Facebook is the best place for sharing your status updates with family and friends. However, sometimes you might have some interesting outdoor activities which you want to share with your friends only and not your colleagues. Or there are some personal things that can only be shared with your family members and not the others. To manage your post privacy, you should keep these people separated, putting them into groups like family, close friends, colleagues, acquaintances, etc. This helps you to easily share information with relevant people and avoid some sensitive data to be seen by others.

Below we’ve written 2 step-by-step tutorials guiding you to create a friend list of your own on Facebook as well as restrict certain people from seeing your posts. We hope these simple tutorials and screenshots are helpful for protecting your post privacy. Read more…

Yesterday we’ve recommended you 4 tools for searching hashtags across multiple social networking sites. During our research for this particular topic, we’ve stumbled upon quite a number of online services developed for exploring and analyzing hashtags from Twitter only. Apart from hashtags, contents like Mentions, Tweets and user profiles can also be managed by using these free and user-friendly tools.

In today’s post, we’ve rounded up 12 Twitter hashtags tools, adding to our existing 14 hashtag tools collection. That means you’ll have total 26 hashtag online resources to help you make the most out of this popular microblogging service. Read more…

Hashtag is one of the easiest ways to share and follow a specific topic on the Web. It was firstly used within IRC networks for labelling groups, and rapidly gained popularity through Twitter. These days hashtags have been widely used on many social networking services such as Instagram, Google+, Orkut, Pinterest, Tout, etc. And the good news is that Facebook will soon be supporting this form of metadata tag too.

Previously, we’ve published a post introducing 14 Twitter hashtag tools to keep track of trending topics. Today, we would like to recommend another 2 online services that not only can search hashtags from within Twitter but also other major social networking sites. So if you want to search hashtags on multiple social media sites to explore the latest trending topics, or promote your products, services and campaigns, then these free tools can be very helpful to you. Read more…

Any company would be able to help their new brand by encouraging community members to play games online. This is particularly successful through the social site Facebook. Social media can make a brand world-wide as it goes viral. It is much cleverer then basic advertising. Gaming is addictive, fun and talked about!

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Since Twitter launched its new profile header feature, we’ve published 2 posts to teach you creating your own Twitter header cover and to showcase some of the most creative header images created by talented designers worldwide. Similar to Facebook Timeline covers, it’s important to custom design an impressive header for your Twitter profile page. Not only can it helps to build a good image for your social media presence, but it can also attract more followers and improve social interaction.

If you haven’t figured out any ideas to design your header cover, why don’t you try some “ready made” header banners which can be easily found from the Web? Below we’ve listed 14 websites where you can download tons of eye-catching, creative and beautiful header images for your Twitter profile. And yes, they are all free to download. Read more…

Search engine and social media marketing have become essential components of any business plan in the 21st century and chances are you are already utilizing social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to market your company or your blog.

With everyone and their nephew diving headfirst into the social media marketing pool, it can seem daunting to rise above the deluge and effectively increase brand awareness, generate a following and build brand authority and trust.

Thus it has become vital that you get on the cutting-edge of the social media landscape, and take advantage of the latest developments before your competition and every other marketing imitator gets their foot in the door. Read more…

Social media, the online media platform that has turned the world of communication and mass media head over heels. From communication to advertising, from personal communication to mass communication, social media has forayed into almost every business vertical and sector. This has been the trend in the past ten years, and certainly will be so in the foreseeable future.

At its current rate of gaining prominence, it could soon slay other traditional media forms such as print and broadcast media. The current social media revolution has been spurred on by increased access to and widespread usage of broadband Internet around the world. At this juncture, social media has become an irresistible force of the Internet world. Read more…

Everyday, most of the Facebook users receive a variety of news feeds from their friends, family, colleagues and pages they’ve subscribed. If the posts received are too many, it’s not easy to go through all of them. And it’s even harder if most of the posts are unimportant junk. Although Facebook does provide us some features where we can filter our posts by photos and links, unfortunately that’s not enough to customize the news feed based on what we want to see.

So for those of you who want more controls over your news feed, here we would like to introduce 2 web apps that will help you get updates from people you care about as well as the information and news you’re interested in, in a more organized way. Read more…

Link building is an old search engine optimization strategy that has existed for years, nearly since the first days of Google’s algorithmic existence. Social networking, on the other hand, has only been around since roughly 2007 or thereabouts. However, despite its newness, it’s slowly starting to supplant or at least rival long standing backlinking strategies.

One particular factor that has wrought enormous changes on the entire field of optimization is Google newfound insistence on and enforcement of actual quality in websites; you’re no longer going to cut it simply by creating thin content, spamming out a bunch of cheap links to whatever websites you can and stuffing your website with keywords to the point of unreadability. Google now wants search rank to be guided at least in large part by human interest and as much of it as possible within your niche. Read more…

Angry Birds is one of the most successful mobile games the world has even seen. The app was created by Finnish developer Rovio Entertainment. Since its first release for Apple’s iOS in December 2009, the app has achieved over a billion of downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions. FarmVille, CityVille and Zynga Poker, on the other hand, are popular social games developed by Zynga in 2009 for Facebook and other social networking sites. They were all once the most popular Facebook game by daily active users.

In conjunction with the recently released Angry Birds Star Wars app, we would like to present a beautiful infographic about Angry Birds and Zynga’s social games. Read more…

Wondering how many fake twitter followers you have? In today’s post, we’ll introduce one really cool online tool enabling you to find out the answer in seconds. Owing to the fact that Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites on the Web, tons of fake accounts being created for spamming purposes. If you have a successful Twitter account attracting over thousand of followers, there’s a need to check whether they are real people or just bots.

To check how many spam Twitter accounts are following you, you can go to Read more…

In the previous post, we’ve introduced 45 useful Chrome extensions for Facebook users. Since then we’ve received a huge number of feedbacks from our readers asking us to recommend Facebook related addons for Firefox browser. Considering that Mozilla Firefox is the second most popular browser today, we think there’s a need to satisfy Facebook users who are using Firefox as their default web browser.

Without further ado, here’s a list of must-try Firefox addons which will greatly enhance your Facebook experience! Read more…

Due to the popularity of Facebook and Twitter, many social media related add-ons and extensions have been developed for web browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome. Just like your mobile apps, these thirty party tools allow you to update and track your Facebook right from your web browser without having to access to the Facebook homepage. If somebody posts on your wall or “Like” your status update, you’ll know right away and make a quick response to them.

So, for those of you who spent hours on Facebook, following are some of the best Google Chrome extensions you’ll absolutely love them. Enjoy! Read more…

Facebook is perhaps the greatest invention of the 21st century, helping people to reconnect with long lost friends and family, post status updates, share interesting things with friends, as well as promote and grow businesses. However on the flip side of the coin, Facebook tends to distract our concentrations from the daily works and studies. More and more users are addicted to Facebook wasting a lot of time on social games, following friends’ status updates, and chit-chatting.

If you just want to use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and do some simple networking, here are some of the best ways to avoid you from spending too much time on the social networking site. Read more…

Undeniably Twitter is the most popular microblogging service on the Web. Almost every website owner and blogger has integrated the social networking tool to their sites. This enables their visitors to easily “tweet” about information and updates found from the site which helps in attracting more visitors.

Twitter has its own set of tools which you can use to display your Twitter button and status on the site. In case they can’t fulfil your needs, here we’ve compiled a list of third-party online tools and WordPress plugins specifically designed for integrating Twitter to your blog. We hope these tools can help you promote your site better, tweet to your followers easier, and attract more visitors. Read more…