Fiancé interrupts his wedding to update his profile in Facebook

The video that I show them next is one more sample of what the technology and the social networks have influenced in the way of acting of the persons.

A man called Dana Hanna, who is employed like architects’ chief at an Internet place on pets, has hung on Internet a video in which it is appreciated clearly as it interrupts his wedding along with his fiancée this way to update the sentimental situation both in Facebook and in Twitter.

Apparently it is the first time that a similar fact happens, here if there is applied this saying that he says “do not leave for tomorrow what you can already do!!”

Puncture here to see the video

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Source: News on Facebook

Sing Sing Facebook Emoticons

Just today I wondered whether I could sing Facebook Emoticons, note I gave it possible. I asked the parents and friends, they said it might be possible, but it took me one hundred percent correct answer out of him I could definitely profit. I was looking on the internet, but in vain. I accidentally on a web page, saw a doctor who is called Foxor that has the answer to every question in the world. But I was not sure of this, I wanted to ask someone who knows. Facebook.com I called and asked them the question of whether Facebook Emoticons can sing, they told me I can not answer, it was top secret.

Other I still ask the doctor Foxora, I went to Brazil, where he lives, I really found it barely, I wandered a bit, but I found him. When I finally found him I asked him the question of whether Facebook Emoticons can sing, and he Rako NO. If this is impossible, but it is possible if the facebook developers to create.

I finally got the answer for Facebook Emoticons, I am very happy.

Source: Facebook Emoticons

Finding Support in Tough Economic Times

The following is part of our series on different ways Facebook is used across the world. Read the previous blog post in this series here. If you have a story you’d like to share with us, please submit it here.

Marie* was expecting a typical day when she arrived at her advertising job one January day earlier this year. By the end, she was among the 15 percent of her company who had been laid off as part of a downsizing at the New York company. She was so devastated that she didn’t have time to say goodbye to co-workers with whom she had shared so many memories.

Like millions of people, Marie faced the harsh reality of the current economic recession that has led to double-digit unemployment in the United States and many other countries. She looked to support from her friends, family and former co-workers — and she found it by logging onto Facebook.

Facebook allowed her to reconnect with many of her former colleagues who had similarly lost their jobs, and they were able to support each other through a difficult time. Marie expected her first day without a job to be filled with sadness and isolation. Instead, she said she was greeted with well wishes and even job leads from previous co-workers and others who had been in similar situations.

“This gave me a great sense of support and connection,” Marie said, “As I gladly received wonderful messages and followed up on leads, I realized that this would not be possible without Facebook.”

One of those leads was for a marketing position, and Marie diligently followed up. Months later, on another day she thought would be typical, she received a job offer. Now she’s working full-time and grateful for the support and advice of her friends. As Marie said, “Facebook really helped me stay connected, receive kind words, and indirectly secure employment.”

Nikki, a specialist on Facebook’s user operations team, is grateful to have found her job through Facebook, too.

*Marie is a pseudonym we used at the request of the Facebook user to protect her identity.

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Source: Facebook Blog

BioWare Labs Gifts “Gift of the Yeti” On Facebook

Christmas time is around the corner and everyone is busy with shopping and making arrangements for celebrations across the globe. The festive spirit is all around us.

One thing i love about Christmas is sharing: sharing the love, the message, the gifts, helping someone, and making someone feel loved.

Coming to Facebook, BioWare’s new R&D group, BioWare Labs, has just realeased its first title – a Facebook game called “Gift of the Yeti.”

In this game, users take the role of a yeti to help out a sick Santa by maneuvering through the town avoiding police and delivering as many gifts as possible to lighted houses within the given time limit. An advert calendar tells the backstory of the game on a daily basis, while leaderboards help players to keep track of what a good yeti they have been.

The game is fun and fast-paced. Players can compete with their friends to beat each others’ high scores.

“Gift of the Yeti” not only gifts Facebook users to lay their hands on the spirit of christmas, but also gives the players a chance to spread across the message of Christmas.

For every play of the “Gift of the Yeti,” BioWare will donate a minimum of a penny, up to $10,000 to the Child’s Play Charity, a community-based charity that distributes toys, games, book and cash for sick kids in children’s hospital worldwide.

As an added bonus to gamers, whoever play Gift of the Yeti will receive a $10 discount off the purchase of the heroic fantasy game Dragon Age:Origins.

Played this game 4 times and hit 30k points , which means you guys out there need to make around 999,994 pennies more   So, i would like to call upon all the readers to spread the message of love and have fun at the same time. I can tell you for sure that you will be have this happiness in you throughout the whole day when, deep down inside, you know that you have done something good for someone.

Play the game here: Gift of the Yeti

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1. What is Facebook Gifts?
2. Zynga Launches PetVille On Facebook
3. Facebook Farmville Bigger Than Twitter

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Facebook Connect, One Year Later

Exactly one year ago, Facebook officially opened up Connect for all developers, and one year later, Facebook’s identity service is in the lead, rivaled only by Google and Twitter both of which have much smaller representations of the global social graph. Since launch, the company has generated a ton of buzz for the still young service and millions of users have registered for sites using Facebook Connect. While it has yet to become the standard online identity service, there are very few formidable competitors.

Facebook Scores Huge Partnerships

If there is an identity service which has been focused on generating buzz, Facebook Connect is it. That buzz has been a direct result of huge partnership deals with well known brands. One year later, Facebook has now been implemented across numerous sites including some of the following brands:

In other words, Facebook has had an extremely successful first year at attracting large names to their rapidly growing identity platform. With this week’s announcement from Yahoo! that they’d implement Facebook Connect across their properties, it appears that Facebook may have almost won the identity wars just one year in. Whether or not competing services have a chance, Facebook Connect has been boasted as a source of increased user engagement and increased registrations across most of the properties that have implemented the service.

While it has only been one year since Connect went live for all, the company has a wide lead over other competitors, at least in terms of the coverage Facebook Connect has received.

Facebook Pushes Out Connect-Enabled Widgets

While Connect was initially rolled out to developers, other sites have been able to take advantage of Facebook Connect through the use of easy-to-implement widgets. The Live Stream widget, which was used for the Obama inauguration on CNN.com at the beginning of the year, has become a widely used tool for live events. In combination with UStream, Livestream, and Justin.tv, the Live Stream widget has been used by musical artists, media companies, and others to create live interactive experiences which users can share with their friends and others.

Facebook also released the Connect-enabled comments box to provide website owners with an easy platform for instant dialogue. Thanks to these widgets, the Facebook share button, and others, Facebook has become the de-facto place for users to share information among their contacts.

Facebook Announces The Open Graph API

The Open Graph API, which was first announced in October, is about the extension of Facebook Pages to the entire web. It also will take advantage of Facebook Connect for enabling Facebook users to interact with brands and any other Facebook-powered object on the web. It’s an abstract concept and little has been disclosed about it so far, however this new feature highlights the future of Facebook as it extends beyond the Facebook.com website.

Over the past year, Facebook has seen nothing short of spectacular results with one brand after the other announcing support of Facebook Connect. The upcoming Open Graph API highlights the how long-term the vision of Facebook Connect really is. Just one year in, the team behind Facebook Connect has pulled of some impressive wins, and if the momentum continues, Connect could soon be the defacto identity standard of the web.

Source: All Facebook

Is PetVille Zynga’s Next Big Hit?

Zynga’s at it again with another virtual world game, PetVille, which lets users raise a pet. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s extremely similar to Playfish’s most popular game, Pet Society. Zynga now has competing applications to most of Playfish’s top games and they don’t appear to be stopping. You might as well call Zynga a “social gaming factory” as they continue to roll out one game after the other, all of which have similar game dynamics.

Just two weeks ago the company announced that they had surpassed 100 million monthly unique visitors, which means their average user plays at least two Zynga games a month. For now the company is focused on using similar game dynamics which is essentially simple virtual worlds in which users manage an owned property or character and build out a custom environment around the characters or properties.

Revenue is then generated via the sale of virtual goods. The business model is sound but the question is how long can Zynga rely on this single game dynamic? It appears that the model is working extremely well as the company has outperformed all other Facebook application developers. While there may not be much of an incentive to change strategies, I can only imagine that a diversification of game algorithms would reduce their risk, if not add value to their existing portfolio.

For the time being, the current game dynamic works and FishVille, which the company recently launched has already grown to over 22.9 million monthly active users in under a month. With that sort of success, there’s little incentive for Zynga to shift their game plan. Now the only question is whether or not PetVille will experience the same success that the company’s last few games have experience. There’s a good chance it will.

Source: All Facebook

Secret Service Used Facebook To Learn Of Salahi Presidential Party Crashers

Washington D.C. has been abuzz about the couple who crashed a Presidential party and proceeded to post photos of themselves on Facebook. Yesterday the secret service confirmed that they had used Facebook after the event to find out that the couple was not permitted to attend. The photos of the Salahis with President Biden tipped off the Secret Service, which has come under fire in recent days.

The event has been a huge promotion for the couple who will be part of the soon to be released “Real Housewives of DC”. The couple is known to be shameless. According to a number of sources, the couple has gone so far as to use the America’s Polo Cup charity event to embezzle money. The event which is promoted as having been “patroned every year by the President of the United States”, has come under fire. According to the Washington Post:

[M]any sponsors listed by America’s Cup for 2010 — including Land Rover, Cartier, the St. Regis Hotel in Washington and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. — say they are not sponsors for that event. Many vendors in previous years said in interviews that the Salahis have not paid for their services in the event’s three-year history, expenses totaling about $500,000. Many have filed lawsuits, and the couple has countersued often. And there is no record of any president attending any of the polo cups.

Even further, the event’s beneficiary “reported that it received $18,608 in 2007″, far less than the hundreds of thousands generated by the event. The D.C.-based fraud ridden socialites were still able to bypass the Secret Service and gain entrance to the event. The Secret Service has since come under significant scrutiny, however yesterday President Obama emphasized his ongoing confidence in the organization’s capabilities.

This will most likely all breeze over in the next week and the Secret Service can move on with business as usual. The Salahis can also continue their ongoing pursuit of widespread media coverage, whether it’s good or bad.

Source: All Facebook

New Phishing Scam Spreading Via Facebook Chat

Hackers and spammers have been using relatively similar tactics over the past few months to compromise Facebook user accounts. The most recent scam spreading on Facebook involves the use of hijacked user accounts for sending out chat messages with links to the standard Facebook phishing page. When the user clicks the link, they are sent to a fake Facebook login page and then redirected to the actual Facebook after their email and password has been stolen.

The system then automatically logs in with the user’s account and spams all their friends via chat. This form of phishing scam utilizes automated robots to perform these tasks on a large level. Facebook is known for aggressively pursuing phishers, scammers, and hackers. However once in a while new security vulnerabilities appear on Facebook. This is the latest one of those.

My guess is that Facebook will have this new security issue resolved relatively quickly as the offending site will be blocked and Facebook will set up a filter to remove the chat message. The chat message that we received stated: “ROFL this you?! http://3.ly/mZQ”. Had I not known that this is a standard scam, I could have easily been duped.

There’s no telling how many users have had their accounts compromised in this latest attack but if you want to protect yourself, make sure not to click on any questionable links sent by your friends via chat.

Source: All Facebook

Surprise! Moms Are Hardcore Gamers!

A guest post by Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal, a local lead generation company.
“It’s Mommy’s dirty little secret… She plays 2.5 hours a day, every day.”

Hugh de Loayza, Zynga

• 50% of US women play online games, but when interviewed for a panel, don’t consider themselves on-line gamers. 41% of these ladies have used virtual currency
• Of those that play games with virtual currency, only 9% chose offers based on the points being awarded.
• They even stock up on virtual currency more often than they hit the ATM.

What explains this behavior? Q Interactive and The Social Media World Forum conducted a study of 2,100 women to study how US females interact with games. And they are not the typical teenage boys playing first person shooters.

Bob Girolamo of Q Interactive presented the study last week in San Jose at the conference.  Some interesting tidbits:

• Women are using few games—50% are using 2 or less games. 85% of these ladies are at 5 or less.  So there’s lots of trial, but only a couple stick.
• They earn and spend virtual currency daily—the game dynamics draw them in.  And it’s not just FarmVille, though that is the most popular of virtual currency apps with over 60 million users. 56.8% of women visit social networking sites at least a few times per week.
• When asked, “What made you want to play certain games?” 53% said that a friend or family member recommended it.
• When asked, “Why do you use virtual currency” 38% want to advance in the game, while 17% to acquire gifts.  Peer pressure works.
• Have you used real money to purchase virtual currency? 10% said yes.
• So why not spending “real” money?  38% can’t afford it. Yet 88% of the women are controlling the household finances—60% completely. Many don’t understand how to use PayPal, plus privacy issues.
• Do you give more virtually or in real life? 53% give as many real world gifts as virtually.

Now how about the offers themselves? The current wisdom is that incentivized ads are of low quality because users complete the offers solely to get points:

• 67% of women say that the offers are useful—but the glass is half full.
• Women pick offers based on content, not on the amount of virtual currency awarded. Only 9% choose offers based on the reward.
• Surveys were the most popular method to earn currency at 34%. In second place at 22% are hard goods (toys, electronics). Mobile is surprisingly not in this mix, which argues for a different demographic converting on mobile offers.

So how do we interpret these results? Some hypotheses:

• Female games are a completely different demographic than overall Facebook users—true, in that certain apps skew by gender and that this is a distinctly non college age user base.
• Sample bias in the study: This is something that can be leveled at any study, especially in how they selected these women and the small sample size. It may be that there are working professional women who are playing almost as much, but doing so in stealth and are harder to contact than stay-at-home moms. However, I’d rule out sample bias. Matt Wise, President of Q Interactive, noted that “Women seek a partner to support their entertainment, which is exceptionally important given their busy lives.” Thus, games provide interaction among groups of women who stay at home.
• Winning is fun: The fact that 97% of women prefer to earn their way through the game versus paying for currency says that the process of earning coins is likely enjoyable and that “cheating” by buying currency is taboo. The study did not comment on how much of this was influenced by the lack of purchase power.
• Users want to engage with brands: It’s not that the games built by players such as Zynga are bad or that the ad networks themselves are locked into an evil cycle. Rather, the right offers from trusted advertisers might allow users to enjoy free games, advertisers to get decent ROI, and game developers to be able to support their applications via games.

Overall, I found these results surprising, but intuitive in hindsight. What do you think?

Source: All Facebook

How to Break the Cycle of Digital Abuse

Casi Lumbra, 17, is an advisory board member for MTV’s A Thin Line campaign, which launched today to help teens stop the spread of digital abuse. She’s also a member of WiredSafety.org’s Teenangels, a group of teens trained in all aspects of online safety, privacy and security. While people on Facebook may never encounter digital abuse, they still need to be able to spot it and stop it. We asked Casi to share her perspective as a teenager and expert about the causes of digital abuse and ways that teens can avoid it.

Have you ever snooped on a friend’s text messages, posted nasty messages about a classmate or colleague on Facebook or posted an embarrassing picture of someone to get even? Have any of these things ever happened to you?

Let’s face it: For many teens the answer to at least one of those questions is likely “yes.” We use technology 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from connected devices in our backpacks, pockets and purses. This creates a digital side to every part of our lives. Even our relationships are wired. We interact with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends and acquaintances online just as we do offline, and sometimes it’s hard to remember that our online behavior has boundaries.

If you also answered “yes” to any of the questions I asked above, you’ve experienced “digital abuse.” Digital abuse is the use of digital technologies—such as cell phones, social networks, instant messaging and e-mail—to hurt someone, even when you didn’t “mean” it. It even includes certain high-risk digital activities that can hurt us, like “sexting”—the act of sending sexually explicit images. It’s also digital abuse if you:

• Harass people with constant text messages
• Demand that they be available at all times and even sleep with their cell phones
• Send nasty or threatening messages, post mean pictures or create groups to gang up on someone online
• Hack into people’s accounts to hurt them
• Spy on people with keystroke loggers or take over their profiles by changing their passwords

Even though it involves the virtual world, digital abuse has serious real-world consequences. Things may start out as a joke, but end up badly. Curiosity can become criminal privacy intrusions. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where our actions fall.

There’s a thin line between what’s harmless and what’s harmful, and that line can be difficult to spot. There’s a thin line between one person’s sarcastic message, and another person’s wounded feelings. When sexts are being spread around, there’s a thin line between a choice made in one instant, and consequences that can last a lifetime.

So, how do we stay on the right side of this thin line?

In the end, it all comes down to choices. And those choices are yours. You have to draw your own line. You decide what kind of person you are, and you decide what kind of digital citizen you want to be. You decide what values are important. It’s not always easy, and the rules change all the time. The best time to make these choices is before you have to and when you are sober, calm and your brain is engaged. There are no “Cliffs Notes” or cheats. Look deep.

While this isn’t easy, there are a few ways to avoid becoming a digital abuser or victim:

1. Keep your passwords private, and don’t ask anyone for his or her password. There’s a thin line between sharing and snooping. You’re entitled to privacy, and password abuse is the root of much cyber-evil.
2. Hit “delete” instead of “forward.” You have the power to break the cycle of sexting and harassment simply by choosing not to spread such messages.
3. Think twice. Before you post that picture or send that message, think about the consequences it might have – today, next week or years from now.
4. Report abuse on Facebook if you see or are a victim of abusive behavior. Since Facebook is based on a real-name culture, it’s important to stop people who are abusing others. Look for “Report” links throughout the site, such as the “Report This Photo” link underneath photos and the “Report” links in Inbox messages from people who aren’t confirmed friends.

The power to take a stand against digital abuse is in your hands. Now decide where you want to draw your lines. Share it. Get your friends involved. If they’re safer, you’re safer. For more information about digital abuse and ways to protect yourself and your loved ones, become a fan of A Thin Line on Facebook or visit www.AThinLine.org.

Casi is supporting the Redraw the Line Challenge awarding $10,000 to the best digital innovation for battling digital abuse.

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Source: Facebook Blog