30 little-known social media features

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-31 15:16

Even if you have accounts in all well-known social networks, you never close them and check them five times a day, it is not a fact that you have studied and used all the features of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. Here's a list of 30 little-known social media features that you might find useful.

5 Facebook features that many people don't know about

1. Save links to watch later

Any event, video, link to an article, book, TV show, location, or music can be saved for later use. It will not be possible to save only photos in this way.

Then you will find them in the "Saved" section.

2. Follow not a friend

You can follow a person without adding him as a friend, and they can do the same with you. To access this function, open "Settings" → "Subscribers" and mark the item "All" in the column "You can subscribe to my updates".

True, there is one point: you can only subscribe to those people who also put "All" in this column.

3. Receive email to Facebook address

You can receive and send emails to users at @ facebook.com email, and emails will come to the main email inbox. To find out the address, take the user ID and add @ facebook.com to it.

4. Change the order of page sections

If you do not like how the sections are arranged on your page, you can easily change them or delete them in the section "Manage sections".

To open it, click on the edit icon in any section, and then change it at your discretion.

5. View post statistics

If you are the page administrator, you are probably familiar with the people reached sign at the bottom of every post. By clicking on it, you get detailed statistics with the number of clicks on images and links, the number of shares and other data.

And just a few chips without numbers …

You can save all your data from Facebook. To do this, in the general settings, click "Download a copy".

In chats, you can transfer not only photos, but also other files. Click on the settings icon in the chat window and select "Add files".

You can embed a Facebook post on your site page. To do this, click on the arrow in the upper right corner of any post, select "Paste Post", copy the code and paste it into the post on your site.

If you have administrator rights, you can pin any post to the top of the page. Click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the post and select "Pin at the top."

5 little-known Twitter features

1. Create a collection of tweets

You can manage your tweets much more conveniently by installing the Tweetdeck app. It is enough to register through it, and your Twitter account will look different, like this:

To create your own collection, click on Add column, select Collections and add all tweets on its topic to a new column.

2. Tag people in photos

By uploading a photo, you can tag up to 10 people on them. This feature is available on both desktop and smartphones.

3. Photo Collages on Twitter

Have you tried creating a collage of multiple photos on Twitter? You just add not one, but two, three or four photos, and they line up in a tweet into a smooth collage.

4. Tweet via SMS

If you are offline, you can still send a private message to Twitter via SMS, edit your profile, set a new location, and much more.

For example, to send a private message, you need to enter the following text in SMS: Л [username] + message. For a complete list of commands, see here.

5. Ignore messages

If you don't want to completely unsubscribe from a page on Twitter, you can block it for a while. To do this, press "More" and "Ignore @ XXX".

This can be useful, for example, if you don't want to be distracted by something, and there is a heated discussion of your tweet on Twitter.

5 Google+ features

1. Make a poll in the comments

This feature is not available in the official Google+ features, but you can use it for your own purposes. You can create a theme and suggest several options in the comments.

Do not forget in the post itself, after the description of the survey topic, ask subscribers to like the desired answer.

2. Save entries in an empty circle

You can create your own circle and not add people to it. Publications in this circle will not be available to other users, and for you it will become a great place for notes and posts that you can later publish.

3. Share around

You can share your circles with other users. To do this, go to the "My circles" item, select the circle you want to share, and select the one you want in the actions.

You can write a comment and choose the audience to whom you tell about your circle.

4. Choose a profile photo

When someone clicks on your Google+ profile picture, they can see all of your profile photos. And you can control it.

Go to the "Photos" section and edit the "Profile photo". You can delete some photos, add others, swap them - in general, edit what other users see.

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5 possibilities of LinkedIn

1. Export all your contacts

If you want to have a backup of all your LinkedIn contacts just in case, you can easily export them. Go to "Network" → "Address Book" and at the bottom select "Export contacts". You can export them in different formats.

2. Add media to your profile

To diversify a boring resume on a page, you can dilute the text with pictures. Click "Edit Profile" and next to each item in the resume there is an opportunity to upload a file.

Using the arrow, you can also change the places of the blocks in your resume, for example, put work experience and education as the first blocks, and remove general information to the very bottom.

3. Connect with someone with whom you have not established personal contact

If you need to write a private message to someone with whom you have not yet established personal contact, try doing it through the group. If you are a member of a group, you can send private messages to all its members, it doesn't matter if you know them personally or not.

4. Save job search

You can save not only individual vacancies, but also up to 10 results.

In addition, you can set reminders for new vacancies to quickly find what you need. Saved searches and new results will be displayed in the "Vacancies" section.

5. Create notes about your contacts

Under each contact there is an opportunity to leave notes about the person and about your meeting. In addition, you can set reminders when to call this person and when to meet.

5 possibilities of Pinterest

1. Create a secret board

This might be useful if you're gathering ideas for a secret event or preparing a public page, but want to make sure it looks cool first.

Scroll to the bottom of your board, there will be a "+" sign, select "Create board" and do not forget to note that it is secret.

2. Swap boards

You cannot swap pins outside the boards, but you can move and change boards, board skins, descriptions and categories as you like.

3. Monitor how many pins were taken from your site

4. Change cover

If you find a cool picture that just grabs the eye, you can put it on the cover of your whiteboard. To do this, just hover the cursor over the board - the "Change Cover" icon will appear.

5. Fill the board with friends

You can give your friends access to your board so that they can add pictures too. To do this, click "Change board" and in the item "Who can pin Pins?" write a friend's email.

5 Instagram features

1. View all photos and print them

By typing instagram.com/username, you can view all of their profile photos. In addition, there are several sites that make it easier to view your Instagram photos. For example, Gramfeed.com, with which you can view tiles of photos, upload them, share them on Facebook and other social networks.

Here are two more sites with similar topics: Ink361.com and Websta.me, a site for web viewing of photos. There are also special services that help to print photos from Instagram, for example, the EasyPrint.me application, Printsta.ru and others.

2. Save photo from Instagram

If you open Instagram in a browser, you can save the picture like this:

• Click on the triple menu icon and select View photo page.
• Click on the photo on the page that opens and select "View item code".
• Right-click on the first link from the selected text and select Open in new tab.
• Save the picture that opens in a new tab.

It's even easier to save a picture on a mobile device. Click on the ellipsis menu icon, select the "Copy link" item, paste it into the browser address bar and save the opened picture.

3. Add frames

If you tap on any filter twice, an intensity scale appears in front of you. To the right of it there is an image of a square, tap on it allows you to add a frame.

4. Add collages

You can't make a collage of images on Instagram, but you can still see them on more than one profile. You can also diversify your profile with collages, but you have to make them in another program, for example Pixlr Express.

By the way, this application has a huge number of filters, stickers and all sorts of cool effects, so you can make a real masterpiece out of a photo from your smartphone, and then upload it to Instagram from the gallery.

5. How to repost photos from Instagram

There is a special application Repost for Instagram that allows you to slightly change the photos you like and repost them on your page.

There are web apps like Iconisquare that can help you repost photos, although it takes more time and action.

For example, in Iconosquare you select a photo and click Repost, after which it will be sent to you by email. The resulting photo is uploaded first to your computer, and then to your smartphone and Instagram.