Facebook Tricks and Tips

1. Make Facebook Status Update Blue

Whenever you post any status update on your Facebook Wall, Facebook Groups, Fanpages, you always find the color of Status update is ‘black’ and there is not any other option to customize them.

Blank Facebook Status

But using this code, you can make your Status Blue.

@@[1:[0:1: your status update goes here ]]

Just replace “your status update goes here” with the status you want to put.

2. Modify Anchor Text For Personal Profile / Fan Pages

Facebook lets you tag a friend or fanpage by using @ symbol followed by their name you can tag Our Fanpage, using @TechGYD in Status Updates, Comment etc.

By default, the anchor text used to link Fanpage or Friend’s profile URL, are their Name but you can customize it for status updates by using this these simple steps :

Step 1: Get Numeric ID of Facebook Profile/Fanpage by visitinghttp://graph.facebook.com/username. Replace ‘username’ by your, your friend’s or your brand’s Fanpage. That URL’s Numeric ID will appear.

Step 2: Now, you can modify Anchor as per this code:

@@[0:[YOURPAGEID:1:New Anchor Text]]

Using 0 at the place of ‘New Anchor Text will use Fanpage’s Name as anchor.

Green Boxes are Anchors for the same Facebook Page (TechGYD)

*Note: The code should be used twice in status update or else, the trick will not work.

3. Using Profile Pic Emoticons in Facebook Chatbox

This is not actually a trick but a feature introduced by Facebook in 2011 that lets you to use Fanpage/Profile’s Display Pic as emoticon in Facebook chat but using Username/ Numeric ID as [[username]].

For e.g., To use TechGYD Fanpage Profile Pic as emoticon, use [[techgyd]] or [[133278376826827]].

Here are some great rage faces:

• Not bad Obama: [[169919399735055]]
• Me G usta: [[211782832186415]]
• Forever Alone: [[177903015598419]]
• F yeah: [[105387672833401]]
• Poker face: [[129627277060203]]
• Okay face: [[224812970902314]]

4. Make your Display/Profile  Pic “Un-clickable”

Many people don’t want others to click there profile pic and view enlarged version of it. So, if you also want to make your profile pic un-clickable, just follow these steps:

Step 1: From your timeline, navigate to Photos -> Albums -> Profile Pictures.

Step 2: Select your current profile pic and set its privacy to “Only Me” from default “Public”. That’s All.