5/26/14

Facebook Tips and Tricks 2014 [Updated]


By on Monday, May 26, 2014

Earlier We have shown you some of the best facebook tips and tricks of 2014, We hope you enjoyed it. Now, we are bringing in few more awesome facebook tricks that would be fun to work with.


Facebook Tips and tricks 2014 Updated!

1. Creating your own Emoticon in Facebook Chat

Actually this one is not a new trick, because most of the facebook users are unaware of this feature. Right from 2011, Facebook allowed its users to create emoticons, to chat with thier friends. By obtaining a pages or profile ID, Facebook will allow you to use their page pics or profile pics as your chat emoticons...



Here's the Facebook Trick

Step 1: Go to any Profile page or Fan page, that you want to see as an emoticon.

Step 2: Obtain the profile ID from the end of the URL.

Example: https://www.facebook.com/techstorms
Here "techstorms" is the profile/page ID.

Step 3: Put the username or the profile ID in the double braces as shown: [[techstorms]]

Step 4: Enter the above text into the Facebook Chat or Message field.

Some useful Emoticons created with Profile ID's

LOL Face: [[168456309878025]]
Troll face: [[171108522930776]]
Forever Alone: [[177903015598419]]
F yeah: [[105387672833401]]
Not bad Obama: [[169919399735055]]
NO Guy: [[167359756658519]]
Yao Ming: [[218595638164996]]
Me G usta: [[211782832186415]]
Derp: [[224812970902314]]
Mother of God: [[142670085793927]]
Cereal Guy: [[170815706323196]]
Derpina: [[192644604154319]]
Okay face: [[224812970902314]]
Socially awkward penguin: [[98438140742]]
No: [[167359756658519]]
MOG: [[142670085793927]]
Like a sir: [[168040846586189]]
Poker face: [[129627277060203]]
Are you f****** kidding me : [[143220739082110]]
Challenge accepted: [[100002727365206]]
Okay face: [[100002752520227]]

MUST CHECK: Facebook Chat Tricks

2. Make your profile picture Unclickable

If you want your profile picture to be unclickable? Want to know how? Here's the trick.


Here's the Facebook Trick
Step 1: Navigate to Albums -> Profile Pictures.

Step 2: Select the current profile picture.

Step 3: Change the privacy setting to "Only Me".

3. Select All the Friends in a single Click

Want to send a game invitation to all your friends and are you tired of ticking all the friends one after the other..? Want to do it at once? Then check out this cool facebook trick.


Here's the Facebook Trick
Step 1: Open Firefox & Go to the facebook page to invite all your friends

Step 2: Press Ctrl+Shift+K and a window opens at the bottom.

Step 3: Paste the below given code in that window and click enter, That's it!

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

ALSO CHECK: How to Make Money Online with Facebook

4. Remove your Last Name in your Facebook Profile

Facebook requires all its users to provide their full names before saving thier personal data and settings, but by using this facebook trick you can bypass facebook's restriction and you remove your last name.


Here's the Facebook Trick

Step 1: Open Mozilla Firefox. Navigate to Options -> Advacned -> Networl -> Settings -> Connection Settings -> Manual Proxy Configuration.

Step 2: In HTTP Proxy Field, Enter 103.10.2.30 and port 8080 or use any Indonesian proxy


Step 3: Now, Go to your facebook profile, Navigate to Account settings -> Change language to BAHASA INDONESIA

Step 4: Remove your Last name (and middle name, if you have).


5. Add Animated Custom Tabs

Facebook does not allow the users to upload GIF images, if you want to upload GIF images then you need to know this trick.


Note: For this trick, you need Adobe Photoshop and Quicktime Player.
Here's the Facebook Trick

Step 1: Select the animated GIF that you want to upload.

Step 2: Open Adobe Photoshop and Navigate to File -> Import -> Video frames to layers. In the File Name box, enter *.* as the filename and choose the required (selected) GIF image.

Step 3: Now resize the selected GIF image to 111 x 74 pixels so that it can fit the custom tab.

Step 4: Save the above file in a .psd format and while saving the image, check the save option 'LAYERS'.

MUST CHECK: 10 Facebook Tricks that Every Facebook User should know.

Few more facebook tips and tricks will be posted soon, till that time play with these facebook tricks. If you have any problems in using these facebook tricks, please leave a comment below or contact me.

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