30+ Facebook Tips/Tricks and Hacks that you Should Know

Facebook is undoubtedly the king of social networking and with the majority of its users logging in multiple times in a day, to either check out their friends updates or post their own status. With these usage factors in mind, its important to make use of some of the tricks to better your usage and speed up your time Facebook so that you get more time for the life outside Facebook.








So here are some of the cool tricks that will help you in managing your account more easily and also some cool tricks to show off your geeky side.Enjoy.:)

1 How to Download entire Facebook Photo Albums

Tired of copying individual photos of your friends album that he/she shared of your last vacation?..Well here is a time saving and a faster solution called FacePAD,available for Mozilla Firefox browser, allows you to download the entire Facebook album with a single click.

2.How to Schedule your Facebook Status Updates and Messages

What if  you wont be logging into Facebook for a few days as you are going on a vacation or something and you need to post some updates or send messages on a particular day, well sendible makes it easy to schedule your status updates and messages.Although you can use a simpler alternative called LaterBro which is less time consuming than the Sendible.

3 How to Hide Online Status from Certain people in Chat

This is a basic feature available in Facebook, but not many of them use this as they still don’t know this.Create separate lists of friends and set the status for each list separately.

4 How to Friend a person and hide this update

This is an important and useful trick that can be used to friend a person without letting his/her friends getting the update( like your ex ‘s sister or someone..:P)…Here is a quick guide for the trick from Makeuseof  Tutorial.

5 How to add cool symbols to your Facebook Status

You might have seen people posting weird symbols on their status, well you can do that too.Head over to this link or here to find out the various alt codes to use in your status.For more Check out Hongkiat

6 How to show your Facebook status on your WordPress blog

Here is a plugin called StatusPress that lets you view the status updates on a widget in your WordPress blog.Install it and you are good to go.

7 How to turn your Status updates into a cool 3D Word Cloud

This trick requires a Facebook application called Status Analyzer 3D which gets you a list of status updates and turns them into colorful animated word cloud which you can then share with your friends.

8 How to Get Status Updates from Anyone around the World

This is kind of  like a trick to exploit the privacy set by the users. Head over to YourOpenBook and you can search anyone’s status by selecting the gender and the keyword or you can even browse the recent searches made.

9 How to Update Your Facebook Status From Firefox Browser

You can post your Facebook status directly from your Firefox browser using 2 Firefox plugins.Well there seems to thousands of plugins for everything for Firefox and here are the 2 plugins FireStatus or a toolbar Facebook Toolbar .

10 How to Automatically Poke Back your friends who poked you

If you don’t have enough time to poke back every time someone pokes you then try out this Grease Monkey Script called Facebook AutoPoke

11 How to Update your Facebook Status Directly from Gmail

Here is a great gadget called Facebook Gadget from iGoogle that lets you post updates directly from your Gmail.

12 How to Access Gmail Data from Facebook

This is a awesome feature if you often log into Facebook than your Gmail account.Check out a Facebook Application called Fmail that lets you browse your Gmail in Facebook.

13 How to Get Facebook in your Desktop

If you like to stay on your desktop to browse Facebook rather go to your time consuming web browser to start up and load all the tabs and stuff.Check out these tools for easier Facebook access on your desktop using these Facebook desktop clients Facebook Desktop, Scrapboy , Seesmic Desktop, Facebook Sidebar Gadget , Facebooker, Facebook AIR application FaceDesk, Xobni, FBTrayNotify.

14 How to access Facebook Chat on your Desktop

If you just want to chat with your online facebook friends from your desktop, check out the popular tools like Digsby,or Gabtastik, or other options like adium.

15 How to Create a photo Collage using all your facebook friends pictures.

Want to create a beautiful collage of all your Facebook friends pictures, well head over to Facebook application called Photo Collage, you can then share the result with your friends and have fun.

16 Post Upside Down Status Updates on your Wall

If you have seen friends posting upside down status updates and even you would like to try em, check out this tool called FlipText which provides you with the upside down text to post on your wall.

17 Get your Facebook Profile as Pirates Page

Change your Facebook Profile language settings to English(Pirate) in the language settings.You will notice hilarious pirate language transformations like , comment -> blabber t’yer mates, whats on your mind -> what be troublin’ ye? and a whole lot more. I Really loved this feature and i still use it cause its a whole lot fun and makes Facebook much more exiting.

18 How to Upload and Share Flickr Photos on Facebook

This is a great tool if you have your albums uploaded in Flickr and wanted to upload them into Facebook. The plugin is called Flickr2Facebook that gets you this job done easily.

19  Update Your Facebook Pages without Using Facebook

There are 2 major services that offer these features Hellotxt and Ping Fm. Although both the services are closely competitive , hellotxt has been the older player than ping Fm and is more convenient to set up and use than ping fm.

20 How to Download Videos from Facebook

Facebook has a large vast collection of shared videos and if you want to download them into your hard disk, then use a online tool called DownFacebook.

21 How to Show Only Selected Profile Pictures on your Friends list in your Facebook Profile

Well if you are trying to find the trick to edit your friends list pictures to show up only your particular friends then here is the trick. Click on the edit button(looks like  a pencil) above your friends box,in the “Always show these friends”, select only those friends that you would like to  see in your friends list by others.And you are good to go.

22 How to Post your Blog Posts automatically on your Facebook Page or your  wall

There are 2 most widely used plugins or tools available to automatically onto your Facebook wall.
If you are a WordPress user then check out a plugin called WordBook that lets you automatically post on your wall.
For other blogging platforms, check out another popular tool or a Facebook plugin called Networked Blogs which offers you this feature.An alternative to Networked blogs is RSS Graffiti .

23 How to View Facebook as in Twitter

If you are a big fan of twitter or you either like to have fun with your Facebook interface, then check out this cool hack to change your Facebook into twitter style using a Greasemonkey script from userscripts here.

24 How to Import and add Facebook friends to twitter

Here is a great app that lets you follow the right people who are in your Facebook friends list and follow the on twitter using the Facebook App called  Friend Lynx.

25 How to Check your very  status updates stats or find your very old status

Well the app called Status Statistics that lets you see all your status updates stats and generate a list of your updates along with the graph of your posting times in a day and particular days in a week. So if you had to find your old status update , then this can help you in saving time in going through your history on your wall.

26  How to Update your Facebook Status from Twitter (or update Both simultaneously)

This is another cool app that will help the everyday twitter users to update their Facebook walls at the same time as their tweets.Check out the Twitter App for Facebook that will set your status updates same time as you tweet once the app is in sync with your twitter account.

27 How to do the Worst Profile Trick

This is a simple trick to post a profile id on your wall and when your friends click on it will take them to their own profile..Check this out, here is the trick..Post your status “Worst Profile ever http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″ and its done.

28 How to Access Facebook From Microsoft Outlook

Facebook seems to be accessible from everywhere, and here is a way to access using the Microsoft Outlook. This is often useful in cases where Facebook is banned in college networks , so try out this plugin called FBLook to access  Facebook through Microsoft Outlook.

29 Keyboard Shortcuts to use in Facebook

This shortcuts are less known as people prefer to use their mouse rather than go with these shortcut keys..But just to let you know here they are
Internet Explorer :
Alt-1 – Enter goes to  Home page;
Alt-2- Enter goes to your profile;
Alt-3- Enter lets you view Friend requests;
Alt-M- Enter starts a new message;
Alt-Enter places your cursor in Facebook’s Search box.
Firefox-Same keys but replace Alt with “Alt+ Shift”

30 How to remove Facebook Advertisements

If you don’t want those Facebook ads popping up on your Facebook walls and pages, then use this Grease Monkey Script from UserScripts to clean up those messy ads –>Script link. Another alternative for Firefox users is to use the Firefox plugin called AdBlock Plus
Share your tips or tricks  that you would like to share with us and do let us know by your comments..Cheers..:)