This is how Facebook Scheduled Post Feature Made My Day

Doing social network stuffs requires me to update different Facebok fan page around the clock. It seems it is easy to say but literally I need to be awake 24 hours or closer as that. I remember how I used automated script to work on my behalf but it only lead my fan page being banned as this is against on Facebook's TOS. I also hired freelancer who will post updates when I'm not available and most of the time when I'm sleeping while spending money for such simple task I is not a good choice either. That is my social media marketing daily task.

Until Facebook released a feature where you can schedule your post to publish. Not only it is useful in my off hours but also, it is easy for me to plan it all the way since the entire system is very detailed. You can also review your post through log in case that there are some error or duplicate scheduled post. You can easily manage your post in this manner than in different hours of posting which is more prone to error.

It is very easy to follow, you can see in my screenshot below:

Just click the clock-like icon and you will see a series of selection to schedule your post. 

Among all innovation of Facebook this is what I really like. Technically legal yet powerful feature. No need to download or use script to make automated post in your behalf, also they cater the easiest method to manage all your post while implying services to all your followers/subscribers around the clock.

Reflection: If I Were A Rich Man

This is the story taken from book of Frank Mihalic on his collection of 1000 stories volume written by unknown writer. This is the story of a student who had given a task by his teacher to write an essay about him being a rich man. 

The teacher asked her students to write an essay, explaining what they would do if they each had a million dollars. Every pupil except Teddy began writing immediately. He just sat in his chair, making faces and twiddling his thumbs. At the end of the class period, the teacher collected the papers and Teddy turned his blank sheet in the with the rest. "What is the meaning of this, Teddy?" asked the teacher. "Is this your essay? All the others have a written two pages or more, while you have done absolutely nothing!" "Well," replied Teddy, "if I had that much money, that's exactly what I'd do  - nothing."

Simple story but coined with such great lesson. A teaching of not falling on the trap of being rich. Many people want to be rich, as they use to live their life with this. Many path leads on this journey, some took the hard ways while other try to jump on easy but indecent ways but either of the two they will end on nothing. Actually it is not the finish line that will make your journey meaningful but how venture your journey. In the end everything is a piece of award that you can put in the wall of your room but what really matters is the lesson you've learned from that journey.

And the trap lies beneath there, people are only thinking for that reward ignoring the lesson they learned to get that even don't have time to be grateful of what they really achieved but of all them has been trapped on their what they called reward such as money, fame, and power.

I know that I'm not on my current status to say this things because I'm not rich but to tell you the truth I experienced the same scenario. This is my story when I'm playing Facebook games, I'm so excited to figure out tough quests as well as taking up challenges. As a professional gamer, I really love to play difficult video games that made me think rationally until the day that I decided to download games cheats and have all in game stats that I ever imagined, unlimited coins, being powerful and later on I dominated the game easily as this is also a meaning of being rich in real life as they say everything will become easy as 1-2-3. At first, it was awesome fun as I found everything so easy, until I realized that I have nothing to do then, I was burn out having no challenge at all and everything seems can't add up in some of my achievement because in reality it is not me who study, learn and be challenged in game, but the cheats I used made it everything for me as simple a click of a button.

Yes, both stories differ but this is my best analogy that I can use in my reflection. In the same words, you can also do and try it with your own experience, just play the game, tough games and then later on just use cheats and play it easily you will feel the difference, the enjoyment of being challenged , the enjoyment of journeying your life and not only by means of claiming your rewards.

How To Verify Facebook Fan Page

If you own an official Facebook fan page for a certain products, website, apps, business, company, organization, brand or you are celebrity, artist, popular entity it is better for your page to get verified from that certain brand. This will improve your brand credibility against duplicated fan page, unofficial fan page, and especially from scam/phishing Facebook fan page using your brand name maliciously. 

You will know that your Facebook fan page has been verified once you see the blue circle with check after the title. You will see also this on result from social query. 

taken from official fan page of Justin Bieber

Aside from advantage of this new feature on Facebook I stated above there are also some technical benefits you can claim for being verified:

Reclaiming impressions from misleading/duplicate fan page.  Because it is duplicate fan page, all content such as header, logo, photos etc are from official fan page and with this state, it is difficult for fans to know where is the original. While this will be a lose on your impressions, instead of pointing on original fan page as what fans want to happen, away from their knowledge and you as owner didn't know that fake fan page taken the impression of your fans from you. 

Improve your page ranking on social queries.  If fan is looking for a certain fan page, those verified fan page for a certain query will got the top rank. This is for fan and potential likers to see the official fan page and definitely got their likes. Without this new feature, all queries will only base on what fans make an interaction with or those who already got like from them but now, the official or the verified fan page always got the top rank. 

This will be a big and free promotion for your fan page thorough related queries and suggestions. Most official fan launch a marketing campaign to advertising and sponsored post this time since got marked as verified, Facebook is well convinced to suggest you in some queries and this will be a big factor on page promotion.

Now ready to verify your fan page? Well according from their official release, you don't need to do something. Facebook has their own algorithm to grant the verified status to all official fan pages. But if they missed your fan page as long as this is official brand, you can contact Facebook, follow instructions, claim your brand, got verified

Facebook Hashtags : New Way To Spam

No one wants spam but everyone love innovation and that is what happened on Facebook Hashtags. Today I can't see that a big problem yet but once spammers found it useful way to do their intention, Hashtags from then will suffer from spam attack.

Because this is more convenient way to publish/share your post to specific audience that is interested in your topic. Example this post is about costume play and you will tag this as #Cosplay, this post will come together with all posts in Facebook with a hashtag of cosplay and they will find it all here https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cosplay. 

taken from Facebook

Originated from Twitter, but already implemented from blogging platform (Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, Blog.com) before Twitter launched but since social network influence most of internet user, the credits put on Twitter. Because of the convenient way of this system offers, Facebook also decided also to launch hashtags. 

Of course this will be a big improvement for Facebook, but I'm not closing the issue that this might be a big threat to their anti spam system. Actually, Facebook is still on serious problem to eliminate spam content in their network since due to the fact that social network is the busiest website on world wide web and everything can spread as a matter of click, this is the favorite target of spammers and with hashtags they do it easily.

Does Facebook Games Really Worth of Your Money?

Social games play great part on the major success of Facebook, thus many game developer started to ride the fame from year 2008 until now. Everyday dozens of flash game is being released on Facebook from popular developer and not well known game creator. Because these games are available to play for free, many consumers love the concept of playing social games, while inviting players, meeting new friends is the primary objective of almost all games. If you have lots of friends, you can easily dominate the game as you can do gift exchange, quest request and other freebies by only visiting your friends or asking them to play the game. In technical this is like give and take mutual relationship, while players can access the game freely, developer use them to promote their game, by attracting them with some in game rewards if they will promote or refer the game they're playing to their friends who are not playing.

taken from Facebook

Because of these process the game easily get viral and millions of player will play the application. Everything is in order and everyone is satisfied because they don't need to spend money for the sake of entertainment until the days of developer decided to get big revenue from their games- Monetizing. Yes the game is still free but there are in game items that players can buy if they want to dominate the game and since players are born competitively, they are not thinking it twice to spend real money for the sake of game, now the question is, Does Facebook Games Really Worth of Your Money?

Actually I'm a big fan of playing video games, hardcore they said I am thus I can relate this situation to myself and I can easily answer this question. Well I want everyone to get reflection from my answer as this is the purpose why I write this article so you will learn if you are one belong to those people spending money for Facebook games.

Long before, it is worthy to spend cash, but now due to the evolution of gaming in the world of Facebook everything seems made for the benefits of game developer and they are not thinking anymore the sake of their players. Look how EA or Electronic Arts shutdown all their Facebook games? Many players spent money, time and effort for SimCity Social but then they suddenly announce the deletion of game in social network. The reason is simple, they can't see possible way to drive a profit after selling an item for all players that will give them a long run investment, they disregard it for the sake of their personal interest.

Not only against EA games but even popular developer in Facebook also deleted some of their games once it lose the opportunity to make a revenue well the question is what will happened now to their loyal players who spent cash? We can't get refund aside from their word, SORRY.

Yes, it is not worth any from your money while some say even your time, but since I'm a gamer, I'm with you and what you feel is like indulging yourself for the entertainment of this game brings but then I'm not agree spending it with cash, if you really want to dominate Facebook games, find other way, you can either download cheats or just read some guides. You can check www.OurDailyGames.com, one my favorite site where I used to download trainer tool and mobile apps. If you are a gamer you are always finding a way, it is like a maze and life is in the core of it, like how game maker play their part, always think like them too, always think for your personal interest and not let them get the favor from you.