FaceBook and the little inclusions
Nowadays, we are quite habituated on using social networks. Facebook is the most common and perhaps the most popular and best social networking site. The most amazing news that emerged around the world is nearly 20 million people log into Facebook at least once in a day, and per user spends on an average of 14 minutes per user. This stat shows how much popularity Facebook has already gained.
It has turned into a global brand within 4-5 years of commencement. It is seen that Facebook has an intention of updating and changing its features with a view of providing users with new features and applications so no one will become inattentive on using identical features and applications. Now, let’s take a look at the recent enhancements, changes, milestones, and achievements of Facebook in the year 2011.
Enhancements: Facebook has already made a lot of significant enhancements in its features and security issues.
Ticker is the most recent exclusive latest inclusions of Facebook. A bunch of people asked about the essentials of inclusion of ticker, but now they become habituated with this. You will see ticker at the top, right-side position of the right side as a display, showing updates from all your friends’ activities in real time. It contains live stories, links, likes, and status updates from all your friends.
Facebook has lately developed and provided a new feature called Smart List of friends. It is created and updated automatically for managing your friends. Facebook will automatically manage your friends’ smart list on the basis of common information about you and your friend.
This smart list will also help you organize your close friends’ list. This will also be created automatically on the basis of profile information, but you have the full authority to refine the smart list so that you can add or remove a friend from smart list of close friends.
Subscribe button is also one of those recent exclusive enhancements of Facebook. Subscribe button is similar to the ‘following’ option of Twitter.
Now it has become so easy for you to see who are sharing your updates with a link called “view all shares”. By clicking this link, everyone can know who are sharing updates.
Amazing news for those who are demented of looking on each photo in Facebook as it started the service of bigger as well as a lot better photo display quarter.
Facebook has also enhanced their security system lately. Now, users can use Facebook by turning on HTTP’s connection which is a secure connection. You can easily detect if anyone is using your account or not by simply clicking the check box called Send Me an Email. If anyone log into your account, Facebook will automatically send you an email.
Changes: Facebook has gone through several changes in 2011. Features like timeline, disappearance of profile, new look of news feed, etc. have made a tremendous change in the outlook of Facebook. Those who are eccentric in Facebook will be amazed with these latest changes.
Timeline is also an amazing feature of facebook. By using timeline, you can organize your profile in your own way, as timeline will separate your various activities like events, albums, etc. into different boxes in which you can expand.
Profile, which appeared at the top, right-hand-side beside the Home tab, is disappearing as a part of the process in changing Facebook outlook. Now you can go to your profile directly by clicking your facebook ID located beside Home tab.
A recent change that has been made in Facebook outlook is the way you see the top stories and most recent news combined in one place. You do not have to locate it to find out the top and most recent news.
Milestones and achievements: Every year, Facebook is completing new milestones and achieving a lot. The users of Facebook are increasing rapidly day by day across the world. Its worldwide popularity is a great achievement for them and a lot more achievements are on its way. Facebook will set new milestones and will be able to complete it with ease and will add a new tally of achievements.
