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5 Secrets You Didn’t Know About Discover Bhubaneswar

Mar 21

Since 2010, Discover Bhubaneswar has been working on its concept, post by post and image by image, trying to build a powerful online platform of useful information for the Temple City dwellers. If you are from Bhubaneswar and active on Facebook, you’re more likely to have heard its name or been one of its 2500 fans already. Regardless of how active you’re on Discover Bhubaneswar, there are things about DB that you may not already be aware of. Here are 5 secrets you didn’t know about Discover Bhubaneswar (alias DB):

DB is Inspired by Heal The World Foundation: This is one of the sweetest secrets about Discover Bhubaneswar, something even its core members and staunchest supporters have no idea about. The concept of Discover Bhubaneswar took place back in 2009 after the demise of Michael Jackson, the founder of Heal The World Foundation. The founder of DB wanted to create something similar to make his life more meaningful, and deliver an eternal tribute to his forever beloved. While DB is not yet into charity, but the purpose of devising an information platform was very much in alignment with what Michael Jackson would always believe in, “live your life to make a difference and make the world a better place to live in”. The founder believes it’s true and is committed to this livelong tribute to his beloved.

The Admin is One-man Army: Yes, Discover Bhubaneswar is effectively one-man army, maintained by its admin himself. He is the only person who decides the content, posts it and moderates users’ comments, everything on his own. He takes pictures (mostly with his phone) while he is out for work and then posts them on DB Fanpage when he feels like. Therefore, the liability pertaining to the validity and credibility of the content on DB is the sole discretion of the admin. Sometimes, he posts updates that he thinks right, regardless of the validity of the sources. He is not a populist, he is a rebel.

If you have been active on DB for a while, you should know the admin spends nearly 25% of this work hours in keeping the community alive and kicking. The admin is the founder, pioneer and future of DB unless he dies prematurely

Therefore, the word “WE” is his creative imagination to make the fans think that DB is a collective endeavor, while it is clearly NOT.

Most of The Pics Captured with Cellphone Cam: Most of the pics (nearly 70%) published on DB have been taken with a cellphone (iPhone). Because the quality of the camera is so good, it’s hard for a normal user to tell the difference. It’s practically impossible for a full-time entrepreneur to go out with his camera on a daily basis and capture pics to post on DB. Most of the pics, therefore, have been taken off the cuff and posted to DB on the spot or afterwards.

It’s a Non-profit: DB is a non-profit at the moment. It’s not financially supported by any group. However, the founder (CEO of Top League Tech) himself is deliriously devoted to the cause since its inception. Starting from the maintenance of the community page to building a website, the founder has been completely into the entire process since the very first day. Going forward, DB will develop into a powerful information platform, an ultimate destination for every conceivable piece of information about the city. The estimated cost of the project might go up to 10 lacs rupees in terms of hiring professionals, building the applications and maintenance of the website on a daily basis. Currently, it is maintained by Top League Technologies at their own cost, without any profit in sight. However, DB plans to make money via Google’s Affiliate Programs when the website goes live.

The Ultimate Objective of DB: The mission of DB is pretty clear; DB wants to develop its website into an information powerhouse for the Temple City by offering relevant information for the city dwellers. It wants be the ultimate information portal for every piece of information people are looking for. Starting from info on educational institutions to tourist spots, from hiring rock bands to checking out your flight status in real-time, the website wants to be the Google.com for the Temple City, and much more. It is nearly impossible to put down in words exactly how comprehensive the plans are, but DB, if all plans go well, can set a benchmark for many other small cities to follow.

4 Most Frequently Asked Questions about Facebook Answered

Jan 03

If you’re scared about your privacy issues on Facebook, this post will help you get over with them for good. So, read on to achieve complete privacy on Facebook.

With over 800 million users, Facebook has clearly become people’s rooftop from where they can literally shout at the top of their voice to let the world know they’ve arrived. Strangely enough, Facebook has also turned into a tool which appeals to and interferes with emotional orientations of many users. It’s no exaggeration to say that Facebook has actually influenced human emotions quite dramatically and many users are being emotionally influenced by their very own Facebook behaviors and those of others as well.

Many Facebook users feel very special to see their Facebook notification tool go red as they get curious with anticipation to view their friends’ responses to their interactions.

Facebook is clearly controlling human emotions today, and there is hardly any doubt the most active users of Facebook take themselves too seriously on this popular platform.

I add a lot of people to my Facebook friend list every day but end up unfrending them when I realize they could see my personal status updates as well. With Facebook imposing the Timeline feature on you, the stalkers are more likely to see your personal details, status updates, photos and your interactions with other as well.

If you have a Facebook profile, it pays to remember that your behaviors could be visible not only to the close friends, but also to others including your boss, clients, co-workers, parents, employees, fiancée, spouse and kids.

It’s very normal for Facebook users to keep forgetting whom their status updates are getting exposed to. After all, more often than not, your Facebook status updates the offshoot of an immediate surge of emotional thoughts, right?

Luckily, Facebook empowers us with the ability to control what others can see. If you are one of those insanely active Facebook users, and want to manage your update visibility to others, it makes sense for you to pay attention to the following tips:

Question#1: How to Create Filter to Classify Your Facebook Friend?

Click on Home
Look at List Option on the Left-hand side
Click on the More option
It should take you to the following link (https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/lists)
Create a New List
Classify your friends according to your list

The most important thing is to remember to choose from the classified list of people before clicking on the share button.

Control Privacy When You Post:

https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy

Control Your Default Privacy:

The following images show how to customize your default settings on Facebook:

At times you hate to be tagged by friends. The following image shows you how to customize your default settings to manage the Facebook tagging feature:

Question#2:I hate to see the ticker updates of some of my friends. How should I hide it?

Here is the answer…

There’s a simple tactic – just click on the edge of your Facebook chat window and drag it far up until you the ticker is invisible to you. But if you want to permanently block the ticker feature on Facebook, the following articles would guide you well…

http://www.thesocialmediatoday.com/how-to-disable-ticker-in-facebook/

http://adblockplus.org/en/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110828092148AAvv48N

Question#3:I want to appear online ONLY to a chosen few. How should I stay invisible to others?

Here is the answer…

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=130254323719420

Question#4:I don’t my personal updates to be visible to my boss/clients/employees/parents. How do I make sure they don’t see my updates?

Here’s the answer…

Assuming you’ve created the list (as explained above), click on the dropdown menu beside the post option after writing your status updates. Choose from the classified list you want to share your updates with.

With inputs from @Gurudutta

Facebook Unveils Timeline for Everyone Today – How to Activate Your Facebook Timeline Feature

Dec 15

Facebook Timeline is finally here! Facebook has officially rolled out the Timeline layout for everyone, months after previewing the new look at its f8 conference for developers. Users have seven days to review what they want posted to the scrapbook-like look of their new profiles before anyone else can see it, the company said in a blog post.

The new layout displays stories — statuses, pictures, shared links, notes, etc. — that branch off of a center line. Facebook has added some events to user timelines based on information it already has from profiles, such as the year users graduated college or started new jobs.

To remove or hide stories from your timeline, head to the edit (pencil) icon in the upper right-hand corner of any item on your timeline and scroll down to “Hide from Timeline.” You can also adjust the settings of which friend groups can see certain items.

Those interested in using Timeline right away can opt-in right now or wait until Facebook notifies them with a link at the top or their profile page. Facebook announced Timelines in September, but rolled the feature out slowly. If you’re just getting Timelines now, or want to speed up the switch from your existing profile, here’s what you need to know.

How to Tweak Timeline Information

Of course, some Facebook activity is best forgotten. To remove a status update, photo or other activity from your Timeline, float your cursor over the top-right corner of the update, click the pencil icon, then select “Hide from Timeline.”

Adding information to the Timeline is also pretty simple. Just hover your cursor over the line down the center of the page, so it turns into a “+” icon, then click on the kind of update you want to add. You can add events all the way back to your birth, making for a complete life story.

How to Get Timelines

Head to Facebook’s “Introducing Timeline” page, and click “Get It Now” to activate the feature. Or, you can wait to see an announcement for Timelines at the top of your profile page.

Once you make the switch, Facebook will generate a Timeline on its own, but won’t immediately publish it. You’ll have seven days to make adjustments — say, to remove references to jobs you hated or significant others you’d rather forget. After that, there’s no going back to the old profile.

Timeline Not for Brands Yet!

Mashable reports that Facebook will not be bringing the Timeline for brands quite yet. “We are currently focused on Timeline for individuals and will consider how to make consistent experiences for Pages,” a rep told the site before saying there was nothing to announce at that time.

Courtesy: washingtonpost.com and pcworld.com

5 Facebook Behaviors That Ruin Your Image Online and How to Avoid Them

Nov 22

Just as you wouldn’t judge a book based on its cover, don’t judge me based on my Facebook profile yet!

According to a recent survey, India ranks as the third highest Facebook users on the planet with around 38,045,000 Facebook users across the country. While this shows the burgeoning popularity of social networking sites across the country, it also indicates how many potential Facebook users you are exposing your profile to. In other words, you need to be much more aware of your social behavior and make sure your Facebook behavior and conduct don’t ruin your image. Therefore, it is important to handle your Facebook profile with a great deal of discretion instead of using it as a sounding board for your emotional eruptions.

We’ve seen the worst consequences of people abusing Facebook today. If you’re not aware of them, here are a few Facebook Stories that made it to the Times of India this year:

Man Creates Fake Facebook Account of Lover as Revenge
Jilted Lover Creates Fake Facebook Profile, Arrested
Dumped on Facebook, IIM Bangalore Student Commits Suicide

Even as your Facebook behavior will never lead to any of the above consequences, you still need to be careful of how you conduct yourself on Facebook. As a matter of fact, how you behave yourself on Facebook is how you allow others to judge you as a person. While Facebook may seem too tempting a platform for you to hold your thoughts back off your mind, take a couple of moments and consider if they are going to ruin your image in any way.

So what are the aspects of your Facebook behavior that might land you in trouble? Here are 5 things you should never do on Facebook:

Washing Dirty Linen: More often than not, many people tend to allow their deep-seated grudges make it to their Facebook wall. While some express their frustrations publicly, expecting the opponent to take note of them, it effectively expose their inner persona to people they never meant to share their personal life with. As a result of this behavior, they allow others to gradually build a certain opinion about their personality. Doing this will do you more harm than good as you allow others to perceive you as an emotionally weak person who doesn’t know how to take control of his/her personal life.

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Varkha Chulani, says, There’s a fine line between sharing of information and emotional exhibition.” “Love you darling. Muah”, “Thanks for last night”, “We need to talk” and “I think your sister is fat” does not need to make it on the Wall. These conversations are best had person to person. And if this is not the kind of thing you would say to his/her face, it makes it all the more cowardly to say it online.

Posting Trivial Updates: It doesn’t really matter how less or more frequently you post updates on your Facebook wall. What really matters is the nature and content of your updates. Posting trifling details about your daily life will not only bore your followers, but also establish you as a person with no discretion. If you are in the job market looking for an employment opportunity, you have to be twice as careful while posting petty updates on your wall. Your prospective employers could judge you based on your Facebook behavior and they will think twice about hiring a person with no discretion.

Launching Personal Attack: Nothing makes your profile more unpleasant to watch than launching a personal assault on somebody you have serious issues with in real life. You definitely don’t want a whole bunch of people watching you make scathing attack on someone whom they hardly know personally. Chances are you will lose your social credibility in the process and project yourself as a temperamental jerk. Worse, some people will unfriend or unsubscribe you from their Facebook.

Tagging Friends without Their Consent: Tagging is a great tool of uniting friends together on Facebook when you have something worthwhile to share with everybody. However, quite a few of them tend to misuse it by tagging others without any discretion or consent from others. For instance, frequently tagging people that are mere acquaintances to you on Facebook, might tick them off and invite unwanted attention from them. There are people who may be getting disturbed or annoyed by recurrent Facebook notifications arising from your tagging them on nearly every photo you upload to your wall. Resist the temptation of tagging people indiscriminately before they report abuse.

Commenting Immaturely: This is probably the most endemic of all Facebook behaviors. Nearly 80% of the comments on Facebook are either made without a second thought or targeted towards another person on purpose. Either way, it is not going to establish you as a person of repute among your friends on Facebook. Likewise, indulging in frequent commenting only shows your lack of depth as a person and puts your juvenile social behavior in perspective. Make sure you comment only when it adds some meaning or value to the discussion and not make your wall turn into a virtual chat box for others.

5 Facebook Pet Peeves and How I Protect Myself from Them

Nov 14

Ok, so just about everybody on the planet loves Facebook these days and quite a few of them are actually offcially addicted to it. A research on Facebook Obsession conducted by Onlineschools.org reveals shocking realities about people and their craze for Facebook. As of 2011, there are 500,000,000 active Facebook users which is approximately 1 in every 13 people on earth. Nearly half of them are logged in on any given day.

The number is growing even faster and speaking of my own experiences, I get nearly 3-5 friend requests daily from people I’ve never met or known in my life before. I know some people prefer keeping their Facebook profile quite private and like sharing updates with people they are really close to. I can say the same for me.

This is why I avoid accepting friend requests from people I don’t know at all. Adding you to my friend list precisely means I’m letting you gain an access to my private space even when we’ve barely interacted in person. Well, the worst thing that can happen when you add an unknown person (even if they are friend of someone who’s already on your friend list) is they will start intruding into your personal space right away. It’s really quite annoying of them to show up and start chatting with you without any introduction. That is when you regret friending them on Facebook.

Does that mean the ones that are already on your Facebook friendlist gives you a high? Not at all. Here are the 5 most common things they do that just get on my nerves:

Unnecessary Status Updates: Some people on my Facebook friendlist are so addicted to Facebook that they nearly flash every minute detail of their daily life. The biggest mistake people do is sync their Twitter updates with Facebook status wall. Consider if you have a dozen of them on your friendlist – you certainly see an eyeful of trivial updates that just clog your newsfeed and bore you to death. Rarely anyone is interested to know what you just had for lunch or if you’re annoyed with your boss today. Stop imposing an overdose of personal updates on your friends, please!

So what do I do to get rid of this? I simply “Hide the Story” or “Unsubscribe from Their Status Updates” depending on how irritating they are.

Perennial Change of Profile Picture: How often do you change your profile picture on your Facebook reflect a little about your addiction to Facebook. Some people change it on a daily basis. Seriously? What makes you change your profile picture as frequently as you change your underwear? Do you really have anything more substantial to do in your life? If you have, I’d rather listen to that. Else, I will just ignore your profile picture update and move on to better things in life.

Annoying App Requests: If you have ever been invited to Maifa Wars, Farmville or any other shitville for that matter, you would know what I’m talking about here. So when you invite me to “Click here to find out how to maximize your weapons stash”, I feel like hiring a mafia gang who could scare the crap out of you before you send me the next one. How about asking me if I care about those games at all! Don’t spam my inbox, please!

Thank God, Facebook empowers me with the option to “spam” your app requests. Else, I would dump Facebook for life!

Queer Quizzes: Nothing sucks more than a bunch of completely stupid quizzes such as the one shown below.

What possesses you to spare your time on some silly questions is beyond me! Worse, some people take these juvenile quizzes so often that you almost HAVE to “Hide Quizzes” to clean your newsfeed. Certainly, you can’t unsubscribe from their updates but for those silly quizzes.

Join-My-Group Junks: Sometimes, you either invite me to your Join A Group that I’m hardly interested in or worse, add me to a group without my consent. Well, you would do me a big favor if you could just tell me via message that there is a group I could benefit from if joined it. That would be cool enough of you. Forcing me to join a group is like coaxing me into buying a drink for you which I’m not very fond of.

I could easily have left my private settings on Facebook as default but for the above reasons. I hope my friends on Facebook take note of my Facebook Pet Peeves and spare me the horror. No hard feelings, but let’s make Facebook a better place to socialize at.

Disclaimer: The author has only expressed views on some generic Facebook etiquettes of what most people ignore on Facebook. So he means no offense to anyone in specific.

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