3	Friends
Ctrl + Opt + 4	Inbox
Ctrl + Opt + 5	Notifications
Ctrl + Opt + 6	Account Settings
Ctrl + Opt + 7	Privacy
Ctrl + Opt + 8	About
Ctrl + Opt + 9	Terms
Ctrl + Opt + M	New Message
C	Comment on a story in News Feed
J and K	Scroll between News Feed stories
I	Like or unlike a selected story
Q	Search for a friend to chat with
P	Focus on the text box when making a post
/	Search
Ctrl + G	Search conversations
Ctrl + Q	Show/hide keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl + Delete	Archive/unarchive conversations
Ctrl + C	Mark as spam
Ctrl + C	Start a new message
Ctrl + I	Go to inbox
Ctrl + U	Go to other