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Yesterday, Facebook introduced some new features to help users protect their accounts from being accessed by others without the users' knowledge.
The new features let you register the computers and mobile devices you regularly use to access Facebook, then notify you via email or SMS whenever your account is accessed from a device Facebook doesn't recognize.
This is a good security innovation for Facebook (and comes at a time when the company needs some positive news about how it handles privacy). Unfortunately, setting it up isn't entirely straightforward, especially if you want to be notified via text message.
Never fear: we've put together a step-by-step guide to setting up these notificati

Go to Facebook, and choose 'Account Settings' from the Account drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the window

Click the 'change' link across from 'Account Security'

Toggle this to 'Yes' and click submit. From now on, you'll have to register each device you log in to Facebook with, and you'll get an email whenever your account is accessed from a new device.

Here's what happens when you log in from a device Facebook doesn't recognize. My work computer is now named Fred.

A few minutes later, an email arrived telling me that a computer named Fred has accessed my account.

You can also get these notifications via SMS, but if you don't already get texts from Facebook, you need to set that up. Go back to account settings, click the 'Notifications' tab, and click on the 'Send notifications to my phone' link.

That brings up this pop-up window. Choose your mobile service provider. (Weep softly to yourself if this is your choice.)

Send a text to the number they give you with the letter 'f' in it.

You should get a text like this back from Facebook almost immediately

Enter the code from your text, and click 'Confirm'

WARNING: Now that you've activated text updates, Facebook will text you very frequently by default. Uncheck all of these boxes if you don't want texts about normal Facebook activity.

Scroll down, and continue to customize when you want to hear from Facebook. When it's all set, click 'Save Preferences'

Now when you go back to 'Account Security', you'll have the option to get texts whenever your Facebook account is accessed from a new device. If anyone has your password, you'll know immediately. That's it!

5 best Facebook apps (These apps help you make your networking experience less cumbersome and more fun!)

SCRABBLE
If you want your kids to learn as they network, or
sharpen your own word skills, Scrabble is the game
for you. Originally created as Scrabulous, the app
was pulled off due to a copyright infringement
case and the app later surfaced as Lexulous, which
was also pulled off . As a result of the impending
copyright issues two versions of the game exist; the
SCRABBLE Worldwide (excluding U.S. and Canada)
and the Scrabble Beta by EA (for players from U.S. and
Canada). Play on and beat your friends in this witty
game of words.

BLOOM
If
you have tried uploading multiple pictures on
Facebook with a poor bandwidth, then you know how
frustrating it can be to upload fi ve pictures at a time.
Instead you can use the Bloom photo uploader tool
that enables you to upload your photos and videos
with ease from your desktop to Facebook. You can
even download saved albums and view your friends’
photos without too much of a hassle. The versions are
upgraded periodically to stay in sync with Facebook’s
privacy policies, so that you are not inconvenienced.
download a free version of the tool, visit www.
antaki.ca/bloom. The app is compatible with
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. If you still
can’t get the app to work, you can use the Java Web
Start link from its Facebook page

DOCS
Microsoft Offi ce 2010 and Facebook have come together to come up with a
personalised partner site called Docs for Facebook, which enables you to create
and collaborate on Word, Excel and PowerPoint all online. Moreover, it gives
you a standard set of tools in the Offi ce 2007 ribbon style layout to use the
application better. For details, visit http://docs.com.

TWITTER INTEGRATION
If you have been using Facebook and Twitter in tandem for promoting your
business or venture extensively, or are a social media manager, and need to
ensure that a status on one medium simultaneously updates on the other
as well, you can use the Twitter integration app on Facebook. However, if
you have a diff erent set of friends on both platforms, or need only certain
relevant tweets to appear as your Facebook status message, you can opt for
the selective tweets app. Only tweets suffi xed with a #fb hash-tag will be
displayed on your Facebook profi le. You can customise the app to in a way that
it picks the #fb hash-tag anywhere in your tweets. You can also specify custom
words for the app to recognize as tweets for Facebook.

UNO
If you have ever had trouble fi guring out what exactly
to do with a deck of cards, UNO is a good game to
start with. And if you have enjoyed a lot of fun family
times with the game, and the family now lies scattered
around the world, you can head over to Facebook to
play the game all over again. Using the UNO app, you
can wait in the lobby for your friends to join or you can
you can start a fresh game of UNO, and be assured, no
one can cheat!

FANS AND CRITICS OF ANYTHING ARE CONSTANTLY FINDING NEW WAYS TO USE THE WEB.

SOCIAL GREASE
O
ver the past few weeks, I’ve been
following a brilliant Twitter feed
called BPGlobalPR. It’s one of
the most clever, entertaining and
ruthless pieces of comedy I’ve ever come
across. The continuing Deepwater Horizon oil
spill disaster is perhaps not the best backdrop
against which comedy should be made, and
the authors understand this full well. They’re
targeting the British Petroleum management;
creatively criticizing their behavior,
statements, actions and inactions since the
tragedy began.
The Web obviously loves it: BPGlobalPR
today has over 160,000 followers. It's also
spawned BPTerry, a fake BP PR official
who’s as callous, self-centered, and oblivious
as a drunken fratboy. Both accounts have
seen thousands of retweets. Mainstream
media and Web watchers alike have been
trying to pin the still-anonymous operators
down for interviews, but they only respond
in character, making snappy jokes and
continuing the whole façade of being
legitimate PR workers.
The timing has been just perfect. There’s
nothing BP can do at this stage to keep up a
good public image. Images of oil-soaked birds
are all over the news, and oil is washing
up on shorelines, making the gravity of the
situation sink in for millions of people. And
the tweets have just been brilliant! Sample
these: “We pray for a forgetful nation and
more money every day!”, “The President
had a chart outlining his battle plan, but @
bpTerry ate it”, and the deliciously unhelpful
“If you want to help clean up, drive your
cars fast and often. Let's melt those glaciers
and dilute this mess!”
The pranksters do have practical
intentions though. They’re selling T-shirts
SMS us!
Story code: NJC to 51818
with a highly tongue-in-cheek BP logo
rendered in black with one corner “leaking”
like an oil slick. They claim they’ve
already donated US$ 20,000 to non-profit
organizations involved in the cleanup effort.
It’s brilliant: using satire to be funny,
engaging, and thought-provoking at the
same time by tapping into all the resentment
aimed at BP right now.
BPGlobalPR is a beautiful example of
a peaceful, worldwide, attention-grabbing
campaign that people will remember and
keep coming back to. There are also dozens
of Facebook pages and some truly inspired
YouTube videos, though most are just angry
rants or jokes at BP’s expense which don’t
HOW HAS BP BEEN USING
SOCIAL MEDIA TO BOLSTER
ITS IMAGE? QUITE BADLY,
IT WOULD SEEM.
necessarily contribute to the cleanup effort.
And how has BP itself been using social
media to bolster its image and communicate
with the public about its efforts to clean
up the mess? Quite badly, it would seem.
Its website shows abysmally fake looking
cleanup crews at work and downplays any
news of ecological damage. Responses all
over the Web reflect that no one is buying
it. BP hasn’t leveraged Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube or any social platform, but it’s
getting badly savaged on all of them. There
are so many lessons for businesses to learn
here that this situation will probably be
studied and discussed for years to come.

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