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Below is a list of all posts tagged with “Facebook”. Browse through them to learn more about specific features, updates, tips, and insights.

1 Million Facebook Users to Marry

It is generally admitted that the social network Facebook helps people to solve their problems, or at least it can’t be denied that they turn to it full of hopes to find a proper solution for their difficulties.

An attempt of this kind was made by a resident of Swindon in South West England. Her name is Kelly Coxhead and she is 31and the mother of four children but still not married.

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Doctor Diagnoses Friend’s Appendicitis Via Facebook

A Live was saved thanks to opportunity to communicate via the social network Facebook.
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32 Percent of Local Business Owners Use Facebook Places

Last summer a new application was launched by Facebook. Its name is Facebook Places. In spite of its relatively young existence it seems to be quite prosperous. A short time ago MerchantCircle conducted a survey that showed that 32 percent of the 8,456 businesses promote themselves through this service. About 12 percent are going to make use of it in the future, moreover not-so-distant one.
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Why do People “Unlike” Pages on Facebook?

Recently ExactTarget and CoTweet carried out an investigation named “The Social Breakup.” They researched the reasons that urge people to click on “unlike” button on Facebook brands sites. Every seventh out of ten of the social network accountholders are convinced that they’ve begun tending to choose more carefully when it comes to voicing their attitude regarding liking or unliking brands on the site. Almost half of Facebook users, rough estimated, removed themselves from a page’s admirer by clicking “unlike” button.
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Popular Facebook Applications for Science Fans

Facebook offers many different ways to gain knowledge that is of scientific value. This variety intends to give relief to science geeks’ thirst for knowledge. Thereby these apps are assigned for learning oriented people, not for those who look for diverse types of entertainment, like building virtual farm for example.. Read more

Popular Photo Applications for Uploading Images to Facebook

Facebook profiles contain info about its author and his lifestyle that he places by himself to let his friends know how he is going. People often allocate their photos there, especially the most favorite ones. At the present time there are a lot of ways to do it. Read more

Teen Landed in Jail for Hiring Hit Man via Facebook

One of Facebook’s users put up for auction the remuneration for the commission of murder of the person who got him into trouble. The situation seems to be even more terrifying after finding out that the man promising the reward and the other person set for the former as his object are connected through the relationships of a rapist and his victim.
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Handy Tools for Updating Facebook Offsite

Below you will find the list of the desktop applications for implementing of Facebook updates and notifications without even having to keep the site open in a browser. The number of these tools constantly increases, but here are eight of them.
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Will Obama’s Daughters be on Facebook?

While being interviewed on the “Today” show Michelle Obama, the USA’s first lady frankly admitted that she prohibits her children to use Facebook. This restriction of using the social network stirred up the discussion about the rightness of such a limitation.

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Facebook is Planning to Deprecate FBML and Allow Iframe Page Tab Apps

According to a recent statement of Facebook developers, FBML and FBJS will be depreciated since March 11, 2011 and Page tab applications are going to be built and implemented using iframes. Both canvas and tab applications are supposed to be built on the same programming model. In addition to that iframes will allow integrating social plugins and the Graph API into tab apps.

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