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When Facebook iOS integration came onto the scene, Apple and Facebook joined forces in an effort to enhance your life - not to burden it. Cook and Zuckerberg didn't get together in some secret layer on a private island in the Pacific to concoct some evil plan that would ruin millions of peoples' lives by adding Facebook to the iPhone. I'm not one to view the world through rose-colored glasses, but let me at least show you some of the benefits and their nuisances of having Facebook on your iPhone.
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Most curators of visual content have a Pinterest account and either a Facebook account, page or group. Today we'll focus on connecting Facebook Pages and Pinterest accounts; however many of these ideas could be used to connect regular Facebook accounts and Facebook groups too. In the end, the aim is to you know your audience, have a plan and make your work as simple as possible.
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Facebook can suck. Really. That's a blunt statement, but regardless of the medium, it's the content that makes up in publication. In Facebook's case, it's a great medium, but sometimes it has some horrible content. Only the users are to blame. Fortunately, I'm here to help you enhance your content output so you can develop some truly engaging status ideas to help you connect better with those on your social network.
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Being at the right place at the right time is often squarely tied to luck. While it's true that you can't be everywhere, it is also true that nurturing your professional relationships could help you hear the knock when opportunity comes calling. The little things done right there can help to foster career growth. We tend to sometimes use social media too casually. Tuned just right, it is a minimal effort tool for managing our relationships en masse.
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As you can imagine, things change in the Timeline arena. Facebook has changed since, changing the way profiles look along the way, and Timeline photos are now bigger and more prominent than they used to be. In addition, some new tools have popped up that can help you reach that coveted goal: an awesome and original Timeline.
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I recently reviewed Rowi, the Windows Phone Twitter app, for these very pages. Rowi has pretty much decimated the opposition in terms of quality and stability, and has become probably more popular than the official app. So why have I stopped using it? Indeed, you might ask why I have stopped using the official app.
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Search engines only help if you know what it is you're looking for. But what if you don't? Social networking sites are a good source of interesting content. And then there are social media sites, which are curated either by editors or a community of voters. What follows are six social media sites full of interesting stories and intriguing articles.
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With MSN (or Windows Live Messenger) being recently laid to rest and Skype not offering a protocol for us all to connect through, it's safe to say that all-purpose messengers like Pidgin are slowly falling out of favor. Nevertheless, it's still my all-time favorite and - although it's ancient - I am still a firm believer in AIM as a messenger. I still use it and many of my friends still use it. Text-based IMing is all I really care for and AIM gets the job done.
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With Facebook, we can take to the Internet, raise our For Sale signs high, and proclaim "Yes! I do want your money for this toaster with an unpredictable short in the cord!" Before you decide to go selling items on Facebook, check out these tips below. Here on MakeUseOf, we really do have everything you need to know for selling stuff on Facebook.
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The Facebook cover photo crowns your Timeline. You can choose a stunning photograph and keep it simple or create an eye-catching composition. No place on Facebook is better suited to show off your creativity and express your personality than this. Don't despair if you're not a master of Photoshop. Facebook makes it easy.
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Facebook Home is the highly-promoted new Android app from Facebook that unifies messaging and socializing with a single view and launcher, a sort of home screen replacement. Meanwhile Windows Phone users have People, the contacts/social networking hub that is integrated into the platform. We thought it would be interesting to see which of these approaches to integrated social networking is most effective.
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Despite my complete lack of snobbiness when it comes to photography, the emergence of social networks and smartphones have combined to mean photos are an integral part of the Web, and I'm not convinced that's a good thing. People shoot liberally and then post them online immediately. Which has led to certain trends emerging over the past couple of years.
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I do not condone any of the actions that were taken on my part in the following tale – they were wrong, overdone, and to be perfectly honest, positively, entirely dramatic. However, what else do you expect from an eighteen-year-old high school student? With that said, the best thing that has ever come out of the following events is the fact that I am now getting paid to tell it.
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Ever so often people ask us how they can merge two or more Facebook accounts . Now don’t get your hopes up! The truth is, it is not possible to merge Facebook accounts. However, there are workarounds. All it takes is a little preparation and patience.
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Are you bored of Twitter? Do you find yourself scrolling through another day's boring feed, wondering why you even bother? What if it's not the content that's boring, but the way you're browsing it? Most people browse Twitter for the actual content shared, not for the witty remarks placed next to them so here are are five unique ways to browse your Twitter feed on your iPad, be it through images, videos, conversations, or even color codes.
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