12 Facebook Tips and Tricks Everyone should know (2017)

12 Facebook Tips and Tricks everyone should know  (2017)

            

# More than a billion people use Facebook every single day.It's the app you likely spend the majority of your time using on your phone or the website you pull up more than you care to admit. Whether you're finding the latest news or trying to stay in touch with friends, checking Facebook can become an addictive habit.

     Here are 12 tips and tricks that every Facebook user should know.

1. Turn your profile pic into an animated GIF

# From the Facebook mobile app, select your profile picture and then "Take a New Profile Video" to upload a short video loop of yourself. The result looks like a mix between an animated GIF and a moving picture straight out of "Harry Potter".

2. Turn off auto-playing videos in your News Feed

# If you don't want videos on Facebook automatically playing when you scroll past them in your News Feed, make sure to turn the setting off. Under the far right tab in the Facebook mobile app, tap Settings and then "Account Settings." From there select "Videos and Photos." You can choose to auto-play videos over cellular and Wi-Fi connections, just Wi-Fi, or never.

3. UnFollow people you don't want to see in your News Feed, but don't want to completely unfriend

# If you want to stop seeing someone's posts in your News Feed but don't have the guts to completely unfriend them, you can unfollow them to hide their activity. From someone's profile in the Facebook mobile app, tap on "Following" under their profile picture and then "Unfollow" to get rid of their posts completely. On the desktop site, click the drop-down arrow to the right of a post to unfollow a Hide your list of friendsperson.

4. Hide your list of friends

#  If for some reason you don't want people seeing who you're friends with, you can hide the list entirely. From your friends list on the desktop, click the "Manage" pen icon on the right and then "Edit Privacy." Then you can change who can see your friends list, the people you follow, and your followers.

5. See everywhere you're logged into

# Facebook and remotely log out From the Facebook mobile app, tap the far right More tab then Settings, Account Settings, Security, and finally "Where You're Logged In." Tap the "X" to remotely log out of any device or Facebook app you're logged into. From your Security Settings on Facebook's desktop site, the "Where You're Logged In" menu shows active logins and lets you end them.

6. Get alert every time a log-in attempt is made for your account.

#  Facebook Login Alerts and Login Approvals can be enabled under Security Settings in the mobile app and desktop site. You can choose to get a Facebook notification or email whenever a log-in is made. Login Approvals mean that you'll have to enter a secondary code sent to your phone before you can log-in to Facebook on a new device.

7. Search for specific keywords and topics, not just profiles and pages

#  Facebook lets you search for a lot more than just other peoples' profiles. Everything that's publicly shared on the social network is searchable, which means that if you search for something like "James Bond" or "iPhone 8," you'll see related posts from news sources, friends, and other pages.

8. THERE'S A HIDDEN BASKETBALL GAME IN MESSENGER

#  If you haven't heard about this already, what rock have you been living under? Seriously, it's Facebook's worst kept secret and it's an addictive time-sap of a game. Scurried away within Facebook Messenger, the basketball-based plaything lets you challenge your chums to shoot some hoops directly within the chat window.

It's not something you're likely to stumble across either. To play, you need to send your friend a basketball emoji then click on the sports-themed pictogram. This will launch the game over your chat, with both players' high scores being logged in the feed.

9. HOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR ENTIRE FACEBOOK HISTORY

#  Find yourself living in constant fear of hackers stealing arty photos of your dinner? You can actually download your entire Facebook history, to savour every last drunken photo, over-sharing post and your 4,387 selfies for all eternity.

Why? Why not? We warn you, though, this could end up being a pretty big download if you're a real Facebook victim. It includes pictures and other media as well as text-based posts. To back it all up, go to Settings and click to "download a copy of your Facebook data" at the bottom of the page.

10. HOW TO TURN OFF AUTO-PLAY VIDEOS ON FACEBOOK

# Whether you see auto-play videos as the scourge of the internet or just a quicker way to mainline funny cat clips says a lot about the kind of digital beast you are. To hate them is the classic old-school approach. And while Facebook embraces them as standard these days, you can turn them off.

On your browser you'll find it right down at the bottom of the Settings menu. Click the Videostab, which is home to the Auto-play switcher. Job done, you've just saved your data plan a serious kicking.

11. PIRATE LINGO YOUR ACCOUNT

# Avast me 'arties, Facebook may be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but it still knows how to have fun, honest. An example of classic Facey-B japes is the ability to change your language to 'pirate', turning the social network into 'Ye Olde Facebook' and 'posts' to 'anchors'.

Fancy trying it out? Go Settings >> Language and switch out English for the mother tongue of the high seas. Don't feel particularly piratey? There are dozens of languages to choose from including the Star Wars-sounding but utterly real Basa Jawa (the language of Java, if you're wondering) or Upside Down English.

12. CHOOSE WHO GETS THE FACEBOOK REINS AFTER YOU'RE GONE

# You're going to die. Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but it's true. We're so certain, we'd bet on it. But, hey, we all are. Facebook might not, though, so if you want to make sure your account isn't going to fall into the wrong hands when the inevitable comes along, you can bequeath your account to someone trustworthy. Not that git who switched your language to Pirate.

How? Well, what you need to do is nominate a 'Legacy Contact', someone who gets control over your account when Facebook is advised of your passing. You'll find this in the 'Security' part of both the Facebook web interface and mobile app.

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