Have you waited for the Facebook Home application release and wanted to try it by yourself?
Now it is very easy to do so if you are the proud owner of one of the following phones: HTC One X, HTC One X+ or Samsung Galaxy S III, for which the application is available for downloading officially on Google Play.
However, if your mobile device differs from the mentioned above, then there are also several hacks from the independent developers.
How often do you check your Facebook updates via phone? A new study by IDC company shows that average Facebook Mobile users check their updates about 14 times a day.
The company analyzed data from 7446 iPhone and Android users in the US from 18 to 44 years old.
Depending on your own Facebook activity, the results presented in the report of the IDC may surprise you or just prove what you already know.
Facebook Graph Search is not yet released for everyone, however, the social network already published some examples of the new social search best practices. Facebook believes that people don’t use it actively and don’t know its full potential.
Therefore, in a recent blog post the company highlighted a few examples of searches: videos, old photos of friends, my engaged friends, images from popular news sources.
There are also examples related to the location: hotels nearby the sightseeings, ski resorts visited by your friends, your places, applications and videos that your friends like, recommendations from the people with the similar interests.
The social network was founded on February 4, 2004 and a few days ago Facebook became 9 years old!
We would like to present the chronology of the Facebook, reflecting the most significant events and figures that accompanied the growth of the social giant.
Let’s have a look on the main milestones of the social network history:
Back in December Facebook introduced a $1 charge for sending a message to the Facebook inbox of any user.
Today we’d like to share a FREE way for messaging strangers on Facebook, just have a look on a step-by-step below.
Possibility to play online games in the social network is a very import feature of the Facebook. Perhaps, the social network can not yet boast with the most convinient online entertainment: endless notification pop-ups and offers to buy something.
However, we are glad to present following six best Facebook games of 2012: a carefully selected and definitely worth to pay attention to.
Facebook recently rolled out Messenger update for the Android operating system, that seemed to be very ambitious: its users will no longer need to have a Facebook account in order to successfully work with the application.
This is an important step of the social network on the way to the desired market dominance in the text messages area.
The possibility to communicate with your Facebook pals providing only your phone number and name for the Facebook Messaging app, can make it much more popular among users.
Users of the social network now can buy iTunes credits for their friends via Facebook Gifts service.
Together with the 10, 15, 25 or 50 dollars gift certificate for Digital Content and Applications in the Apple iTunes Store, the sender can also suggest to a friend which exactly music album, movie or application to buy.
The social network introduced a radically new design of the friendship pages. If you want to see how close you are online with a particular friend or a member of your family, your friendship page with him will show all the posts, photos and events that you shared online together.
This is a great feature – especially for those ones who are in a “relationship” with another user in Facebook.
Features like friendship pages highlight how much personal and shared content exists on Facebook profiles. Many users are also interested in browsing this kind of public-facing information outside Facebook itself. A facebook viewer tool makes it possible to explore publicly available Facebook profiles, posts, and photos in one place.
Social Searcher team is glad to present social media study about US Elections candidates mentions on Facebook and Twitter. We thought that it might be interesting to measure up the last 7 days of the elections race when most of people get their final choise.
Recently launched Social Buzz search engine was used for gathering data.
Do you think social mentions information can forecast the result of election? Then go on reading and get some more interesting facts.
