Facebook simplifies its privacy policy

Facebook has announced that it has simplified its current 5,830-word privacy policy to make it clearer and easier for users to understand.

While non of the terms of the privacy policy have changed, a new format is being trialled to see if it helps users of the site understand how their data is being used.

Facebook has been often criticised for making its privacy policy far too convoluted, meaning that you would have to be a brave person to read the thousands of words on the site regarding privacy.

Privacy principles

Facebook has come up with three basic principles about the policy.
It should be easy to understand, even when the concepts are complicated, or it is of no use to anyone.
It should be visual and interactive, because that's the way people use the web today.
It should focus on the questions people who use Facebook are most likely to ask, because that makes it relevant.

If you want to take a look at the new-look, less wordy and not-as-scary privacy policy, then you can do so by going to www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Trick on How To Change Colour Of Facebook

Most of us have our profiles on facebook and many of us login into our facebook accounts daily.Aren’t you get bored of same old facebook features.If you want something refreshing then I have a facebook trick for you.By using this simple trick we will change the colour of the facebook.You can select any colour of your choice.

This trick has following Requirements

• Mozilla Firefox browser
• Greasemonkey
• Facebook Script

I will be providing you the links and instructions for the Greasemonkey and facebook Script.So here is the step by step tutorial with screenshots for trick to change the color of facebook.

1. Open firefox browser.If you donot have you can download it here
2. Now install the greasemonkey add0n into your browser by clicking here.
3. After installation is complete restart your browser.
4. Install the facebook script by clicking here.
5. Now open facebook and login into your facebook account.
6. Now goto Tools>Greasemonkey>Userscript Commands>Customise Facebook Colours.
7. You will now see to boxes with colours.Select the colour you want and click on Set button.

and this is how u bring your facebook account a new luk.......

7 Coolest Tricks for firefox browser | firefox Tricks

Firefox is one of the favourite browser of many of us.We have been using it from years.Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004.But still most of us are not aware of some of the coolest firefox tricks that will really enhance the browsing experience with this wonderful browser.I have collected my favourite and Coolest 7 Firefox tricks.

So here are the best 7 Tricks for firefox browser

1. More space on the screen: Using smaller icons will get more space on the screen within the browser. To do this go to: View>Toolbars>Customize>Click on “Use small icons.

1. Use keywords : You can make your search a bit faster by customizing the Firefox search bar.It is best to use for frequently visited sites, such as Wikipedia.com

Open wikipedia.com and Right click search bar of wikipedia. Now you will see a option to Add keyword for this search click on it and enter  an easy keyword that you can remember, for example, “wiki“

Now,When you want something on wikipedia, type Wiki in Firefox address Bar followed by your search term.

Like :wiki human history

When you press Enter key it will search wikipedia for human history and show you the results.

You can do this for any search box on any website.

1. Keyboard shortcuts: Firefox has several shortcuts to make more practical use:

• Spacebar (scroll down the page)
• Shift + Spacebar (scroll up the page)
• Ctrl + F (find words on the page)
• Alt + N (find next word)
• Ctrl + D (bookmark)
• Ctrl + T (new tab)
• Ctrl + K (go to the search bar)
• Ctrl + L (go to address bar)
• Ctrl + = (increase text size)
• Ctrl + – (decrease text size)
• Ctrl + W (close tab)
• F5 (refresh)
• Alt + Home (go to the home page)

1. AutoComplete:We can access web pages just by putting the name without having to put  ”www” or “.com / net / org / ….” Just putting for example “pctipstricks” and pressing shift + Enter will add the “.net” at the end automatically.For”.com“  press Ctrl + Enter for “.Org” press Ctrl + Shift + Enter.

1. Navigation between tabs, you can also use the Keyboard keys to navigate between tabs.

• Ctrl + Tab (move tab)
• Ctrl + Shft + Tab (back tab)
• Ctrl +1-9 (skip to the tab number x)

1. Mouse Shortcuts: Besides keyboard shortcuts exist, there are also using the mouse:

• Central-click on a link (open a new tab)
• Shift + Wheel up (previous page)
• Shift + Wheel down (next page)
• Ctrl-Wheel up (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-wheel down (increase text size)
• Central-click on a tab (closes tab)

1. Delete history items from the address bar: Just choose by selecting the page you want to delete and press the Delete button

Meet the Facebook App That Predicts College Admissions

Could a new Facebook application replace the high school guidance counselor when it comes to giving seniors advice on where to apply to college? AdmissionSplash claims to be able to predict what college will accept a student. Instead of spending the time and money applying to a bunch of schools they have no chance of getting into, seniors can focus on the schools most likely to send them that much-coveted acceptance letter.
A student first inputs a list of all the schools—dream schools to safety schools—that she wants to attend. Then she plugs in all the pertinent information about herself—grades, test scores, extra-curricular activities. The app uses algorithms—right now they're customized for about 1,500 schools—to generate the likelihood of acceptance, and ranks a student's chances from "very poor" to "very good."
How accurate is it? Some margin of error is to be expected since students can't upload a stellar letter of recommendation or their expertly crafted admissions essays. But, in a small sample of 88 applicants to UCLA, 85 percent of the seniors that the app said would be accepted actually received admissions offers.
Of course, you don't need an app to tell you that if you have a 2.5 GPA, your chances of being accepted to Harvard are "very poor." But, given that high school students spend plenty of time on Facebook, moving college admissions guidance to where they're already hanging out is a smart move.

Facebook and Privacy: Fired for Beer Photos?

Your Facebook profile is probably full of things that can get you fired. Just ask 24-year-old Ashley Payne, a former English teacher at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Back in 2009, Payne's principal asked her to resign over a photo taken during a summer European vacation and posted on Facebook. Her story was featured on the most recent episode of the CBS news show 48 hours, "Did the Internet Kill Privacy?" and it spotlights how vulnerable we are—teachers and everyone else—to our online "private" behavior being made public.

In the objectionable photo, Payne has a glass of wine in one hand, and a glass of beer in the other. Her principal, David McGee, claimed that a concerned parent complained about the photo. According to the district, Payne violated warnings about "unacceptable online activities" because the photo "promoted alcohol use," and her page also "contained profanity."
Payne's lawyer Richard Storrs says the school district's interpretation is ridiculous. "It would be like I went to a restaurant and I saw my daughter's teacher sitting there with her husband having a glass of some kind of liquid. You know, is that frowned upon by the school board? Is that illegal? Is that improper? Of course not. It's the same situation in this case," he says.
Payne's case isn't the first time someone's been fired over their use of social media. Plenty of litigation is pending over employees being fired for things they've posted online. But what makes Payne's story especially concerning is that she did what many of us do to protect ourselves in cyberspace—she put her Facebook privacy on the highest level. That means what's on her page should have only been visible to her friends, which did not include students or their parents.
Payne either has a frenemy or Facebook's privacy settings failed her. Given the amount of data that Facebook has on each of its 500 million users, either scenario is a little scary—and the way human resources departments react to people like Payne innocently living their personal lives is even scarier. Payne later found out that the complaint didn't come from a parent. It came from an anonymous email, meaning anybody could potentially send something about you to your boss that could get you fired.
Just think, in a tough economy, an unemployed Facebook "friend" who's in the same field as you could anonymously email a photo from your trip to California wine country to your boss in the hopes that you'll be fired—thus creating a job vacancy. Ex-boyfriends that you haven't yet defriended could exact their revenge by taking screen shots of every time you've typed "I don't feel like going to work" as your Facebook status.
Those may sound like far fetched scenarios, but ask Payne about privacy online—she's spent the past two years in a legal battle to get her job back and clear her name.