8 non-obvious features Facebook

the social network of the world's largest for many has become a major site on the Internet. But even these people do not know all the functions and settings that regularly accumulates Facebook. Here are just a few features of social networks, you might not notice.

1. Choose from whom to get more news, and from whom - did not receive

Surely there are people and communities whose publications you do not want to miss. Fortunately, Facebook allows you to select the page, news from which the algorithm shown in the first place - above all others.

To use this feature, click the three dots next to the tab "News Feed" in the left pane, and then click the "Edit Preferences". In the menu that opens, click on "Select a priority for the news show" and mark the stars of those pages, the news that you want to see first.

In the setting of preferences you can also unsubscribe from friends, the publication of which do not want to see, do not remove these people. To do this, click on the "unsubscribe people to hide their publication", mark unwanted and click on "Finish". Do not worry, Facebook saves your choices in secret and you do not have because of him blush.

2. Break the news feed to the column by means of interests and friends lists

When the profile is filled with lots of friends and subscriptions, there is a need for tools for their organization. On Facebook there are such tools. So, in the left pane, among other tabs you will find a "friends list" and "Interests."

With the first tab, you can group friends into categories like "Familiar", "Family", "Best Friends" and receive news from this list of people each separately. In addition, publishing new entries, you can make them visible to friends only in the selected category. For this purpose in the post instead of "all available" to choose one from the list created.

Tab "Interests" allows you to group by subject categories pages that you do not even signed. Again, to get news from each category page separately. Thus, you can turn Facebook into a news reader with the various headings.

3. Publish spectacular positions that attract extra attention

If you want to publish a beautifully designed longrid or just an important text, which will close in a standard post format, make it notes. This is a special type of publication that stands out in size and enhanced formatting options.

To post your note, please go to the special section. Here you can see the previously published notes of friends and be able to create your own by clicking the "+ Write a review."

To add a link for the rapid publication of notes in your profile, open it, click on the "More" in the popup menu, click on "Managing Partitions". Next, select the "Notes" and save the changes. After that, a reference to the editor of the notes will drop out after a click on the "More" tab.

4. Add links to interesting articles and videos to your favorites to come back to them later

Sometimes, in the film there is a reference to the interesting stuff, but you do not have time to read it right away. Or so he likes that I want to keep it close at hand.

In such cases, it saves the function "Save for later". With it you can add a link to an article or video from your tape to your favorites. To do this, simply click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the post you liked and select "Save link" or "Save video". View added so you can reference by clicking on the tab "saved" on the left panel Facebook.

5. Keep all of your important account information on your hard drive

If you ever come to change or delete the old profile, you may need something from the related information. Facebook developers have taken into account this point and added tools to download to the hard drive of your account data from photos to stories correspondences.

In the settings "General" a link "Download a copy of your information on Facebook". Clicking on it, you get the key for the backup of all data associated with the profile. After registration of Facebook request to send the file information to the specified mailbox.

6. Use advanced security settings

In addition to other data, Facebook account can store contacts numerous acquaintances, business partners and friends. And some users trusted network confidential information and even intimate. Scary to think that all of this content may not be available or, worse, fall into the wrong hands. So do not be superfluous to pay attention to the protection of personal data.

The Facebook security settings, there are two optional options, which still can not be neglected. In "Confirmation Input You" you can enable additional security profile by sending a verification code to your smartphone. The system will ask for the code each time you try to log into your account from an unknown device, make sure that you are doing it.

Another point security settings, which someday may save you from a headache, it is "your trusted contacts." This setting implies the choice of multiple users, which will help you regain access to personal account with the help of special codes, if you suddenly lose it due to hacking or loss password.

7. Assign a guardian for your account

Progress is moving forward, and pseudo-scientific environment has seriously ponder over the world without disease and old age. But while this is a wonderful future not occurred, it is necessary to think about what will happen when we are gone. This also applies to accounts in social networks.

Facebook offers users to choose the so-called guardians. Appointed to this position a person has access to the profile of a man after his death, and can delete the account of the deceased or to place properly.

Select the custodian can be the security settings in "The Guardian." In the same measure as an alternative, you can request removal of the account after Facebook Administration will report on the death of its owner.

8. Become invisible for all or selected friends to chat

When you are online, friends see corresponding status next to your avatar in the chat. But its display can be turned off if necessary. To do this, click on the GEAR in the lower-right corner and select "Advanced settings chat." In the menu you can disable chat for all or some friends. After that, they stop seeing your status and messages from them will fall into the "Inbox" folder.

A few more useful settings Facebook - in our video.