A More Expressive Like Button "Reactions"

Facebook has started testing its new like button today called "Reactions" with 6 different emoji namely  Like, Love, Haha, Yay, Wao, Sad and Angry. 
Here is Mark Zuckerberg post and video on launching and explaining new like button:

Today we're launching a test of Reactions -- a more expressive Like button.
The Like button has been a part of Facebook for a long time. Billions of Likes are made every day, and Liking things is a simple way to express yourself.
For many years though, people have asked us to add a "dislike" button. Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy. These are important moments where you need the power to share more than ever, and a Like might not be the best way to express yourself.

At a recent Townhall Q&A, I shared with our community that we've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to give you better options for expressing yourself, while keeping the experience simple and respectful. Today we're starting to test this.
Reactions gives you new ways to express love, awe, humor and sadness. It's not a dislike button, but it does give you the power to easily express sorrow and empathy -- in addition to delight and warmth. You’ll be able to express these reactions by long pressing or hovering over the Like button.
We’re starting to test Reactions in Ireland and Spain and will learn from this before we bring the experience to everyone. We hope you like this – or can better express how you’re feeling!

Today we're launching a test of Reactions -- a more expressive Like button. The Like button has been a part of Facebook for a long time. Billions of Likes are made every day, and Liking things is a simple way to express yourself.For many years though, people have asked us to add a "dislike" button. Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy. These are important moments where you need the power to share more than ever, and a Like might not be the best way to express yourself.At a recent Townhall Q&A, I shared with our community that we've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to give you better options for expressing yourself, while keeping the experience simple and respectful. Today we're starting to test this.Reactions gives you new ways to express love, awe, humor and sadness. It's not a dislike button, but it does give you the power to easily express sorrow and empathy -- in addition to delight and warmth. You’ll be able to express these reactions by long pressing or hovering over the Like button. We’re starting to test Reactions in Ireland and Spain and will learn from this before we bring the experience to everyone. We hope you like this – or can better express how you’re feeling!
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, October 8, 2015

How To Publish Actions On Timeline (Updated)

On 31st May Facebook had announced few changes in open graph approval process and also Updated Open Graph Publishing Guidelines in which some important parts were:

Additional publishing guideline
For stories about watching a video or reading an article, you must use the built-in watch and read actions. We’ll no longer approve custom actions for these stories.

90-day update window

• Even if we’ve approved your custom action for reading an article or watching a video, you must migrate to using a built-in action, resubmit your app and get approved. Please review the requirements for working with read and watch actions.
• Built-in watch and read actions can only be published after someone engages with the content for 10 or more seconds. If a video is shorter than 10 seconds, the viewer must watch the entire video.
• Tagging people and places:

• Only encourage people to tag friends when they have actually performed an action together.
• Only encourage people to tag a location if they are currently at that place

So according to guidelines above developers have to use built-in actions instead of custom read and watch actions and also to post action only when user engages with the content for 10 or more seconds, to meet these requirements I thought I should write an updated tutorial on it because in my earlier tutorial on How to publish actions on timeline we had used custom actions to post on users timeline.

How To Get Access Token For Publishing Action On Timeline

In my earlier tutorial on How to publish actions on timeline i showed you how to get access token manually in step 3, but the problem with this method is that the access token will expire after every two hours and you have to copy the token again and again.

To solve this problem i found this tutorial in Facebook developers blog which handles the following issues in which access token become invalid or expired.

Note: By default open graph settings access token is not necessary for publishing on users timeline if the action is for the same page from where it is triggered otherwise its necessary to have access token for publishing.

How To Forward Emails Automatically To Facebook Inbox

It's been awhile since Facebook launched its new messaging system with the option to get username@facebook.com email address. If you have already claimed your Facebook email address then you can forward all your incoming emails automatically from Gmail to your Facebook inbox.

Why to forward emails to Facebook

The benefit of forwarding you all emails to Facebook automatically is you don’t have to go to every email account to check for new emails and secondly you will be notified when you will receive a message in your inbox.

How to forward emails automatically to Facebook inbox

How To Increase Subscribers On Facebook

In September 2011 Facebook introduced the subscribe button to allow people subscribe to your public updates without being your friend. If you have already allowed people to subscribe to your public and want to increase your subscriber base then this is right place for you.

How To Publish Actions On Timeline

This is my second tutorial of Facebook application development with Open Graph series, in previous tutorial I showed you how to setup your Facebook application with Open Graph. Now in this tutorial I will teach you to how to publish actions on user’s timeline.

Note: Due to changes announced by Facebook on 31st May this tutorial has been updated you can visit the updated tutorial from here.

How to Publish Actions on User’s Timeline
If you have already created actions and objects by following my previous tutorial then the next setup is to publish those actions on user’s timeline, but before proceeding you can check my demo app.

Facebook Application Development With Open Graph

This is the first tutorial of Facebook application development with Open Graph series in which I will show you how to

• Setup Facebook Application
• Setup Open Graph for App
• Setup Auth Dialog Preview For Authenticating user
• Setup Permissions

So let’s start the tutorial without wasting any time, but before proceeding you can check the demo app.

Facebook Fan Page FAQs

In previous tutorial I showed you how to add iframe tab using Static HTML: iframe tab application, now in this tutorial I will try to answer some frequently asked questions which are:

• How to add contact form to your Facebook fan page
• How to embed video in Facebook fan page
• How to add audio files to your Facebook fan page
• How to show feed from your desired URL in your Facebook page
• How to add widgets from other websites to your page

I have implemented all these features in my page you can check the demo test tab before proceeding.

How to add contact form to your Facebook fan page

I think I don’t have to tell the benefits of having contact form in Facebook fan page you already know it, let’s start!

Facebook fan page customization using Static HTML: iframe tabs

After the depreciation of Static FBML app many applications for Facebook fan page customization has been developed since then in which most famous of them is Static HTML: iframe tabs. The reason for its popularity is its user friendly interface with FBML support.

You can easily add iframe tabs through this application in your desired page, just follow theses steps:

Step 1: Visit the application page from here.

Step 2: Click on Add to my Page link located at the left side of page.

How To Add Animated Emotions On Facebook

Animated emotions on Facebook: From the last few months you must have seen lots of animated emotion on your news feed, shared by different people through different pages or apps. If you dig further and go on that page and check the info section of that page it will say “Don’t ask how we do it just share it” or something like that, but the problem is you can only share the status of pages on your wall and if you want to customize your own status either you have to request on their discussion forum or you have to use other third party apps like “emoji Status” etc. What are these emotions:

Facebook's New Security Feature

Facebook has introduced a new security feature called Login Approvals, by using this feature you will be notified whenever a new device is used to login to your Facebook account and the user has to enter the security code send by the Facebook to your mobile.

To use this feature you have to follow the following steps:

Some Cool Facebook Features You May Not Know

Following are some feature of Facebook which you may not be aware of

• Changing your profile to business page.
• Importing feed from your website to your profile or page.
• Linking your page to twitter account.

 

 

Changing your profile to business page
This feature allows you to change your profile to business or fan page, by doing this all of your friends will be converted to your fans, for example if you have 500 friends, by changing your profile to business page all your friends will be the people who likes you page and your profile pictures will be transferred, No other content will be carried over to your new Page. The account associated with the profile you previously maintained will be converted to a business account, which will be the sole admin of your new Page.
You can convert your profile to you page from here.
Importing feed from your website to your page or profile
By using this feature you would be able to import feed from your desired url to note section of your profile or business page.

Steps to import an external blog (for profile)

1. Go to Notes from here.

2. Click on "Edit import settings" as shown below.

3. Now enter the desired url. You can also enter the twitter feed url to syndicate twitter feed in notes.

Steps to import an external blog (for page)

1. Go to your Page and click "Edit Page" or “Edit info”.
2. Select "Applications" and next to "Notes" click "Go to Application."
3. Now repeat the 2nd and 3rd step as you did for profile.

 

Linking your page to twitter
By linking your page to twitter account as a Page admin, you’ll be able to share status updates, links, photos, notes, and events with your followers on Twitter, directly from Facebook. You can choose the kinds of things you want to share both on Twitter and Facebook.
You can link your page to twitter account from here.

Facebook Questions

Facebook has recently launched its new feature called “Facebook Questions”, this feature was previously available to small group of people for testing purpose but now its available to everyone. If this feature is not available to you then you can try it from here.

What is Facebook Questions?
“Facebook Questions lets you ask any question and get quick answers from your friends and other people on Facebook. Questions is designed so that anyone on Facebook can help you find the answer. So when you ask a question, it is shared in News Feed. If your friends answer or follow that question, it will be shared with their friends and so on”(Facebook Help Center).

Give Maximum Protection To Your Facebook Account

Facebook have some very good features which can give your account maximum protection. So in order to give maximum protection to your Facebook account you have to use these features.
In this article we will discuss following features:

• Browsing Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible.
• Receiving email alerts when new device logs into your account.
• Linking other accounts.
• Receiving short term password for 20 minutes other than your normal password (for US).

Shifting From FBML To Iframe For Fan Pages

On February 11 2011 Facebook has announced major upgrades to “Fan pages” by giving new layout with iframe support for fan page tabs. You can upgrade your pages from now or it will be upgraded automatically after March 10.

HTML5 And PHP Based Facebook Application Development

 

In previous tutorial we discussed some of HTML5 features, Now in this tutorial we will create HTML5 and php based facebook application. We will use "HTML5 Offline cache" feature with <audio> and <embed> tags.

Before proceeding you can view the app from here or download the full source package from here.

AS we are using HTML5 features in Facebook application for this we have to register our application, to do this use the following steps:

Give more professional look to your Facebook Fan Page

You can give your page more professional look by:

1. Using CSS.


2. Showing visitor’s name on your page.


3. Adding like button on your page.


4. Adding share button.


5. Adding videos and mp3 files.

Some Useful Greasemonkey Scripts For Facebook

In this article i am sharing some very useful Greasemonkey user scripts for Facebook users. But before proceeding it is better to get bit of knowledge about greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to HTML web page content on the DOMContentLoaded event, which happens immediately after it is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing).

Creating Facebook Quiz Application Without Database

In this tutorial i will show you how to create facebook quiz application without having a database. We will use .xml file to save questions and answers so it would be more easy to configure as compare to database.

you can view my demo app from here.

Step 1: Login to your Facebook account and goto http://www.facebook.com/developers to add facebook developers application.

How to Add Facebook Live Stream Box to Your Like Page

The Live Stream plugin lets users visiting page or your site share activity and comments in real time.With the Live Stream Box on your page or website, users can share updates that appear both within the Live Stream Box and on their Facebook profiles and in their friends.

How to add Facebook live stream box