Up until now, it's not possible to 'completely' delete your Facebook account. The only option you have is to 'Deactivate Account' which means that your account will remain dormant with all your information until next time you visit and re-activate it. Although your account is in dormancy, people will still be able to send you messages if they wanted, only that you won't be receiving them until the day you sign in again.

News reports are out there suggesting that Facebook is testing the 'Deactivate or Delete Account' feature.

This feature is rolled out to only a few Facebook users (I don't have it) but what will be the outcome of it? we shall have to wait until further notice.

For the time being though, if for some reasons you decide you want to permanently delete your Facebook account, you have to do some tweaking by reading tips and tricks online on "how to delete facebook account permanently", and when you have successfully employed those instructions, you have to wait for 14 days for it to be wiped off the database (?). Note that, during this waiting period, you have to adhere to not login in or in anyway accessing your 'to be deleted facebook account', short of which, you will have to start the whole process afresh.

In the era of social network hype and entrepreneurship becoming the major employer, it turns out that everything you land your eyes on has business potential. For example, in social media, you get to connect with people, lern what they like, think on how you can benefit from the newly found relationship, sell an idea, promote it, encourage others join in, sell more... in the end, learn from the successes and failures of it. Who can blame you for jumping into an opportunity? That's life. I am an addict too! Help me help you. It's life!

If you want the tee's contact Gillsant, and for the pillows, you have the name on the last photo, "google it".

Rafiki yangu kajiunga na mtandao jamii wa Facebook. Ananitumia ujumbe anauliza, "...namna ya kuweka mada mbalimbali ili watu wachangie..." nami namjibu hapa kwa faida ya wengine na urahisi wa kurejea:

1. Nenda kwenye tovuti ya Facebook.com, kisha ingia 'login'
   
2. Katika ukurasa wako mkuu, tizama sehemu ya juu utaona mojawapo ya kifute katika vingi vilivyomo hapo, chenye maandishi yanayosomeka 'Notes', kisha bofya hapo. Ikiwa huoni neno 'Notes' basi huenda limejificha tu, tizama mwisho wa mlolongo wa vifute hivyo na utaona mishale miwili yenye kuelekeza '>>' basi bofya hiyo na utaona vifute vingine ambapo kimojawapo ni cha 'Notes'
3. Utafunguka ukurasa mpya ambapo kulia utaona kifute kinachokuhimiza kuandika mada mpya kinasomeka, 'Write a New Note' basi bofya hapo na utafunguka ukurasa kwa ajili ya kuandikia.
4. Penye neno na sehemu ya 'Title' weka kichwa cha habari/mada/taarifa
5. Kwenye sehemu ya 'Body' itumie kwa kuandika mada/habari/taarifa utakayo
6. Ili kuwaunga watu kwenye habari/mada/taarifa hiyo yaani 'Tag', tizama juu upande wa kulia (katikati ya 'Title' na 'Body') utaona maandishi yanayokuhimiza yasemayo, "Tag people in this note", anza kutaipuu majina ya marafiki zako kwenye Facebook na punde utaiona orodha yao. (kubatilisha uliyemuunganisha, soma maelezo ya Ziada niliyoandika hapo chini mwisho wa maeleozo haya)
   
7. Ikiwa unataka kuambatanisha picha katika ulichoandika, basi shuka chini na utaona maandishi yanayokualika kupakia picha, bofya kifute chenye maneno, 'Browse' kisha chagua picha kutoka kwenye tarakilishi yako.
8. Ikiwa andiko lako imekamilika na li tayari kuchapishwa, basi tizama chini upande wa kushoto kipo kifute kimojawapo kinachosema, 'Publish', bofya hapo na utakuwa umemaliza. Pia vipo vifute vingine vyenye maelezo na waweza kubofya kadiri uchaguzi wako.

Ziada

• Unaweza pia kuandika chochote katika ukurasa wako wa mwanzo katika kisanduku chenye maandishi, 'What's on your mind?' na mtu yeyote atakayesoma 'status update' hiyo akiwa na la kuchangia basi ataliweka hapo kama maoni. Hili ni eneo huru hivyo huwezi kuwaunga watu (tag)  utakavo kupitia 'status update', bali watu wataweza kuchangia kadiri ya ruhusa uliyotoa kupitia 'settings' zako za nani anaruhusiwa kuandika ukutani mwako.
  
• Ikiwa unataka kumtoa mtu, tizama chini ya jina lake ambapo yatakuwepo maandishi yanayosema, 'remove tag' bofya maandishi hayo na tag hiyo itaondoka kwa mtu husika; vile vile mtu huyo bado anao uamuzi wa kujitoa ikiwa hataki kuwemo katika andiko ulilomuunganisha. Kumbuka kuwa kwa kumuunganisha mtu katika andiko au picha hiyo itaonekana pia ukutani mwake. Endapo amewezesha ukurasa wake kusomwa na marafiki au mtu yeyote, basi wengine wataisoma pia. Vile vile mtu yeyote mwingine kwa uamuzi wake anaweza kujiunganisha kwenye andiko (au picha au video) yako nawe utafahamishwa hivyo punde tu mtu huyo atakapojiunga, hata katika hilo, bado unao uwezo wa kumtoa ikiwa hutaki ajiunganishe.
• Kabla ya kuchapisha 'Publish' andiko lako unaweza kulitizama, 'Preview' au kulihifadhi kwa ajili ya kulihariri wakati ujao 'Save Draft' au kulifuta kabisa 'Discard'.
• Tovuti ya Facebook hubadilika mara kwa mara kulingana na inavyoamua menejimenti ya mtandao huo, hivyo maelekezo haya yanaweza kupitwa na wakati au vifute kuhamishwa. Jizoeze kutembelea tovuti hiyo mara kwa mara ili kufahamu mabadiliko yanayotukia na kufuata maelekezo yanayotolewa.

I have said it, and I don't know when I will stop saying it, that, 'social networks can make you or break you' and 'social networks can hire you or fire you' therefore, be wise and know what you share on these sites. Do not share anything that you wouldn't want to share openly. Don't act out of emotion. Your anger can evoke emotions that when you act on them, the end results could be devastating and real dissapointment. You will regret but it will have occurred because, as the old Swahili saying goes, 'maji yakimwagika hayazoleki' literally meaning, 'you can't pick up spilled waters', the case of, 'cry me a river'.

Take note of these 10 true life scenarios mentioned in this article from CNN:

1. Consider a recent story of a female client in her 30s, who came to Altshuler seeking a divorce from husband. She claimed her husband, an alcoholic, was drinking again. The husband denied it. It was her word against his word, Altshuler says, until a mutual friend of the couple stumbled across Facebook photos of the husband drinking beer at a party a few weeks earlier."Facebook is a great source of evidence," Altshuler said. "It's absolutely solid evidence because he's the author of it. How do you deny that you put that on?"
2. Social media stalking skills have become invaluable to the legal world for divorce cases in particular. Online photo albums, profile pages, wall comments, status updates and tweets have become gold mines for evidence and leads. Today, divorce and family law firms routinely cull information posted on social media sites -- the flirty exchanges with a paramour, unsavory self-revelations and compromising photographs -- to buttress their case. Posting hugging and kissing photos online can show a happily married relationship, or it can expose a secretive affair. 
3. At least 80 percent of attorneys surveyed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers cited a growth in the number of cases that used social media over the last five years.
   
4. Divorce attorneys say social media sites have opened windows for infidelity because it's become easier to rekindle romance with an old flame or flirt with a stranger. And the posted, shared, and tagged evidence of infidelity is precisely the type of evidence attorneys look for online.
5. Lee Rosen, a divorce attorney in North Carolina, was investigating a North Carolina husband in his 40s accused of cheating on his wife. The husband failed to set privacy controls on his Facebook wall, an area where users can post information. Rosen noticed a suspicious message from the husband's younger female co-worker. The post was the hunch he needed to steer him in right direction. Rosen reports about a quarter of his divorce cases use information found on social media sites.
6. "For example, someone may be cheating, but they are married," says president and senior digital investigator Giovanni Masucci. "If their status on the web page says single, that's a major red flag." Masucci estimated about half the social media cases they investigate expose some kind of cheating.
7. Many times the spouse will "de-friend" a partner but forget about their shared friends, who can play detective and access information on their profile.
8. "It's amazing how people tell their life stories," says Marlene Eskind Moses, a divorce attorney in Tennessee, who represented a Tennessee woman who believed her husband was cheating on her. After the wife found herself blocked from her husband's Facebook page, she found the profile page of the other woman whom she suspected in the affair. On that woman's profile page, a public album of photos taken on a romantic getaway appeared. Scenic shots of South Carolina's mountains. Her husband and another woman embracing in front of an art gallery. Portraits of the couple with their faces nuzzled close together.
9. Elizabeth K. Englander, professor of psychology at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, says people divulge information on social media because they believe no one will ever see the information they post. "The sense online is sort of like the mob effect," Englander said. "You feel like you're one in a million, and so who will ever notice you?" But when someone does notice, that's when some divorce attorneys pounce. Information copied from social media sites can sway the outcome of alimony payment disputes and custody fights, attorneys say. Some parents have even lost a child because of the behavior they exhibited online, the lawyers say.
10. The ultimate goal, after all, is to catch a spouse in a lie. Sometimes it's a wife claiming she can't afford child support payments but subsequently purchased expensive jewelry and posted photos of the items on Facebook. Or if a husband who claims he doesn't have anger problems while his social media profile is loaded with expletives. Once there is evidence of a person caught in an obvious lie, attorneys say, it undermines the rest of their credibility with the judge.

You can read the whole article, (uncut) at CNN.com

Until yesterday, we were used to have the "like" feature only in the status message but not in the comment section. Starting today, Facebook has introduced "like" feature in both the statuses and comments.

Why cheer up for this?

Well, if there one thing or two that I disliked was having to reply to every single comment that came under my status message; or having to write back a comment to 'thank' as an appreciation for someone leaving a comment on my status message or comment. It reached a time I'd wait and give it time to see how many people responded before I could thank them all in one post.

What else?

Remember when you liked one's comment but didn't really want to say anything and wished you could just click under their comment to show that you liked it?

With this feature we are going to see less repetitive comments thus less 'inbox notification' and therefore a bit cleaner 'inbox'. You only have to click "like" on someone's comment to show that you 'agree' or 'was going to say the same' with regards to the main post.

Just like on the wall posts, when someone likes your comment, you will be receiving notifications (if you signed for this), others will also be able to see who has liked their comments based on their privacy settings.

I believe this is going to cut off a lot of hassle! So, yeah, go out there and start liking people's valuable comments and Happy responsible Facebooking!

If you have a blog/website and twitter account and that you would like share some future events via a widget, you can easily do so using Tawidget.   All these applications interact with Twitter.

• Step 1 Sign into Taweet with your Twitter account.
• Step 2 Add your events with Taweet to create a calendar.
• Step 3 Go to Tawidget.com, add your Twitter username and Configure your widget settings.
• Step 4 Copy and paste the widget code into a webpage.

Website: tawidget.com

Ikiwa unatumia mitandao jamii Twitter na Facebook, unaweza kuwa na marafiki pia ambao hutumia mitandao yote miwili. Njia moja ya kufahamu marafiki zako ni kwa kuwasiliana nao na kuwauliza majina wanayotumia katika mtandao husika ili uweze kujumuika nao.

Njia nyingine ni kwa kutumia application ya fab140 iliyotengenezwa na tovuti ya society.me ambacho unachotakiwa kufanya ni:

1. Fungua society.me/fb140
2. Login kwenye Facebook na ruhusu iwasiliane na fb140
3. Login kwenye Twitter na ruhusu iwasiliane na fb140 ili iweze kuiunganisha na Facebook
4. Chagua endapo unapenda watu wakuulize swali (hatua hii si lazima, unaweza kuivuka --skip, ignore)
5. Utaona orodha ya marafiki zako waliopo Facebook abao pia wanatumia Twitter. Ukitizama pembeni mwa picha zao utaona kijiboksi chenye alama ya vyema/tiki. Ikiwa hutaki kumfuata mtu kwenye Twitter, basi bofya ndani ya kijiboksi hicho ili kuondoa alama ya vyema kuashiria kuwa hutaki kumfuata mtu huyo. Ukimaliza kufanya uchaguzi wako, nenda mwisho wa ukurasa na utaona kijiboksi kingine chenye maandishi, "Please help your friends get more followers by posting this for them:" (unaweza kubofya kijiboksi hicho kuashiria kuwa hutaki maneno yaliyomo ndani ya kijiboksi kile yaende kwenye ukurasa wako wa facebook, la, unataka kuyabadili, basi yafute na andika yale unayoyataka, na ikiwa yamekupendeza), basi maliza hatua kwa kubofya maneno yaliyoandikwa, "Follow these people!"

Ni hayo tu!

Baada ya kujifunza jinsi ya kuunganisha blogu/tovuti ili updates ziende moja kwa moja kwenye ukurasa wako wa Facebook, inawezekana pia kuunganisha updates zako zikatoka moja kwa moja toka kwenye ukurasa wako wa Twitter na kwenda Facebook. Zipo njia mbalimbali na applications tofauti za kukuwezesha kufanya hivi, ila nitazungumzia mbili ambazo ni 'genuine' na ambazo nimewahi kutizumia.

Cha kufanya:

Uchaguzi namba 1 (update facebook na kila kitu toka twitter)

1. Nenda apps.facebook.com/twitter (ni ukurasa wa applications wa Facebook mahsusi kwa ajili ya Twitter),
2. Ruhusu Twitter kuwasiliana na akaunti yako ya Facebook (Allow Twitter to access your profile)
3. Login kwenye akaunti yako ya Twitter (kupitia Twitter application ndani ya Facebook)
4. Andika ujumbe wa majaribio na kubofya neno, 'Update' na kisha bofya, 'Allow Twitter to Update YOur Facebook Status' ili kuthibitisha utaratibu upo sawa.
5. Sasa ruhusu 'status updates' kutoka Twitter kwenda Facebook

Ukitaka kuthibitisha kuwa kila kitu kipo sawa, nenda fungua ukurasa mpya kabisa wa twitter.com kisha login kwenye akaunti yako, na andika maneno kisha posti kama utakavyo kisha baada ya dakika moja, rudi kwenye ukurasa wako wa facebook, refresh na tizama kuona ikiwa twitter imefanya ilivyotarajiwa.

Ikiwa utafuata utaratibu wote, utaona updates zako zote toka twitter zinaingia facebook. Bofya picha zifautazo kuzikuza na kuona maelekezo kwa njia ya picha au bofya hapa kutizama video (YouTube video).

Uchaguzi namba 2 (update facebook na posti utakazochagua kutoka twitter)

Ikiwa hupendi kila unachoandika kwenye twitter kipelekwe facebook, basi usifuate utaratibu ulioelezwa hapo ju. Usijali ikiwa tayari umeshaufuata kwani unaweza kuondoa kwa kupitia facebook.com/editapps.php) na fuata utaratibu huu

1. Nenda apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter (ukurasa wa application wa Facebook wa SelectiveTwitter)
2. Ruhusu mawasiliano kati ya Twitter na SelectiveTwitter
3. Login kwenye akaunti yako ya Twitter (kupitia SelectiveTwitter application ndani ya Facebook)
4. Sasa kila utakapoandika chochote kwenye Twitter, ukitaka kionekane pia kwenye Facebook, basi hakikisha mwishoni mwa sentensi hiyo unaongeza, #fb .

Alama ya #fb ni ya utambulishi (keyword, command) ya kuiamrisha SelectiveTwitter kuhusu kupeleka kile utakachokiagiza kiende facebook kutoka twitter.

Kumbuka: Unaweza kufuta applications hizi na nyingine zote ikiwa hutaki kuzitumia tena kupitia facebook.com/editapps.php

Ni hayo tu!

Baadhi yetu tuna blogu au tovuti ambazo huwa tunaandika aidha mawazo yetu au yale tunayoyapokea kutoka kwa wengine ili kupashana habari, taarifa na matukio mbalimbali. Kati yetu, wapo ambao wangependa habari hizo zitoke moja kwa moja kwenye blogu au tovuti zao na kwenda kwenye ukurasa wao wa Facebook bila kuhitaji ku-copy na ku-paste URL address ya posti husika. Ikiwa wewe ni mmoja wa watu hao, basi fanya yafuatayo ili uweze kufanikisha hilo na hivyo uweze kuwajuza marafiki zako kila unapobandika posti mpya katika blogu/tovuti yako. Ukitaka kuona mfano halisi, bofya hapa utizame ukurasa wa nukta77.

Cha kufanya (picha zimewekwa baada ya maandishi haya kusaidia hatua kwa hatua, bofya ili kuzikuza ujionee vizuri):

1. Nenda kwenye facebook.com na kisha login halafu
2. Bofya neno 'Notes' (ikiwa hulioni neno hilo, basi liandike neno hilo kwenye kwenye kisanduku cha 'search' kilichopo juu kwenye ukurasa wako na ulitafute).
3. Utafunguka ukurasa wako wa 'My Notes'
4. Chini ya neno 'Notes Settings' bofya maandishi yaliyokolezwa wino yasemayo, 'Import a blog »'
(Ikiwa umeandika 'notes' nyingi na huoni 'Import a blog' tizama kisha bofya neno, 'See Older Notes' kisha tizama juu kulia utayaona maandishi hayo yasemayo, Import a blog »).
5. Hapo utafunguka ukurasa wenye maelekezo ya kufuata, fanya unavyotakiwa ili ukamilishe

Sasa Facebook ita'update' ukurasa wako punde tu utakapochapisha toleo jipya katika blogu/tovuti yako.
Ni hayo tu.

P.U.G.U hii nimejifunza kupitia InsideFacebook.com na HowTo. Tutumie vyema intaneti kwa faida yetu.

ReclaimPrivacy.org is a website with an open tool you can use to scan your facebook privacy settings.

All that you  have to do is follow these steps:

1. Drag this  "Scan for Privacy"  to your web browser's bookmarks bar
2. Log in to facebook.com
3. Click on that bookmark
4. See the privacy scan results

Website: reclaimprivacy.org