Facebook Messaging Systems Change
11 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Social Media Tags: facebook, facebook changes, Facebook messaging, Social Media, social media changes, social media sources, social media updates
You may have noticed like myself that Facebook will no longer allow you to post a very long status update on your profile page. Last night it restricted my post to about 400 characters and forced me to put the rest of my message in the comment section of my post. Why this is you ask.
Facebook Messages combines SMS, chat, messaging and e-mail into one communication platform, announced since November. It takes away longer messages and subject titles in favor of shorter, quicker bursts of communication. Users will also have the option of inheriting an @facebook.com e-mail address for themselves.
I have also read that the email addresses will be (blank)@fb.com and not (blank)@facebook.com. These changes are scheduled to be integrated into our FB accounts slowly to stop the change shock. You know how evil it is when you are used to using your FB account one way and a change is made and you have to reassess how to use your features. For example, security setting changes. Is it me or has there seem to be a lot of these lately. Who knows!
I dont think this facebook email will end up replacing some of the other standards because of the restrictions put on facebook in the office. Most companies do not allow their employees access to Facebook on company computers because of the fear of lack of work that will be done and I can understand that. However, yahoo and gmail should not suffer too much because most companies allow these sites if any internet access at all.
We shall see what other changes in the future Facebook has for us and I will let you know when I hear of another change.
How To Make Foxes Appear On Your Frontier In Frontierville
22 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Social Media Tags: app tricks, facebook, Facebook aps, FB app tricks, Frontierville tips
I have been having trouble with this for some time.
It seems foxes love to come out when you do not need them for a mission, but God help you if you need them for the 15 fox mission. I have had this one open for some time and checked several forums.
It seems that the consensious is that the more chicken that you have the better your chances. One person posted that it helps if your chickens are of different ages.
I have found that doing the whole lot of them at one time helps. Not a few chickens here and there. Waste about 30 energy points on them at one time and cross your fingers. I have also hired friends with higher reputation levels to feed my chickens and this helps too because it is feeding them all at one time really fast.
I have to admit that this is one of the hardest missions to finish because a fox will not come out everytime you feed your chickens, guaranteed! lol
I hope this post helps you.
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Facebook’s Most Recent Changes
29 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Social Media Tags: facebook, facebook tools, social media connections, social media marketing, social media tools, Yahoo, yahoo email
Facebooks most recent changes.
Facebook Fan Pages are the first to change. Instead of you becoming a fan you now have to click that you like the promotional brand.
Stats show that people hit the like button two times more than they do become a fan. So now the fan wording and the like button will both give access to News Feed information from the promoting brand.
Another change is that Facebook statuses can now be updated through Yahoo Mail. You can also now import your Facebook friends information into your yahoo email address list. Now there will be a status update box that appears in your inbox for you to update. Also when someone emails you that is your Facebook friend, their profile picture will show in your email.
What does this mean for us. More features and more connectivity. Great!!!
To get more up to date information about social media, check out other posts by Rene Uriegas.
Facebook Reset Password Scam
23 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Internet marketing Tags: disaster plan, facebook, Internet marketing, internet scams, social media scams
It has been said that millions of people may have been affected by this Facebook account security sham.
If you are using Facebook for marketing purposes this may seriously affect you.
This email was sent out as a phishing tool to get sensitive information from. It does not seem that scams like these are going to decrease anytime soon. They are even getting past your best filters and looking more and more like the real deal.
It is now more important that you develop a back up plan and resources so that you are not caught with your pants down so to speak if this sort of thing happens to you. There are tons of tools online that you can use to make this a very simple and easy process.
If it turns out that you are someone that you know falls prey to this Facebook scam email make sure to first go to Facebook and change your password. Make sure you password is very strong containing caps and lowercase letters and numbers or symbols. This will help you to not be subjected in the future. Also it is very important to report the issue and to tell others so that it does not happen to them as well.
It is very important in the internet marketing and social media game that you do not hide something like this. Let people know that this is happening. The more open you are the better response you will receive socially. Facebook did let people know about the email scam as soon as it was reported, this goes to show great integrity.
How Much Time Do People Really Spend On Social Media Sites?
28 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Social Media Tags: facebook, myspace, social media tools, social networking, social sites, twitter
Browsing again today, I watched this video which shows the amount of time spent on average on social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. They also showed a comparison of social media time spent for the U.S. to other countries. Come on Japan, the social media buzz is about the one thing that you are not ahead in. Props to Australia, you guys have more time on your hands. Check it out!
Is Social Media On Its Way Out?
23 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
by reneuriegas in Social Media Tags: facebook, Social Media, social media marketing, social networking, social networking sites, twitter
Is Social Media slowing down…
I don’t think so! Recent data released shows that more time is being spent on social sites like Twitter and Facebook now more than ever. It even says that the regular user spends more than five hours on social networking sites in December alone.
Facebook is showing a wopping over 200 million users which takes up over 60% of the social networking communities.
It seems without surprise that the United States is the home of the most social network connectors clocking in at a huge over 140 million people. You can see more about these numbers, here.
I read a post today stating that even your large and small resorts are pouring tons of money into social media this year in order to boost their image and reach out to different demographics. Here is one by Vail Resorts for you to view.
I mean did you ever think you could see what some 1000 of your friends are doing in one day or how many times you may see @Rene in a sentence. Welcome to the world of social media. Hold on to your hats because it aint over yet!
