Category: Social Media

A Facebook troll is someone who posts aggressive comments on your page – often immediately after you publish a post –  in an attempt of creating a firestorm of controversy.   Most often, these trolls do not like the page and it becomes impossible to ban them or stop them using the straightforward ban user function…

Some social plugins give you a total number of shares without specifying exactly where those shares came from. Also, you may need to find if someone shared your link on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites: Count your shares on Facebook: – http://graph.facebook.com/?id=YourURL, e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://nasri.messarra.com/use-two-steps-authentication-with-google-easy-steps/ Count your shares on Twitter: – http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=YourURL, e.g. http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://nasri.messarra.com/use-two-steps-authentication-with-google-easy-steps/…

This post is available as a PDF document.   In Facebook, search for the NetVizz application or follow this link:   Accept the permissions required to extract data from your timeline and pages Select “personal network”: Click on “start”: Right click on “gdf file” and save it Download and Install NetVizz to NodeXL converter Run…

This post is available as a PDF document. Why do we study social networks? Definition from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network: A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. Social networks and the analysis of them is…

This is a small conversion tool I have developed to convert NetVizz files (GDF) to NodeXL files (GraphML).   This tool works on all versions of Windows and has been tested with the “personal network” friends list extraction option in NetVizz.   NetVizz is a free Facebook App located at https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/. NetVizz extracts Facebook data…

To protect your Facebook account from hackers, you can set it up to send notifications on failed login attempts and require double checks via sms when you use new devices to access your account. Here are the steps: Step 1: To receive notification on failed attempts, from your personal laptop or desktop, go to your…

Two-Step Verification (Authentication) with Google adds an additional layer of security to your Google account significantly preventing hacking attempts. The process is quite simple: an SMS with a code will be sent to you once per computer or phone. Once you enter the code, the computer (or phone) will be trusted forever. It is highly…

  Facebook fans are the organic (free, by default) seeding population of the updates of a Facebook page (posts, cover changes, events, etc.). Depending on the number of fans of the page and the way fans react to its posts, Facebook will distribute updates to 1 to 35% of the fans (average of 11 to…

New phishing email mimicking LinkedIn’s new invitation to connect. The best prevention is hovering the links in Outlook or other mail clients to make sure the URL points to LinkedIn or delete these emails and access your LinkedIn’s account to check for invitations and messages.