Most
of us use Facebook to interact with some of our long separated friends but that
does not mean we cannot have fun on Facebook. Here is a collection of tricks,
tips and Easter eggs you can use to enjoy your experience on Facebook.
Facebook Easter Eggs: Pirate Language,
Turn Facebook Upside Down
Facebook
is not as famous for its Eastereggs as Microsoft, but that does not mean that
Facebook's Easter eggs are not entertaining. The one which I especially find
interesting is the Pirate Language trick. To enable Pirate Language in
Facebook, login to Facebook, click on the down arrow at the right of the top navigation
bar, click on Account Settings, click on Edit at the right of the Language
option, and in the Primary Language dropdown menu, select English(Pirate)
located somewhere near the bottom and be the captain of your Pirate Ship.
Chat on Facebook in your Firefox
sidebar while browsing other Websites
To
do this, you need to bookmark http://facebook.com/login.php. Then click on Show all Bookmarks (Manage Bookmarks
in older versions) in the Bookmarks menu, then locate the newly created
bookmark, single click on it, then click on more in the footer, then check Load
this bookmark in Sidebar. Now, you can open that bookmark in Firefox's sidebar
and keep on browsing other websites too.
Show Facebook Status Updates only to
Specific People or Hide them from someone
Facebook
gives you the option to show your status updates to everyone or only your
friends. You can further optimize Facebook so that your status updates are
shown only to people you wish. Go to Privacy Settings by clicking the Settings
icon at the right of the top navigation bar and clicking Privacy Settings.
Then, in the Who can see my stuff? section, click on "Who can see your future
posts?". Then, customize who you wish to show your posts by clicking on the down arrow that appears next to the
Post button on the non-functional status update box. You can also hide your
statuses from specific people by adding their name in the Hide from These
sections under Custom settings. You can also individually change the audience
of your posts. Go to the post whose audience you wish to change and choose a
different audience by clicking on the globe icon (which denotes that the post
is public).
Hide your past posts so that only your
friends can see them
Now
you can also customize your past posts so that only your friends can see your
past activity. To do this, open Facebook Privacy Settings and under the
"Limit the Audience for Past Posts" option, select "Limit Old
Posts."
Tag people in Status Updates, Wall
Posts, Comments or Text
To
tag someone in text in a manner that a link is created to the person's profile,
use the @ symbol. eg. If you wish to tag John Jamison in your comment write @
John Jamison without any spelling mistake. If the person is in your friend
list, a link in blue will be automatically created to the person's profile and
he would be "tagged".
Write Upside Down, In Bubbles or
Inverted Mirror-like text on Facebook
You
might have seen many people update their Facebook status saying that "this
was the last time they bought a keyboard on eBay" or "they have
finally learnt how to update Facebook statuses while doing a headstand"
written upside down. Here is how you too can flip text like that and add much more
cool effects. Just go to Upside Down Text, uncheck Backwards
effect, enter your text and copy the inverted one from the inverted
text column and paste it in your status update or chats. You can also write
inverted mirror like text by un-checking the upside down effect. To write in
bubbles, click on the Bubble Ball text in the top Navigation bar.
e.g. Mirror Effect:- !rorrim a ni deppart ma I !oN hO
e.g. Upside Down Effect:- ɯɐp ʞǝʎqoɐɹp¡
e.g Both Mirror and Upside Down Effect:- ¡poפ ǝɯ dlǝH ˙ʎzɐɹɔ ƃuıʇʇǝƃ sı uıɐɹq ʎW
e.g. Text in Bubbles:- Ⓞⓗ Ⓝⓞ! Ⓜⓞⓡⓔ ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔⓢ
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