Facebook Login

Smartphones are all the rage in 2010, but millions of people around the world still don’t use iPhones, Blackberries or Android phones. Smartphones can be expensive, and not many people outside of developed countries can afford one. Indeed, many living in America, UK and Canada may prefer to save their hard earned money instead of investing in a highly advanced communications device.

If you are one of the majority that owns an ordinary phone and still want to use Facebook from your mobile, this post is for you. Your phone should have an Internet connection – powered by such technologies such as Edge, GPRS or 3G. Even WAP will do. The first step is obviously to find your mobile phone’s web browser.

Look inside your Entertainment, Applications or Internet folder. You will find something that says Opera, or an icon that looks like a blue ball representing the Earth. Select it with your up and down navigation keys. Then press your Select key. Your Web browser should now load. Be patient – ordinary mobile phones can be painfully slow. You will probably be directed to your browsers home page. Click on Options or Selection, then select Open URL or Open Web Page. Then key in http://www.facebook.com (or even just facebook.com) and you will be taken to the Facebook website.

A faster or even more efficient way would be to use either the Facebook Lite URL or Facebook Mobile. These will load faster because they offer stripped down versions of the Facebook homepage.

This is what the Facebook Mobile page looks like. You will appreciate how basic it appears, providing you with an efficient, no nonsense interface.

Here was a curious headland doing the rounds of the Intertubes lately. “Facebook spreads syphilis”, claimed the UK tabloid, The Sun. Other papers chimed in claiming that the social networking website was fueling casual sex. This was another case of the perfect storm of idiots, as one paper after another picked up the dubious story, culminating in the media going ga-ga…again, much ado over nothing. CNN, the Guardian, newspapers in INdia and across the world echoed the morbid fears of web-induced veneral disease.

This caused a lot of unwarranted bad publicity for the social networking giant. Facebook may be mulling its response to the irresponsible journalism demonstrated by a range of international news producers. The episode, however, was eerily reminisicent of the Facebook login fiasco a month ago when an article from a tech magazine ranked high in google for Facebook login.

Today we’re going to look at some common login problems being faced by many Facebook users. Some people may be unable to login to Facebook despite entering their username and password into the relevant textboxes and clicking the Login button.

This may be because of either of two reasons: You either entered your email address wrong, or you entered your password incorrectly. Let’s look at the email address first.

Your email address would be in the format abc@domain.com. Keep in mind that Facebook does not accept usernames or login names in the email address field. Therefore you cannot just enter the first part of your email address and expect it to work. For example, if your name is john and your email address is john@whatever.com, you cannot just enter john and expect it to work. You have to enter the full email address as it is.

Now lets come to your password. You have to enter it exactly like you did when you signed up for Facebook. Common problems could be caused by leaving the Caps Lock key on, so make sure its turned off. If you still can’t log in, check to see if you are using the Shift key properly. If your password has an exclamation mark (!), for example, it won’t work if you don’t press the Shift key. Not pressing the Shift key would mean that you’d be entering a 1 instead of an exclamation mark.

The first step of logging into Facebook is obviously to find the Facebook website. Contrary to what many Internet users may believe, Facebook is not a feature of Internet Explorer, or even of Google. Facebook is a website unto itself. A website, in turn, is a collection of webpages that sit on a root domain. For example, cnn.com is a website. Facebook.com is another website.

So how do we go to Facebook.com? Well, take a good look at your web browser. It will have what is known as an address bar. It looks something like this:

Click on the address bar. You will see a blinking cursor. Now you can enter the address of the website you want to visit. Type in Facebook.com and hit enter. You will now be taken to the Facebook website. For information on what to do when you’ve successfully reached Facebook.com, read this post.

It is essential to locate two important textboxes on the Facebook homepage in order to successfully login to the network. These two textboxes are: 1. Email and 2. Password.

When you visit Facebook’s homepage, it will look like this:

If you look closely at the top right hand corner of the page, you will find the two textboxes that we just mentioned.

You can use these textboxes to enter your email address and password. Your email address should be the one you used to register on Facebook. Facebook does not have a username so you have to use the full email address. For example, ann.martini@whatmail.com

Enter your password carefully. Facebook shows stars (or asterisks) as you enter your password so you have to enter it slowly and carefully.
After you’re done, press the Login button. It looks like this:

And hopefully, if you’ve followed all the steps properly, you will then end up inside Facebook – thereby completing a successful login!

Facebook has upgraded its search functionality by introducing real-time suggestions in what appears to be an Ajax driven drop down box. Not unlike Google suggestions, the new functionality aims to further refine the Facebook search experience. Facebook search currently caters to internal Facebook data. However, it also provides a stream of Web search results powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

The new search funcitonality would show relevant suggestions across Facebook members, events, Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups. Bing-powered web results will also be included as part of “global” results. Facebook recognizes the importance of Internet search and is determined to leverage its formidable data acquisition and processing capability to provide its steadily increasing user base with a more valuable search functionality. This new development may lead to people logging in just to experience a different type of search.

Nearly 18 percent of young people use Facebook multiple times over a few hours, claims a new report from review and shopping site Retrevo. The study also suggests that over 60 percent of young people login to Facebook daily. Social networking has come to assume enormous importance in the lives of an increasing number of the world’s wired populace. The use of social networking sites has come to rival that of search engines as people look to connect to friends and acquaintances online.

Facebook is seeing rapid growth internationally, even though Google’s social networking service Orkut occupies the number one spot in Brazil. India has seen Orkut’s share shrink in recent times due to the explosive worldwide growth of Facebook.

Facebook has gone through a redesign of its login page. The new design has seen the search box moved to a more easily visible location on the home page. The increased prominence of the search functionality means that Facebook is looking to emphasize upon its users the fact that it, too can provide search – not unlike Google. Following the redesign, online searches made from Facebook’s interface have risen substantially.

The search giant meanwhile is in a bit of a worry as reports are surfacing from such sources as Hitwise that seem to suggest that Facebook may have become the number one site in the United States. Yes, Hitwise numbers recently seemed to allude to Facebook being the most popular website in the USA,  surpassing even Google.

Facebook has been experimenting with Quick Response Codes according to some reports coming from the blogosphere. QR codes for short, these are 2D barcodes that can store and reveal significantly more digital data than normal bar codes.

Implemented as two-dimensional matrices, QR codes are all the rage in Asian countries from Taiwan to Japan. The Japanese use QR codes to display popular information publically, and the curious images are brandished everywhere from the sides of buildings to stickers on students’ notebooks. QR codes have seen a surge in creative uses in marketing and advertising. With the introduction to Facebook, QR codes could see unprecedented popularity across the world.

Facebook has just opened its new office in India. The social networking giant aims to better further its business objectives in the region with the debut of its local Subcontinental office.

Facebook is the third largest site on the Internet and the largest social networking website. The India office will house advertising and development support teams. Operating costs are lower in India and Facebook may be looking to move lots of its technical operations offshore to take advantage of the cost savings.