Latest popular best 35 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

1. Make Facebook Status Update Blue

Whenever you post any status update on your Facebook Wall, Facebook Groups, Fanpages, you always find the color of Status update is ‘black’ and there is not any other option to customize them. Try it on Facebook tricks.

Blank Facebook Status

But using this code, you can make your Status Blue.

@@[1:[0:1: your status update goes here ]]

Just replace “your status update goes here” with the status you want to put.

2. Modify Anchor Text For Personal Profile / Fan Pages

Facebook lets you tag a friend or fanpage by using @ symbol followed by their name you can tag Our Fanpage, using @TechGYD in Status Updates, Comment etc.
By default, the anchor text used to link Fanpage or Friend’s profile URL, are their Name but you can customize it for status updates by using this these simple steps :

Step 1: Get Numeric ID of Facebook Profile/Fanpage by visiting http://graph.facebook.com/username. Replace ‘username’ by your, your friend’s or your brand’s Fanpage. That URL’s Numeric ID will appear.

Step 2: Now, you can modify Anchor as per this code:

@@[0:[YOURPAGEID:1:New Anchor Text]]

Using 0 at the place of ‘New Anchor Text will use Fanpage’s Name as anchor.

Green Boxes are Anchors for the same Facebook Page (TechGYD)

*Note: The code should be used twice in status update or else, the trick will not work.

3. Using Profile Pic Emoticons in Facebook Chatbox

This is not actually a trick but a feature introduced by Facebook in 2011 that lets you to use Fanpage/Profile’s Display Pic as emoticon in Facebook chat but using Username/ Numeric ID as [[username]].
For e.g., To use TechGYD Fanpage Profile Pic as emoticon, use [[techgyd]] or [[133278376826827]].
Here are some great rage faces:

• Not bad Obama: [[169919399735055]]
• Me G usta: [[211782832186415]]
  
• Forever Alone: [[177903015598419]]
• F yeah: [[105387672833401]]
• Poker face: [[129627277060203]]
• Okay face: [[224812970902314]]

4. Make your Display/Profile  Pic “Un-clickable”

Many people don’t want others to click there profile pic and view enlarged version of it. So, if you also want to make your profile pic un-clickable, just follow these steps:
Step 1: From your timeline, navigate to Photos -> Albums -> Profile Pictures.
Step 2: Select your current profile pic and set its privacy to “Only Me” from default “Public”. That’s All.
There are many other such Facebook  Privacy options.

5. Editing Any Facebook Webpage, Anyhow

Do you want to edit any Facebook Webpage? This trick will let you to edit any webpage, not only of Facebook but also for every webpage you visit from your browser. You can put your own statement, data, etc anywhere. You can remove elements like Tables, Images etc.

6. Create Your Own Facebook Chat Emoticons

This trick will tell you how to create your own Facebook Chat Emoticon by using and image of your choice and generating numeric code to use on Facebook Chatbox. 

7. Stay Undetected – Disable Read Receipt feature

If someone sends you message on Facebook  and you don’t reply him or just read and ignore the message then Facebook’s Read Receipt feature will tell the sender that you read his message and didn’t replied. The feature becomes very much annoying sometime.

So here is a trick to Disable that Read Receipt Feature so that when you read sender’s message he will not get Read Receipt. Read Trick Here

8. Download Facebook Photo Album

Do you want to download you ever uploaded photo album, you friend’s, your group’s album in a bulk? So here is a free Firefox Add-on available that lets you to download photo albums from your, your friend’s profile and group in just a single click. Download FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader

9. Schedule Future Posts on Profile and Fanpages

This trick is very important for Internet marketers, Bloggers, Online Firms etc. You can Schedule Future Post for any Status Update on you Facebook Profile as well as Fanpages by using BufferApp FOR FREE.
Not only for your Facebook Profile, BufferApp also lets you to schedule posts for Multiple Facebook Accounts, Fanpages, Twitter Handlers and LinkedIn profiles.

10. Start Auto-Posting on Facebook

Yet another very useful tip for people who serve services online. Its really tough to maintain social profiles and keep fans, friends and followers engaged out there. So, IFTTT, a free online service will help you to automate content sharing and bookmarking on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other social networking and bookmarking sites.

11. Hide Your Status Updates from Some Specific Friends

Many times we want some friends, relatives from our Facebook Friend list will not see our activity, status updates on Facebook. So you can hide your status updates from some people of your list by clicking on Gear icon at the top-right corner of Facebook and navigating to Privacy Setting.

Custom Privacy Settings

Now, Set Who can see my future posts? to “Custom”. A pop-up box will appear that will let you to hide your status updates from some friends.

12. Premium Facebook

We all know, Facebook uses Advertisements (too much) to generate money but , these advertisements are too much  annoying. They always remain stick to their webpages. So, if you want to remove those Facebook advertisements then Facebook: Cleaner (Greasymonkey script) is available for you.
Just install the script to your browser and it will hide sponsored and annoying ad sections from Facebook.

13. Post Blank Status Update

Facebook doesn’t allow you to post blank status update. If you want, you need to put at least an punctuation mark like comma, dot, etc. But here is an trick that lets you to  post blank status update:

Facebook Blank Status

Just type @[0:0: ] in status box and hit Enter and its done :D. You can use any number in the code like @[1:1: ], @[7:7: ] and make your blank status as long as you canby pressing enter key after each code.

14. Confuse Your Friends

Put this URL http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363 on Facebook Status or Comment, this is actually link to ones Facebook Profile so whenever someone will click on this link, he/she will get redirected to own’s Facebook profile. I used this trick this way:
“This person is most weird friend of my Facebook Profile. God! Please Protect Me from him –>> http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″
It’s the best way to confuse a friend

15. Enjoy Full Facebook Access without Internet

We all know that we can reply on comments, put status updates by Activating Facebook Messaging. It uses your Facebook messages and you’ll not be charged but if you want to do a lot more things like accessing your friends wall, like any status, post on someone’s wall adding friend etc etc, you can use FoneTwish.

Exploring Full Facebook without Internet

Though these features comes under their paid subscription plan but it doesn’t mean you need to pay high. Its subscription fee is as low as Re. 1 in India.

16. Post Upside-Down Status Updates

Do you want to post your simple status update in surprising upside-down way? If so, use FlipText. This website lets you to post status update in upside-down way. Just enter your original update on first box, it will automatically change to upside-down way in second box.

Upside Down Status Update

Just copy that Status update and post in your Facebook Wall

17. Use Facebook Toolbar in Your Browser

Visiting Facebook every time to update status, view notification, Poke Friends, View/Accept Friend Request etc can be a bit tedious task. So if you want to do almost anything on Facebook without visiting it, use Mozilla’s "Facebook Toolbar" Add-on.

18. Stay Offline for some friends

However, it is a very common Facebook Trick but many people don’t know it yet. You can make you Offline for some selected friends or everyone on Facebook while exploring Facebook.

Advance Chat Setting

On the Chat Sidebar, click on Gear (option) icon. Selecting ‘Turn Off Chat’ will make you offline for all available friends in your profile. You can click on “Advanced Settings…” to turn on off chat for some specific friends.

19. Change Language of your Facebook Profile

By going to Facebook’s Account Setting, you can change language of your Facebook profile and amaze your friends. There are a lot of different language available with some funny too.

Change Facebook Profile Language

You can even set English(Upside-Down) to make your profile a bit interesting and confusing.

20. Using Special (ASCII) Characters on Facebook

Do you want to decorate your Status Update with some very stylish symbols? Well, Visit This Page. The page lets you to put New Facebook Text ASCII Art Icons in your Status, Comments, Chat etc.

Facebook Ascii Art Icons

Just copy any one and use it.

21. Change Facebook Theme Color

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in Blue color. Right? Do you know why it is blue? because Mark Zuckerberg is color blind and can only see Blue color. So if you get bored of using Blue Facebook then you can change its color according to your choice.

Change Facebook Theme Color

Follow these steps:
Step 1: Just install and activate “Change My Facebook Color” Chrome Extension.

Step 2: Go to Chrome’s Setting > Appearance and Tick ‘Always Show Bookmark Toolbar’.

Step 3: Click on Change My Facebook Color Extension Icon on the Top-Right Side.

Step 4: Set Background and Foreground color. Drag Arrow Icon to Bookmark Toolbar.

Step 5: Visit Facebook and Press the Button that you just added using the extension.

Enjoy exploring Facebook in your own color !

22. Customize Facebook in your own Way

You can fully customize Facebook by using "Fabulous" Chrome Extension. The extension lets you Customize your Facebook, Block ads, change colors, zoom photos and a lot more things more.

Customize Your Facebook, Your Own Way

23. Ghost/Fake Wall Post Prank

Do you want your status update will get like and comments from famous personalities like Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, Mark Zuckerberg etc ? Or Michael Jackson Share Your Website Link from Heaven?
So, Just Go to The Wall Machine and Login with Facebook. Now you create your own status, Likers, Commentors of Status Updates in your own way. Check out the example :

Facebook Ghost Prank

24. Watch Live Streaming

Now, you can watch live TV on Facebook by TV Dream App. You can watch numerous International Channels including Sports, News, Movies, Kids, etc Free Of Cost.  I generally user this app to watch cricket match while chatting my friends.

25. Post Multiple Facebook Groups At Once

Many times when you want to promote a product, inviting members on different Facebook Groups in an event, article etc, then its really tough to visit each and every group and post the invitation. So, MultiPost lets you to post multiple Facebook Groups at once. You can set Title, Description, Images etc and customize you status at best level.

26. Get Notified When Someone Unfriend You

To get the notification when someone unfriend you, download "unfriend alert" chrome extension and activate it. It will add an additional Unfriends Tab on Facebook so whenever someone unfriend you, you’ll get notified. This tab will also notify you about pending friend requests.

New Additional Unfriends Tab on your Facebook Profile

27. Create Awesome Videos of your Facebook Pictures

You can easily create amazing video of your, your friend’s, pages’ photos by using Pixable for FREE.

28. Enlarge Un-Clickable Profile Pics

This is counter trick of #4 Trick that I shared above. As un-clickable profile pics can’t be enlarged by clicking them so use these steps to enlarge them:
Step 1: Right Click the image. From context menu, select ‘Open Image In New Tab’ .

Enlarge Private Image

Step 2: In address Bar URL of the image, remove s160x160/ and hit Enter. The image will appear in its original size.

29. Tag 50+ People from Desktop/Laptop

As you all know, from PC, you can tag at most 50 People in your picture and status. However, Mobile Users can even tag more than 70. So, if you want to tag more than 50 people on your status, uploaded photo from Desktop/Laptop, follow these steps:

Step 1: Download Opera Mobile Emulator

Step 2: Launch Mobile Emulator, Select a Mobile/Tablet Model.

Step 3: Browse Facebook from Opera Mobile Emulator.

Now, as here, you are browsing Facebook Mobile and in Mobile User-Agent So you can Tag more than 50 people in your status update, picture

30. Customize “post via” Line on Statuses

Whenever you use any app to post content, shares on Facebook, it shows a post via line. You can use this feature to make your status update even more stylish. What if, you status update will show post via Captian America ?

So, if you want to customize your post via line, follow these steps:

Step 1: Visit Postedvia.com

Step 2: Choose Any available Post Via Line from Drop-Down Box and click Green Update Status Button.

Step 3: Now, on the pop-up box, enter your status update and its done.

31. Make Creative Timeline Covers

Do you want to create creative timeline cover for your facebook profile, as like the below one?

creative timeline covers

Follow these steps:

Step 1: Visit Tricked Out Timeline

Step 2: Select a template to use (out of 4).

Step 3: Select Image to upload or use your current timeline cover.

Step 4: Move the frame to target your cover photo and hit Done.

Step 5: Click Like Button.

Step 6: Download your Cover Photo and use it on your timeline with creative profile pic.

32. Delete All Facebook Messages At Once

Delete All Facebook Messages

Step 1: Download " Fast Delete Facebook Messages "Chrome Extension. Activate it

Step 2: Go to Facebook’s message Page by visiting Facebook.com/Messages

Step 3: You’ll notice a new button named “Delete All”
 So, whenever you want to delete all your Facebook Messages, just click this button and it’ll delete all Facebook messages within 2-3 seconds.

34. Select / Invite All Friends At Once

Selecting and inviting 1000s of friends available at your Facebook profile to a Fanpage, Event, App can be a tedious task. So, this trick will let you to select all of them instantly.

Facebook Bulk Select [Click To Enlarge]

Step 1: Open Invite Friend option’s Pop-Up Window of Event/Page/App on Mozilla Firefox.

Step 2: Press Ctrl + Shift + K. This will open Web Console of Firefox.

Step 3: Paste this code at Web Console and hit Enter:


javascript:var x=document.getElementsByTagName(“input”);for(var i=0;i



* Note: All Friends Available in the Current Selection Mode will be selected so use “All Friends” Selection mode.

35. Get Free Mobile Recharge from Facebook

Facebook, in order to attract much customers from INDIA, is offering free talk-time on creating a new profile or referring friends from its Mobile site (m.facebook.com) in INDIA. The scheme when started was providing free recharge of Rs. 50 but now, it is giving Rs. 20.

Facebook Free Recharge

To get free recharge from Facebook, just visit http://m.facebook.com/tt from your cell phone and sign up by your phone number. You will be credited within 3 days.
Actually I am not sure if this scheme is available for other countries or not.

36. Creating Awesome Photo Collages of Facebook Album

Loupe is a amazing online service that lets you to create beautiful photo collages from Facebook Albums. Just Sign-in by connecting your Facebook Account there and it will let you to create beautiful Photo Collages in many shapes from either your or your friend’s photo album.

Loupe: Facebook Album Collage Maker

So friends, I have tried to include all best Facebook Tips and Tricks. If I missed any trick, you can share it on below comment-box. If you really enjoyed the article and found it helpful then please consider sharing it with your friends at Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social Networks.