From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Warning: Watch Out For Facebook Phishing Scams

June 28, 2009

Wikipedia describes phishing as:

… phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

What this means is, you may one day end up on a web site that looks exactly like Facebook’s login page. Alaways be sure to look at your web browser’s address bar to ensure you are currently at the domain “facebook.com”, if you see something other than “facebook.com” in your address bar, leave immediately and go directly to www.facebook.com.

If and when you encounter a facebook phishing scam, please report it directly to facebook.

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Free Facebook Vanity Url’s Almost Weren’t Free.

June 17, 2009

Instead of giving Vanity URLs away for free, like it did last weekend, Facebook originally planned to auction them off to the highest bidder.

Facebook’s first idea was to auction them off in a standard “ascending” auction, where the URL and user name would have gone to highest bidder at the highest bid. The problem there was Facebook would have had to close millions of real-time auctions in a very short period of time, creating a tremendous load on its servers. Facebook also worried about giving wealthier users advantages over poorer ones.

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Facebook Username Landrush. What are Facebook Usernames?

June 15, 2009

Facebook usernames are an attempt to make Facebook profiles and pages easily shareable. Basically, usernames affect your profile’s URL. For example, the current URL for my Facebook profile is this:

Facebook.com/people/Alec-Renton/234124

Not exactly the easiest URL to share in the world. After today though, my Facebook URL will be as follows:

Facebook.com/Alect-Renton

This is a much easier URL to remember and share with others. It encourages sharing, friending, and increased activity on Facebook. It follows in the footsteps of Twitter and MySpace, both of which offer the vanity URL.

Facebook pages also have the option to register usernames, but as we reported earlier, your page has to have over 1000 fans to quality. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until the end of the month to register a custom URL. If you want to protect your trademark, visit this page to register it with Facebook.

At 12:01 ET/9:01 PT on Friday the 12th of June 2009, users will be able to register a username by visiting Facebook.com/Username. This page will launch with the ability to register a username at that time.

Default choices are variation of your full name, but you can choose your own custom username. However, if someone else has taken it before you, you’re out of luck, so register your URL quickly. Usernames can only have numbers, letters, and periods, so no special characters or hyphens. Once you have chosen a username, you cannot change it, so choose wisely. Rushing it could result in a mistake that cannot be fixed.

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Grow Your Facebook Friends List

June 7, 2009

There are many things you can do to improve the amount of friends you have on facebook. It always helps to build a good strong friends list no matter what position your in. Here are some pointers to building a good solid friends list on facebook.

  • Start a website and have a link of that site to add you as a friend, if your website grows then your friends list is bound to as well.
  • Add your friends list link to your signature in forums, blogs or wherever you post on the internet.
  • Add everyone with the same surname as you if they ask why you added them say your trying to build up a facebook family
  • As a last resort add people in your friends friends list, theres a limit on how many you can do each day

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