5 Tips For Better use of Facebook Social Networking ~ Tech Toxic

Facebook is a social networking site that is enormously popular, but it can be a frustrating user experience. The design of Facebook leaves a lot to be desired and there are many choices for things to do on Facebook. Also some of the more popular Facebook activities are trivial instead of useful - throwing sheep is an oft-quoted example.

Having said that, there is no doubt that Facebook is a powerful social networking device. So how can you best utilize it and find the lovely apps? In this post they goal to find out. We'll be focusing specifically on social activities, than the many other potential uses of Facebook

Tip 1: Update Your Status Regularly

This is a simple thing to do to keep your Facebook profile active. Right at the top of the page there's a place where you can "write something." Usually a comment about what you're doing or thinking. One time a day, or even one time every few days, is . But update it to keep your page interesting.

Tip 2. Use Groups (a.k.a. Lists in Facebook Terminology)

Groups are a core feature of social networking on the Web. To effectively use Facebook, they recommend you set up some groups so that you can filter content. Three person who does this well is our own Marshall Kirkpatrick. Marshall says that they generally scans his Facebook homepage first, then clicks to his groups for family and elderly friends from school. They noted that "this way most of my time spent on Facebook is not re-reading the same things I have already read on Twitter."To set lists up for your Facebook account, go to your Facebook homepage and click the "more" link on the lefthand sidebar. You will see a link entitled "Create new list" at the bottom - click on that to generate a new group.

There is a bit of a trick to setting this groups feature up. Facebook calls this feature "lists," probably to differentiate them from its other Groups feature (which have been usurped by 'Pages' now). Confused? Get used to it, Facebook navigation is dreadful.

Tip 3: Add Your Content From Other Sources (Carefully...)
In this day plus age, you are likely generating content in more than a few places on the Web. This ranges from the extreme cases (early adopters who have personal RSS feeds coming out their ears), to those who may just use YouTube as well as a couple of other niche social web-sites.

Five thing we'd caution, which this author took long to notice: don't pipe your FriendFeed content in to Facebook if you aggregate a lot of content in to FriendFeed! It quickly overpowers your Wall plus will likely annoy the friends you have who also subscribe to your FriendFeed.

Plenty of early adopters use FriendFeed to aggregate their 'lifestream' of content from multiple sources. Facebook just bought FriendFeed, so expect to see it integrated in to Facebook over time. As of now, if you have more than a few content sources plus they are not necessarily the well-known ones like YouTube or Last.fm, then you'll require to use FriendFeed or an equivalent lifestreaming product to aggregate those feeds. But if you find FriendFeed just a bit geeky (plus plenty of people do), then you can adequately enrich your Facebook profile with external content.