Close Friends - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:12:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook Prompts Old News Feed Users To Examine Acquaintances For users who have not transitioned over to the redesigned News Feed, Facebook is prompting them to add friends with whom they don’t talk much to their acquaintances lists. Users on this list are then designated as low priority and will show up less often in News Feed.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-prompt-acquaintances_b115289#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-prompt-acquaintances_b115289 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115289 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:49:10 +0000 STUDY: How Do Facebook Friends Affect The Job Hunt? Facebook is increasingly being used as a job search tool, both for employers and applicants. But it’s much more than that. Facebook users announce employment changes, chat with friends about openings, and seek out new opportunities with close friends and acquaintances. But how do these relationships on Facebook affect not only the likelihood of finding jobs, but job-seekers’ moods during the hunt? Facebook recently partnered with a Carnegie Mellon University researcher to find out.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/study-facebook-job-hunt_b112877#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/study-facebook-job-hunt_b112877 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112877 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:49:17 +0000 Examining The Ties That Bind Us On Facebook What makes someone share a story on Facebook? If the original post comes from a celebrity such as George Takei, maybe it was a funny post. If it comes from a close friend, maybe it’s an announcement. If it’s from a high school classmate they haven’t spoken to in years, maybe it’s something thought-provoking. Dean Eckles, a member of the data science team at Facebook, spoke at Tahoe Snowcial in Nevada about how the connection between users influences how they share on the social network.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/dean-eckles-facebook-snowcial-data_b111951#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/dean-eckles-facebook-snowcial-data_b111951 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111951 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:43:34 +0000 Facebook Promotes Close Friends List With ‘Don’t Miss The Good Stuff’ Banner Facebook is continuing to test ways to drive users to take advantage of the close friends list in its smart friend lists, with some users seeing a banner across the top of their homepages promoting the feature.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/dont-miss-the-good-stuff_b92288#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/dont-miss-the-good-stuff_b92288 http://allfacebook.com/?p=92288 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:41:14 +0000 Facebook Pushes Use Of Close Friends, Acquaintances Lists Facebook has begun pushing its users to take advantage of the smart friend list features it introduced last September.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/close-friends-acquaintances_b88323#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/close-friends-acquaintances_b88323 http://allfacebook.com/?p=88323 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:23:51 +0000