We’ve pulled together some great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more.
Adding Dislike option to your status update
The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as “love,” “hate,” “disagree” or even “LOLs.”
Hide Status Updates From Certain People
Click the padlock icon just below your “what’s on your mind” box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting “customize” will bring up more options such as “make this visible to” and “hide from” with the option to make your selection a default.
Schedule status updates
The simplest way to schedule Facebook status updates is by using the easy, free Later Bro service.
Just sign in with Facebook Connect, select your time zone, type in what it is you’d like to say, set the calendar and clock to when you’d like to say it, and presto!
Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status
The only symbol you can create in a Facebook status update through the shortcut keys is a ♥, by typing “<3."
While this won't bother many Facebook users, others more used to punctuating their missives can copy and paste web-happy, universal symbols into the box, as you can see in the screengrab above.PC users can also access some symbols by hitting “alt” + various number combinations (on a numerical keypad). So, while smileys are yet to hit Facebook statuses, you can annoy or amuse your buddies with symbols right now.
See Status Updates From Around the World
If you want to get a glimpse of the thoughts of Facebook users from around the world’s, head over to OpenBook.
Created by three San Fran web developers with a serious privacy message in mind, the site aggregates the status updates of everyone whose privacy levels are set to “everyone.”
You can narrow your searchable results down by gender and keywords to find out what people are saying about a certain topic. Or you can just browse the recent searches.
Display Selected Friends Only on your Facebook Profile Page
While many facebook users have hundreds, if not thousands of facebook friends Some people may find they are looking at random faces from years gone by every time the look at there facebook profile. This neat little trick will show you how to display certain friends that you select all the time on your facebook profile. You can also select how many friends are shown.
A little-known feature in Facebook that enables you to decide who shows up in that Friends box on your facebook profile page. Click that “edit” pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says “Always show these friends”
Facebook is full of little known tricks like this and it is obvious when you know its there but untill you know it is a secret.
Invite All Your Friends On Facebook To A Page/Group/Event
Go to your event/group/page, click invite people and then paste this snippet in the URL field of your browser.
Left-click the mouse in the URL field and hit Enter. Your invitations will not be sent yet, but all your friends will be selected. Click the “Invite” or “Send” button on the Facebook page to finally send the invites.
The code is -
javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
Stop People From Seeing Your Tagged Photos
Go to your privacy page for your profile and change the setting for the tagged photos of yourself.
profile privacy
Photos Tagged of You
Then you click on customize.
Select the “Only Me” option.
Then select “None of my Networks.”
You can make the photos tagged to certain users but as we like to emphasis, less is more with allowing people access to your personal information.
