Technoholik

It was just few days back that we informed you about Facebook’s new ‘Happening Now’ feature that Facebook team planned to roll out (as a testing feature) for limited amount of users. Guess what? The idea of Facebook for testing and launching this ‘Happening Now’ feature is extremely opposed by the large number of people using Facebook.

In previous post of ‘Happening Now’ mentioned Facebook’s statement about its new feature, which says:

Mark Zuckerberg and his team always comes up with some new exciting and mind-boggling features for Facebook audience. Today, Facebook team via their Official Twitter account has reported a new surprising feature which helps a Facebook user to tag his/her friends in an entirely different manner inside a Facebook post.

Previously, Facebook users were able to use this feature by typing the ‘@’ sign followed by a friend’s name, but now there is no need of ‘at sign’ for tagging friends in a post, by the introduction of this new feature a user can tag a friend by simply writing his/her name and selecting it from the drop down menu.

The picture below will guide you in 3 easy steps on how it actually works:

Step 1: Type your friends name starting with a capital letter: for example ‘Jeff’ instead of ‘jeff’. (Note: If you begin writing a friend’s name with a small letter, then this feature will not be able to display you the drop-down list of friends)

Step 2: Select the friend you want to tag from the drop-down menu and press right click or enter button:Following this step will create a hyperlink to the selected friend’s profile in your post. (Note: There is no limit of tagging friends in a post, which means you can tag as many friends as you want, until you reach the character limit)

Step 3: Shorten your friend’s name: Now this is something unique, the feature let you erase the first name or last name from the tag – for example, you tagged Jeff Kanter, now you can either keep ‘Jeff’ by removing Kanter or alter it other way around by saving the tag as ‘Kanter’ and deleting Jeff.

However, this new feature is not been introduced in Facebook app for Android, iPhone and other Smartphones. Let us know if you would like developers to add this feature in Facebook application for Smartphones and Tablets by Commenting in the Box below.

Though Facebook was ultimately not in the mix to buy Skype, the relationship is still going strong and will reportedly result in Skype’s video chat service finally coming to Facebook next week.TechCrunch reports  that Facebook’s“awesome” announcement July 6 will include word that desktop Facebook users will be able to conduct video calls via Skype.

Updated. Hulu’s Facebook Connect integration apparently isn’t going as planned. The ability to log in is offline as of this writing, with many people reporting issues with the sign-in option earlier today. According to some, those issues led some users to be signed in to other people’s Hulu accounts, exposing their user account data in the process.

From being just a fad, Facebook has grown to the point where users are being afflicted with FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder). And children are as vulnerable as adults.

A standard nine student of a reputed city school had to miss a term because he was in depression. He would make up excuses to miss school, grew listless and would spend a lot of time locked up in his room. Concerned by his behavior, his parents took him to a psychologist and that’s when he divulged the cause of his angst. They found out that his depression was not due to academics, but because his friends from school had taken to teasing him about his weight on a social networking site. After sessions of counseling, coupled with intervention on the part of the school teachers, he finally came out of his depression.

A matter of great concern was that he was targeted on a social networking site, which is a public forum. This is not a one-off occurrence; many such incidents have come to light in recent years on social networking sites, and looking at the ever increasing number of kids signing up at social networking sites, it will be a serious issue in the coming years.

At a time when the virtual space, especially social networks are rife with spam attacks, and hackers on the loose, an attempt by a bunch of students surely seems to be a force to reckon with.

Students belonging to the University of California’s graduate class, Md. Sazzadur Rahman and Ting-Kai-Huang, and a company run by the school’s alumnus, put their heads together and developed a free Facebook application called MyPageKeeper.org, which the founders claim is capable of detecting spam, malware that are found on the walls, and news feeds of the user’s Facebook account. The app, according to the founders aims at delivering real-time protection from viruses, spam to the users. Web protection service, StopTheHacker.com encouraged the construction of the app. 

The recent spate of malware attacks on Facebook, and other web domains have given more than enough reasons for attempts like these. Facebook, at present has over a staggering 700 million members, and miscreants have found it to be a place where it was easy to target people into letting spam into their profiles. Contradicting this, MyPageKeeper.org once installed into one’s profile, begins actively scanning the user’s wall posts, news feeds to see if any malicious content was posted. If found any, the app would immediately notify the user of the same and prompt him to remove the malicious content. The app, for now can be downloaded for free offwww.MyPageKeeper.org. Although just recently started, the app already has won the confidence of several users.