{"id":1440,"date":"2009-11-01T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T08:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-07-03T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:19:20","slug":"facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website around. Having tried a number of social websites, I could say this is the best amongst them. Facebook is still not perfect, and there are some settings that are hard to find and configure. However when you compare with the other social networking websites, Facebook beats them all!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that make Facebook so good is its many third party applications that keep users returning to play with them. As for me, I find most of those apps are pretty much time wasters. Apart from the cool apps, the keeping in touch with family and friends, which what a social networking website is suppose to do and works pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to use it mainly, to keep in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nJan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/social-networking-websites\">Return to Social Websites<\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" noshade color=\"#330033\">\n<center><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5685769204706262\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"468x60_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text\";\n\/\/2007-08-06: JanLeow.com Blogs (Content)\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"5832813811\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\ngoogle_ui_features = \"rc:0\";\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of my Facebook Pages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cameronhighlands\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook Cameron Highlands<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MalaysiaTravelnet\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook MalaysiaTravelNet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/support-files\/new-window.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/support-files\/ddwindowlinks.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"nwindow\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website around. Having tried a number of social websites, I could say this is the best amongst them. Facebook is still not perfect, and there are some settings that are hard to find and configure. However when you compare with the other social networking websites, Facebook &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/facebook.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[160,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1bS5F-facebook","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":920,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/social-web-sites-review-facebook-twitter-digg-delicious-stumbleupon.html","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":0},"title":"Social web sites and what are they good for","author":"Jan","date":"18 December 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure many have jumped into the bandwagon signing up for all the social web sites (Facebook anyone?). And if you make your own web site, you definitely want to latch on to this phenomenon. But are all these social web sites crack out to be? What are they good\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Biz&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Biz","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/biz"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1269,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/social-websites-you-are-who-you-know.html","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":1},"title":"Social Websites: You are who you know","author":"Jan","date":"13 March 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"When using social websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc, usually we try not to divulge too much information. After all there are unscrupulous shenanigans out to phish information that you publicly display. Identity theft is pretty dangerous for you. You may try to protect yourself by limiting the number of information\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1484,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/multiposting-hits-a-snag.html","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":2},"title":"Multiposting hits a snag","author":"Jan","date":"7 May 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m trying to create as much exposure as I can by using multiposting services like Twitterfeed which in turns repost to other multipost web apps like HelloTxt and Ping.fm. Unfortunately something broke in Twitterfeed, it couldn\u2019t recognize the API provided by Ping.fm. 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Losing your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1432,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/twitter.html","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":4},"title":"Twitter","author":"Jan","date":"1 November 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Twitter is a microblogging service where you can only post really short post of 140 characters. And that is really short, because sometimes you want to say more but you have already run out of space! Some people will then divide it into two posts. However, I try to keep\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Website&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Website","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/website"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3103,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/domain-name-with-without-www-prefix.html","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":5},"title":"To use or not to use WWW before your domain name","author":"Jan","date":"18 August 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems the www. prefix to your domain name is actually a subdomain. When internet first started, and website were being created, www prefix would refer to a website as being a World Wide Web, probably trying to differentiate from the intranet website I suppose. 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