Friday, August 23, 2013

Know the Various Facebook Applications and Features

Facebook is the highly popular social networking site. The user-friendly features and applications get the public hooked to its website 24 hours. Facebook already has a number of special features which you can find them in its website.

Facebook Features: Few of the Facebook features are:

Like: It is one of the features developed by Facebook through which users can click the “like” button on the site for status updates, comments, photos, links posted by friends and ads that gives a positive feedback to the things you care about and also to connect to the things you like. The like button is located at the bottom of the content and when a user clicks this 'like' button a notification appears to the friends 'news feed' with a link back to that website.

Facebook Notification: It provides alerts and updates when an interesting activity happens on Facebook. These activities include likes and comments, friend requests, messages, invitations to events and posts in groups. When a new notification comes it appears like a red bubble in the upper left corner of the site.

Photos: This feature enables users to share and tag people, brand, product on uploaded photos on Facebook and to share these photos with the people in your life. You can also edit photos and share albums. With photo privacy, you can limit to a few friends for viewing photos and can choose who to see them.

Messaging and inbox: This feature enables users to send messages to any number of people connected in the website to maintain a conversation. The message can be deleted after reading it from the inbox of the user. It also provides the facility of instant messaging, emails and regular messaging.

Wall: The wall feature is used for posting messages, sending images and leave small gifts on the user's profile and allows the user to see the posts along with the date and time of the post.

Poke: This feature is used in order to attract attention of another user for a specific purpose. The poke icon will appear on the user's home page and the options remove poke and poke back will appear when we receive a poke from someone.

Facebook Applications:
The following are some of the Facebook applications.

Jobster: This application will let users of Facebook in searching for jobs and connects them with people, provides information about opportunities that is necessary for developing their careers.

Facebook Horoscope: With the zodiac sign of your date of birth, the horoscope will appear on your Facebook wall.

Events: It is a social utility that helps know about the upcoming events, sending invitations and responding to invitations and offer social gatherings in a community.

If I Die: It is the first Facebook app that enables users to create a text message as final status update to share last words with family, friends on Facebook that will be published after you die. The tag line of the app is “What will you leave behind?”

With the growing popularity of these features, Facebook is coming up numerous unique and attractive features to keep its users more excited.

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