How to Change Your Facebook Page URL Username (vanity URL)

Good news for Facebook Page admins. Facebook announced last week that it is now possible to change your Facebook brand page username (that's the vanity url you chose)in the admin tools.

It's easy-peasy - although there are a couple of things to be aware of:

1.  It seems that fans will not be redirected from the old url. That's a biggie, so think carefully if your exisiting vanity URL is well publicised
2. You can change your username only once.  If it was a typo which got you into this mess in the first place, why not your new name into notepad first? Stare it it a while. Show a friend just to make sure. There are no second chances!

Here's a step-by-step to change your Facebook Page username:

1. Go to your page. Edit page > Update Info

2. If your Page has a vanity URL already, you will be offered the option to change it.
Don't get confused - we're talking about the URL, the bit after the slash on the address, and NOT the actual Page name. Choose the top option.

3. Select the correct page and enter the new username.

4.  Facebook will check the availability ..

5.  And voila, it's changed ... you will now have a new vanity url.

But,. as I said, do think carefully before you make the change, as people entering your old username won't find you.

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Annie Khalid Gets Her FaceBook Page Back

Annie Khalid finally got her FaceBook fan page back after three months. Her fan page got hacked on the 13th of January 2012. Her management was in constant touch with the FaceBook team and after a lot of effort managed to get it back. 

A FaceBook fan page is an important tool for the artists to keep in touch with their fans and get to know more about what people expect out of them. Annie Khalid who uses the page personally to communicate with her followers was devastated when the incident occurred but didn’t lose hope. 

The artists fan page now boasts a number of more than 80,000 fans, which is still growing. 

Annie plans to keep her fans engaged on the page with ongoing conversations and a few surprises yet to come.

She currently has two official FaceBook pages:

https://www.facebook.com/annieofficialpage

https://www.facebook.com/AnnieKhalidsFanPage

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Porn site gets more than 4 billion hits a month

London: Researchers have discovered that that a staggering 30 per cent of all internet traffic is pornography.According to a report from ExtremeTech’s site, it seems that 30% of all web traffic comprise of porn.

The site also cited that the biggest porn site on the Internet, where they are on the receiving end of 4.4 billion page views and 350 million unique visits – each month. Other sites that surpass these figures can only be sites such as Google and Facebook.

It is also estimated that approximately 29 petabytes of pornography are being transferred each month, and one can only guess that this particular figure will go nowhere else but north in the future.

Earlier this year thousands of users had their personal passwords and emails leaked online by hackers.

In total, 6433 users of the chat site were exposed after a third-party service provider failed to secure data, its owner claimed.

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Facebook Messenger for Windows Install

Chat while you do other stuff

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Find out about new comments, photo tags and more as soon as they happen.

 

 

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Facebook 'Friend' Offer Exposes Man's Other Wife

ACOMA, Wash. - A Washington state corrections officer has been charged with bigamy after Facebook discovered two women were connected to him and suggested they might want to "friend."

Prosecutors in Pierce County say Alan L. O'Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing wife No. 1.

Wife No. 1 found out about Wife No. 2 when Facebook detected their connection to O'Neill and suggested the friendship connection.

The News Tribune reports O'Neill was placed on administrative leave after prosecutors charged him Thursday.

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5 Kinds Of Admins Every Facebook Page Should Have :)

You’re seeing more data companies emerge who want access to more of your page insights to give you better recommendations.

Not all page administrators have equal responsibilities and Facebook knows it.

The social network said it would provide the ability to create five different levels of admin access to pages as soon as the end of this month.

(We’re talking about pages, not developers, who already have the ability to create fourdifferent levels of access to their applications.)

Facebook Product Manager Jeff Kanter only specified what three of the five levels would be, according to our peer blog Inside Facebook.

The three Kanter mentioned during a session at the Facebook Marketing Conference are: full access; publishing only, and page insights.

For those of you who might want to start planning ahead, we’ve got some ideas on how to allocate five tiers of access.

Wall Moderator

Let’s say you identify your most active fan, the person that likes every single thing you post on your page and never stops commenting on them. Perhaps you might  see a great opportunity to save yourself some time by just asking that person to manage comments on the wall for you.

You’ll shoot that person a message, they’ll accept with all the glee in the world, and then you have the whole “make sure you respond to every fan post” strategy taken care of. The risk?

If they see the insights and realize they are getting your page a bunch of extra traffic, then they want to be paid. You say no. You piss them off and they delete the page. Not cool, hyperactive fan boy.

Ideally, Facebook creates an admin level where the assigned person can only moderate posts and have access to nothing else.

More importantly, don’t give admin privileges to anyone who isn’t on your payroll.

Outreach

Because fans can now message pages, many brands will need to delegate responsibilities strictly for message management.

This is essentially the most public company inbox. You wouldn’t want that message assistant to get carried away with changing tab names and images would you? Facebook should certainly make this a unique admin level.

The outreach admin should also have access to the activity log where they can manage third party integrations with your fan page.

Advertising

It’s a pain to manage your own ads because you have to create a whole library of creatives seemingly bigger than the Library of Congress.

Facebook should allow admins the ability to assign certain privileges to the companies ad firm without giving the ad firm access to everything.

Because more and more ads will be run to custom timeline applications ideally the ads admin will have the ability to control the tab order and design.

Insights

Instead of handing over the keys to the house, ideally Facebook will enable us to give data partners the key to the shed.

The ability for the public to see a selection of timeline page insights is somewhat of a forerunner to what we might be able to do with our data partners.

Full Control

Lastly, the chief marketing executive in your company should always have full control of the fan page. Consider making said individual the only one allowed to delete your page altogether (hopefully, your company will never resort to that).

As Facebook grows, the services that help companies trying to use Facebook will also become more opportunistic. Having the ability to assign varying degrees of control to different admins will be like a brand’s social media insurance plan.

Readers, how many people do you have administering your page — how might you divide responsibilities and access levels among them?

Guest writer Nathan Latka is chief executive officer at Lujure. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

   Tags:Administrators, Advertising, Messages, Pages

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Facebook Critic Is Unable To Archive His Personal Data — Coincidence?

A Facebook user who happens to be a “very vocal” critic of the social network has been unsuccessfully attempting to retrieve his personal data via the Facebook archive download tool for weeks. Coincidence?

Sophos’ Naked Security blog shared the story of John Alarcon, who has criticized Facebook on forums including his status updates, questions and discussions on Facebook, comments on friends’ posts, and comments on Facebook-related articles posted by Sophos.

Alarcon told Naked Security that Facebook created an email address for users who want to extract their personal data, datarequests@fb.com.

An autoreply from that email address directed him to an archive download tool, which failed.

He then tried another personal data requests form on Facebook, and was asked to send a copy of hisdriver’s license, only to receive an email instructing him to use the archive download tool that he had already unsuccessfully tried.

Alarcon added that he tried to submit a bug report, but he believes Facebook is preventing him from doing so because he has not received the automated responses users of the social network usually get after submitting bugs.

Lisa Vaas, the Sophos author of the blog post, said she wrote Facebook February 28 about the issues experienced by Alarcon and has yet to receive a response.

Alarcon told Naked Security he has deleted most of his anti-Facebook posts, adding:

I strongly suspect that Facebook has crippled my account due to my outspoken criticism. It is no secret that I intend to leave Facebook as soon as I have a copy of my data (I status’d this intent publicly), and it’s sure feeling like a strange coincidence that they won’t even accept a basic bug report from my account now after I’ve tried numerous times to use a basic feature that’s seeming still working for others.

Readers: Do you think Alarcon’s issues are a coincidence, or is Facebook getting back at him for his outspoken criticism of the social network?

Screen shots courtesy of Naked Security.

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Facebook Regroups Preferred Developer Consultants

 Facebook will overhaul its preferred developer consultant program, segmenting into four areas: page management, ads application-programming interface, insights, and custom application development.

TechCrunch reported that Facebook will grant approval badges in each of the four verticals, adding that the ads API category will replace the current programs for preferred developers and advertising providers.

Facebook insights vendors will also benefit from the move, according to TechCrunch, as there is currently no official Facebook destination for them or for custom-campaign app-development services.

The hope is that the revamped preferred developer consultant program will make it easier for advertisers and marketers to find vendors to meet their needs, especially with respect to timeline, the Reach Generator, mobile ads, real-time insights, offers and ads on logoff pages.

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HOW TO: Unlike A Facebook Brand’s Timeline Page

With more brands converting to Facebook timeline pages each day, Facebook users have had to adjust as well. Like it or not, features are moving to different places on pages, and one of those is the unlike link.

Previously located in the left-hand column of pages that don’t have timeline, the unlike link is harder to find on timeline pages. You have to click

Here is what users should do if they decide to unlike a page that has already converted to the new layout:

• Go to the page.
• Locate the arrow pointing down: it’s  just below the cover photo and to the right of the gear icon.
• Click on that down arrow to produce the pulldown menu.
• Unlike is the second item in the menu, just beneath the word “share.”

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Facebook Officially Releases Messenger For Windows

Facebook Messenger for Windows, which became publicly availableat the end of December, officially launched today, and the social network said work continues on a Mac version.

TechCrunch reported the official release of the desktop client, which was first leaked in November, leading to the quiet release at year end.

The application requires Windows 7.

Messenger for Windows automatically syncs with Facebook, and it allows users to chat and message with their Facebook friends, and see ticker updates and notifications.

Facebook said the app currently supports chatting and messaging only with individual friends, and not group chat or video calling.

The social network added that users’ privacy settings are carried over from Facebook to the Messenger app.

The application is available for download here.

Readers, how do you think the release of Messenger will impact the amount of time people spend on the social network, if at all?

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Facebook Blocked In China, But App Development Soars

The largest number of Facebook application developers in the Asia-Pacific region comes from a country where Facebook has been banned since 2009: China.

Bloomberg reported that China accounts for 20 percent of Facebook app developers in the region, and the social network established an office in Hong Kong last year with an eye toward both those developers and Chinese advertisers.

Facebook’s partners in China include game developers Rekoo.com and Shanda Games, according to Bloomberg, and David Lim, a partner engineer at the social network’s mobile developer relations division, told Bloomberg:

We now have Chinese-language help pages for developers, and we are working on giving them better support. Developers in mainland China are important to us.

Facebook has more than developers on its mind, however, as Lim told Bloomberg the company plans to expand its mobile advertising business in Asia, inserting messages into the news feeds of mobile users in the region, and Facebook itself said in its initial public offering filing:

Users are generally restricted from accessing Facebook from China. We do not know if we will be able to find an approach to managing content and information that will be acceptable to us and to the Chinese government.

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Facebook Ads Can Lead Directly To Tab Applications

The ability to drive users to third-party tab applications was not completely eliminated.

You can purchase an ad that leads to a tab application rather than the timeline cover image.

Otherwise, the timeline and its cover image are the default landing page. Like our most esteemed sibling blog Inside Facebookexplained:

Advertisers can select a destination tab from a drop down menu in the self-serve ad dashboard as they did before.

However, “wall” has been renamed “timeline” and “info” is now called “about.” Currently, the system allows advertisers to select “Messages” or “All Activity” as destination tabs, even though these are only visible to page admins and should not be used as landing pages for ad campaigns.

As has always been the case, the destination tab feature is only available for traditional Facebook ads, not sponsored stories or ads from page posts. Advertisers can create ads that direct people to custom tabs by selecting “Facebook ads” and “new ad message.”

These tab applications will continue to support fan-gating — hiding content from non-fans in order to encourage users to like the page. However, there is currently a bug preventing pages from refreshing and revealing content after users click like.

This type of ad can be used to drive traffic to promotions or commerce features within tab applications.

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