We’ve been waiting for this for a long, long time. Finally, the wait is over. Facebook has released an update to its mobile app for iOS and Android that brings in some much needed additions. Care to know what all is in store? Here’s a sneak peek: Tag friends, Share posts, Emoji icons .. Oh yes, you read it right.

The update, Facebook v5.2, finally lets us tag our friends in posts, comments and statuses. The ability to tag friends from the mobile app is one feature users have been longing for. Simply hit ‘@’ in a comment or post and your friend list will appear.

Another thing you can now do is share pages. A share button has been placed next to the comment and like buttons, so that users can re-post stuff on their wall.

That’s not all. Now you can use your favourite emoji emoticons in your Facebook chats and messages. The new update also has some features reserved exclusively for Android users, like improvements to photo tagging and the ability to create an album from the Photos tab on Timeline.

If you’re a Facebook Junky, mind it , this update is a must. Here are the download links for Android and iOS.

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As you know Facebook is one of the popular social networking sites and Google is a reputed search engine. Both these companies strive to sustain in this web world. You cannot deny the fact that Google and Facebook are the two epochs of the technical era. While Facebook is current social era, Google is rapidly receding to the past. In the technical era, it is often seen that one leader doesn’t lead to the next.

But Google is a toast in this regard. It is not at all stagnant rather the core business is developing every moment. Its core products are improving and successfully entering the new market. Take a quick glimpse at the variety of arenas where both Google and Facebook are struggling for future of the technology.

Social Activity

When it comes to social activities, Facebook takes a higher strand than Google. Hours after hours are spent on Facebook in comparison to Google. People spend around 2 hours a month on Google and consider that to be enough. Google understood the importance of social networking and hence launched Google+ recently. This social system has a better design than Facebook, especially in its way of handling the variable privacy with the aid of its Circles.

What Google+ lacks is globally connected user base of the Facebook. Google might not unseat Facebook in the social field but can effectively drive the users from Facebook.

Search

As all of us know that the web is a huge store house of information and Google shows you the way how to extract the contents of the web. Google is not just concerned with collecting of the information, it also shows how it collects information for the users and the ranking of the result in the Google page. Social interconnection is the core essence of Facebook and social data is conducive in building socially-aware search.

Google is making effort to stay ahead of the social networking site, Facebook both traditionally and socially. Social signals are integrated into Google search by the feature of “Search Plus Your World”. Google though lacks the intensity of social data like Facebook, incorporate extremely private social data in its search results.

The current scenario is – Facebook is entering the realm of general search and Google is entering the realm of social search. In this regard, Google is said to acquire the upper strand.

Identity

Identify solution is present in both Google and Facebook and they are perfect for owning social index. Facebook’s identity solution is enormous – it collects data as to on which system you and your friends are signing up and everyone is getting connected. Google’s identity solution is not as same as the Facebook. Signing into Facebook makes sense as you get the chance to interact with one another. If you are planning to sign up for new services, Facebook is the ultimate solution. Google has to buck up in this regard.

Google and Facebook have their own aspect and features important to the web world. You need to make the choice according to your need.

Author’s Bio: Charles Malcolm  is a prominent desktop support expert. You can know about the social networking sites from him.

When sending out an invite for an Event, Page or a Group, FaceBook doesn’t let you select all your contacts. You need to manually select the friends you wish to send an invite to. Considering the possibility of you having a large number of FaceBook friends, manually selecting each one would consume a hell lot of time.

Well, there is a way out and it’s fairly simple and doesn’t require anything to be installed. A small JavaScript command line is all that is needed.

How to Invite all your FaceBook friends at one go:

1. Fire up Google Chrome and login to your FaceBook account. Open the Page, Group or Event and click on Invite Friends.

2. An Invite box displaying all your friends will appear. Select Search All Your Friends from the drop down box. Now scroll through all your friends, ie. scroll down to the bottom of the list. This step is a must if you want to select all your friends.

3. Once you’ve scrolled the entire list, press Ctrl + Shift + J. This will open up the JavaScipt console.

4. Now copy the JavaScript below and paste it in the console (Only Ctrl + V will work) and press Enter.

javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()};

You’ll notice a tick in the checkbox against the names of all your friends. Click on the Submit button and FaceBook will invite everyone. If you have a large number of friends, it may take a minute or two to send all the invites. Do not refresh the page, wait for it to finish sending the invites. You’ll be shown a message once it’s done.

So you’ve created a FaceBook page for your blog/website and wish to keep it updated? You can always manually update it each time you add a new post, but if you are adding new stuff frequently, it can be a little tedious. There’s another way that’s totally automated, just set it up and you’re done. It’ll automatically update your FaceBook page whenever you add a new post. The Tech Junky FaceBook page is also updated automatically. Slick, right?

What we’ll be using is a FaceBook app called RSS Graffiti. This nifty little app will do everything for you, without the need of you interfering. To begin with, I’m assuming that you’ve already set up your FaceBook page. If yes, then simply follow the steps below.

It’s not unusual to see a FaceBook element get a new look. The latest one to get a design refresh is the Events Page. By updating the Events listings, FaceBook has made it easier to keep track of events. The refreshed look follows the introduction of the Google+ Events page last month.

The new FaceBook Events page gives you two views – Calendar view and List view. You can now see all the events in advance, so it’s pretty easy to plan for the upcoming birthdays. You can also view suggested events and respond to invites, all from the same page. Clicking on a date opens up a dialogue box which shows all the events for that date as well as gives you the option to create an event. Overall the refreshed look is a welcome one and improvises upon the pervious version.

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Do you know that you have an @facebook.com email account? Sounds cool, right? It’s been there for a long time now and if you don’t know about it then it’s time you check out the FaceBook email facility.

It’s been a while since FaceBook provided all it’s users with an @facebook.com email account. Though most of us are not aware of our FaceBook email accounts, this service very much exists within our FaceBook inbox. Recently FB started showing everyone’s FaceBook email addresses on their respective Timelines. I gave the service a try and turns out it’s pretty much functional and built right into our inbox.

Your email address on Facebook is the same as your public username or your public user ID. If you know nothing about your FaceBook email address, go to your Timeline. If it’s visible then fine, otherwise click on ‘Update Info’ and then check out the ‘Contact Info’ section. It should be listed there ([email protected]). That is your FaceBook email ID.

Now how do you use this thing? Go to your Inbox (Home > Messages) and click on New Message. Type an email address in the TO field and send your message. Boom! The message will be delivered to that email address. It works the opposite way too. You can compose an email to [email protected] and your message will be delivered to the FaceBook inbox.

Note: Messages may be shown under Message > Other

Twitter is one of the most trending social networking sites. With more and more celebs joining Twitter and more and more people following them, the rate at which Twitter is growing is insane

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