One of the reasons I’m starting to actually prefer Facebook Messenger: you can stop specific people from messaging you.
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Facebook offers a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts for many common and even not-so-common actions. Socialbakers created an infographic to list these shortcuts for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on OS X, and Chrome, Firefox, and IE on Windows.
Some of these shortcuts include: create a new message, get back to the main page (news feed), check your friend requests, visit your profile page, check account or privacy settings, and like a photo.
Two shortcuts Socialbakers didn’t list: J and K now work to move you forward and back through your news feed, but apparently not on profile pages.
This is a really nice touch: the Facebook Graph Search tour uses your data to make it more useful, so you actually see a query you could actually type and the actual results you would get from it, based on your friends and data.
In other words, it’s not just a canned tour with canned data; it shows you how to actually use your stuff.
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Facebook - The icon for marriages is automatically based on the genders of those involved.
Wonderful.
Facebook Interest Lists are rolling out. Instead of friend, liking, or subscribing to all the companies, apps, and other non-humans that you want to keep track of on Facebook, you can now create Interest Lists and add just about anything to them. This should help a lot with “news feed fatigue.”
As far as I can tell, you might not see this feature just yet; it’s a slow rollout thing. Or, if you have it, you might not see it as an option on all pages just yet.
With the transition to timeline for Pages, Facebook is rolling out an “Interest List” feature that lets you organize Pages into lists based on topic or whatever you want. This should help keep your news feed clutter free, but still allow you to like and follow all the companies, organizations, and groups you want.
When posting a new status message on Facebook, it displays a lock icon with a downward pointing triangle next to the Share button. Clicking on it brings up a menu that allows you to make that status available for everyone to view, restrict it to your friends of friends, or to just your own friends.
If you click on the Customize option, it brings up the window displayed above. Here, you can make your status visible to specific people or to all the people on one or more of your friends lists. Alternatively, you can go in the opposite direction and restrict certain of your friends from viewing that status.
On a social network like Facebook, where you are simultaneously friends with not just your real life buddies but also friends made online, acquaintances, family members, and colleagues from work, this feature gives you powerful ways to filter your posts for just the people you want.
Facebook’s share bookmarklet now offers more options for where to share something you found, including a friend’s wall or a group you participate in.
