Facebook pages can now be translated into any language

Oh my. Facebook pages are now available in every single language. Due to a new inline translation feature the social network super giant rolled out last night, Facebook users can now translate public Facebook content — including comments — into their own language,the Sociablereports. The new feature works throughBing Translator, with a new ‘Translate’ link now appearing under any public page’s post. The Facebook page needs to first activate the translation service before this is made available to its fans, but once activated, comments or any sort of post on that page can be converted inline to the language of the user’s choosing....

2 min · 265 words · Robert Smith

Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up

You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good? As it turns out, the decision to give Facebook Pages less visibility on the news feeds and Timelines may have been a blessing in disguise. A new study byEdgerank Checkerreveals the following stats from week 2 of the Hybrid News Feed....

3 min · 442 words · Terry Potter

Facebook partners with The Samaritans to offer suicide counseling

Facebook has linked up with UK charityThe Samaritansto offer counseling to users who are contemplating suicide. From today, reportsThe Guardian, anyone worried that a posting by a friend might indicate suicidal thoughts can report the incident to put the person concerned in touch with a Samaritans counselor. Users are being asked to visit Facebook’s Help pages to report any worrying behaviour, although at presentthe report formis hidden behind a number of layers of menus....

2 min · 299 words · Caleb Burns

Facebook Photo Importer lets you transfer hundreds of photos in minutes

We’ve already introduced you to theGoogle+ Photo Importerwhich makes it easy to transfer hundreds of photos in no time from your photo sharing sites right into Google+ using nothing more than your iPhone. Dropico, the company behind Google+ Photo Importer, has just released a similar iPhone app, which makes it easy to get photos transferred from Flickr, Picasa, Instagram and Photobucket into your Facebook account. If you’ve used the Google+ version of the app, you’ll find thatFacebook Photo Importerworks in exactly the same way....

3 min · 478 words · Michael Gaines

Facebook photos send woman to jail for Tax Fraud

The Taxman has a new friend in taking down benefit fraudsters and that is Facebook Photos. Hazel Cunningham from Ashford in the U.K. has been found guilty of Tax evasion and most of the evidence came from her Facebook photos. The photos didn’t add up to the tax returns she had filled in 2009. Investigators found numerous photos of multiple holidays in Turkey and photos of her lavish wedding in Barbados....

2 min · 321 words · Roberto Lee
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