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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Many people have a problem with the fact that Facebook is so completely ingrained into our collective conscience. What was once a cool place to share photos with friends and family at University has now become a place for families to unite and for parents to keep an eye on their college-loving offspring. It has come a long way from the campus-based information and communication site that was its founder’s initial plan.

Over the last five years, it has not just been Facebook’s rise which has been so famous, but the fall of other social networks which once competed with the big blue and white monster. Myspace, once the crowned king of the internet (with the most popular website of them all, and traffic and advertising figures to match) has now become an afterthought, a joke made by ‘cool people’ who talk about what is now completely ‘out’. Their fall was due to a mixture of factors, one of which was the Facebook took the social network experience and made it ‘clean’ and thoughtful.

How did it do this? It removed the trash graphics, the email forwards, the glitzy text and served the public what they really wanted – information and communication. This first came in the form of ’status updates’ and wall posting. What is a status update? It’s something which Facebook users use to give information about what they are doing at any specific moment. Some also use them to share web addresses or funny websites which they think their friends might be interested in. This function on Facebook was completely new – it changed the face of messaging from ‘push’ (like email) to ‘mini blog’ (like now, Twitter).

Wall posting was similar – it was like walking over to someone’s own bulletin board and leaving a note for them. People would read other messages on their friends boards (also known as Facebook stalking) and then connect with new people. It was a cyber revolution. There was, however, always something missing – the live chat feature which some people thought would never be able to be integrated into a social network.

Facebook chat emoticons

That’s when Facebook chat was introduced. It had always been the intention of the biggest social network in the world to constantly keep innovating and evolving, to stay ahead of the curve. When they introduced their chat function many people thought that they had made a mistake – the beta process was a little slow and had errors – the javascript sometimes made the pages disappear or act strangely, but after ironing out all of these issues, it turned out that they had struck gold. Facebook chat was one of the most popular clients on the internet, and its fans were wild for its clean cut style and cool colours.

One thing seemed to be missing however – Facebook chat emoticons! Where were the colouful smileys and symbols that were in nearly every other chat client available on the web? Text emotions were ok to use for some people, but generally speaking it was unheard of for an organization to create software like Facebook chat and not include Facebook chat emoticons listed for people to find. So where were they? The answer was that they were hidden in the software itself! After hours of testing, users managed to find a full list of the icons available for use in the chat program, and many were surprised by the different types and styles.

We will provide more exact information about which emoticons for Facebook chat are available in a later post, but for now just know this – they are some of the coolest and most fun symbols around! You can find some standard ones such as a love heart, smiley face, angel and devil – but also some strange emoticons or rare ones like a robot emoticon or a shark smiley! There is even a penguin! Keep reading for much more information about Facebook chat emoticons and how to use them!

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(Source: http://www.computerworlduk.com )Forrester recently received a flurry of inquiries concerning social network access inside enterprises. Many firms are reluctant to deny their employees’ access to social networking sites but at the same time are worried about consequences such as malware threat, data loss, and the loss of productivity.

More specifically, risks associated with social networking come in three flavors:

• Malware and phishing: Social networks have become a hot bed for malware and phishing activities. As such, allowing access to sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc., does carry a certain amount of security risks.

• Data loss: Employees post content to social networking sites pose a potential threat of data loss, which has many up in arms about the use of social networks in enterprises.

• Damage to corporate image: There is no reliable way to ensure that no one can set up a fake corporate page in LinkedIn or Facebook, and that no one takes your official promotional video and repost it to YouTube after unauthorized edits.

Should you allow access to social networks and social media? The answer is “yes”. Even if you do not currently allow access to social networks, you will have to soon — access to social networks is approaching the status of a “must-have” at work places. Competitive pressure will sooner or later make you rethink your restrictive stance on social network access. One question we often get asked is: “How many firms out there are allowing access vs. denying access to social networks?” We do not have an accurate answer to that. A small survey we conducted in the beginning of this year indicated that today nearly 40% of companies (enterprises and SMBs) allow access to social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn.

What best practices should you follow in regulating access to social networking and media sites?

First, you need to establish an acceptable-usage policy with respect to social networking and media access. Consider these aspects when writing your policies:

• Does everyone need the same level of access to social networking sites? The answer is often “no”. For instance, the marketing and sales team may need to post video and other media files for legitimate business purposes. But for other parts of the company, there isn’t such a compelling need. Perhaps a read-only policy is adequate. Of course, this would depend on the general company culture — how liberal or how restrictive you are in terms of personal computing at work plays an important role in these decisions.

• Be vigilant about software downloads. Remember that malware travels via software downloads over the Web, a prudent policy might allow users to access Facebook content but will block any software installation as a result of visiting Facebook pages. This will of course dilute the social networking experience, but in many ways, it is an acceptable compromise for workplace access.

• Should you allow access any time any where? Again, the answer depends on how liberal your company culture is. On one hand, you do not want to place unnecessary restrictions. On the other hand, there has to be a balance between personal uses of social media vs. workplace productivity. So, the acceptable-usage policy may state that employees should use their best judgment when it comes to the amount of time they spend on Internet social networking sites. Or, if the company culture allows, you may enforce time or bandwidth-based limitation on access to social networking sites.

• Acceptable data posts. Social networks allow data posts, which may pose a data leak threat to enterprises. In your usage policy, make it clear what kind of data/content is considered non-appropriate in data posts to public social networking sites. For example, some companies prohibit their employees from posting endorsement or commenting on the company on LinkedIn.

Second, you need to clearly communicate the policies to your users and educate them on the risks of social networking and acceptable usages with regards to data posts and software downloads. Make it clear that these security threats are not just against individuals, but also have the potential to compromise the security posture of the corporate environment.

Lastly, if you decide to enforce your policies (if any) technologically instead of simply stating the policies and hoping for compliance, you need to employ a Web filtering product (you probably want one regardless for anti-malware reasons). You may also want the product to collect and report usage statistics on your users. For any outlier population, e.g., the a few employees who spend an exorbitant amount of time on social networks, his/her manager can be made aware of the situation and deal with it in an appropriate way.

Often, just the knowledge that access to social networks is monitored would curtail such behaviours. Be mindful that not every Web filtering product is equipped to deal with script-based Web malware.

The ones that come with an antivirus engine but no script processing capabilities do not fit the bill. Finally, it is imperative that the Web filtering product comes with data leak prevention (DLP) capabilities to enforce acceptable usage policies for data posts.

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Source: Facebook Applications Development Company

Social networks as Facebook and MysPace, walk being employed arduously at the fulfillment of a law in New York, which demands to finish with all the harassing sexual ones that filter in Internet across these small and novel communication channels.

Until now and in fulfillment of this law, more than 5.385 bullies’ accounts have been blocked, what means that the work that one has come developing has been satisfactory. This does not mean that all the sexual delinquents of New York have already been eliminated, but if it is an encouraging number that at least reflects work and sure effort to the users of each of these networks.

According to recent numbers, Facebook has closed more than 3.410 accounts to delinquents, while his rival MySpace reaches 1.975 blocked accounts.

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Source: News on Facebook

Social networks as Facebook and MysPace, walk being employed arduously at the fulfillment of a law in New York, which demands to finish with all the harassing sexual ones that filter in Internet across these small and novel communication channels.

Until now and in fulfillment of this law, more than 5.385 bullies’ accounts have been blocked, what means that the work that one has come developing has been satisfactory. This does not mean that all the sexual delinquents of New York have already been eliminated, but if it is an encouraging number that at least reflects work and sure effort to the users of each of these networks.

According to recent numbers, Facebook has closed more than 3.410 accounts to delinquents, while his rival MySpace reaches 1.975 blocked accounts.

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Source: News on Facebook

Facebook is for experts in Open Social Learning (open social learning) the way adapted in the learning processes.

In a bulletin, the center reported that the persons in charge of the pilot course ‘Trips 2.0 ′ – realized across Facebook – have evaluated positively the experience. Also, 66 % of the pupils assured to have learned from the contributions of his partners.

More than 80 % of the students, thought that the characteristics of this network favor the motivation for learning and for the participation, and 75 % changed his vision of how using the Facebook.

With this, the UOC proved a learning model in a virtual environment opened in Internet and based on the use of open educational resources and on a methodology invigorated by means of the interaction of social networks.

The students of this course have taken part in a formation process on a concrete topic, with what they have analyzed as the social construction of the knowledge takes place, as well as his advantages and disadvantages.

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Source: News on Facebook

Facebook is for experts in Open Social Learning (open social learning) the way adapted in the learning processes.

In a bulletin, the center reported that the persons in charge of the pilot course ‘Trips 2.0 ′ – realized across Facebook – have evaluated positively the experience. Also, 66 % of the pupils assured to have learned from the contributions of his partners.

More than 80 % of the students, thought that the characteristics of this network favor the motivation for learning and for the participation, and 75 % changed his vision of how using the Facebook.

With this, the UOC proved a learning model in a virtual environment opened in Internet and based on the use of open educational resources and on a methodology invigorated by means of the interaction of social networks.

The students of this course have taken part in a formation process on a concrete topic, with what they have analyzed as the social construction of the knowledge takes place, as well as his advantages and disadvantages.

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Source: News on Facebook

In spite of the big Facebook popularity, most of the pages created by persons or companies are not provided with the quantity of fans or followers who wait, at least this way it is revealed by a study realized by the company of analysis specializing in social networks Sysomos, analyzing 600.000 user’s pages in Facebook.

The pursuit breakdown to pages reveals that he is not a simple popular being in the social network:

– 5 % of pages has less than 10 followers
- 95 % of the pages has more than 10 followers.
- 65 % of the pages is provided with more than 100.
- 23 % of the pages has more than 1.000 fans.
- Only 4 % of pages is provided with more than 10.000 followers, 100.000 followers have 0,76 % and only 0,47 % of the pages (297) has more than one million fans.
For categories, the study reveals that there is that quite, from celebrities, products, places, web pages, music, ONGs, sports teams, etc.

For number of followers, artists as Michael Jackson dominate the head in popularity, stars of movies like Vin Diesel or politicians like Barack Obama.

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Source: News on Facebook