Showing posts with label FACEBOOK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FACEBOOK. Show all posts
Friday, May 31, 2013
Facebook seeks to protect women
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Facebook strengthening efforts against the hostile rhetoric, especially the message encouraging violence against women registered on their site.
Facebook's Graph Search bars adults snooping for minors
6 Tips For Accelerating Traffic From Facebook Fan Page
Facebook seeks to protect women
According to CNN, Marne Levine, Facebook's vice president said: "In those days, it is clear that our system did not detect and effectively eliminate the hostile arguments, particularly on the issue of equal world."
Levine admitted in some cases, the message encourages violence against women is not removed from Facebook or persist on the site quickly. "In recent months, we have tried to upgrade the system to react quickly, but without success We must do better and we will." - Said Mr. Levine.
A coalition of advocacy organizations for women called Women, Action and Media is in favor of the Facebook statement. Facebook Group confirms suggested they join the campaign against the hostile messages on social networks.
Facebook is committed to intensify efforts to detect hostile messages with the assistance of legal experts and advocacy groups for women's rights, training of company personnel to detect hostile messages. Facebook will force users intend to create pages whose content is to provide sensitive personal information.
The Facebook page of the group of people with names like "Kick ass girl because you do not get a sandwich", "girlfriend of a brutal rape for fun", "prostitutes Pierre flooding in their bellies" ... are labeled "offensive" (offensive, disgusting). These pages are no longer displayed in search results on Facebook ....
Mr. Levine said that this is a difficult challenge to Facebook. However, Facebook - with over one billion members - will create a balance between eliminating hostile to guarantee freedom of expression messages.
"We want to provide a platform for people to freely share ideas, but always respect the rights of others - he said Levine - To do this, we will make every effort to ensure that their sites are safe, clean , helping people to easily share and connect. "
Before that, in addition to anti-women messages, some users to create Facebook pages praising the perpetrator of the shooting of mass murder or suspect James Holmes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Boston bomb. Therefore, the organization has protected rights group campaigns of violence against women message.
Some companies also pulled ads of the Facebook page to protest against the violent message. Including car brand Nissan, Dove ...
Friday, March 15, 2013
6 Tips For Accelerating Traffic From Facebook Fan Page
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Facebook holds tremendous potential to provide your business with popularity. However, not many business owners yet know How to Get Targeted Traffic From Facebook Page. In this article, you will learn about 6 marvelous tips for getting a free flow of traffic to your website.
1. Give your Facebook page a lucrative name
Often, many companies combine business names and their fields of expertise in the fan page names. For instance, a company named Joe Florist has a page named 'Joe Florist - wedding, reception, and every other occasion close to your heart'.
Although the name sounds good since it provides clear information regarding the company, Facebook may not support it at all. With so many keywords stuffed in the page name,
Facebook may term it as spam. Hence, this fan page will become completely useless for the business owner.
For avoiding such disaster, you should keep your fan page name limited to your brand name. In case, the name is too common then you may add one of your business specialties. It will make the page name unique. For instance, if the name of your business is Joe Jeez, and you sell bakery products then you may choose JoeJeez Bakery as your fan page name.
2. Fill out every field in the Info tab
When you create a fan page, Facebook provides you with an info tab. In this tab, you are required to enter details regarding your business. It may seem like a tedious job. However, this information plays an important role in making your business more visible, as all the fields of the info tab are indexed.
Now, by using relevant keywords, you can increase your business popularity. For instance, the address and zip code will help the local search engines track your business while the product overview information will allow search engines to reveal your company name when the products are searched.
3. Make your fan page content interesting
Of course, people will like and share your fan page when they read or see something interesting. Hence, you should post upcoming business events on your fan page with attractive photographs and captions.
Is your company going to launch a new service or a product? Announcing the product launch on Facebook fan page will excite the visitors thoroughly.
However, while posting content, you should always think from the perspective of your prospective customers. People will be more excited if you allow them to experience the new product or the service. Hence, along with the launch, you may introduce a competition, which will have free access to the newly launched service or the product. You may also give away free coupons to the first 10 visitors, who like the page.
4. Give regular attention to your fan page
People are attracted towards new updates. If you do not post anything new then your friends will not visit your fan page, and it will not get any more likes. Therefore, not posting regularly can reduce your online presence alarmingly.
Moreover, wall posts and events are now indexed. Therefore, by writing fresh posts with profitable keywords, your business will have greater chances of appearing in Facebook's search engine results.
Posting regularly does not mean you should post every day. After dedicating a post on product launch, the next day, you should talk about the product along with the pictures or even a video. At the end, you should not forget to mention any special offer, discount, or a competition that you have announced with the product launch.
5. Start interaction with your commentators and keep the communication alive
Your fan page will definitely invoke reactions. Consequently, you will find comments from the visitors. Replying to the comments is important. It will help your business forge a relationship with the visitors on a personal level.
If there are questions, answer them. In case, there are feedbacks, reply to them and thank the commentators. On seeing your replies, the visitors will start relying on your brand name.
As you reply, do not forget to encourage your commentators to visit your website. However, you should never sound pushy while encouraging them.
6. Connect your blog, website and Facebook fan page
If you only connect your fan page and your website then you will be limiting the flow of traffic. That is why you should include your fan page link on your website so that people, who are visiting your site, will also be encouraged to visit your page and become fans.
Another interesting trick is to merge your personal and professional Facebook accounts. By pasting the fan page link on your Facebook personal account, you will be able to attach another stream of traffic to your website.
About Author: Jason Smith is an online manager for BCVAWEB - video production dallas . Jason likes blogging about online strategies that are related to SEO, Content, PPC & Lead generation.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Facebook's Graph Search bars adults snooping for minors
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In an effort to quell privacy fears, the social network rolls out rules on how its search tool displays results for users under the age of 18.
Facebook's Graph Search.
(Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET)
Facebook is taking preventative measures to make sure parents don't get up in arms about their children's privacy when Graph Search is rolled out to the public.
The social network announced today in a blog post that it's introducing specific Graph Search rules for teenagers. These rules dictate that if an adult does a search that could display a minor's location or age, the only results that will be returned are that person's friends. If a minor is searching, only friends and friends of friends also between the ages of 13 and 17 will be shown.
Facebook launched Graph Search in beta in January. Seen as the social network's search tool, it offers users new ways to uncover people, places, photos, and interests that have been buried alive inside the social network. However, it also exposes a copious amount of personal data that members may not realize is available for public scrutiny.
The company has been working to quell users' privacy fears over Graph Search. It has answered questions and offered insight on how users can control their audience by adjusting their "likes," managing who can see friend and family lists, and how to review tagged photos.
In today's blog post, Facebook added a couple of other ways to control what will be shared on Graph Search:
Manage Your Activity Log: Activity log makes it easy to see the things you've posted on Facebook, make changes to the audience of past photos and other posts, and choose what appears on your Timeline. We recently announced some new tools that make it easier to take action on multiple photos, such as untagging them, or requesting that they are removed with one click. If you are ever concerned who can see content you have posted or shared on Facebook, review it on your Activity Log.Review About Me: In addition to your Activity Log, review the 'About' tab to check any basic info you have shared with others on your profile, such as your current city, your workplace, Pages you like, or your education. The same people who can see this info on your profile can search for this info about you. Check this section to make sure you are comfortable with the audience you have chosen to share this information with.
Facebook's Graph Search is only available to a small number of users right now but should roll out to the general public later this year.
About Author
Dara Kerr, a freelance journalist based in the Bay Area, is fascinated by robots, supercomputers and Internet memes. When not writing about technology and modernity, she likes to travel to far-off countries.
From cNET
Sunday, January 6, 2013
New Facebook app to allow free voice calls to friends
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Facebook is preparing to launch a new feature for its Messenger app which allows users of the social networking site to place free voice calls to friends.
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| However, while Facebook is not charging users for the service, the call is not technically free since it will use data on users' existing mobile plans. |
The feature is so far available only to smartphone users in Canada and is buried within the latest update to the app, but it will eventually allow users to make freeinternet voice calls, known as VoIP calls, to any Facebook friend.
Experts are saying it represents an attempt by the world's largest social network to dominate the social world by taking on the default calling function in mobile phones, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
The new feature comes at the same time as Facebook Messenger rolled out a new feature worldwide which allows users to record and send a voicemail-type message to friends.
Working in a similar way to video messaging in the company's Poke app, users press and hold a red record button, speak their message, and it appears in line as part of the conversation.
TechCrunch writer Josh Constine imagines a range of uses for the function, from messaging while driving to recording the waves lapping at a beach to send to friends.
However, its addition to the Messenger app seems merely to make it an 'even more complete app' he writes, adding that he expects video messaging to soon be added as well.
One-tenth the size of the US, but with very similar demographics and mobile usage trends, Facebook is using Canada as a testing ground in advance of rolling out the feature in other markets, the paper said.
By clicking the 'i' icon in the top right of a conversation in the most recent update to Messenger, users reveal a 'free call' button which allows them to contact any friend also within the test region.
However, while Facebook is not charging users for the service, the call is not technically free since it will use data on users' existing mobile plans.
TechCrunch said that the move into voice messaging and VoIP can be seen as an attempt by the social network to take on the default, mobile network operated calling function on smartphones.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Facebook CEO's sister loss control on Facebook!
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The Facebook CEO's sister is peeved that a photo she thought she'd posted privately is exposed publicly. It's quite a photo.
It's easy to have sympathy for those who have been misled by
Facebook's ever-morphing privacy controls. One should therefore have
additional sympathy when the person led astray is a former director of
Facebook and enjoys the name Zuckerberg.
Randi Zuckerberg thought she had posted a picture to be only seen by
her friends. Suddenly, it was there for all to see. Yes, all. The world.
The whole misanthropic, green-eyed human race.
Oh, Lordy. Let's discuss decency.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
As ReadWriteWeb's Dan Lyons icily fulminates,
it seems that one of her sister's friends saw the picture, assumed it
was for public viewing and -- because of its profoundly fascinating
nature -- tweeted it down the Styx to public hell.
You'll be wondering about the picture. Well, it shows several members
of the Zuckerberg family standing around the kitchen, staring into
their cellphones and seeming astoundingly happy.
You might imagine that Randi Zuckerberg felt this was not the right message to be sending to the world.
Happy families at this time of year can be disturbing sights,
encouraging onlookers to wonder what lurks beneath those open mouths and
exposed teeth.
Yes, and do it publicly.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
People will wonder what gifts these people bought each other and why
the boy with the very pale face and the hoodie is leaning smugly against
the kitchen cabinets.
Zuckerberg, however, leaped onto Twitter
to explain her pain: "Digital etiquette: always ask permission before
posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's
about human decency."
Oh, but this only led to her receiving little lectures -- not exclusively about human decency, oddly enough.
Media Bistro wondered whether she was a Twitter bully.
Lyons, pitching from the full wind-up, felt that the decency thing was a little indecent:
It's so important, in fact, that now Randi Zuckerberg, a not-universally-acclaimed aspiring chanteuse who rocks Silicon Valley with an awesome band called Feedbomb, as well as producer of a terrible reality series about Silicon Valley (See Bravo's Silicon Valley: The Painful Truth Behind A Caricature Of Excess), as well as sister of the guy who created that beacon of morality known as Facebook, would like to use this as a teaching moment in which she can instruct the world about basic human decency.
And a tweeter called Anna soothed her with: "@randizuckerberg Instead
of vilifying a subscriber for not reading your mind, maybe you should
talk to your brother about recent FB changes."
You're already wondering how that conversation might go, aren't you?
You're already imagining whether the brother in question would listen
raptly or would stare into the medium distance, privately imagining,
perhaps, what live animal he might kill next.
Personally, though, I don't believe that money breeds spectacular
levels of self-righteousness. I actually agree with La Zuckerberg.
She is absolutely right that the standard of human decency should fly
higher and more proudly than any handkerchief flag of privacy.
Facebook should immediately impose a code of conduct. Its one principle should be that of human decency.
Everyone on the site -- including Facebook's management and breast
police -- should first consider the intentions of users before doing
anything. It will be an excellent exercise of their human skills.
An indecent exposure, such as the one suffered by Randi Zuckerberg, should incur a fine of $20,000.
A second offense? $200,000.
However, if someone -- say the site itself -- indecently impounds an image for a commercial purpose -- for example, to advertise 55-gallon tub of personal lube without the subject's knowledge -- they should pay the person $10 million.
It's time the principles of decency were upheld fully and without prejudice on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg herself has referred to her critics as -- oh, I
can't summarize this. Read for yourself what she tweeted: "Apparently,
the topic of online etiquette elicits passion, debate, anger &
Twitter crazies. Guess I just found the topic of my next TV show!"
By Chris Matyszczyk
From cNET
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The reason made Facebook was down
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Facebook's website went down earlier on Monday.
Business Insider's staff couldn't reach it from multiple locations and Internet service providers, and people were flocking to Twitter to report the outage.
The site came back up after a while.
Sometimes Facebook goes down for interesting reasons—for example, in December 2010, users started noticing strange new, unannounced features in Facebook photos. Facebook took its own site down to remove code for the new features that had crept into the public site by mistake.
Here's Facebook's explanation for this outage, from a spokesperson:
Earlier today we made a change to our DNS infrastructure and that change resulted in some people being temporarily unable to reach the site. We detected and resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent. We apologize for any inconvenience.
DNS, or domain-name service, is the part of the Internet's infrastructure that allows machines to find each other on the global, distributed network.
According to businessinsider.com
Take tasteless Facebook page down: police
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On the eve of police officer Bryson Anderson's funeral, the NSW Police Force has asked Facebook to take down a page mocking the slain father of three.
The page, titled "Bryson Anderson, please Get Well Soon", refers to "Defective Anderson" and has attracted faux-supportive comments from Facebook users wishing the late police inspector well.
The anonymous creator of the social networking page wrote, "I think he will rise again ... He will only rise again if God deems him worthy of walking though. If he was a good man, God will save him".
Another user, posting under the name Eva Rijker, posted a picture of cupcakes iced with the words "Get Well Soon Bryson", and wrote that she would "sit and pray for his speedy recovery".
A NSW Police spokesman confirmed to AAP Facebook had been asked to remove the page.
Insp Anderson, 45, will be farewelled on Wednesday at a full police funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral in Parramatta.
He has been hailed by colleagues and family as a "police officer's police officer".
"He was larger than life," Commissioner Andrew Scipione told the Fairfax Radio Network on Tuesday.
"Having said that, he was well-respected. There were people that looked up to him. He always brought a laugh to any conversation. On top of that he was compassionate and caring."
Insp Anderson was stabbed after responding to a neighbour dispute at Oakville, in Sydney's northwest, on Thursday.
According to news.ninemsn.com.au
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