How to set up your privacy settings on facebook so that your pictures and info doesn't appear on adverts.

One of the biggest problems with facebook at this present time is that they allowing their advertisers to use YOUR facebook pictures and other information on the adverts on facebook.This has become a big problem and a lot of users are outraged about it.

Thankfully there is a way to stop facebook from allowing them and their advertisers from using your information and pictures.I am going to show you exactly step by step on how to set your privacy settings so that a friend or even some one you don't know never sees your face on a advert again.

1.login to facebook,once logged in click on settings in the top right hand side of facebook then click privacy settings.

2.Now click on "News Feed and Wall"

3.Now click on the tab that says"facebook ads"

Now in the box next to"Appearance in Facebook Ads" click "no one" and then Save changes.

You have successfully set up facebook so that you do not appear in any of the adverts on the site.

How stable is facebook?Popular social networking site facebook hardly ever goes down?

I have been a active user of facebook for over 2 years now and to my knowledge I have never had a problem connecting to the social networking site.That's right I have never ever gone to facebook.com to be turn away with a page that is down or anything similar until tonight.

Tonight I was told by a mate to check out facebook but to my shock I got the following screen error" Sorry, an error has occurred.We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.".This got me thinking,I often go on twitter and the sites down for maintenance in fact I have even been blocked out of my online email which is hosted vie Google(Gmail email) but I have never been shut out of facebook before.

In my opinion this is an amazing thing,facebook is growing at amazing speeds and has never gone down for me!

If you don't think facebook is growing why don't you carry on reading:

1.According to facebook they have More than 200 million active users.This is not your Mother who created an account and never logged in again!This is users who are very"active" on the social networking site.

2.More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day

3.Average user has 120 friends on the site

4.More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)

5.More than 30 million users update their statuses at least once each day

6.More than 8 million users become fans of Pages each day

7.More than 900 million photos uploaded to the site each month

8.More than 10 million videos uploaded each month

9.More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week

10.More than 2.5 million events created each month

11.More than 35 million active user groups exist on the site

These stats are mind blowing!I must admit I have given facebook a lot of bad publicity but they have done a awesome job so far and hopefully they will keep it up.

Information on Bebo and the history behind it.

Bebo is an online social media network similar in format to MySpace and Facebook.Bebo currently is the third most popular social networking with only a 1.18% share of the market.

In September 2007 bebo was the 11th most visited site in the uk according to alexa.com then on March 13, 2008 Bebo was bought by AOL.COM for $850million

Bebo is mainly an English orientated social networking site but recently launched a Polish version of the site. There is also planning to bring out French and German versions if the Polish version does well.

Bebo was founded in January 2005 by Michael and Xochi Birch (husband and wife), and since then has become a total hit.

To join bebo click here.

How to set up a MySpace account.

It is very easy to make a MySpace account and any one can do it as long as you have an email address and basic internet knowledge.
To set up a MySpace account, do the following:

1. the first thing you must do to get started with MySpace is register, to do this go to http://www.myspace.com/ ,once this page has loaded find the members login box and then click on the sign up button or you can click on the sign up link on the top right hand of the screen.

2. A JOIN MYSPACE HERE! Box will appear, in this box it will ask you to enter some of your details. When you have finished with all this click the sign up button. You will then have to verify your account, all the info you need for this is on the page so you don’t have to worry about not knowing what to do.


3. Once you have finished registering and have verified your account you will be asked to upload a picture of yourself, this picture will be seen by all your my space friends and any one that views your my space account, so pick a nice one.


4. Once you have uploaded your picture to MySpace account it will take you to a Invite Your Friends! Page. If I were you I would just go to the bottom and click on the “skip for now” button, so that you don’t spam your friend’s mail box before you know how to use MySpace properly.


5. after you have finished with the account setup you will get sent to your own page where you will be able to start changing your profile and adding new things, you will also be able to start adding friends and family.


You Have now succsessfuly set up a myspace account! Stay tuned for more how to guides on Mysapce.

Information on Myspace and the history behind it.

MySpace is a social networking website where anyone who has an internet connection can join, create and edit their own profiles and build a network of friends.


MySpace also has content like blogs, groups, photos, music and videos that has usually bean uploaded by the MySpace users. MySpace also has online IM and on site email.

The history
my space was foundered by Tom Anderson, Chris Dewolfe, and a group of programmers in the year 2003, Myspace became very popular immediately among teenagers and adults all over the world. In 2005 MySpace was sold to Rupert Murdoch’s news corporation for a reported $580 million. In 2006 it was reported that MySpace had over 100 million users but some say that they only had 46 million users at the time. MySpace is currently the world's fifth most popular website, and the third most popular website in the United States.

Your only friend tom!
You will notice that you will already have a friend in your my space account called Tom, this is Tom Anderson, who is the founder of MySpace. Songs and other media has been made about Tom being their only friend, you will find some of these videos on popular video sites like YouTube. The one thing we do know for sure is that he has the most friends on MySpace and no one else will beat it!

Go to the Myspace site by clicking here.

How To Stop facebook From Sending You All Those Unwanted Emails.

Facebook is a very popular social networking site that has millions of users all over the world.One of the biggest problems with Facebook however is the unwanted email notifications it sends you when ever some one else does something on facebook that you are friends with. This is a guide on how to set your facebook account to ether never send you any emails again or to turn on and off certain email notifications.

Social networking guide on how to disable email notifications on facebook!
1.log into facebook and click on the settings button on the top right side of the screen next to logout.

2.Go to the notifications tab by clicking on the notifications heading that looks like this.


3.Go through the list and turn on and off the notifications you would like to be sent to you vie email.I did not want any email sent to me vie facebook so I set them all to off.

4.Once you have finished changing your email notifications you must save them by going to the bottom of the page and clicking on the "save changes" Button.

You will now only get specific or no email from facebook although they do say that"Even if you turn off all notifications, we may sometimes need to email you important notices about your account."

Flickr-Photo Sharing and social networking all in one!

Flickr is an online photo/image hosting and sharing site combined with social networking features like commenting on other peoples work as well as “favorite” their work and give it a rating. Flickr is the world’s most popular photo-sharing site with images being added every second of every day.

In February 2004 flickr was launched by Ludicorp which was a company based in Vancouver,Canada.Aglthough the site is mainly for personal photos and is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. At the end of the year 2008 flickr had more than 3 billion images in their data base.

Flickr was a proposed multi-user game that was never released because of its huge take off as an image website. The first thing the Flickr website had was a chat room called flickrLive. flickrLive was a place where people could share and exchange their images with others. Flickr was mainly only a forum where members would post pictures they had found on the web however rapidly the site evolved into A site where users would rather show off their personal images.


In 2005 Ludicorp was bought out by yahoo and they became the proud new owners of the flickr Brand and site. Still today flickr is growing at an alarming rate and is getting bigger and more popular. Because of this sites social networking infrastructure which combines photos with it, this site is on the on-his-mind best sites online list.

If you are a photographer or you do anything cool with images or other artwork you should be on flickr. To go to flickr go to http://www.flickr.com/

Last.fm-Listen to any music aswell as radio online for free.

Last.fm is a music website based in the United Kingdom. Last.fm is an internet radio station and music community site. The web site has over 30 million active users from over 200 countries making it the world’s largest social music platforms around today. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for $280m USD.

Last.fm uses an advanced program called audioscrobbler, this program builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to. It does this by checking what music you are listening to on last.fm or by taking music from your audio devise and then identifying what music you listen to. Audioscrobbler then takes all the information it has of you and automatically finds out what you might like and then creates a music profile for you.

After you have registered users can create a custom Radio station with all their favorite music and share it with the world.

If you want to listen to music off the internet this site is for you! You can find new bands that are similar to bands you like and then say if you like them or not. If you looking for a new band or want to listen to the latest album last.fm will be able to find it and have it.

Because of the advanced features on last.fm and the easy to use service this site has made it into the on-his-mind best sites online list!

For more information on last.fm please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm
To go to the last.fm web site please go here http://www.last.fm/

Facebook march 2009 layout update!

Last week or so facebook released their new facebook profile page layout to the world. The new design give users the ability to easily feed the news stream by friend type and network, and gives users a much easier way to post links, photos and videos. The news feed will also begin updating in real time without page refreshes.

This in my eyes is a break through!Facebook have managed to do what I think is brilliant.facebook has successfully made it more like twitter while still having everything else you have always had on facebook.But unfortunately not everyone is happy with the new setup that I love so much.


Some people don’t appreciate this new setup and are setting up groups to try take it down and change it back to the old style, I think that’s rubbish! Give them 1 month and they will learn how to use this new layout and then they will see how much better it really is! I think this is an innovation that was needed to keep facebook on top of their game! Facebook have done well up to now, and all these things are tested and improved way before the public even hear about it!

The new facebook is here to stay and if you don’t like it, then you going to have to live with it! Facebook have done a good job on this update and we should all appreciate it.

For more information on this update please go to the following sites
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/screen-shots-the-new-facebook-home-page/
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=59195087130

43 things you want to do before you die!Your Bucket list!

Imagine a site where you can list all your goals you would like to achieve before you die! Well 43things(http://www.43things.com )does this and just so much more.


43things is a social networking site that connects all the people who have the same things they want to do together, this connects you with people you don’t know but have something in conman(for example I want to climb mount Everest one day so I put it down as one of the 43 things I want to do before I die)the site then puts you in a group with every other person on 43things that also wants to do this cretin thing ,this group can now discuses the topic and explain how they are busy accomplishing their goals. If a user has accomplished the goal he/she can post about how they did it as well as inspire other members to complete the goal and how it can be done.


43 Things was launched on January 1, 2005, and founded by a blogger called Erik Benson and a view other big shots in the internet industry. The first version of the site was released 43 days before January 1, with a stripped down text interface asking "43 days till the new year. What do you want to do with your life?" Hundreds of thousands of users browsed the site before the official launch - leading to news coverage in several countries.


If you have a whole lot of dreams and goals I suggest registering at 43things.com and become an achiever, even if it is to swim with sharks or quit smoking this is the place to get the knowhow and the support from people who know how you feel and know how inspired and motivated you are to want to achieve your goal

To register with 43things go to http://www.43things.com/ and start making your dreams come true.

I personally really enjoy using 43things because it shows me that there are other people like me that feel the same way about things that other people like your friends and family don’t. Registering with 43things will change your life and make you feel so much better about yourself when you accomplish your goals.