Make your email, website, blogs, twitter public on Facebook

Fans, users, new customer, etc want to contact you. Some users have their contact on business cards or on their websites, but not all.

A lot of users, pick emails and other data from Facebook profile. Just to keep an option open. Moreover, you can control which email to show to which user. This will help you, and you won't get work related emails on your personal email account and vice versa.

You can also select which email to put on your timeline.

How to make your social profile and email public?

1. Go to your Profile.
2. Navigate to About tab, then to Contact and Basic Info.
3. Hit edit button in Email, Website, Screen Names.
4. In Email, you should add all of your email contacts. But visibility of each email can be altered individualy. Furthermore, in email you can choose whether to show emails on Facebook timeline or not.

Make social profiles visible on Facebook

You have any story to share like your YouTube video or channel, gadget, Windows, Mac or Ubuntu app. Use contact form to submit the link or any description.

New Identity Gender added by Facebook

Revealing one's true identity on Facebook is a priority. While signing up, you need to state to Facebook your gender, male or female.

Facebook has introduced custom gender, that allows lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenders to truly reveal their identity with ease. Facebook has worked with LGBT organizations, to compile a list of gender options. In case you fall under LGBT gender category you can now change it by going to your profile's "about" page's "Basic Information" section and edit the gender.

Click edit button, and select custom from drop down menu and then start typing your gender, a list will automatically generate. Select the appropriate option. You can also select your gender as neutral.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Top new Facebook features added in 2013

Facebook is an always evolving, social networking website. Everyday Facebook's employees work on introducing new features. This evolution is fast, one after the other new functionality are added and removed from Facebook.

Add your feeling, what you are watching, having on Facebook

Facebook rolled out this feature as an extension to your status updates. This helped to express your things in an even better way. You can add books, songs, movies, TV series, feelings, eating, drinking etc. This feature exploded in terms of usage.

Facebook Verified Accounts

Creating pages on Facebook is free, and almost everyone can create one. Because of this, a user won't ever know is he or she is liking the genuine or Official page or a duplicate one. To overcome this, Facebook rolled out verified accounts, to let its users know which one is a genuine page.

Facebook Hashtags

This one was another followup. Twitter is famous for mentions and hashtags. Hashtags actually started or were born inside twitter's office. This was supposed to increase the search results. But it takes time to figure out what exactly hashtags are used for, doesn't matter you are on Twitter or Facebook.

Post images in Facebook comments on brand pages

First a user was not able to post any image in response to another user's status updates or photos. Now, its possible to post images in comments on both updates from other users or other pages.

Facebook new Insight for Fan page

For publishers or page manager, having page analytic is very important. It tells about engagement of users. View and reach, etc. The insight pages were updated, introducing new user interface. Though a user need a minimum of 30 page likes to be able to see insights.

Upload custom thumbnail on Facebook page posts

While posting URLs on Facebook page, the title of the link, description usually meta description and an image is fetched from the URL. This makes the post way too much better. In case of no image, sometimes logo of the website is fetched. With this update, you can upload your own choice of image.

Compare your Facebook page with other pages

Now, a publisher can add other pages to his own pages, admin panel for easily tracking the progress of other pages. Mainly your competitors, or just the top ones in your stream.

Which of these you like the most, and why? Comment below...

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

How to put some Facebook friends online or offline?

You some time want to control your chat availability, on Facebook. Turning off chat for everybody, just to turn of chat for some friends is useless. At the same time turning on chat for everybody, when you want to chat with only selected friends, is also useless.

Advance Settings allows you to control the entire friend list at once. You can also use the list for quick select and deselect. For example, in the above screenshot "Close Friends" is a chat contact list.

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How to control chat options?

1. Advance chat settings can be accessed by "Options" button at the bottom of chat list.
2. Click "Advanced Settings".

Advanced Settings

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Facebook adds trending topics

Another great functionality from Twitter is now available on Facebook. Facebook, recently rolled out trending topics that are displayed alongside of your Facebook newsfeed. The stories shared publicly are visible on the Trending.

But the fact that all the people don't share things publicly retards the trending. As the trending only contains public posts. For, now it is quite clear that maximum trending topics are from news pages or other such pages. The country of the user is also taken into consideration.

These trending feeds are customized by user interest. It is also possible that Facebook will start to place promoted post in the Trending section.

This will make Facebook a better stand for news digests. And will surely increase the engagement rate dramatically. The last Facebook hashtag, release is still not used by the majority of Facebook users.

Facebook is testing the mobile version of this feature. Trending is not available to everybody. The feature will be rolled out for a number of countries in the next few weeks.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Report to Facebook when you are tagged in copyrighted uploads

Facebook, respects copyright laws. But when any platform allows you to share media like pictures, videos, etc. then it is quite hard to keep a track on the media shared. So, it is quite possible and easy to share copyrighted media, on Facebook.

Reporting content like these, requires users concern. Any Facebook user can report whenever, he/she encounters a copyrighted media. To do so,

1. Go to your activity log from timeline review.
2. From there hit hide post, 
3. After the post is hidden it will ask you to report/remove tag, click it.

From the pop-up that appears click on, "Is this your intellectual property?" at the bottom.

Select "Report this to Facebook as a legal rights infringement. And hit continue. Facebook also allows you to contact a designated Facebook officer using the traditional but slower methods,

Facebook, Inc.
Attn: Facebook Designated Agent
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, California 94025
650.543.4800 (phone)
650.560.6293 (fax)
ip@fb.com

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Upload Custom thumbnail on Facebook page posts

Upload Custom Image as thumbnail

Whenever any article's link or URL is placed in the status posting field, Facebook automatically loads title, meta description and thumbnail from the article.

But sometimes, the article you want to share don't have any images in it or the image is inappropriate or maybe you just happen to have a better one to share. In all these cases you want to share a custom thumbnail for your status share.

When there are no images in the article, Facebook usually fetches the sites logo. Finally, the fact is any post looks a bit more better when with a thumbnail.

What image you want to share is what makes extra conversions. Facebook has also launched a new insight page from where you can track analytic details.

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How to upload custom thumbnail?

1. Click on the 'Upload Image' link just below the thumbnail to be posted.
2. Browse and select the appropriate image to share.

Image will be uploaded and re-sized automatically. Now, you can share any post with a custom thumbnail.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.