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Amazing New Way to Show Off Your Facebook Profile!

Hi Friends!

I’m so glad you’re enjoying this website. You love it even more than I thought you would! Thank you for all the insightful comments and ideas for creating Facebook Layouts.

So right now, I’m typing this in my hotel room after a small, invite-only Facebook conference. I thought about waiting to get home until I told you this, but I’m too excited to sit still, and my head’s still spinning. I decided to pull out my new Macbook and tell you a new secret trick I found on Facebook.

At first I didn’t believe it to be true, but there’s an Amazing new application that allows you to change your Facebook background. That’s right! It’s not a joke. You can customize your background with whatever color, image or style you feel like.

A friend of mine told me about this new secret. But I didn’t believe her. I had to try it out to see if it worked myself. To my surprise, this new secret worked really well! I now have an awesome emo layout on my Facebook profile.

Are you looking to add some extra love and comfort to your profile? Do you want to show off something amazing that you can do to make your Facebook profile stand out? Well now you can.

Thousand’s of Layouts and Hundreds of styles are available for your Facebook profile. But first, you need to make sure you get the free layout download.

Step 1: Get the Free Download

First you need to head over to this link and get the free download.

(You can click on the image of each, and then click the “select layout” button after you have clicked the link.)

Click “Save File”

Double Click

Click “OK”

Click “Continue”

Click “Next”

Click “Install”

Click “Finish”

Of course, there are thousands of layouts available; but for the purposes of sharing with you our favorite layouts, here are our favorite pink and cute, fun layouts for you to add to your profile.

Top 9 Cute and Pink Layouts

(Click the image below for Fairy Tale Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Pixie and Sexy Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Cute Little White Kitty Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Sweet Looking Pink and Red Heart Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Love Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Pink Milk Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Kooky Little Kritter Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Pink Hearts Facebook Layouts)

(Click the image below for Hot Cute Pink Facebook Layouts)

Get the Free Facebook Layout Download Here

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Fun Facebook Themed Profile Skins

We all know how hard it is to find anything original on the web, so for that reason we’ve come up with an original concept for our newest layout… Facebook itself.

Nothing screams originality more than this awesome concept, after all, what else would guarantee that you’ll have an amusing exclusive custom-made layout? Oh yes, almost forgot – it’s 100% free – the only thing you’re going to have to give us are a couple of clicks, so, you can have a 100% original and humorous layout, for absolutely no charge, while enjoying all of this true Facebook layout’s best and finest aspects.

Once you installed this layout to your Facebook profile you’ll start noticing that people are paying more attention to you – making others appreciate your unique character and great sense of humor was never made easier than by this witty little profile skin.

Combining all the aspects of Facebook including all of our favorite icons, Facebook’s global icon and the irony and humor accompanying Facebook’s ever changing terms of service, (after all, when you’re looking for the genuine stuff you might as well include every aspect of the social networking giant that is Facebook, and not just the cliché side of it) – is what we’ve done with that layout (and every other design for that matter). So in fact, we’ve created a beautiful piece of cyber-art, to idolize and to immortalize Facebook – on your very own Facebook page.

Once caught people’s attention by this fresh new skin, believe us, the mountain of friendship invitations, positive comments and cute little virtual gifts are due to soon come, because as with every cool thing on the web, people will pay attention to it. Out of the 400 million living breathing human being that socialize on Facebook every single day, a few hundred or even thousand are going to pay attention to you, and express their appreciation for sure – and that’s a fact.

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A Look at the Changing Layouts of Facebook

A man once said, “If you’re not changing, you’re dying.”

Winston Churchill followed this up by saying, “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” And there’s one thing that’s certain whenever Facebook changes their layout, everyone thought it was in the wrong direction. Yet time passes, the uproar ceases, and people continue to be ~~addicted~~ drawn to their favorite social network.

Facebook’s most recent layout switch brought these changes:

Hiding away the annoying Farmville application within a separate news feed
Scratching the twig on the footer of the site
Making search a more prominent component of the site overall

Facebook’s layout now contains three major components: the news feed, search, and more engaging advertisements. Over the next couple of years, the movement will center more on search; that is, Facebook’s Open Social Graph that enables social plugins further cemented this idea. Facebook will move towards money, not towards functionality.

In order to highlight Facebook’s change, and their initial movement towards functionality, and then swiftly away from functionality, we’ll outline Facebook’s layout through the pictures below:

Facebook 1.0 – Year 2005

Ah, the good ole days. Facebook’s beautiful original layout was first seen in 2005. It was crisp, blue, simple and innocent. It carried with it was a sense of intimacy.

It was exclusive – for college students only. Many first discovered Facebook through an email blast at their school. Whoever pitched Facebook to every single school did a great job. They made it feel exclusive, safe and in the best interest of colleges. When, in reality, it was just the first step in Facebook’s plan to dominate the web. What target was easier than penetrating the clueless market of accademia where the decision-maker hardly knew what the internet was.

Facebook 2.0 – Year 2005 (“The Facebook”)

This layout was called “The Facebook” layout because of its title, “The Facebook.” Facebook didn’t yet own the domain for “Facebook,” and thus stuck with the term “TheFacebook.com” for a while. This was a very fun phase and life-form in Facebook’s history. The colleges were sending out invites, Facebook the company was growing rapidly, and Mark Zuckerberg was settling into his fresh, new home in Palo Alto.

In this phase, Facebook still centered on writing messages to others and communicating with friends. Applications were not yet rampant, and thus the experience was peaceful, fun and becoming more and more useful.

Facebook 3.0 – Year 2006

2006 marked a year of growth, organization and discovery of Facebook’s layout. The developers at Facebook began to brainstorm how they could add to the Facebook experience. They layout was changed around, the profile information was better organized, and the events section, which was known as “parties,” began to expand and grow. Facebook was gaining its foothold and establishing its base as a premier social network.

Facebook 4.0 – Year 2007

The year 2007 marked Facebook’s first real expansion into becoming a platform; not just a place to communicate, but a platform to interact. This was the era when your wall became a central component for your social life. Your profile contained some apps, pokes, pictures and social components that made it fun to spend ridiculous amounts of time on the website.

Facebook 5.0 – Year 2008

2008 marked the dawn of the activity feed. The wall became not just a profile-specific point of sharing (i.e. learning news from one’s profile), but a universal point of sharing within Facebook’s network. Friends comment on one another’s photos, poked one another, started to write updates on their own wall, and began to interact with their friends in entirely new ways–ways that other social networks could never dream of. Facebook pulled the right levers in making Facebook a more addicting experience and rolled out plans for social network domination.

Facebook 6.0 – Year 2009

2009 was the biggest shake-up and uproar ever experienced within the realm of Facebook’s layout change. In this change, the Facebook Platform was at its zenith. Developers were flocking to develop addicting games in order to be the next Farmville or Mafia Wars.

The news feed became prominent, and at first, hated. After glancing at Twitter’s knack for sharing little details about one’s life, Facebook decided to do the same. The news feed provided a way for people to share details about themselves without having to point that piece of comment at a specific friend (that is, writing on the friends wall). The inception of the like button, the share button, fan pages and more interactive ads makes the 2009 version of Facebook its most compelling, innovative and feature-iffic redesign to date.

Facebook 6.1 – Facebook Lite

In this year, Facebook also unveiled a provocative, experimental and interesting layout of its Facebook platform called, “Facebook Lite.” Facebook Lite’s layout revolved around simplicity, speed and ease of use.

Facebook initially released this for the countries that do not have the profound technical infrastructure to support Facebook’s recent robust layout that they currently wield. In order to appease this, Facebook Lite became the preferred, vast and fantastically innovative solution.

Today, Facebook Lite does not exist in the U.S. It was a fun experiment, but served as a short-term plug for the countries that were catching up from a technical stand-point.

Facebook 7.0 – Year 2010

The year 2010 marks the most functional and professional Facebook layout to date. The focus now centers on using Facebook as a messenger service, a search service, chat service, events service and news-feed interactivity service. Facebook slowly has moved into the realm of making one’s data more transparent and public, which has caused an uproar; yet, they’ve given users the tools to allow them to select or deselect what and with whom they would like to share their data.

Facebook 8.0 – The Future

Oh no! I know what you’re thinking. Facebook is awesome because it’s not busy, and has a crazy layout like Myspace. Why the argument is certainly valid, Facebook cannot deny the thirst for customizations, options, interactivity and enjoyment that young teens and others get out of changing their Facebook layout. The future of Facebook’s Layout centers on customization, search and interactivity; in order for you to change your Facebook layout, you can download the layout software below.

Get the Free Facebook Layout Download Here

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7 Surprising Ways to Kick Your Facebook Addiction

Everybody goes through stages. Whether it be wetting the bed, hearing their voice crack through puberty, secretly reading Harry Potter, or getting addicted to Facebook, one thing’s for sure: most of us have been there. Or, we all know a friend, right?

In this post, we’ll focus on a stage that many people are stuck in, being addicted to Facebook. Amidst all the wall posts, messages, notifications and pokes, sits an endless supply of fun. And with fun also comes a large amount of time spent on Facebook.

CNN reports, “Although there are no statistics on “Facebook addiction” — it isn’t an actual medical diagnosis — therapists say they’re seeing more and more people like Newton who’ve crossed the line from social networking to social dysfunction.

“Last Friday, I had three clients in my office with Facebook problems,” said Paula Pile, a marriage and family therapist in Greensboro, North Carolina. “It’s turned into a compulsion — a compulsion to dissociate from your real world and go live in the Facebook world.”

Obviously, Facebook isn’t entirely bad. Like everything, it’s all about balance. Yet, how does one break away when they’re addicted?

Well, first, you must come to grips with reality on your Facebook addiction. How so? Well, for starters, you might want to begin by comparing yourself to these signs that you’re addicted to Facebook.

If you’re like many people, and you are indeed addicted to Facebook, there are two ways to kick your Facebook addiction. First, you can quit cold turkey. This is the advice you hear from most when you explain your Facebook addiction. “Just quit,” they tell you. But what if you can’t? Well, good news. There are 7 surprising ways that you can kick your Facebook addiction. And it revolves around adding more to Facebook.

7 Surprising Ways to Kick Your Facebook Addiction:

1) Zoho Facebook App

First, you can head over and pick up the Zoho Facebook App. If you don’t already know, Zoho allows you to create, edit and store documents online. Now, with their Facebook App, you can store it online, as well as send documents to your Facebook friends! You can get the Zoho Facebook App here

2) To-do List

Do you love to-do lists? By getting a to-do list Facebook app, you can constantly be reminded about all the things you’ve got to do! Thus, your Facebook addiction will get mitigated for the time being. SharedToDoLists offers this by allowing you to create and share your to-do lists with your Facebook friends. Check it out, have fun, and make sure your friends know that you want to be accountable.

3) Do Homework Through Facebook

Instead of filling your Facebook experience with pokes and wall posts, fill it with homework applications! With the Documents Facebook app, you can store files, docs and notes with your friends.

4) Put Your Calendar on Facebook

Have you ever missed an important appointment because you were surfing Facebook? Don’t worry, there are two apps that will save you. The first is called 30 Boxes, which will allow you to store, save and update your calendar through Facebook. You can create your calendar with 30 Boxes here.

Don’t want to adopt a whole new calendar program? No problem. If so, then pick up this app that allows you to view your Google Calendar within Facebook.

5) Edit Photos

If you’re more of a creative person, and need to edit photos, make your Facebook time more productive and less addicting by picking up the Picnkik app. The Picnik app allows you to edit, save and share photos on the fly!

6) Share Productive News

Want to share productive articles with your friend via Facebook through RSS? Pick up the Google Reader app. Remember: only share productive articles and stories!

7) Put Your Goals in Your Facebook Layout

Last, but not least, I’ve found it very helpful to use a unique Facebook app that allows you to customize the background of your facebook page. That’s obviously a huge part of this blog (customizing and experimenting with Facebook’s platform), but I’ve found it to be really helpful in getting more productive with Facebook. How? It’s helpful to post your goals, dreams and passion to the background of your Facebook profile.

You can do this by first download the Facebook Layout software here.

After this, head over to the Create Your Own Layout tool, and then apply a background that houses your goals on Facebook.

It’s neat because it reminds you of what your goals are and what your dreams are.

Summary

Hopefully those 7 tips above will help you kick your Facebook addiction. I’ve found that there’s really two ways to kick your addiction: first, you can quit cold turkey, or second, you can add more productivity to your Facebook experience. Hopefully one of the apps above will help you in your Facebook addiction stage. As we know, we’ve all been there.

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How to Delete Your Facebook Profile . . . Layout Style!

With all the negative press and attention Facebook is receiving, we thought it appropriate to create the “How to Delete Your Facebook Profile” layout.

Choose this layout for your PageRage plugin and now you’ve got the step-by-step instructions displayed for all your friends to see.

Of course, you’ll have to stay a member of Facebook for awhile to get your friends to see it . . . maybe it’s just a good ironic display given the times? After all, most of us are going to remain with the 400 million strong users on Facebook.

But for all those haters out there, here’s the layout to go with. If you do quit, it takes 14 days right? This layout can still show your friends your decision to leave and show them how to join you in no-Facebook land. Have to get the toolbar to do it.

Here’s a preview. Gotta have a little fun right?

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4 Ways to Twitter-ize Your Facebook Profile

Apply Twitter Background to Facebook Layouts

The Age of Awkwardness and Privacy

Just as companies go through awkward stages of growth, so too can communities, users and consumers.

That’s the stage we’re in within the realm of social networking. Do we use Twitter primarily, or Facebook primarily? Most settle for both. Do we make our Facebook privacy 100% private? We’re torn.

It looks as if, no matter what you decide, Facebook is becoming more and more public with every new feature, announcement and concept. Thus, whatever you decide, there are going to be a lot more people “Twitter-izing their Facebook experience.”

Facebook Has a Boring Layout

You know you’ve taken a good, hard look at Facebook by using one measurable metric: yawning. Yes, Facebook can be bland and boring. The font is extremely small, the colors are blue and white and the arrangement is routinely micromanaged and re-arranged so that users will become outraged for a bit, until they realize yet again that they have little say in what Facebook does. Only the thousands of programmers do–and even they’re bored (Diaspora). Add the never-ending spam flow of Farmville into the equation and you’ve pretty much captured the awkward stage of Facebook.

Plus, the problem we all face with Facebook (no pun intended), as well as the other networks, is that they’re silo’d into their respective networks. If you use the web services by default, you can only see your followers in Twitter, and your Facebook friends within Facebook.

If you’re like me, and enjoy the openness and “feel” of Twitter; yet don’t want to leave your Facebook friends behind, this guide will serve you well. I’m going to outline a set of ways that will allow you to “Twitter-ize” your Facebook experience. This will combine some apps that aggregate tweets, as well as apps that literally allow you to customize the look and feel of Facebook by adding backgrounds and layouts to your experience, (which is the main topic of this blog).

Enough of the chit-chat. Let’s get started:

4 Ways to Twitter-ize Your Facebook Experience

1) Step One: Go Public

Yes, we are in the midst of a contested time in the web. Does privacy exist? Well, according to Mark Zuckerberg a couple weeks back, no. Yet, there’s a group of nerds in New York who are proposing that yes, privacy does still exist on the internet. But will the casual user be able to actual adopt their product? I think not, yet time will only tell. Whatever your view, it really doesn’t matter if you’re aiming to Twitter-ize your Facebook profile. And the reason is because Twitter is completely open.

So step number one with Twitter-izing your Facebook’s Profile Page is to make your profile 100% public.

Think real hard before doing this. If you truly want to Twitter-ize your Facebook Page, you have your choice. If you prefer to keep some things private (like me), keep your settings as they are.

If you decide to go public, follow these steps:

Log in to Facebook
Under “Account” (in the top right) click the Privacy Settings
Then click “Personal Information and Posts”
In the right column, you’ll see drop-down options for specific elements within Facebook. Twitter is 100% public; thus, you’ll want to set these to “Everyone”

2) Step Two: Pick up Some Twitteriffic Facebook Apps

The first app you’ll need to add is Twitter’s official Facebook app. You can find it here: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ This allows you to connect your Tweets to Facebook so that whenever you Tweet, your friends will see it within Facebook, as well.

If you’re a bit more unconventional, you can try this app called Tweeter, which includes a variety of other features that power-users would prefer.

There’s also Tweetsync, which allows you to sync all of your tweets and status updates; it also carries some advanced features with it.

And the last app you’ll want to pick up, especially if you’re a Fan Page owner, is Involver, which provides you with all of the above features, as well as providing support for Fan Pages.

3) Step Three: Make Your Short Bio Represent Twitter’s Length (140 Characters)

We all know Twitter revolves around short, brief status updates. Your goal should be to liken your updates and profile to that of Twitter. Short, cute and sweet. Love comes in small packages–and Twitter represents that with its cute layout, whereas Facebook’s layout isn’t cute. Thus, I’ll show you how you can fix that.

First, go to your Twitter profile, and select the text within your bio. Copy that text and then navigate over to your Facebook profile.

Under your profile pic you’ll find an area to change your bio. Change it, updated it and link it to your Facebook profile.

4) Step Four: Get a Twitter Background on Your Facebook Profile

You can get a Facebook Layout with Twitter’s background color and style using PageRage’s Create Your Own Layout Tool.

First, you must download PageRage’s plugin, which you can find by clicking here.

The second thing you’ll need to do is find the Twitter background that you want on your Facebook profile. In order to do this, you have two options:

You can use your current customized Twitter Background by saving it to you computer.
You can browse over to Twitter’s standard backgrounds by clicking, “Settings” and then “Design.” Once you’re there, select a background that you’d like to apply to your Facebook profile. After this, right-click the background and select “View Background Image” and then save it.

Now that you’ve got the Facebook Layouts plugin (found here), scroll over to the Create Your Own Layout Tool.

Within the tool, follow the steps and upload your saved Twitter background to your Facebook profile. You can fade in the title bar, select various elements, and change things according to your preference.

After this, it will apply your layout to your Facebook background and you’ll be all set. Again, you need to grab the plugin before you can do this, which can be found at the bottom and top of this post.

Conclusion

That’s it! It’s really quite simple to Twitter-ize your Facebook Layout. Have fun with it, add some flair, and remember to tell your friends if you’d like them to follow in your footsteps.

Best of luck, and tweet on!

If you have any suggestions, ideas or any other apps, please feel free to let me know in the comments section below.

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Amazing New Way to Show Off Your Facebook Profile!

Step 1: Get the Free Download

Top 9 Cute and Pink Layouts

Fun Facebook Themed Profile Skins

A Look at the Changing Layouts of Facebook

Facebook 1.0 – Year 2005

Facebook 2.0 – Year 2005 (“The Facebook”)

Facebook 3.0 – Year 2006

Facebook 4.0 – Year 2007

Facebook 5.0 – Year 2008

Facebook 6.0 – Year 2009

Facebook 6.1 – Facebook Lite

Facebook 7.0 – Year 2010

Facebook 8.0 – The Future

7 Surprising Ways to Kick Your Facebook Addiction