Typing Maniac is not your ordinary typing game. It neither calculate your typing speed, nor tell you how many words per minute can you type. But, it does challenge you to finish as many levels as you can, and compare your scores with your friends, or with the other Facebook users.

On your first try of this game, you might get a very low score, and even be surprised to see your friends’ high scores. I wonder how will you feel seeing the world record.

Well, if you know the rules, and you are a fast typer, you will easily get through this game and get high scores.

How to play the game?

The rules of  Typing Maniac are simple. While the tiles are going down, just type as many words as you can before the tiles reach the bottom. If you complete a level without any errors you get bonus points.

There are colored tiles though, which you should not avoid. Once you know how to use them, these colored tiles are your best friends in this game. They are the power-ups that will help you level up.

So how do you get and use these special tiles? First, you need to type the word in the colored tiles. The blue tile corresponds to ICE. The red tile corresponds to FIRE. The yellow is for SLOW, and purple is for WIND. If you have typed the word right in the colored tile, the special tile would go to the container at the right side. The tile sits there until you use it.

When you want to use them, just type the word FIRE, ICE, SLOW, or WIND. (You don’t need to capitalize. I just made it caps lock to emphasize.)

• FIRE burns all the tiles currently on the screen. This helps if the tiles are almost at the bottom and you cannot type them all.
• ICE freezes the tiles on the screen within a few seconds. It allows you then to type as many words as you can while it the tiles are frozen.
• SLOW slows down the speed of the tiles going down.
• WIND brings back your error percentage back to zero, but your accuracy is still 0%. Wind will help you a lot complete the higher, faster levels.

You can only keep 6 tiles in the container, so plan what you want to keep. Some users keep 3 ICE and 3 WIND most of the time in higher levels. Some keep 3 SLOW and 3 WIND.

Can you cheat?

Yes you can. Some users were able to cheat in this game. However, I don’t recommend this. What’s the point of playing the game?

Friend Suggestor?

A social networking site is called as such because it revolves around friends. Like Facebook, it centers on meeting new and old friends, sending messages, sharing photos, and showcasing profiles ? without friends, this could be very boring. So this is why they have come up with an idea to help just signed-up Facebook members what to do next. This is the ?Friend Suggestor.??

The Friend Suggestor is a way to help people find other people that they didn?t know were on Facebook. This is a good way to meet up common friends. This is a very handy feature especially to friends who are still new to Facebook. ?

Inbox Search?

It can be a pain sometimes to search for a message among hundreds of messages on your inbox. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Facebook has come up with a tool to help you find your message the easier way ? the Inbox search. You can either search for messages by looking for the name of the person who sent it, or by a specific keyword (probably if you forgot the name or title). Now, you don?t need to dive into the haystack to find the needle. ?

A lot of users have been requesting for a tool that can help them easily find and retrieve messages. Thus, they developed Inbox search to help Facebook users find messages easier. They took the user?s suggestions and find ways to create the right solution to support everyone using the site. They built an in-house system to handle indexing of all information for Inbox search with the fact that there are millions of messages being sent everyday on Facebook. The Inbox search is being tested to make sure it is stable and ready to be used by millions of users. ?

The upgrades being done by Facebook will not just help invite more users but makes it a sure social networking site that will last a long time.

Facebook caters to all users around the world and some of the users have difficulties understanding English. With the language selector, users who have difficulties understanding in English are helped. Thousands of people offered their hands to help translate Facebook into more than the sixteen released languages and the other eight in the process.

55 new languages are in line for translation by the community. Facebook opens new translations on languages such as additional Asian languages, African dialects, regional varieties like the British English and Canadian French, and even infrequently spoken languages like Latin and Esperanto.

As Facebook goes multilingual, it is opening a bigger door to more users especially to those with difficulties in English. It gives users a better access to the site knowing that they are familiar with the language being used. Though, problems will really occur when they are taking this big leap. One of this will be the inaccurate translation. Some languages do not have the exact words that can equal the meaning of the word. This can lead to confusion in the users’ side.

Friendster goes multilingual also. As the number of people joining social networking sites is increasing, it is best that it caters almost every user’s needs. As a social networking site, you don’t just cater to a specific race but to all. Later on, we will not just see these sites with limited language translations but with all the language translations and maybe hoping for local dialects as well.

So what’s the difference between the iPhone website and the application? The iPhone application offers access to more technology than the website. One of its features is that you can instantly upload pictures taken from your iPhone cameras directly on Facebook. Application runs much faster than the website giving you faster access to inboxes, photos, and friends. It takes a lot of time waiting for the website’s contents and images to load up, while with the application, it’s all there.

One important feature showcased by Facebook for iPhone is the iPhone – Facebook Chat. Whether you’re using the application or the website and wherever you maybe, you’ll be able chat with your Facebook friends for free.

This is just the first version of Facebook for iPhone. Expect exciting features to be added in the near future. Facebook is coming up with ways to synchronize features with the iPhone. They are trying to look for ways on how to come up with a feature for iPhone’s Global Positioning System. Imagine yourself sharing locations with your Facebook friends and find out who’s on your location. Exciting new features are currently being developed and will be released in a few months. So expect better versions and features in the coming months.

It a great experience in taking social networking out of the World Wide Web walls. With cellular phones being man’s high-tech best friend due to its size and mobility, Facebook made a good choice of creating a portal to access the website through these tiny gadgets.

Facebook for iPhone is compatible with iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. The application is available for free from Apple’s App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

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What they did was include in the drop-down menu all the parties from different countries. So if you used to show Libertarian in your Facebook profile, you can make it more specific by showing that you are supporting the Libertarian Party of United States.

Also, Facebook added this free text option in typing the political views. So if you don’t wish to inform everybody what party you support, you can say so by typing Undeclared. If you want to be bolder, you can describe your political views in a phrase, or in a sentence. You can type in whatever you believe in like the one below.

I just received a request from a Facebook Friend, to join this group of people asking Facebook to implement colored profiles. Their aim is to get 500,000 members that agree to let Facebook users choose the color they want their profiles appear to others. And then they will submit their petition to Facebook.com staff. They have suggested color schemes too and uploaded photos of colored profiles so everybody can see how they would look.

Anyways, on its first week, Feb 22-29, they got around 42,000 people joining their group, and of course they are still inviting. But I certainly don’t agree with this kind of request, although changing the color theme seemed cool because it reflects our personality.

The reason I love browsing profiles in facebook is because of the uniformity of color. When I do this on other social networking sites, like Friendster.com , or Myspace.com the different styles and designs of each profile irritate my eyes. Even if the user has retained the default style, a profile with a different color irritates me.

I really hope Facebook would just maintain its simple and professional look. They can make smoother edges or rounded buttons but just keep the profile’s color the same for everybody. Maybe you can just add the option to change the color of the whole Facebook account? Browsing profiles wouldn’t be that irritating, but at least we still have expressed our personalities every time we log in to our account, just like changing the color of yahoo email address.

I just saw this video from one of my Facebook friend’s posted items, and I was curious to know what this anthem about. So I clicked the link and was expecting a song praising Facebook and all but it was the other way around…

The ‘anthem’ is about Facebook users getting bored of Facebook. Have fun watching the music video, and it’s really a cool upbeat song. I hate zombies and werewolves too, but I love Facebook.

The video is created by rebelvirals.com

But this spring, Facebook is going to launch another, yet bigger change to Facebook users. A new structure that will make profile browsing more organized and easier—the tabbed profiles!

In the first screeenshots that Facebook released, profiles were divided into ‘Wall’, ‘About’, and ‘Photos’. The ‘Wall’ is the tab for your Wall posts, mini feed, and other contents. ‘About’ will show your basic and personal info, while ‘Photos’ is an additional tab, which means you can add other tabs to your profile and customize it to your heart’s content.

Facebook is still working on this new structure, so comments and suggestions are still welcomed. So, send all your feedback to profilespreview@facebook.com.

A lot of apps are available on Facebook, whether you are a teenager, in your early 20’s, or even in your 40’s, you can surely find a Facebook App that interests you. Apps on Dating, Just for Fun, Fashion, Business, Travel, Games, Music, Politics, Sports and other categories with hundreds or even thousands of Apps under them.

Most of these Apps are addicting to engage into, that you would want to invite your friends too. But in most cases, those who send invites really don’t care if there friends will add the Apps too or not. What matter to them are the rewards they will receive, like points or money for a game.

But not all invites are about Apps, there are also invites on events, groups, and friend requests.

Thus, if you have a Facebook account with lots of friends, you would surely receive their invites. For others, they receive like 50 invites a day, and even some receive hundreds, depending on the number of friends they have. This could turn out really annoying since they had to click the ignore button one by one. That’s why early this year, Facebook added the Ignore All button. And the Facebook community indeed rejoiced for this new option.

The button is in the sidebar of the requests page, and if you click it, a pop-up window will appear asking you what you want to ignore like Friend requests, Event invitations, Group invitations, and Application requests. Before hitting that button, scan the requests page first and maybe there are some Apps, or requests you would like to accept. If you are sure that you want to ignore the remaining invites then check the category/ies and hit that button.

I am a Facebook user, and really was grateful for this additional feature. But I hope, Facebook would also come up with an ‘Accept all friend requests’ button. I am into networking right now, and confirming friend requests one by one—like 30 requests—can be tiring.