24 great features of popular social networks, which can be useful
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
There are several variations of the 80/20 rule, whereby 80% of the users of the software used in practice only 20% offered them opportunities. You can find other, more depressing figures: 90/10 or even 95/5. Argue about the relationship does not make sense, because of the fact that low computer literacy is not going anywhere. The situation is similar when you stay in social networks. The developers are constantly adding new pieces, of which the majority does not know. And in vain, because they are being implemented not only for the progress of visibility, but actually carry a favor.
In this article you will learn little-known features Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.
The most popular network in the world carries in its bosom a lot of interesting ideas with her and we'll start.
deferred reading
Not enough time to get acquainted with interesting materials? No problem! Facebook is able to save your favorite articles "for later", so you do not have to rush to the tape in their quest.
Return to the appropriate moment to deferred posts by clicking on the item "saved" in the left side of the main page menu. Deferred publication are grouped into a number of categories, so you will not be difficult to find "the very thing" even among the huge number of bookmarks.
Subscription instead of friendship
Did you pay attention to the "Subscribe" button that appears above the photo cover some users? subscription boils down to the fact that you do not need to be friends with the person to see it in their stream news. This is useful if you like the posts of a blogger, brand, or publications, to establish friendship with which you have exactly no chance.
The principle of subscription, and the absence of hard and fast rules confirm the connections between people are key to the success of Twitter. Facebook membership can be compared with the popular RSS technology by which users get the latest information from your favorite Internet sources in streaming mode.
You can also include a subscription to its updates for strangers, holding the appropriate option in your account settings.
"Other" in messages
A large proportion of the audience uses the Facebook social network exclusively as a mechanism for exchanging messages. But not all the local know about some of the nuances of the messenger. For example, if you pay attention to the tab "Other", located next to the main message block?
In the folder "Other" get letters from senders with whom you are not related. On receipt of such messages, you do not know: do not get a signal either via email or through a browser-based version of the notification sotsialochki panel or via a mobile bubble Messenger. They will simply be stored there as long as you do not accidentally stumble on them.
And in vain, because the letters can get lost among the important message from a stranger or a good make an offer from a potential partner.
And one more remark here. After you respond to the message that it is in the folder "Other", all subsequent correspondence with the contact will go after "Inbox" folder. Hence, all stemming: by e-mail notification and any pop-up reminders.
address [email protected]
Absolutely all the inhabitants of Facebook at registration will automatically receive a new mailbox. Its name consists of your name and company end. Than it is valuable?
Facebook-address redirects all incoming emails to the account tied to the email.
That is, even if you do not know the address of the main person you are interested, you can write it on the Facebook address, and the social network will redirect the message to the recipient. It is very comfortable.
Sticker actions
Each of your publication in the vast Facebook more and more ties you to the social network. And so it is difficult to take and strike with the devourer of time, remove the profile and all its contents! But the situation seems hopeless only in your head. In fact, whatever the reason, you can keep all your virtual life.
Go to the "General" settings, the social network and download a copy of your information. The archive will get your publications, photos and video, correspondence history and profile information.
family page
You have filled the Count marital status profile, and the other half confirmed this information? Congratulations, your unit of society got its shelter at facebook.com/us.
The family has its cover page, the list of friends in common and joint chronology of events. And all this proud chronicle you can share on their personal channels.
The sea of smiles
Love to dilute his correspondence with the help of emoticons? catch full list smileys and symbols that you can use in the chat. Most likely, it is among the usual icons and you'll find those the presence of which is not even suspected. You are now the kings and queens of ideograms language!
Do not attach importance to the fact that part of the smiles displayed the usual squares. When you copy them and use in correspondence, they are converted into the right shape.
file Transfer
Sometimes when communicating on Facebook there is a need to throw companion file. Many people immediately try to find a way out with the help of public access to documents in the file storage, but do so in vain. Normal chat window allows you to attach a file of any type of data, which is loaded with one click the user on the other side of the monitor.
Protecting your account
Social network very seriously cares about the safety of your data, which provides a number of useful tools. They are all grouped under "Security» Facebook settings. Let's briefly go over the most important of them.
when activated notification of entering you will receive a message to e-mail or text message to a cell phone for every suspicious login to your profile from an unknown location. Suspicious considered any browser or mobile phone, with which you previously did not go into the social network.
entry confirmation It includes two-factor authentication to access your account from an unfamiliar place. Only the confirmation code you received by SMS, you will open the door to the inner sanctum.
specify three trusted contact from a list of your friends in Facebook, to those when there are problems with access to help you fix them.
Section "How do you enter" guides you with a list of devices and locations, of which input has been carried out in at different times. I advise you to study it closely, this information is most evident and valuable in terms of security. After all, even a partner that you trust your cell phone may years "indulge in" your profile.
Maximum security
Continuing the theme of the protection profile, I would like to mention the new chip Facebook - anonymous access to social networks through Tor (specialized cryptographic browser). Under this deal a dedicated address facebookcorewwwi.onion. Onion-link connects the user to the Facebook servers for SSL-certificate confirmation.
social search
Advanced Search, which stands for the future of Facebook. Very, very promising technology that allows you to specify complex search queries to obtain the most accurate results. For example, you can ask the social network of cafes nearby, which happens to be your friends. Or find their full of like-minded, keen on anime and bicycles. similar examples you can think of a lot, but, unfortunately, the technology is only available for English language users. Should I be upset? Not! Go to the Facebook settings and change the language to English.
Now available to you, though incomplete, but still quite useful list of requests. For example, you can find a cafe next to the other, by typing in the search box Cafes nearby.
Familiar friends instead
Hand on heart, each of you can admit the futility of the presence of the "friends" in your stream. It may be the people you once have seen in my life, the tenth generation relatives and old beer bro. Perhaps once they have been of interest to you, but not now.
Following the address facebook.com/friends/organize you can demote inappropriate individuals from their friends in the familiar. Number of publications familiar to your stream is reduced to a minimum. No damage to your psyche and friendly relations will not be applied.
The well-known micro-blogging social network continues to look for ways to build engagement and monetization therefore, a number of recent innovations awarded your tape unwanted content: advertising and tweets unfamiliar to you people. But nothing is invincible.
Security and privacy
Commercials slip before the eyes of all Twitter users. But they are easy to get rid of in the block "Privacy and security" service settings. Scroll down to the end and remove the check mark from the appropriate item.
Displays in the tape tweets left cranks until caught by no means all users, but sooner or later, the innovation will reach to you. It's now known that inappropriate content can also be turned off. Just know about it and take action when a nonsense.
Analytics
Twitter around for a long time has grown an incredible amount of support services, supposedly giving megapoleznuyu statistics about your profile. Many users peck at it, not knowing that in most social networks have the appropriate information.
And she was not hidden in the depths of the social network - you can find it by clicking on the icon of your account and selecting the "Analytics". Figures and graphics dance around your readers and tweets themselves. All visual, accessible and curious.
Control via SMS
That's what this bill has spoken help service: "You can do some actionsEg start reading the user or other notice update as a favorite, with the help of special teams of Twitter. " The chip is useful if the traffic is ended or it is impossible to install the mobile client on your handset.
But first, you need to activate your mobile phone number. Go to Settings and go to the block of "Mobile Technology". Note that Twitter is not connected in all countries and not all mobile operators. For example, in my native Belarus phone attached, but full cooperation is still there: messages are received but not sent.
ignoring
Hacking user accounts that you are subscribed to, as a rule, turns into an endless stream of promotional offers and simply nonsense. And in order not to drown in this flow, it is not necessary to unsubscribe from the man. Enough to temporarily "mute" it. This business meets the button "Ignore", which can be found by clicking on the ellipsis any unwanted Tweets. Later, you can return to your profile tape, turning off the jammers in the "Ignored accounts" service settings.
I usually chop off "blood, sweat and tears" very emotional people for a period of PMS, cushion shocks and intoxicated.
Working with photos
Over the past few months, seriously improved his Twitter fotofuntsional. The first step was allowed to mark up to 10 people in your photos, and then have the opportunity to add their messages whole collage of four photos. Before you know it, the case will reach up to the filters. Tremble, Instagram!
Google+
Someone thinks that Google's sotsialochka slowly dying, well, someone in her doted. Whatever it was, to Google+ has a number of utilities that you will not find from competitors.
Poll
A new form of interaction with subscribers, public opinion greatly facilitated. Ask questions, supply it with a photo for clarity, and include your answers. The user can only click on an acceptable point, not bothering typing.
empty circles
You can create a new circle, without the addition of a member. Such action may seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but it does have a meaning. All posts that you share with empty circles, are added to your page and will be available exclusively to you. Let a kind, yet effective method of keeping the news to read in the future.
GIF
Correctly selected animated images can highlight your profile in a social network among the static mediocrity. The good news is that you can use as a cover Google+ same GIF. For example, Layfhaker It did just that.
We have not got a personal page in the most popular social network in the labor market? Wasted, LinkedIn - a powerful tool for building professional relationships, partner search and employment. Let us learn about the little tricks that are not so visible in the background of standard sotsialochki functions.
export contacts
Just a couple of mouse clicks, you can keep a backup of their LinkedIn contacts in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo! Address Book or in the Address Book Mac OS.
Go to the "Networks" contacts with the upper service menu and move the view closer to the bottom right corner of the screen. In this area adorns the link "Export contacts", is responsible for the corresponding process. Preservation is subject to the user name, his real place of work and position, as well as the e-mail address.
The letter is the list of contacts
It may happen that you need to send a message magically unavailable person. But how to do it, if you create a contact does not seem possible to him? There is a little trick on that score - an introduction to the general group. Team members can send mail to each other without having direct contact. The case for small - to enter into a common group. :)
save search
If you want to find a cushy job of work, and the time constant monitoring is not suitable vacancies, please use the ability to save searches.
Switch to the item "Jobs" on the social network's main search box and enter the desired professional future. Note the link "Save Search" on the right side of the screen the search result. Now you will receive daily emails with offers comfortable seating.
Login History
By analogy with Facebook, you can learn the history of the inputs are on LinkedIn. Again you the location and authorization, and the device from which the input has been carried out. Click on your avatar in the upper right corner and select "Privacy and settings." In the central region of the window that opens, click on the link "Where you are logged in."
And you know what utility? Share in the comments.