Five Chrome Addons to Improve Facebook

Google Chrome is now the "Numero Uno" Web Browser that bears no competition excluding Firefox. Ask any #Geek to define a web browser and he will tell something like this.

A web browser is an application software that allows us to surf the web. A modern web browser should support all modern web designing languages and have a rich app marketplace. 

Well defined!, if you focus the last two words, "App Marketplace" This is well said. A good web browser should have a good #Application marketplace which provides us with a variety of extension/add-on. Google Chrome has a very good marketplace with growing number of useful apps. Apps should be useful though and not just a website launcher, this is the only reason people hate apps of Google Chrome as many of them usually turn out to be a shortcut of website but who the hell needs app for this when we can hit the URL in the address bar? But not all, some apps are heavily useful and work perfectly.

But as the title states, we are here for discussing about the useful Google Chrome extensions that help us in improving your #Facebook usability and let you enjoy Facebook with an ease. I have prepared a list of five must have extensions that every Facebook addict must install on his/her Chrome. Let the lists start with Social Reviver, a timeline hater's app.

Social Reviver

Social Reviver is a Google Chrome extension that helps one to disable Facebook's most hated change, 

"The Timeline". In year whatever Facebook introduced Timeline, a new way to discover your profile. During its initial launch, it was available only for Facebook developers and Geeks that had enough time to find out how this shit works. After its official release, users had a choice to switch to timeline from the wall by activating it. Many users when allowed activated timeline but after sometime, they (Including me) felt that they did this wrong. On average, 8/10 people hated The Timeline and those rest two are Facebook employees and Mark Zuckerberg. Then the geeks who supported timeline, later found that they did this wrong and started finding out how to disable this shit. Since it was officially announced that timeline can not be disabled once activated, geeks needed to activate hard mode. 

And after some months, they succeeded to revert back to The Wall using a web browser configuration trick. This trick is of user agents. Saying in simple language, User Agent is a s property of a web browser that defines the version of it. The less the value of user agent, the older the version of that web browser and lesser the web designing techniques will be compatible. So this means switching to older browser agent (For atleast Facebook) will result in compatibility issue and thus Facebook will need to force show the older version of Facebook.

That's exactly what this extension does. It modifies the user agent of Google Chrome so that Facebook disables the timeline and you can enjoy your old is gold Facebook. There is no risk of security as this extension is used by millions of users and nor it is a ad-ware or malware. So you do not need to compromise for security.

Install Social Reviver

Facebook Notifications

Getting notified about what your friends are doing and seeing their reactions on your own posts is the top priority. Who wants to miss out all the fun and the happenings on their Facebook account. Did you know that there is a lag of upto 10 seconds in the on site Facebook notifications. If you do not want to miss a single second of conversation or comment, you must add this useful Chrome Extension named 

"Facebook Notifications". It works in real time to provide you instant notifications and incoming messages. One more benefit of this extension is that it provides you real time notifications even if you are not having Facebook tab opened. So make sure that you grab this one if you do not wanna miss out your favorite things. This extension does not requires sign in as it accesses your Facebook login details from your browser cookies and don't worry it doesn't hack your Facebook account.

Install Facebook Notifications

Adblock Plus

Adblock plus is the most used extension for both Firefox and Chrome. it basically eliminates all kinda adverts and make web browsing safer and less distracting. Everyone hates ads sometimes ads can be a reason  for you to close the current website. I am talking about sites like Kickass torrents and other pirate friendly website. These ads can sometime very embarrassing like of porny type and using nude images. Not only this, adblock will block all ads on web and you can tell this extension what is an ad and what is not by making manual lists and excluding domains from blocklist.

This extension is developed by a full time developer named Michael, so you can understand its quality by knowing that a person does his best for improving his product.

This extension helps in improving Facebook usage experience by hiding all kind of advertisements and sponsored stories from Facebook layout. You can optionally hide other distracting features of Facebook like suggested friends or people you may know. I hate this feature most as it always recommends girls with fake IDs

Install Adblock Plus

Copy Pasta

This is a bit useless but very funny one from the list. This extension will Not create tasty and hot pasta for you. This extension will help you make comments that will be more eye-catchy and get huge number of likes. You must be aware of ASCII art which uses text and other symbols to create beauty. This art is mainly used by pirates and cracker in the readme of the pirated products. Here is an example of such ASCII art:


These kind of art is now trending and everyone loves to see them. The extension helps you to add these crazy and wonderful ASCII arts that are fully compatible with Facebook. You get to choose from hundreds of such arts according to what you like.
All you need to install this extension and click on the comment field of any post and then click on the smiley icon next to it. And then wait for the likes that you mare gonna get on the comment made by you.
Works best on public pages with huge number of fans.

Install Copy Pasta

Facebook Photo Zoom

Facebook photo zoom is a very simple but useful extension for Google Chrome that helps you to zoom and view full pics without clicking on them. This extension is used to do so because Facebook crops the images to before displaying them on screen. And many times the image is too small and unreadable by default so we need to open the image in new tab so as to order to view it properly.

You do not need to worry these once you install this extension in your browser. This extension is very light weight unlike any other extension and becomes handy time-to-time.

Install Facebook Photo Zoom

So the list ends and I hope you liked my Facebook addict's collection of Chrome Extensions. Using these extensions will help you make Facebook easier and fun. Please subscribe to our newsletter for new updates.

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Prevent Facebook Account From Spoofing

Facebook has a option for activating your mobile phone for various features like receiving notifications, messages and other useful things directly to your mobile phone. This feature is very useful for those people who find very less time to browse #Facebook online. When you activate your mobile phone for Facebook, you get an option for updating your status by sending a SMS to 51555 from your activated #Mobile phone. The Status update will show up immediately on your Facebook profile.


For example:
Message: Chilling out with friends at Shipra Mall

To: 51555

Will result into this in your Facebook profile:

So in practical, you just need your mobile phone to stay connected to your profile and make status updates. So its obvious that anyone having your mobile number active in hands can create status updates too. But this can be easily avoided by not providing mobile phone to suspected person and unauthorized persons.
The title of the posts says "How to prevent Facebook account from spoofing". First of all we should know what is spoofing.

What is Spoofing

In this world of hackers and crackers, no security can be said to be hacker proof. White Hat hackers can hack into your Facebook account easily within minutes through  hacking. But spoofing is something different from hacking. Spoofing means to access someone's mobile number as a medium to send SMS and/or make calls. For example: Your mobile number is 9876543210 and you send a SMS to your friend whose number is 91234567890. So its obvious that your friend who receives message will get your mobile number in the "from" number. Now through spoofing, anyone can use your mobile number to send a message to anyone without touching your phone or accessing your SIM card. So its legit to say that spoofing if misused, can create trouble to the real owner of mobile number. I know how shocking it would be if this happened to you in real life. The only method according to me is not to tell your mobile number to anyone whom you don't know in real life.

Also Read: Prevent Your Facebook Account From being Hacked

Spoofing + Facebook = ?

In this post I will teach you how to prevent Facebook account from spoofing. I have defined you what is spoofing and how dangerous can it be. Have you ever thought that spoofing can be used to access your Facebook account to make a status update? Spoofing can be used to make abusive and irritating status updates and its upto the person who is spoofing your account. Here is how spoofing works:

• You activate Facebook Mobile using your phone number 98XXXXXXXX
• Now you can update your account's status update by sending a text message to 51555 from your mobile number
• Since I have told you that spoofing can be used to access your mobile number for sending text messages, so any person who wants to take revenge will simply use free spoofing site to take revenge and he will win for sure.

Now you will ask how it can be prevented. Well as a matter of fact, you can prevent your Facebook account from spoofing in 2 minutes very easily. Facebook allows you to set a PIN for securing your Facebook account from spoofing. A Mobile PIN is like a password for using status updates via mobile.

To set a mobile PIN, head over to this link.

Enable Mobile PIN

Now you will see option for enabling mobile PIN. First of all Turn On Mobile PIN and enter the PIN twice and click on save changes.

Now whenever you need to update your status or do any other mobile task, you just need to prefix the PIN.
For example: If you have set the PIN as "2314", you will need to type the following message to update your Facebook status

Message: "Enter some message here" 2314

To: 51555

So, now your Facebook account is more secure from spoofing attack. See how small changes in settings can secure your online presence. If you loved this article, please share this article with your friends and classmates. And also subscribe to the E-mail newsletter for receiving full blog posts by E-mail. 

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Tips To Make Facebook Account More Secure

Facebook needs no definition as its the world's largest and most used social network ever made. With over millions of user base and counting, you will not find anyone not having a Facebook account. A social network defines our online presence and lets other people know what we are without any physical meeting. If you update  your status or post a pic, people come to know for what you use Facebook. Because most people use Facebook, so there is a constant threat to your account being hacked or stolen. Every newbie user never takes security as serious, when he/she ought to do so. You can not imagine, if once your account get hacked, the hacker can break into your privacy by seeing your personal messages, post irrelevant things like po_n and make you gay in seconds :-0. In this post I will suggest you some tips that can make your
                                                      Facebook account almost non-hackable.

You Password is the First Thing

Most people are enough lazy that literally help hackers to hack their account just because they set a stupid password. Passwords such as DOB/ Phone number/ and GF's name come to this list. I have seen many people who have their passwords their mobile number. If you are one of those then I recommend you to change your password right now to a more secure, unidentifiable and unique one. Here are some tips for making a good Facebook password:

• Be creative and selective while choosing for a password word. Don't make password of words that you commonly speak or hear from your friends. Even you should be amazed when you find a word that suits for your password. 
• Make your passwords a combination of Caps on and off, Include numbers in place of of alphabets i.e. use 0 (zero) instead of o(o) and $ instead of S. This will secure your password from Brute Force attack. Brute Force is a cracking technology that tries to use dictionary words to login into your account. 
• Never ever make passwords same to those of your E-mail account. Make different and non related passwords of your Facebook account and your Email account. This will help you to recover  your hacked account. So whenever your Facebook password is found by others and they change your password, you can easily revert to your previous password using the password reset tools.
• Do Not tell your password to anyone on this universe. Never ever, as no one is trustful in this greedy world. You need to admit it my friend.

Be smart and aware

Many people get hacked just because they are too stupid. Some free people troll fools by sending phishing links to those stupids. A phishing page is a fake Login page that tracks the password as soon as you login and save the password in the hacker's account in form of plain text. Its very easy to spot a phishing page, all you need to do is look at the the address bar of your browser.You should login to Facebook only if the URL is www.Facebook.com or www.Facebook.com/Login.php .  Whereas on the other hand, a phishing page has a weird and long URL which inherits the hosting site domain as prefix. For eg. www.blablafblogin.my3gb.com.index.php , Where my3gb.com indicates an free web hosting site.

So from now on, always login using the genuine Facebook login page and trust no other.

You can take lesson from the last huge scam that shared pron links without your knowledge. That scam used a phishing page and also used harmful scripts too.

And finally there is no existing software that can hack a Facebook account and neither a online service that does the same. Some of them are so _____ that they ask Both Email and password in order to hack others account. All of them are SCAM SCAM and just SCAM.

Enable more security options

You can make your account more secure by enabling two security features. The first is secure browsing. enabling this feature will make your Facebook more secure by using a Https connection instead of the default http connection. This is because a Https connection is very hard to crack and the data transferred is first encrypted so that no middle person can make use of the sent information. Its free of cost, so dont be a miser.
To activate Https Facebook just follow these steps.

• Goto Facebook Security Settings page
• Click on edit for the first option from the right side.
• Check " Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible" and then click on save changes.

One more security feature is login notifications. By enabling this feature, you will receive a text SMS message   from Facebook. This is how it works, 

• You enable Login notifications
• You or someone tries to login to your account
• Before showing the account, Facebook asks the name of PC which is used to login
• You tell Facebook the name of PC "Home PC"
• You get a Email or text message (Whichever chosen while in settings)
• If its you, then its fine and if the login was not made by you, then run for life and change the password.

So this feature is good enough to try. You can enable login notifications by these steps:

• Goto this link  https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security&section=notifications&view
• Here you will have to select the method of receiving the notification, which can be either email or SMS. You can select both also.
• Check the preferred way and click on save changes.
• From now on, you will be informed for any login made to your account.

Final Summary

So I hope that you find this 1000 words information useful and would apply these tips in your Facebook life. 

So in this post I discussed that you must set a unique and never heard password, Being more strict and sincere while accepting URL's and enabling more secure features on Facebook.

So Good luck and enjoy more secure Facebooking :-)

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