Thursday, December 3, 2009

Control your facebook addiction with out having to miss ' the book '

If you really think that you need help with your facebook addiction here are some simple guidelines that will definitely help you avoid facebook for good.

first , try to think of activities that might replace the good old facebook ,anything from reading books to hiking or Learning something completely new ,say programming .
Do not just try to shut down your facebook account because you will most likely find your self creating another one,but instead here is what you do.
After every Facebook session, ask yourself: "What did I just accomplish by checking Facebook?" Odds are, you're probably just logging in to see if you've been poked, or for updates of when your friends change their profile image, write a new note, add a new song to their favorite music, and do other little things that you can really live without knowing. But those might be the little things that keep you on a very short leash. At first you're confirming a new friend, and next thing you know, you've spent an hour looking at all the new people you're connected to. Recording your Facebook activities can help you realize how much time you actually spend getting nothing constructive done.

Turn your profile into a pile of useless data! This is another way to delete a Facebook account, and you might have fun doing it. When you wake up the next day, your profile is gone. For good. Amen.
Delete all your "friends" - unless you want to show the World you're quitting for good.
Change the profile’s name - you can do that. Be sure to choose something really lousy.
Fill it up with offensive content - texts, dubious pics and all.
State clearly that FaceBook employees are just a bunch of - beep - beep - beep - fill in the beeps with the most politically incorrect insults.
Invite lots of randomly picked people to become your “friends”.
Find a Facebook substitute. A lot of people get addicted to Facebook because they check it when there's nothing else to do, like in between classes, or during a lunch break; then the curiosity spills over into time that should be spent doing other things, like studying or working. You need to find something to do during those little windows of time in order to prevent relapse. There are several ways to give yourself a "Facebook patch":

Stay away from the computer as much as you can. For many of us, getting in front of a monitor is a default activity. Try to find other things to do that'll keep you away from the computer and therefore, Facebook. Keep a notebook. Meditate. Finger weave. Learn to do impressive tricks with a tech deck. Call your friends on the phone or do something fun with them in person. Anything that you can do anywhere and for short periods of time is good.
If you're at a computer during critical relapse times, find another website to log onto and read instead of Facebook. Yes, you may get addicted to that instead, so try to find something that's actually a constructive pursuit, like checking news websites, learning a new word each day, sharpening your mental skills by solving a sudoku, practicing that foreign language you decided to learn.
just simply

>>Do Not accept any new friends request
>> Do not poke or write or comment anything
>>Deactivate your account for some time
>>Do Not allow friends to write on your wall
>>Remove your self from public search
































finally and most importantly say fair well to your friends so that they won't miss you.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg


It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information. Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we've built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.

Facebook's current privacy model revolves around "networks" — communities for your school, your company or your region. This worked well when Facebook was mostly used by students, since it made sense that a student might want to share content with their fellow students.

Over time people also asked us to add networks for companies and regions as well. Today we even have networks for some entire countries, like India and China.

However, as Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we've concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy. Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, so this is an important issue for us. If we can build a better system, then more than 100 million people will have even more control of their information.

The plan we've come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

We're adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.

Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we'll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You'll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you're finished, we'll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you're done you'll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.

We've worked hard to build controls that we think will be better for you, but we also understand that everyone's needs are different. We'll suggest settings for you based on your current level of privacy, but the best way for you to find the right settings is to read through all your options and customize them for yourself. I encourage you to do this and consider who you're sharing with online.

Thanks for being a part of making Facebook what it is today, and for helping to make the world more open and connected.


Mark Zuckerberg

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

How to make 10,000 friends on facebook .




Hi, i'm back again with a new tip.If you are wondering how to be 'a cititzen' of our planet you need to know all sort of people & what makes facebook more interestng & more popular than other social networks is ,its strict rules towards adding friends.Despite these strict algoritmic rules by facebook facebookers now have hundreds and even thousands of friends and mutual friends.
So if you really want all those people as your friend here is what you do.

Gather emails ,hundreds & thousands of them .we're going to use google to help us in our Quest.
open google.com & search for emails with the following string

" emails filetype:csv "
It will search for any email field in a csv file.

if you want to be more specific & say emails from yahoo

"@yahoo.com filetype:csv "

or if you want emails from a specific college or company use this
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"inurl:school.edu email filetype:csv"

After you copied or downloaded the csv files ,everything else is pretty forward , you go to your friends invitor on facebook & provide those thousands of emails then facebook will gladly send friend's request to those who have already joined & an invition to those who haven't yet.

Have fun