How To See What YOU Want in YOUR Facebook Newsfeed!

Are you seeing all updates from the Pages you've Liked? Chances are you don't have the settings correct.

By default, when you Like a Page, Facebook sets the amount of updates you'll see in your News to "Most Updates". You need to manually change it to "All Updates" if you want to see the majority of posts from that Page. You still won't see 100% of their updates, but you'll definitely see more of them if you select "All Updates".

Step 1: Mouse over the "Liked" button for the Page and make sure, "Show in News Feed" is checked. You may also want to turn on "Get Notifications" so you'll get a notification every time that Page posts an update.

Step 2: If "Show in News Feed" is checked you'll also see a "Settings..." option. Click on "Settings..." and if "Most Updates" is checked, change it to "All Updates".

BTW, this applies to your friends profiles as well.

Please share this post with your friends or fans. I know many of you are savvy about Facebook settings, but most of your friends probably aren't.

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Thanks to the folks at Tent Social 

for this great infographic! 

  

Social Media Design Dimensions - An infographic by the team at Social Media Design Dimensions

How To Shorten Your URL Links

It has become very popular to shorten long URLs (or web addresses), for a variety of reasons. When the URL you are sharing is a long string of letters and numbers, it can easily get broken, is difficult to remember and can’t be pronounced. It’s not easy to share that long link with others. At times, using a link shortener service that takes a web address and translates it into a much shorter length is the right thing to do.

Here’s a quick rundown of a few of the best services:

Bit.ly is the most widely used service. It shortens links and also allows you to track and analyze how many people have clicked each link and where they came from. The custom links feature allows you to choose keywords to make the shortened link memorable.

Tiny.url is another service that has been around a long time and is used by many people. 

Google has a public system, called Goo.gl that shortens your links as well, but all tracking and information about your links is available to everyone.

Bud.url, is not free, but has additional analytics and customer service features that make it worth the $8 monthly price.

If you are considering shortening your links simply for posting on Twitter, you needn’t bother. Twitter automatically shortens every link posted using their own t.co shortener. The advantage to this is that placing your cursor over a t.co link will show you the longer link so that you can avoid links that look like spam.  

Links from Facebook also automatically shorten into one of 3 formats: fb.com, fb.me and on.fb.me; so links from Facebook can be taken care of without the use of a shortening service.