5 Simple Tips to Spice up your boring facebook life !

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If all you do on facebook is to go through others picture albums, write down your thoughts, change your profile picture and play farmville all day, then your facebook life probably sucks ! If you’d ask anyone who’s been using facebook extensively will tell you that the real facebook life is far from those things you did, its more fun and frolic. But I agree with you – we never knew. We never knew facebook was fun, we never knew we could do productive things with it, we thought its just for catching up with school buddies and wiling away time.

Well, what can I say…read on !

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Facebook is first of all a social networking site that could be really fun. Not because its the largest social network out there, but its got some real cool tools that not many of us really use, unfortunately. If you know how to make the best out of it, facebook is the social networking site to be. Now that you’re already with it, let’s see how we can make the best out of it and have lots of fun.

1. Did you know that, you’re standing right amidst a party where all the fun people in the world are ?

Probably not. When we all hop on to facebook, the first thing we do is connect with people in our real life circle, or people we know. And we either get stuck there or grow very very slowly from there. And we are blind to everyone else there. The reality is that we are at a huge party and we’re stuck with just those four buddies of your’s in a corner. You don’t see the rest of the party.

2. Find new and interesting people who’ll share similar thoughts as yours.

It came as a surprise to me that there were guys who are OCD with even numbers. I mean, I know I’ve got an OCD with even numbers all my life. But my family and friends thought I was trying to be funny. But when I searched on facebook, I found a bunch of guys who thought similar. That was kinda cool. And guess what, we have a group now http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

As for you, all you got to do is use that search button and find people who’ll share those phobias and interesting things as you. Believe me this is as simple as it can get.

3. If you want to be loved, just try loving those people you didn’t care about, until now.

If can’t love, just try giving them some attention. Go to your homepage, try skimming through those update feeds, and find some interesting updates, and try thumbing them up (like). If you’re skeptical about relations, just ignore the person’s face. If you like his status update, just hit like. Don’t go about blindly liking everyone, but use it selectively, and you’ll see what I mean. For your every new dumb updates, you’ll get a few comments or “likes” for sure. Try it. Talking about updates, let’s move to the next point.

4. Make your status updates more “Gift like” not one that blares out “I have an attention deficit syndrome” !

When I say gift like, it could be tricky to understand, but here’s the thing. Think like you’re the other guy who’s reading your status update. What would he like to read on your status update ? If I was him, I’d like something that gave me an option to be part of it. May be a question, or an opinion, or something funny. Asking questions are nice, but way too common and they may come off as you trying to grab attention. Well, you could pull it off once a while, but make sure you reply to the comments, not just ask a question and then sit back relax and enjoy the comments. No. I’d rather ask either a genuine question that I’m interested to know more info about or something that will prompt others to reply. The thing is to get creative. Bottom line, don’t be a dumbo “broadcasting” things like “I’m doing this, that etc”. Its interesting if you pull it off the right way, but it gets boring when you repeat it. So mix things well, the core is to gift your friends, something.

5. Don’t restrict your activities to a set of people or the FB algorithms will restrict you within that group.

This is a bit technical to understand but let me try explaining the simple way. Let’s say you have 10 friends and 5 of them are your school buddies and the rest 5 your office friends. Now since you know your school buddies better, you tend to respond, comment and talk to 5 of those guys while doing nothing with the office guys. And what happens ? FB analysis your activity and assumes that from your previous activity, you’re more engaged with the 5 school buddies, so shows you updates only from those guys. And now, you don’t even stand a chance to get updates from your office peers, just because you preferred to. So, take the pain in going to your non-active members profiles and do something there, may be leave a wall message or simply like one of their pics. Doesn’t hurt, you know.

So, there you have it. Five simple tips to spice up your otherwise boring facebook life. It might be that you’re doing well on facebook already, connecting with your friends and family and even a few strangers, but the fact is that even with all that, there is always something more you can do, something better, something new. And that’s when fun begins !

Hope it all made sense. Let me know your thoughts http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

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