Social Media Explained in Simple Terms

I found this at ThreeShips Media.

My Facebook was slowing down!

In just the last couple of days I noticed Facebook was so slow!  I couldn’t scroll down without waiting a few moments for it to catch up with my mouse and if I tried to close it, the site took forever.

It seemed like nothing else on my desktop was affected.  Hubby thought it was my browser (I like IE, he’s a Chrome fan).  He said I could use FB with Chrome and still use my other sites with IE, but that really wasn’t a good answer for me, so I went looking for a solution. 

And I found it!  Would you believe it was my AVG antivirus scanner that recently upgraded.  I found a discussion that pointed out the AVG Link Scanner was the culprit.  So I went in and disabled just that part and everything on Facebook is back to normal—whew!

So, if you use AVG and are experiencing serious slow-downs on Facebook, open the AVG application and double click LINK SCANNER.  Then uncheck the Enable Search Shield and Enable Surf Shield (they are right together).  Click Save, and restart your computer. 

More new Facebook changes

Facebook has turned on On Facial Recognition For Tagging for some people.  Is it you?

To Disable:
1. Go to your privacy settings.
2. Click “Customize settings.”
3. Scroll down to “Things others share.”
4. Find “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
5. Change to what you want (mine is on disable).

Facebook Friend Requests

Something new for Facebook: When users include a personal message with a friend request, that message will now also appear in the Messages inbox of the recipient. These messages, which allowed users to add a short note to a friend request, only appeared in the Requests channel. This made them easy to miss, especially since once a request was answered, the message was permanently deleted.

By adding these friend request personal messages to the Messages inbox, users are much more likely to see them and users will always have them, significantly reducing the chance of these notes being lost.

There's That LIKE Button Again!

I’ve noticed something new on eBay--there’s a Facebook LIKE button on some of my listings. When I click on it, that listing is posted on my Facebook page!

These Facebook Like buttons appear at the top of the page, directly under the listing title. The buttons do not appear in all categories yet, but are starting to show up on a few of my own listings--mostly those with free shipping.

I had heard a little bit about it at the eBay convention in Las Vegas last week--eBay told us that "We're actively working on putting more "Like" buttons on the site."

I, for one, "Like" it.

eBay + Facebook + twitter

I really like the way I can import specific listings from eBay to my Facebook page. Do you use that function? Just click on the little Facebook icon on the lower right of your item’s description and it will let you put it on your Facebook page for everyone to see. It also puts your item picture with the listing.

But eBay tends to constantly fiddle with its settings. A couple of months ago I found that when I tried to send one listing to Facebook, the picture didn’t appear with the description. After two weeks, it straightened up and the picture was back. And, just this morning, it started doing that again! I certainly hope it doesn’t take another two weeks to get back to normal.

There’s also a twitter icon you can use (right next to the FB icon). When you choose that one your title goes to twitter along with a shortened URL to your listing. I often joke that twitter users will click on anything--if you have a lot of twitter followers, your viewer stats will go up immediately!

Facebook Graph

This graph was emailed to me...thought I'd share it!

Missing some friends on Facebook?

Does it seem like you aren't seeing some of your friends' comments on Facebook? 

The “New Facebook” has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you’ve recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa – you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!

HERE’S THE FIX: Scroll down to the bottom of the newsfeed on the homepage and click on “Edit Options”, click on “Show Posts From” and change the setting to “All Of Your Friends and Pages.”


Yours may be ok due to previous settings you implemented, but it doesn't hurt to check!