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With over 300 million FaceBook users actively using FaceBook, it has become the new area for hackers to spread viruses and steal your account information.
Below are some tips to avoid becoming a victim.
- Install Anti Virus and keep it up to date. AVG is the most reliable for Social Media.
- At the moment all viruses are spread via Facebook email and Wall posts.
- If you see numerous friends posting the same message with links then contact them off FaceBook and warn them that their FaceBook account may have been compromised.
- Do not open a link telling you to go to a YouTube video with a link that uses http://bit.ly . YouTube have their own link shortener http://youtu.be .
- If a message from a friend does not sound like them. It probably is not them. Delete the message and let your friend know of the message.
- If your account does have a virus, run a virus checker and then change your Facebook password.
- If you have completed step 5, then email all of your FaceBook friends to let them now and suggest these tips to them. The more vigilant we are against this the less likely FaceBook will be targeted.
- If you click a link and are asked to log back into FaceBook DON’T. This is a common tactic to steal your login details.
- If you add people to your account that you do not know and they send you a message stating that you are in a video or pic etc then remember that they do not know you. This will be a virus.
- Join our FanPage for the most up to date information about new viruses and FaceBook threats along with the best solution to rectify the problem.
Net Mania Fan Page is at http://facebook.com/NetMania or by using the FaceBook URL shortener http://fb.me/NetMania .
It has been a number of months since FaceBook released vanity URL’s (your name in the URL) for personal pages and then to Groups and Fan Pages. An example is our FaceBook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/NetMania .
Initially a FanPage or group required 1000 members or fans to be eligible for a vanity URL.
Sometime later FaceBook publicly announced that it had reduced the limit to 100 users. Both requirements caused many small organisations to cry out and ask for the requirements to be reduced.
FaceBook without any major publicity announcements changed the criteria to a minimum of 25 members or fans thus creating new opportunities for millions of Fan Pages and groups.
Now many admins and would be creators of groups and Fan Pages are asking how to obtain their new vanity URL.
Simply log into FaceBook and then visit http://www.faceBook.com/username or as we mentioned in our earlier post http://fb.me/username .
FaceBook recently added a new shortened URL “fb.me” to make it simpler to access pages, profiles and groups.
Initially it may appear that there is no need for such an URL shortener as most people have heard of FaceBook and know the FaceBook Url www.faceBook.com .
But there are 3 main advantages:
- The increasingly popular Twitter service with its 140 character limit can show readers that it is a facebook link and promote your brand at the same time.
- The popular mobile market that access the web via their smart phones and other mobile devices.
- It is much easier to give people a short URL to your pictures on your profile.
There are 2 main disadvantage at the moment.
- There is no way to track how many clicks your links are getting which will make online marketing with the fb.me URL difficult to analyse its success.
- If your Fan Page does not meet the minimum criteria of 25 Fans then you do not have a vanity url and therefore your Fan Page will not have a memorable fb.me URL.
The benefits of having statistics and other analytical tools associated with a URL shortener are so emence that we would expect that FaceBook will roll out the new features in the near future.
FaceBook recently released a new Friend Feed that limits the number of friends posts you can see on your wall. This has upset many FaceBook users with a myriad of complaints arising on the FaceBook page and a Group asking FaceBook to use the old feature.
For the interim, here is a qucik fix to the issue.
Go to your HOME page. Select LIVE FEED. Scroll to bottom, click Edit Options. You’ll see NEWS FEED SETTINGS. Change 250 to 5,000. You may have to remind FB that you are on the Live Feed page: at top of page, click News Feed, then click BACK to Live Feed. Now scroll back down to the bottom and follow the instructions.
Today FaceBook announced the ability to tag friends, Fan Pages and groups in your status updates by using the @ then your friends etc name. FaceBook call this new feature status tagging.
Simply type your message and then add the @ symbol. This will put a link to your friend/Fan Page or Groups. At the bottom of your status box will appear a list of your friends, fan pages and groups in a manner similar to the search options in FaceBook.
Apart from the large social benefits, there is an increased opportunity for businesses and brands to be status tagged with both positive and negative comments from happy or unhappy customers. Considering the fast spread of news amongst friends businesses and brand owners will need to keep a watchful eye this new service.
FaceBook announced that New Zealand users of FaceBook is at the 1 million users mark or 25% of the population. This is a 150% growth increase in the past year. http://www.insidefacebook.com/facebook-global-market-monitor/
This makes FaceBook the New Zealand’s most popular social media site and a serious consideration for New Zealand businesses to explore advertising opportunities and creating an online presence for thier businesses.
Although FaceBook.com released usernames or vanity URLs for Fan Pages today at 04:00 UTC, they did this morning change the minimal criteria for users to obtain a username for their Fan Pages from 25 users to over Pages with over 100 fans.
We understand that this is part of a staggered approach from FaceBook to ensure that TradeMarks and large brand names get first rights to brand names.
We will keep you updated on when smaller Fan pages will become eligible for their own username.
FaceBook users at sign up and from their Friends pages are presented with a service called “Friend Feed” – an option to import their contacts from Gmail, HotMail and various other email and Instant Messenger accounts and services. http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/?ref=sb
Most of us used FriendFeed as an efficient manner to keep in contact with friends and colleagues who were already on FaceBook or to perhaps invite them to join Face Book.
In the past several weeks users may have noticed that their “Friends Suggestion” list increased substantially in size and was often rather accurate for no known reason. Although there has been speculation that FaceBook had kept peoples contacts on their server, FaceBook had never admitted it till now. But now, when a user uses the Friend Feed service a dialogue box appears with the following text:
“We will not store your password after we import your friends’ information.
We may use the email addresses you upload through this importer to help you connect with friends, including using this information to generate Suggestions for you and your contacts on Facebook. If you don’t want us to store this information, visit this page.”
Now users can clear their stored imported contact lists by using the new Face Book tool at http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php
Most properties that are for sale and rent are advertised on the Internet, whether on the real estate agents web site, a Realtors web site or an auction web site. Advertising properties on the web is the most convenient manner to find the dream property and the most effective manner to sort out those potential people who are interested in the property.
More often than not, Real Estate Agents and property investors create an advertisement for a property that they hope will entice potential customers to ring them and meet with them. This defeats the purpose of online advertising and will just waste your time and money as potential customers move on to the next property they are interested in.
To gain the maximum advantage from advertising properties online, the advertiser should:
1. Include inside and outside photos of the house.
2. Use Google Maps to show the location
3. Use Google Street View
4. Give a good description of the property
5. Include email as well as your phone number as a means of contact.
6. Don’t have any hidden surprises such as fees you did not mention on the advert.
Real Estate Agents should also do the following to maintain and gain new relationships and coverage:
7. Use Twitter to send property updates and market trends.
8. Create a Fan Page for your self so that your clients can give feedback and un edited testimonials. Beware, if you are a dishonest Real Estate Agent i would not suggest doing this.
9. Maintain a regular blog with tips and new emerging trends.
10. Utilise online communications more. The telephone is not the only form of communication.
FaceBook will release Vanity url’s ie a FaceBook address with your option of a name in it such as http:/www.facebook.com/JohnSmith as opposed to the current system of un memorable names. Release date is Saturday 13th at 4.01pm. Countdown clock here http://www.facebook.com/username/
Users can choose a name for their profile and Fan Pages (If you have 1,000 fans before May 31). For individuals and companies who have common names you should be ready at 4pm to register your names before some one else does. The consequences are significant if you miss your prime name as eventually vanity URL names will become the normal way to find companies and individuals on FaceBook. If you miss your company name then your competitors will be gaining your traffic and visitors.
Your vanity url should be the same as your organiastion domain name to avoid future confusion with your customers.
For individuals you should consider future employment prospects will be able to find you more easily so you should use a name that you will still be happy with in the future.
FaceBook have made names non transferable. This means you get one chance at your vanity url name and removes much of the motivation of cyber squatters to bulk register and resell names at a later date.
FaceBook vanity URL’s are now in line with Bebo, My Space and the many other social networks who already offer vanity URL’s.
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