Monthly Archives: May 2012
Facebook Makes More Changes…
There have been some pretty big changes with Facebook this week. The good news is, it’s all good news!
#1 The ‘Super Admin’
Facebook now allows you to limit the access of other administrators on Facebook business pages. There are now 5 levels of admins.
- Manager – The Manager has complete access to the page and all access. This would likely to be the page owner or business owner.
- Content Creator – This position allows for all access except for managing other admin roles. This is a great role for your Social Media Manager or Marketing Director.
- Moderator – The moderator can not post or create content but can reply to posts, comments, and messages as well as create ads and see the analytics.
- Advertiser – This role is strictly for someone to see the analytics and create/edit advertisements for the page.
- Insights Analyst – As it sounds, the role of the Insights Analyst only has access to this section.
This is fabulous news that should have been in place years ago. I have heard many horror stories about a rejected/angry employee deleting Facebook pages or deleting the other admins and creating havoc on the page. The ‘Super Admin’ should solve these problems.
#2 Promoted Posts
We all know about advertising for Facebook pages and you see them constantly over on the far right column of the page. Now Facebook allows you to promote a particular post from your page. What does that mean? It means, for a certain price, your post will be seen by even more people including friends of fans. Now that’s pretty cool! The other side of the coin is, how does Facebook control what fans are seeing my posts in the first place? Seems they have some explaining to do.
#3 Scheduled Posts
Coming soon to a page near you! You will soon be able to schedule out your posts on Facebook up to 6 months in advance. Again, should have been done years ago but hey we’ll take it. This will allow admins to still post while in meetings/vacation/sick/busy/different time zones and not have to use 3rd party sites like HootSuite. Watch for this new feature and let me know how you like it!
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Zombie Apocalypse In Miami?
Have you seen the news lately?
“A naked man in Miami, FL was found eating the face off of another naked man.”
Wait…what?
Yes. And then a police officer yelled to him to stop, and the “zombie man” turned to the police officer with flesh hanging from his mouth, growled at the cop then returned to his meal.
WHAT???
Yes. So the cop fired at the “zombie man” who pretty much ignored it, so the cop fired 5 more shots to finally kill the flesh eating man. The victim is still in the hospital with 75% of his face chewed off and hospital officials are not releasing any information.
Why not???
“Maybe the victim is now a zombie“, is what my 14 year old said. Maybe. So is there a zombie Apocalypse underway? Well, if I was a doctor/nurse/hospital worker and the victim became a zombie, I would be selling that story faster than you can say “twenty million” along with the iPhone pics to TMZ and finding the most remote island to build my new zombie-free fortress. So my answer would be no, there is no zombie apocolypse because the news would be all over Facebook by now, in fact there is even The Miami Zombie on Twitter.
So why did the guy eat the face off the other guy? “Bad LSD” is what the cops say is the reason. A new form of LSD that apparently is worse than the old kind. Fabulous. All this just when I was looking forward to heading to the Florida beach this summer.
Stay safe my friends and please, just say no to bad LSD!
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Facebook Etiquette, Family Fights, And Knowing When To Block People
I spend a lot of time on Facebook and I have heard many stories from friends of how Facebook has caused problems with friends and family relating to arguments or offending others on Facebook. I personally have never had a problem like this ever. Until now.
Without going into too much detail and making the situation worse than it already is, I have certain people (extended “family” you could say) blocked from my Facebook profile, meaning I may as well not exist to them because they can’t find me and for good reason. Let’s call them “person A“. I don’t want “person A” to know anything about my personal life and want to keep it as private as I possibly can. However, their extended family members, “person B” saw something on my page, passes on the info, and “person A” got upset about it. So I blocked “person B” which I would have blocked in the beginning anyways if I had though about it.
Anyways…. Ugh, so high school-ish, right?
“Person A” is now upset that I blocked “person B” because they “did nothing wrong”. So now I look petty, immature, and like the bad guy all because I wanted to keep my privacy so it wouldn’t cause problems in the first place. I can’t win. So what do I do? Do I act as the better person, unblock these people (even though we still are not Facebook friends and they still won’t have access to very much anyways), or do I keep them blocked and continue minding my own business and hope they mind their own business (ha ha)?
What is the correct etiquette for blocking people?
If I would not invite you to my house, show you my photo album, and tell you the latest going on in my life, why would I share it with you on Facebook? I wouldn’t, you would be blocked.
That’s what’s so great about Facebook, you can control who sees what!
Click here to learn how to block certain posts from being seen, control your privacy, block people all together, etc!!!
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What Is Project 365?
I discovered #Project365 from a friend on Facebook and I started this journey myself on February 25, 2012, the day before my birthday. So what exactly is it?
Project365 is a photo-a-day way of seeing and remembering those moments in life that so often get away from us. All you do is take one picture a day of something that happened to you or effected you in some way, write a caption, and post it to your Project365 Facebook album. Pretty simple right? Usually it is, but I found that I have gotten pretty busy and forget to take a picture, or maybe I did take one but forgot to post it. This is always a reminder to me of why I’m doing this project in the first place. We so often get busy in our lives, we don’t see the little things, or we forget what happened. That is why the project exists.
I love going back and seeing what I did and remember what happened on a particular day. I also like the fact that Project365 reminds me to pay attention to what’s going on in my life, the good and the bad, and reminds me to take a picture (except when I forget 
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Give it a try for yourself and let me know how you like it!
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Below are some examples of my album but if you would like to see my entire #Project365 album, click here.
#Project365: Tuesday 4-3 Just viewed some of the tornado damage in Arlington. Most amazing thing I have ever seen and this was only an F2! I am just at a loss for these people and wish there was more I could do for them. More pics to come.
#Project365: Friday 4-6 Today I went to Rangers Opening Day…kinda. Well I went to an awesome tailgating party with some friends and the Rangers won 3-2! Season is 1-0 baby!!! 
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How To Spy On Your Teenager Using Facebook
I have 4 teenagers and I most likely spend more time on Facebook than the four of them combined, all work related of course *cough cough* So I find it extremely amusing when they try to get away with something on Facebook. For example… I noticed one of my wonderful teens had posted mid-day on a school day. How did they do that, I asked? Their response was something to the effect of “Mom, my friend must have hacked my account” or “Facebook doesn’t always get the time right when I post, that was from this morning”. Weak, I know.
Well parents, I am going to teach you how to spy on your kids (or anyone else for that matter). Now obviously you could set up a secondary account under a different name which I would encourage, however Facebook is really pretty smart and sometimes won’t let you get away with it. Back in the day I created a MySpace account of a girl about my kids age and friended them and all their friends so I could keep an eye on them. That’s actually how I got myself wrapped up in social media to begin with!
So here are a few tips:
#1 Check their “recent activity”. This information is posted right on their Facebook page, is probably the most valuable info you will find, and is usually showing their comments on others statuses, new friendships, videos watched, and pages liked. If you notice, everything is hyperlinked in blue meaning they are clickable. If they commented on a status, click the “status” and you will see all comments for that status, along with date and time of day.
#2 If your teen RSVP’s to any Facebook invitation, it will show up on their profile like the the picture below. The invitation is clickable which will give you all the details of the event/party, including address (if given), who is invited, who else RSVP’d (who your kids will be hanging out with), and any comments or chatting about the party. Lots of valuable information!
#3 Curious about when your teen is online? You can always check the “chat section” to see if they are currently online. If they are you will see a green dot next to their name, unless of course they know how to turn off chat which means nobody will see if they are available online or not. You can also see this on the iPhone Facebook app as well.
#4 While looking at an actual post you will see the date and time of the post. This is helpful especially if they were suppose to be in school, in bed at the time
#5 A picture speaks a thousand words and on Facebook, teens love to discuss their pics. First, find out who posted the pic, second, who all is tagged in the pic, third check the time and date it was posted (was it 3am?), and finally click on the actual picture to see all the wonderful comments from their friends who probably are clueless to the fact that a parent may stumble across the picture and read about the wild and crazy night they had.
Don’t forget to check the tags!
#6 Check their friends list. You can actually hide your friends lists but most teens either don’t know this or don’t care, so get snooping! The 2 pictures below show the friends list on the old profile page and the new timeline pages. Click them and you will see any mutual friends you have with them, as well as their entire friends list. You can scroll through all of them, checking what town they live in, high school or college they attend, and even workplace if it’s posted. You can also search their friends list for a specific person shown in the 3rd picture below.
OR on the new timeline
Search the friends list
Hover over a name to get a little more info
If you dig deep enough, you can find lots of information about anyone on Facebook. A little scary actually but you can also secure your Facebook so that pretty much everything is hidden through your security settings. Is this an invasion of your teens privacy? No, it’s out there for all to see it. Keep in mind that many teens lie about their age on Facebook because you have to be at least 13 to have an account, so it may look like your kids are hanging out with 20 year olds. That may not be the case at all so check the about section for graduation year to confirm.
Parents of teenagers need to be proactive instead of just reactive to a situation at hand. Stop the behavior before it starts. Know who your kids are hanging out with. And don’t feel guilty about spying on them…just don’t get caught or they will de-friend you or worse…block you. Then of course you change the wi-fi password and/or take away the computer
GOOD LUCK!
