Facebook is the most popular social networking website. This platform is used by many people for more than just staying connected with friends.
Lately, Facebook brought about many new features to both its website and manager. It introduced Messenger Day a Snapchat Stories-like feature, mentions, and reactions to messenger, Dislike button to the messenger app, Facebook live for desktop.
Basically, there are lots of things you can do with Facebook. Here are few things you wish you had known earlier so that you would have used the platform in a more efficient way:
No More Game Requests
It can be really frustrating to get constant notifications from Facebook games such as candy crush. You can change the setting to stop receiving such requests. All you have to do is, go to Settings → Account Settings → Notifications and uncheck the Application Invites.
Can Convert Your Facebook Profile Photo Into An Animated GIF
Open the Facebook app, click on the profile picture, of the few options listed there, click on the new profile video that will let you upload a short video loop. On viewing it, it will be a mix of a moving picture frame and animated GIF.
Know All Your Activities From Here
The Activity log on Facebook will document all your activities including likes, shares and comments on the platform. You can access it easily from your profile on both your desktop and mobile apps
Get Faster Loading News With Fewer Ads
The instant article is something that not all Facebook users are aware of. Almost every media firm is sharing its stories on the social media network. The instant article features will load up to ten minutes faster than usual stories.
Prioritize What You Want To See In The News Feeds
There are some pages that you don’t want to miss on the Facebook feed, you can prioritize the same. To do this, go to Settings → more → News Feed Preferences.
Then, marked the profiles you don’t want to miss as important, the profile marked as important will be displayed with a little blue star and you will never miss their updates.
Know How Your Profile Looks Like To Someone Else
This option is quite easy to access, all you have to do is go to the desktop version of Facebook and open your profile. Click the ellipsis that displays the option “View As…
I can imagine you know about most of these tricks.