How To Add Facebook Like Box Into Blogger Blog 2017

Many other blog posts on adding a Facebook likebox on Blogger have become outdated since, earlier, like box plugin was used for this purpose but now it has been deprecated by Facebook.

Let's see how we can add a Facebook like box widget as in the below image on Blogger blog page.

Step-1: 

Head over to Facebook's Page Plugin docs → https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin.

Step-2: 

Enter your Facebook page URL as asked on that page. You'll get the preview of how your like box will look as shown in the image below.

If the preview doesn't show up, it means that your page is not published yet. In that case, head over to your Facebook page and publish it first.

Step-3:

By default, the box shows the page's posts too. Now, many of us including me wouldn't want that. So for that just remove the value 'timeline' from the field 'Tabs' and let it be blank.

Step-4:

Next click on the button 'Get Code' right below the preview. You'll get a popup as shown below.

There are two tabs at the top. Click on 'IFrame'.

Copy the code in the IFrame tab.

Step-5:

Now you need to paste the code wherever you want the like box to appear. 

For that, go to your Blogger dashboard and click on Layout option in the sidebar. There, click on 'Add a Gadget' where you want the box to appear.

I want it in my right sidebar so I click on the option there as seen below.

Step-6:

Click on the gadget HTML/JavaScript.
Add your code in the 'Content' box and the 'Title' field blank.

Step-7:

Click on Save. Then click on Save Arrangement button in the top right corner.

And, you're done! Your blog now has a Facebook like box of your page.

Wanna go a step ahead and add a Facebook Like button too for each of your posts?
I have done that for my blog and have written about it too here,
How To Add A Facebook Like Button To Each Blogger Post

You can do a similar thing with Twitter by adding 'Click to tweet' links which I've covered here, How To Add A Click To Tweet Link To Your Blog Or Website

The Pirate Bay's Facebook Account Is Shut Down

It has been over a week since The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police following which the site has been offline ever since, and now a few hours ago, The Pirate Bay's official Facebook page has been shut down.

As of now, it is uncertain whether the page was taken down by The Pirate Bay or Facebook.



Although their last status update goes back to December 2013, the page had over 470000 likes and remained active with fans posting on the page.

Their Twitter account on the other hand, which too hasn't been updated since December last year remains intact.

Facebook Released It's First Ad For Messenger

The ad doesn't bring out any striking new feature which could give it an upper hand over other messengers. It does have a lot of stickers though.

What is interesting is that Facebook released an ad particularly for it's messenger. Perhaps they're trying to make up for pissing people off when they forced them to download the messaging app on their phones, a while ago.

First 10 people on Facebook

Following are the first ten people to sign up on Facebook. Check out their bio and what they are doing now.

18 Effective Tips for Impressive Facebook Page Posts

The following infographic by getpostrocket.com lays down a few awesome yet simple and effective tips to make great posts on Facebook to attract plenty of fans.

 

Facebook Enables Anonymous Login Into Apps And Websites

Before, Facebook shared user's personal information with apps and users. Now with Facebook's newly brought in feature of Anonymous login, it's upto the user that when they login via Facebook whether they wish to share their personal information or not. Here's a short infographic by clicklabs on it.

Tool To Determine Your Personality Type By Analyzing Your Facebook Posts

We know that we are watched online, our feelings scanned by Google and Facebook to figure out what to sell us next. Now we can get a feel for what that looks like, thanks to a linguistic analysis tool released by a start-up, Five.

Five Labs analyzes the language in which we write, and determines our relative affiliation to five personality attributes: openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism.

Based on the initial responses to the site on Twitter, “people seem to identify pretty strongly with the personalities we generate,” said Nikita Bier, the co-founder of Five, which is working on a product for online conversations that will use similar technology. “Only about 10 percent said we were outright wrong about them.”

Part of that may be the overall vagueness of the typing, which can provoke the same kind of identification people feel for the most general newspaper horoscopes.

Mr. Bier said the point of the exercise is not precision, but to give people a sense of what social media companies are doing with us, probably with much greater sophistication.

“The predictive qualities of the five types are good for advertising,” he said. “People who are more open go to coffee shops, and have interesting apartments. You might want to give them an ad for Ikea. Neurotic people worry about their health, so you might pitch them vitamins.”

Let's see. I guess I cover all the five traits fine enough, although I never thought of myself as a very open or extraverted person; maybe online I am.
Then, you may also check the personality traits of famous people such as Mark Zuckerburg's below,
You also have the option to compare yourself to them. For instance, as it turns out, I'm actually 70% similar to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

Then again I was disheartened when they analysed that I'm merely 24% similar to Mahatma Gandhi as I strongly believe in all his ideals.

You can also check the personalities of everyone in your facebook friend list, and here as well, compare them with yourself. Apparently, I'm not that similar to my best friend as I thought.

You can also compare your friends with each other. Quite a few options, right?

Go ahead. Give it a try and let us know how accurate it was for you.

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How to Create Outstanding Social Media Pages

The requisite to promoting yourself on any social network is to ensure that your pages are perfectly set up. So here's a quick guide on creating outstanding Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and Linkedin social media pages.

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Are You Sharing Too Much Online?

As social media's usage has risen, so has people's willingness to share personal information via that medium. The problem is that what some people might think is a harmless note about going on vacation might be just the news a burglar has been waiting for. People share so much information now that one study said that 90 percent of adults think people share too much information online. But what type of potentially dangerous information is being shared and why do people share this information in the first place? Check out the Infographic to learn the answers to those questions and more. 

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The 5 Minute Guide To Getting A Job In Social Media

As more and more companies begin to offer employment opportunities in the social media world, many of us are trying to figure out how to get a foot in the door. If you want to get into this field but your efforts have proved fruitless, look no further. This unofficial guide will set you on the straight path to employment. 

by Column Five Media.
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