How to check if your Facebook was shared with Cambridge Analytica?

If you have never heard of the case of Cambridge Analytica with Facebook, then you must be living in some cave.

Ever since the scandal was revealed, Facebook has started notifying up to millions affected. However, if you did not receive any notification from Facebook but would like to check if your Facebook account is affected, you may do so by going to the Facebook's help centre. The quick-and-easy utility from Facebook will tell you whether you or a friend of yours were affected.

The Facebook check is here.

NOTE: You will need to be logged on to Facebook before the check can be performed.

You should see the following if your Facebook information was not shared with Cambridge Analytica.

Minister K Shanmugam asks Mr Simon Milner: Is Facebook willing to take down falsehoods?

Minister K Shanmugam asks Mr Simon Milner, Vice President of Public Policy for Asia-Pacific for Facebook, whether Facebook is willing to take down falsehoods on its platform. The exchange took place at the 22 March hearing of the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods.

Watch the exchange between the Home Affairs and Law Minister of Singapore and VP of Public Policy for Asia-Pacific for Facebook below:

Facebook is down

What can get more worse for some for not able to update their Facebook status to inform the world that Facebook is down? Yes, Facebook is down, at least for me in Singapore as of now May 9, 2017, 09:41 AM (GMT +8).

Comprehensive and Complete Guide to Facebook Ads

Read The Complete Guide to Getting Started with Facebook Ads by Buffer Blog. Very comprehensive.

Guide to Writing Great Headlines on Twitter, Facebook and Your Blog

An insightful article written by the Buffer on how writing great headlines on Twitter, Facebook and your Blog.

Flat Design Language Makes It to Facebook Too

Facebook redesigned its icons moving from a more 3D-like icons to flat icons. The changed icons which also include its logo are as below:

Get Facebook Home on Any Android Phone

Facebook Home is live but is available only on selected phones for now. Lifehacker has a tip on how to Get Facebook Home on Any Android Phone.

A first look on Facebook Home.

Facebook Home "Launch Day" Video Ad

What do you think of the Facebook Home "Launch Day" video ad? What message is Facebook trying to convey? Did you having a better understanding what Facebook Home is all about after watching this video? IMO, the video seems to suggest Facebook Home is a great potential for creating distractions.

Boost Your Facebook Privacy

An interesting article from the LifeHacker How Facebook Uses Your Data to Target Ads, Even Offline will guide you how to boost your Facebook privacy.

How to get the new Facebook Newsfeed (Google+) look?

Facebook announced a revamp on its Newsfeed putting more emphasis on the news area. My take on the new look reminds me of Google+. Facebook must have taken some design cues from Google+ and incorporating them onto theirs. Study Facebook’s New News Feed: The Before & After Look and see for yourself.

Ok, so how do I opt in to the new Newsfeed? Click this link, scroll all the way down and then click on the "Try the new look" button. You will be placed in the waiting list.

Gangnam Style is history; Harlem Shake is NOW!

The PSY Gangnam Style has been copied all over the world and YouTube hits gathered more than 1.3 billion views so far - a record for YouTube.

Now, everybody is doing a brand new 30 seconds dance. This is how easy the dance can be setup. We just need one one person with a helmet and a mask in a seemingly normal environment. That person will start the Harlem Shake first before the entire room join in the dance.

Because of the simplicity of creating own Harlem Shake, many have joined in the fun, including big organisations like Pepsi, Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

Pepsi does the Harlem Shake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeMuHWai8-o

Google does the Harlem Shake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OiFb5O4fio

Facebook does the Harlem Shake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC85PNVms4

Windows 8 does the Harlem Shake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNcnI3wfiso

Infographics: A Short History of Facebook Privacy Failure

Source: Mashable

Google's Horowitz says Facebook is a social network of the past

In an interview with Business Insider, Google VP of social products, Horowitz, mentioned Facebook is a social network of the past and Facebook "sandwich" way of jamming ads to its users.

Watch the 15-minute conversation is as follows:

Infographics: Which Social Network Should You Use — and When?

What Facebook shouldn't do with Instagram?

With the $1 billion mega acquisition of photo sharing Instagram by Facebook, many critics surfaced over the internet space suggesting what Facebook shouldn't do.

An article posted on Experts-Exchange made six suggestions.

Should NOT

1. Require Instagram users to have a Facebook account
2. Automatically start posting photos to people’s Facebook wall
3. Serve ads on the Instagram app

Should

1. Give it a web presence
2. Allow Instagram filters and photo editing tools to be used on previously uploaded Facebook photos
3. Integrate with brand pages

How to Manage Facebook Photo Tags?

I believe many have been experiencing similar annoyances on Facebook, been tagged in a photo inappropriately randomly. To avoid that, read on here to learn how to control Facebook photo tags and how to manage your privacy settings so it doesn't happen again.

Angry Birds is now on Facebook

Popular Angry Bird game is now on Facebook. Check out the trailer for the Facebook version of the game below.

Start playing Angry Girds on Facebook here.

Making a video out of your Facebook Timeline

A marketing agency Definition 6 collaborated with Facebook to produce a browser tool Timeline Movie Maker that transform your Facebook Timeline into a video.

Do try Timeline Movie Maker now.

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace launch "Don't be Evil" bookmarklet

Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and MySpace together launched the "Don't be Evil" bookmarklet in response to Google including its Google+ pages in its search results. Google+ integration into search results has been criticised by competitors that it is not displaying the most relevant social network for an individual, and rather, it's simply promoting their (often less relevant) Google+ page.

The "Don't be Evil" bookmarklet attempts to put focus back to the user, looks at the three places where Google only shows Google+ results and then automatically googles Google to see if Google finds a result more relevant than Google+, and showing them instead.

There are two methods to trying out the "Dont' be Evil"

1. As a bookmarklet
   
   Go to Focus on the User (www.focusontheuser.org), click on the "Try a More Relevant Google", and then drag the "Don't be Evil" bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark toolbar. Next time you perform a search that displays social results, click the bookmarklet for improved social results.
   
   
2. As a Chrome extension
   
   Install this browser extension to automatically run our bookmarklet every time you go to google.com.

Watch walkthrough here.

» The Don’t Be Evil Bookmarklet Makes Google’s Social Results Useful Rather Than Simply Promotional | LifeHacker

Facebook integrates 60 apps to timeline

Facebook announced the integration of 60 apps (more to come) to timeline. Read more here.