Do You Like The New Facebook Layout?

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Facebook updated the layout of the site last week. We take a look at the changes and what we like and don’t like.

• Notifications have been moved around.
• Search is very prominent maybe because of Microsoft’s stake in Facebook
• Requests for new friends and events seem to be duplicated.
• The application toolbar has been removed and is now on the left side. The problem is it seems to be only on the homepage to use your bookmarks
• The Logout button was buried deep in the Account tab.
• If your using the chat you can see the people online on the left sidebar as well.
• Facebook is becoming a major player in the search industry and is getting comparative search volume to google.

So what do you think about the new Facebook Layouts? What do you like and what do you NOT like?

Please leave your opinion in the comments below and I will try to do a video response to your comments.

Applying Expressions to Your Profile Has Been Fixed

You can once again apply Expressions to your Facebook Profile! This has been broken for quite some time and we do apologize.

The Fix
Go to the Order Page (where you change the order of the Expressions on your profile) Click Here to go to the Order Page

Once you are on the Order page:

1. Login if you are not logged in already.
2. Click on the Save button.
3. Check the Boxes Tab of your profile.
4. Apply more Expressions if you don’t already have 3

The Details

• Some of the folders that we stored our Expressions images in had spaces like “User Submitted”
• Websites, as a standard replace the space with %20 so the computer serving the page can understand it.
• Facebook made a change to how they show images on your profile and this change did not correctly handle this %20 / space issue which resulted in images not being able to be displayed.
• We received emails from people about their Expressions not showing up correctly but every time we would test it we could not reproduce the problem because we were applying images that were stored in folders without a space like “Music” for instance.

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What Does it Mean to Poke Someone on Facebook?

Last weekend, my friends and I were hanging out at my house. A couple of hours later, I discovered that Maria, who was using my mac earlier, forgot to log out of her facebook account. Being the inquisitive person that I am and having no background regarding the features of the said social networking site I decided to explore it using what was conveniently left open for me. Ergo, I used her account. Besides, it was a good venue to get gossip from whatever her online buddies may have posted. I thought to myself, maybe they have been talking about something juicy. AND the juicier the conversation, the better it is for me. Now before you start thinking that I am so outmoded for not knowing the features of facebook, I would like to clarify things. I have always been a fan of myspace and as a fan, I tend to be LOYAL. Anyhow, going back to the topic, I clicked around the site and saw that apparently, Maria was friends with the hottest guy in our school. Then I saw a POKE ME underneath his photo. This was a sure shot sign of invitation for me, SO I POKED HIM, logged off and left a message on Maria’s phone to tell her what I did.

The next day, Maria screamed with delight while plopping down beside me at the cafeteria. She said that Josh (that’s the name of our campus hunk) poked her back in facebook. I rolled my eyes and asked her what was so great about that. It wasn’t as if he asked her out on a date. She said, in a matter of fact voice that Josh was in fact flirting with her when he poked her back. So I was like “HUH?” I might have given Maria a stupid look because she immediately launched into a lengthy explanation of what poking in facebook means.

This Facebook Poke Video is quite entertaining.

So what does it mean to poke someone on facebook?

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