Category: Social Media

Image Credit: Christine Mariner / Design Pics/Valueline/Getty Images Facebook is a social network that helps you connect with family, friends, work colleagues and other acquaintances. You can share status updates, photos, videos and content you find on the Web with those you’ve befriended on the Facebook service. If you’ve never signed up with Facebook before […]

If you’re looking to spice things up in Facebook, try adding an interesting symbol to your comments, posts or messages. There are a variety of ways to add these symbols, usually called emojis or emoticons, and there are well over a thousand to choose from. Using Unicode Emojis Unicode emojis are simple icons that appear […]

For many Web-savvy people, confusing blogs with Twitter seems nearly impossible. However, if you’re not on top of the latest trends online, it’s easier than most people think to mix up the two. Blogs and Twitter do have some things in common, such as sharing information online. In fact, Twitter is a form of blogging […]

Image Credit: monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Chances are, there are many people on Facebook who you know, but aren’t connected to yet. Facebook makes it possible for you to locate these individuals by allowing you to search by location, workplace and school. Therefore, if you want to find people you know in your area — or simply […]

Image Credit: Sitthiphong/iStock/GettyImages Searching by birthdate on Facebook can help find a person with a common name or locate people with the same birthday as you. While Facebook currently doesn’t have a way to search for members by birthday alone, you may still be able to locate a specific person if you know some of […]

Image Credit: MariaDubova/iStock/Getty Images Facebook offers several support options if you have an issue with your Facebook account. You can search the Facebook Help Center and find a wide variety of answers to solve your problem. If you do not find a solution, Facebook allows you to complete a form and email a question or […]

Facebook can help you jump start your social life. Image Credit: supersizer/E+/GettyImages Facebook is an excellent tool for staying in touch with friends and family members, but a social network can never replace the many benefits of in-person interaction. You can use Facebook’s Nearby Friends feature to alert you when one of your favorite Facebook […]

Image Credit: Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision/GettyImages Although Facebook offers search capabilities that allow anyone with an account to find a friend by typing in that person’s name, there are times when you may want to send someone your Facebook profile link so they can access it directly. It’s easy to find the Facebook URL for your profile […]

Changing your news feed settings can cause you to temporarily lose some posts. Facebook allows you to follow and respond to the exploits of friends, family and colleagues through their status updates and other posts. Sometimes, however, you may try to check a post you saw previously, only to learn that it has disappeared. If […]

YouTube has eliminated video-length time limits. You can download videos from Facebook by using third-party websites that extract download links from the Facebook website. These sites allow users to save videos from other streaming sites, such as Vimeo, Dailymotion and MySpace. Once the Facebook video you want is downloaded to your computer, you can upload […]