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How to Use Facebook to Your Advantage
How to Use Facebook to Your Advantage
L Magazine, Bukola, Bukola Oriola shares tips on how to use Facebook effectively. She explained to the guests at the recent launch of L Magazine that Facebook provides an opportunity to learn and to gain valuable information for use both online and offline.
She discourages the audience from going to rant or ”gossip” on the largest social media platform to engaging in a manner that brings…
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1.2 billion Users of Facebook messenger...
1.2 billion Users of Facebook messenger…
Facebook messanger now counts more than 1.2 billion monthly active users, Facebook announced Tuesday. That’s up from 1 billion users last July.
Facebook attributes much of the recent growth to the expansion of Messenger Lite, the version of the app launched last fall for slower connections and older phones, as well as the rapid expansion of new features.
In the past few weeks alone,…
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Facebook: Please Use Responsibly
Facebook: Please Use Responsibly
Social media is a critical marketing tool in the digital age. In this age, Facebook still leads the pack with 1.13 billion daily active users. If you’re reading this article, you most likely have a Facebook account as well. The question becomes: how do you use Facebook? How often do you use Facebook or social media in general? Are you being healthyabout it, or is it a problem? Do you need to go…
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সাবধান, এই মহিলাকে আপনার ফেসবুকে দেখলেই ব্লক করুন!
সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় বন্ধু হওয়া নিয়ে ব্যবহারকারীরা তেমন বিশেষ কিছু জিনিস দেখেন না। তবে মিউচুয়াল ফ্রেন্ডে নজর রাখেন প্রায় প্রত্যেকেই। চেনা ভার্চুয়াল বন্ধুরা তালিকায় থাকলে ফ্রেন্ড রিকোয়েস্ট কনফার্ম করতে কেউ দ্বিধা করেন না। আর এই প্রবণতাকে কাজে লাগিয়েই কেউ কোনো অসাধু কাজো করতে পারেন। সেরকমই এক সতর্কবার্তা ছড়িয়েছে ফেসবুক জুড়ে। কোন বিষয়ে সতর্ক হবেন ব্যবহারকারীরা? মধু শাহ নামে এক মহিলার প্রোফাইল…
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What’s in a billion? Facebook users hit milestone in 1 day
By Barbara Ortutay, AP, Aug 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP)--A billion people logged in to Facebook on a single day this week, marking the first time that many members used the world’s largest online social network in a 24-hour period. The number amounts to one-seventh of the Earth’s population.
Monday’s milestone was mostly symbolic for Facebook, which boasts nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the network in his Harvard dorm room 11 years ago, reflected on the occasion with a post.
“‘I’m so proud of our community for the progress we’ve made,” he wrote. “Our community stands for giving every person a voice, for promoting understanding and for including everyone in the opportunities of our modern world.”
Facebook achieved 1 billion overall users in 2012, but this week’s milestone is perhaps more significant. It means the social network has become an essential service in many of our lives, a sort of online connective tissue that binds us to friends, family and even strangers who find themselves in similar circumstances. We need it daily, or more.
Facebook has long sought to connect everyone in the world with its service. A lofty goal, it’s not so different from the three other tech superpowers that are changing commerce, communication and worming their way into every part of our lives. Apple has its gadgets, Amazon delivers our every physical need and Google, well, when was the last time you went a day without Google?
(Google, incidentally, receives an average of 100 billion search requests per day, which makes it likely that more than a billion people use it daily.)
Most of the billion people who logged in to Facebook on Monday were outside the U.S. and Canada. Of Facebook’s overall users, more than 83 percent come from other countries. In a video posted Thursday, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, mulled what a billion really means.
“Look closely, and you’ll see more than a number,” she said in the video, a montage showing Facebook users’ photos, posts and videos from all over the world. “It’s moms and little brothers and cousins and cousins of cousins. There’s Sam, Dante, Ingrid and Lawrence. It’s camping trips, religion ... there’s likes, loves and unfortunately still some hate. Look past the number. You’ll find friendships.”
As it grows, Facebook’s next billions of members will likely come from outside the U.S., from India, South America, Africa and perhaps even China, where the site is officially blocked.
To help expand its flock, Facebook has been working to make its service easier to use on the basic, old-fashioned phones used in many parts of the world. It’s also working to get Internet access to the roughly two-thirds of the world’s population that is not yet connected--or about 5 billion people.
Two Hours Daily On Facebook May Develop Suicidal Thoughts Among Kids
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Two Hours Daily On Facebook May Develop Suicidal Thoughts Among Kids
Spending more than two hours daily on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram can put your kids at the risk of developing poor mental health, high psychological distress and even suicidal thoughts, new research shows.
“The findings send an important message to parents and suggest an opportunity to increase mental health support service offerings on these websites,” said researchers Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga and Rosamund Lewis from Ottawa Public Health in Canada.
The duo compared time spent using social networking sites to the teenagers’ self-reports of psychological well-being and unmet needs for mental health support.
They analysed data on students in grades seven-12 from the “Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey”. Nearly 25 percent of students reported using social networking sites for more than two hours daily.
“However, this is where we see social networking sites, which may be a problem for some, and a solution for some,” said Brenda K. Wiederhold from the Interactive Media Institute in San Diego, California.
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HOW TO USE FACEBOOK
FACEBOOK is widely use by a large number of people all over the world, but many of us users do not actually know how to use the said SNS properly, so here are the guidelines that will teach people how to have proper etiquette on using a social networking site such as Facebook.
For Teenagers:
How you present yourself on Facebook says a lot about who you are—just like what you say and do at school or with your friends. In all public places, online and off, it’s important to represent yourself as the kind of person you want to be.
Facebook is a community where people use their real names and identities, so we’re all accountable for our actions. It’s against the Facebook Terms to lie about your name or age. Help us keep the community safe by reporting fake profiles to Facebook if you ever see them.
It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and write or do something that may seem hilarious at the time. But remember, what you say can really hurt someone, or come back to haunt you. Think before you post. It only takes a second or two. Ask yourself if you really want to say it. Make sure you don’t mind if your friends, classmates, or teachers hear about it later.
Also remember that any information you post – whether in a comment, a note, or a video chat – might be copied, pasted, and distributed in ways that you didn't intend. Before you post, ask yourself - would I be OK if this content was shared widely at school or with my future employer?
At the same time, we all make mistakes. If you find yourself wishing you hadn’t said or done something, it’s never too late to apologize.
If you ever receive hurtful or abusive messages or posts on your profile page you have options. Depending on how serious the situation is, you can ignore it, ask the person to stop, unfriend or block the person, or tell your parents, a teacher, a counselor, or another adult you trust. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
Be sure to always report abusive content—whether it’s on your profile page, or someone else’s. You can also report inappropriate Pages, Groups, Events and fake or impostor profiles. (Remember that reporting is confidential, so no one will know who made the report.)
Tips for Teens
Don’t share your password with anyone.
Only accept friend requests from people you know.
Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your parents, teachers, or employer to see.
Be authentic. The real you is better than anything you might pretend to be.
Learn about privacy settings, and review them often.
For Employers and Employees:
Some Facebook posts by workers criticizing their employers are "protected concerted activity," according to the National Labor Relations Board, which also found some company social-media guidelines overly broad. Is Facebook safe for workers?
Imagine you referred to your supervisor as a "scumbag" in a Facebook post read by your coworkers. You might expect to be looking for a new job very soon thereafter, especially if your employer has a policy that prohibits making disparaging remarks about the company or posting anything about the organization or its managers without permission.
In a case involving Facebook posts by workers for an ambulance service, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that the employee's name-calling was "protected activity" because it occurred away from the workplace and on non-work time.
The employer had refused to allow the worker's union representative to participate in the employee's response to a customer complaint against her. The NLRB found the company's dismissal of the employee illegal and the "scumbag" comment part of a protected discussion about a legitimate work-related matter.
Further, the NLRB concluded that the ambulance service's "Internet and blogging policy" was overly broad; the policy's references to "offensive conduct" and "rude or discourteous behavior" were illegal, according to the agency's decision.
The outcomes of this case and 13 other investigations by the NLRB involving social media are discussed in a PDF that's available for download from the board's site .
Crafting an effective social-media policy means more meetings
Most recent court cases involving employees fired for their Facebook use have been decided in favor of the dismissed worker. Even when the firing stands the court may find some of the employee's work-related Facebook activity protected. For example, a BMW salesman was fired for posting a complaint about the lousy hot dogs his employer served to customers, and for publishing on his Facebook account a photo of a workplace mishap.
Don't let a Facebook post get you in trouble with the boss
I'm sure the hours people spend to create, implement, and manage an organization's social-media policy is time well spent, but nearly all the resulting policies will have a pronounced management slant. Here are some common-sense guidelines for the rank and file.
Expend all internal avenues first. Don't take your problem outside the walls unless you truly have no other choice. Even if your Facebook posts are available only to your friends, anything you upload to the service can easily acquire a life of its own. It's a lot easier to keep the genie in the bottle than to get it back in.
If you have to be negative, look for a positive spin. Facebook is so immediate there's not much room for second thoughts. Any negative impression you share with your Facebook friends can resonate long after you click the Post button. Deleting a post is as easy as clicking the icon in the top-right corner and choosing Remove Post. The Facebook Help Center explains how to delete entries from the Timeline. Unfortunately, it may not take long for the damage to be done.
Not everybody will get the joke. As far as I can tell, the people who like to send lists of the funniest fill-in-the-blank on the Internet and the people who like to receive such comical compendia have found each other. Either that or my spam filter is more effective than imagined.
Separate your work-related Facebook posts. The safest course is not to friend any coworkers, but this is not always practical. Also, your employer may monitor all of your Internet use, including Facebook. Many companies regularly scan the Facebook accounts of employees in addition to the social-media searches that have become a routine part of the hiring process.
Facebook's lists make it easy to limit the information you share with coworkers, clients, and other work-related contacts. The Facebook Help Center describes how to create and use lists.
Especially when the subject is work, keep it clean. I admit to showing my age by objecting to posts that include cuss words. I've been known to express myself on occasion using certain Anglo-Saxon derivations not suitable for all ages. But Facebook and other social media are the Internet version of the town square. It's always a good idea to watch your language in public.
By: Camille Ruth P. Fortun
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