Facebook is a world in constant evolution that continues to change over time, sometimes with less visible and more hidden changes. To summarize what is now the most populated social network in the world, let 's see the 10 most useful but also a little hidden Facebook functions .
There are 12 ways to use Facebook that only the most experienced know, but that everyone should know to make the diary better, to optimize what appears on the home and timeline and how to better control the applications .
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1) View photos in full screen
The Facebook photo viewer has been modified several times in the past passing from the fixed page with the comments at the bottom to the pop-up with a black background and the comments from the side.
It is therefore possible to browse the photos of a Facebook album in full screen mode.
In an album, click on an image and hover over the photo until a menu appears at the bottom of the image.
Click on " Options " and then press on " View in full screen ".
To return to normal mode, simply press the Esc key or the "X" in the upper right.
2) Hide the apps
The new Facebook applications interact on the diary by publishing information on what has been done or read.
If you don't want to share your business on social apps, you need to adjust some settings.
Click on the down arrow at the top right and enter the " Account settings ".
Go to the " Applications " tab and click on " Edit " to click on the apps you want to keep private with the " Just Me " option.
This setting can be changed every time an application is installed.
3) Create a list based on interests
The "lists" of news on Facebook are a recent novelty that allows you to group news from specific pages or people according to the topic.
You can therefore create a list of recipes if you follow updates from blogs or chefs, technology news, current affairs and so on.
All about how to create interest lists in Facebook to organize the news is in another article.
4) Search on Facebook
The standard Facebook search doesn't work well unless you set the English language.
in this case, a world of possibilities opens up and it is possible to really find everything about a person and his ties with others.
On this I explained, in another post, how to search on Facebook posts and photos of friends of all time and also how to see private profiles on Facebook.
5) Reposition the photos in the Diary
Whenever you publish a photo on Facebook, it appears in a centered position on the diary.
If the image is large, you can choose which part of the photo to preview.
Click on the pencil at the top right (" edit or remove " button) of the photo to be rearranged which appears on the diary and choose the " Reposition photo " function.
Using the mouse, you can drag the image left or right to find the best position.
6) Hide from friends on the chat
On Facebook chat you can go offline for everyone or hide only for some friends you don't want to talk to.
To avoid being called, you can hide by going offline.
To do this, you have to click on the person's name in the chat column on the right as if you wanted to start a conversation.
In the conversation window, click on the gear and then select the option " Go offline for [Name] "
If you want to organize the list of contacts by selecting those to be blocked in chat and dividing them from others, you can follow the guide to be invisible in chat on Facebook, hide from friends and appear offline.
7) Check and approve the tags
For each tag that is put by a friend on a photo or in a post, before it is published, it must be approved by the person mentioned.
However, this is only if this person has checked the tag.
In the " Privacy settings " from the drop-down menu at the top right of the Facebook page, from the " Diary and adding tags " section click on " Change settings ".
The " Check the posts where your friends have tagged you " entry, if activated, leads to having to approve every tag put by friends and non-friends.
You can learn more about this in the guide on checking tags in Facebook.
8) Hide unwanted content from the home page
What appears in Facebook's news flow can be controlled to some extent.
From the homepage, click on the pencil icon that appears when you hover over the " News " item in the left column and change the settings.
From the small window it is possible to hide some people's messages from the central news flow and also some applications and some page updates.
On how to sort the news on Facebook and how to hide what we don't care about and clean up Facebook I wrote two simple and dedicated guides.
9) Create a secret group
It is possible to create a " secret " Facebook group that only the founder and his friends can see.
The secret group is a fun way to create a private forum, a club where only a select few can share content.
To start the secret group, click on " Create Group " from the " Groups " section in the left column of the home page.
After naming the group, choose the icon from the drop-down menu, add friends and then select the " secret " option.
10) Upload high quality images
When you upload a photo to Facebook, it is not high resolution by default and is resized.
If you want to publish the photos in the best possible quality, you have to create a new album, upload the photos and select the " High Quality " option below.
11) Temporarily disappear from Facebook
At any time it is possible to deactivate Facebook and disappear as if the account and profile had never existed, in order to suspend all activities, only temporarily.
Just log back into your account to restore everything and return as you were left.
12) Colored posts
If you read, in your home, colored posts with large writings on Facebook, those are generated by the Facebook app on your mobile phone.
Finally, I remember the Facebook privacy guide important for deciding the level of visibility of your profile.
