Facebook is the second most popular website after Google, having millions of users logging into the social network daily. Some people use Facebook to make friends, while some enjoys it for playing games, and many other access it for business purpose. It is quite obvious that every user has their own reasons of using the biggest social network.

Today we are going to share with you some great tips and tricks for Facebook, that will be both beneficial and amusing for every Facebook user.

facebook tips and tricks

1 – Hide Online Status On Facebook Chat From Selected Friends

If you do not want some of your friends to see your online status on Facebook Chat, then just open the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list by typing a list name, for example Limited List.

Once the list is created, add those unwanted friends to the same list you created. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. Voila! You will now appear offline to everybody in the Limited List.

2 – View A Friend’s Profile Without Experiencing Random Applications

If you are annoyed by the random applications added by your friends that appears on their profile, then you can install this Grease Monkey script which will allow you to see friend’s profile without all these messy applications.

3 – Bring Facebook Chat To Your Desktop

Now there is no need to login to Facebook.com for doing Chat with your Facebook friends, you can simply bring the Facebook chat to your desktop by using Adium and Chit Chat.

4 – Schedule Your Facebook Messages

By using Sendible and Hootsuite you can easily schedule your messages to be sent in future on Facebook, It can also be used for scheduling status updates.

5 – How To Upload Photos On Facebook From Your Regular Cell Phone

Nowadays, Smartphones like iPhone and Blackberry makes it easier to upload photos to your Facebook account via their Facebook application, but how would you do it if you have a regular phone? Here is a great informative article to guide you through it.

6 – Create Magic Circles On Facebook

For this secret trick all you need to do is press: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter Key Then Press Up & Down – And there you see some magic circles appearing in front of your screen.

7 – Automatically Poke Your Friends

Got no time of poking back your friends, who pokes you? Then, turn on the automatic poke by using this Grease Monkey script and let it do the poking.

8 – Import Facebook Friends To Twitter

You may have different friends on Facebook who you may have not be following on Twitter, if you are looking for a way to add your Facebook friends on Twitter, a service called FB 140 will come in pretty handy.

If that doesn’t work for you, then try going through this process.

9 – Download Videos From Facebook

By clients like SpeedBit and DownFacbook, you can download any video uploaded over Facebook without any hurdle.

10 – How To Do A PRO Search On Facebook

Similar to any big search engine Facebook also has many advanced options to help you search like a PRO. For example if you are looking for a person named John Doe and want filtering your results down to only people who are married, you can try name: John Doe status: married.

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