Archive for the Facebook Category
September 26, 2011 | Facebook, Website | twitaku | Comments Off
Granular Facebook SettingsFacebook uses a system called “granular privacy settings” to give Facebook users complete control of their information. The way that the system is supposed to work is that users can control the visibility of anything they publish on the site. While there is ongoing debate about certain information which is not completely private, [...]
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May 23, 2010 | Facebook, Internet Services | admin | Comments Off
1. Creating the perfect profile picture Facebook specs recommend that profile pictures should be 200px wide, while height can vary as needed. What is less documented is how the thumbnail that Facebook uses across the system is generated from this picture. You’ll find the system crops images when generating a thumbnail, losing information around the edge. [...]
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September 18, 2009 | Facebook, Internet Services, Website | admin | Comments Off
When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we’ve got a problem…and it’s not one limited to the U.S.’s borders, either. People everywhere are mindlessly over-sharing on the world’s largest social network, without a second thought as to who’s reading their posts [...]
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