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Brandon Martinez

Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook… Lite?

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For all of you that despise the new Facebook layout, there is an alternative: Facebook Lite. Continue Reading…

 
 
 

The New (New, New) Facebook: My Favorite Update

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Facebook has been through several iterations. Through those, I think they have made a lot of great improvements. They’ve added more features for people to communicate and share with, added the ability for third parties to extend Facebook with custom apps, and allow for other web sites to share information within a user’s feed. However, with one of their updates, giving the ability of custom apps, a new form of spam has come. Continue Reading…

 
 
 

Facebook Feature Request: Daily Updates

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As far as social networking goes, Facebook is one the best out there. It has a huge feature set, can be extended by apps, and almost everyone I know has one. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t areas for improvement.

I honestly hate getting emails every time something occurs. Someone tagged me in a post or a photo, someone wants me to join Farmville or Mafia Wars, they think I’m a family member, etc, etc, and etc! I have over 5000 Facebook notifications in my Gmail (yeah, I don’t delete anything). It gets a little overwhelming.

Facebook, how about an option to subscribe to daily, weekly, or even monthly updates, instead of alerting me 500 times a day? Please?

Does anyone out there agree?

 
 
 

Facebook Adds Email Support for Comment Threads

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One of the features I’ve wanted on Facebook is the ability to reply to a comment thread from my email. For example, there are often times when I receive a Facebook notification email on my iPhone, where I would rather hit reply than to quit the mail app, open the Facebook app, go to my profile (or wherever else the comment thread was occurring), and then comment. Finally, my requests have been answered.

Facebook Adds an Email Reply Option for Comments Continue Reading…