While Facebook users on iOS devices have had the luxury of Pages Manager to keep tabs on their pages, Android users have not, but it appears that the application has now made its way to those devices — however only in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. First noticed by Inside Facebook‘s Brittany Darwell, Pages Manager shows up in the Google Play store for U.S. and U.K. users, but is not available to them yet.
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Facebook is a great place for connecting with old friends and keeping in touch with family, but it can also be dangerous to both users and their computers. Oversharing, poor security settings, and rampant viruses can cause more problems than you might think. Staying safe on Facebook requires a little thought and a whole lot of self-control.
Facebook and brands that market on the social network are constantly trying to figure out what users want to buy, but the data users present on the site give a limited picture at times. Now, it seems Facebook has solved that. As Business Insider reports, Facebook accepted Chango (and its major cache of Google search data) into its ad exchange program.
Social media advertising specialist TBG Digital created a Facebook application for Topman that will allow the apparel retailers fans on the social network to view a live stream of its London Collections A/W 2013 fashion show Monday as if they were seated in the front row.
Facebook may have some negative effects on our mental well-being, but can posting status updates regularly make a person feel less lonely and more connected to the world? Researchers studied a small group of University of Arizona students, seeing how Facebook affected their moods, and finding that those who posted more frequently didn’t feel as lonely.
This week, KIXEYE has several new job openings. The company is looking for a gameplay engineer, a 3D/Unity game engineer, a mobile client engineer, a senior server engineer, and a game designer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.
Most brands want to create lasting memories with their advertising campaigns. But is there any potential to using Facebook’s new Poke application — where messages disappear in seconds — in advertising? Israeli lingerie company Delta already tried using Poke for a marketing campaign, and AdAge reports that more companies could follow suit.
The data-protection commissioner for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert, took his campaign against Facebook’s insistence that users provide their real names up a notch, threatening to fine the social network £16,000 ($20,877) if it refuses to abolish that policy.
Game developer Zynga shared some fascinating facts about its FarmVille 2 offering in the infographic below, adding that by the time readers finish this post, about 200,000 crops will have been planted.
The newest entry in the niche category of companies that transform Facebook content into actual books is PastBook, which introduced Relive Your 2012 Friday, allowing users to create yearbooks from their Facebook and Instagram content.
