My coaching clients and those who listen to me speak about social media have heard me say over and over again not to trust technology — ever. I caution people that although the delete button may appear to delete the information you’ve typed, it’s no guarantee no one will see it or for that matter that the information won’t be archived somewhere.  With that said,  I was very surprised recently how many posts I chose to delete when I upgraded to the new Facebook’s new timeline which is about to be imposed on everyone.

Timelines is just one of the many things announced in their F8 update and you’ll want to actively participate in.  I have many concerns, and just found a post which summarizes the problems and tells you how to protect yourself. It’s called 3 Fights to Expect When You Get the New Timeline.

You’ve always been subscribed to friends. Now you can hear from journalists, celebrities, political figures and other people too even if you’re not friends. It’s easy, just click the Subscribe button on someone’s profile to get their public updates in your News Feed.   For each person, you could hide all game stories, see just photos, limit updates to life events and more.

To  enable readers to subscribe to you, go to: https://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe.

Tucked near the end of Facebook’s 1,200-word blog post detailing a slew of privacy changes was a short obituary for a Facebook feature unveiled with great fanfare last year: Facebook Places, a check-in service that allowed users to share their locations on Facebook and redeem coupons.

Facebook quietly admitted that it would be “phasing out” Places, which had been available only on cellphones, while at the same time expanding the ability to add locations to posts by allowing users to tag cities, venues and landmarks in everything from status updates to Wall posts using any device.

Read the entire post via Facebook Axes Places: Who Will Miss It?.

Now that sponsored stories have had almost half a year to germinate, a growing number of pundits are saying that these ad units perform about 50 percent better than other types of promotions on the site.

via What’s The Deal With Facebook’s Ad Prices?.

Today, Facebook announced that they’ve partnered with Skype to offer free and fast video calling, and some other improvements to chat.  Sound interesting?  Hopefully it will be more embraced than it was in 2007 when MySpace first introduced it. Read all about Facebook’s announcement on their blog… Call Your Friends Right From Facebook.

Sharing Posts on Facebook Page

When you hit the ‘share’ button on Facebook, the post you are sharing generally appears on your personal profile, however you CAN share it on your business pages quite easily.  Here is how it is done:

1. Hit the ‘share’ button — a window will pop up…
   
2. Click on “On your Page” and window will change to…
   
3. Select the page you wish to share it on and hit the “Share Note” button

Congratulations to College Humour for another funny video…

If you are responsible for managing multiple Facebook Fan pages, you’ll be excited to know that you can now have quick access to all the pages you manage and find out about recent activity with one URL…

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=pages&ap=1

Gotta like Facebook’s new fan page administrator view! Will definitely save me and my clients time and money!