“This is the heart of the Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up. We’re calling it ‘Timeline,” said Zuckerberg, “Timeline is the story of your life: all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.”

The timeline is a realtime stream that shows you all of the events, images and posts that are important to you, while hiding the items that it feels are not important. A sort of ‘automatic autobiography’.

The Timeline lays out everything that you’ve shared from apps and maps to photos and status messages. There is also a large, wide new header that allows you to show off an image that you choose as a welcome mat of sorts for visitors to your profile. Your avatar is also still present.

Zuckerberg also says that you have complete control over what is on the Timeline, where it displays and who can see it. There is a heavy emphasis on privacy with this new version of the profile.

If you missed an important event in your Timeline, you can go back and insert it at the appropriate point.

Many of the new apps that work with Timeline are available today, but Timeline itself won’t be rolling out for a few weeks.

Check out Timeline official page Click here

There are a massive amount of changes coming to Facebook today so stay tuned. We’ll be covering them extensively.

How to Activate Video Chat:
To activate video chat on Facebook, visit http://facebook.com/videocalling and click Get Started. Here you need to download a simple application and install it. You can do that by clicking Setup.

Once you are done with this one time setup, you will see a big sidebar containing the person you mostly interact with – added with a video camera icon, simply click on it to start the video conversation. But note that the person you are trying to call should also go through the above mentioned procedure just once.

Whenever someone tries to call you, you will hear a bell first and then notification will come to accept or reject the video call.

Another important feature that Facebook has integrated is, send video messages. So if someone you are trying to call is unavailable, simply record your message and send it to other person as a video.

Call your friends right from Facebook
Just click the call button at the top of your friend’s profile or chat window — no need to launch new software. No answer? Leave a video message.

In Pakistan where ‘social media’ has already breached enough through our veins, we usually mean Facebook by social media. Facebook, in no doubt, is providing an unmatched platform, at the moment, to the individuals as well as organizations.

Be it an advertising campaign or awareness movement, Facebook provides you free of cost place to gather people.

Earlier we have seen people going on roads against the current government, which had no positive outcomes considering one important fact that dire awareness is needed.

Once again we are going to witness another protest against the government, specifically against President Asif Ali Zardari – and the venue is Facebook.

But the bad thing is that the line has just been crossed – instead of protesting – Facebook users have started abusing, which is immoral, unethical and not acceptable to anyone.

We are not siding any political party or thoughts here and this is not a promotional post for the event but to praise the idea and to discourage the approach.

> So far, around 26,000 Pakistanis have affirmed to celebrate the day
> Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214636641903028

Positive criticism in healthy manner is always welcomed and it is the essence of being morally responsible that instead of launching violent protests and campaigns, which end up with utter loss of public but nothing else, things like this should better be adopted than going uncivilized.

But another factor that should be kept in mind that we are supposed to remain in limits here. With great power, comes great responsibility.

And we have the power of social media but using it the right way can bring the awareness, changes and the positivism, we all Pakistanis urge for.

originally copied from: propakistani.pk

The Facebook group was launched less than a month ago with the number of members growing dramatically, with nearly 250,000 people expressing support for launching a third Intifada on May 15, marked by Arabs as Nakba Day – a day where Palestinians mark the “catastrophe of Israel’s establishment.”

In his letter, Edelstein stressed that he wasn’t writing in his official capacity but as someone who shares the values of freedom of expression, and said he believed that there must be a discernable difference between freedom of expression and freedom to incite.

The founders of the group hope that a popular uprising like those that broke out in the Arab world would also bring about the downfall of the State of Israel, with the help of groups supporters in the Palestinian Authority and countries bordering on Israel.

Muslim boycott

The group’s doctrines include a call for simultaneous protests on the Jordanian, Egyptian and Syrian borders while Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza will launch attacks on Israeli settlements. Moreover, they ask for “the help of our brothers in Lebanon” who will assist by raining missiles down on Israel.

Since its launch, the Facebook group has received a great deal of coverage in the Palestinian and Arab media. Its founders, who remain anonymous, warned Facebook that shutting down their page would lead the Muslim world to boycott Facebook.

It seems that the threat did little to impress the site managers as one of the group’s founders who calls himself “Son of Palestine” reported calls for violence.

Son of Palestine also accused Facebook’s management team of forging the number of supporters the group has, claiming that the number is much higher than 250,000.

During the searching at facebook for the victims of Airblue flight ED 202i got 15 profiles. I was unable to read their last wall posts due to their provacy. But some victim profiles were available to see for every one.

Prem Chand

Mr. Prem Chand hails from Sanghar, Sindh. He was born on April 03, 1984 and is studying for a Masters in Social Work at the University of Sindh. He is a social work student and performs numerous activities in this regard.

His last wall post at facebook was an social quote

Owais Bin Laiq

Mr. Owais Bin Laiq hails from Karachi and was born on June 20, 1988. Following the completion of his GCE O and A Levels, he joined the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) for a bachelor degree in business administration. Passionately engaged in the field of media, he is currently the manager of the Media and Publication Society at IBA and has also won various contests, such as the National Samaa TV Documentary Competition. Mr. Laiq also notably interned at International Business Machine (IBM). Possessing a keen interest in traveling, he has visited India, Iran, UAE, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Owais write last wall post at facebook related to his travel to Islamabad. Its look like that e was existed for it

Bilal Jamaee

Mr. Bilal Jamaee was born on June 14, 1987 in Karachi. He is a 2nd Year student for Mass Communication at the University Of Karachi and is the General Secretary of ‘Bazm-e-Adab’. He has participated in numerous Debating Competitions and written a number of stories for children’s magazines. Mr. Jamee has worked for two years at Elite Pulishers as Asst. Manager.

Bilal last post at facebook was a comment on the post who was written by Owais about his new picture.

Owais Khan and his wife

This was a newly marriage couple. Their last post was actually a wish to some one whose name is Faraz.

Hassan Adeel

I have no information about it. But his last wall post was only one word.

Asad Naveed

This time some one else is using Asad Naveed facebook account, may be a friend or family member. I did not get any of his wall post. But there was an update about his relationship was his last activity at facebook.

Naveed Ilyas

It was not possible to view his wall posts due to facebook error. But one of his friend told me about his last wall post.

I have more profile links of those who was martyred in plane crash, but due to their profile privacy i am enable to see their last wall posts. I had sent email to their friends to let me know about their last wall posts. If they give me the information, i will update this post in coming days.

May Allah Give Strength To The Affected Families. Give Them Courage To Cope With Their Loss. May Allah Show Mercy On Those Who Passed Away On That Plane.

Ameen

But the result was totally unexpected. Because the Muslim countries other than Pakistan have neither blocked facebook nor Media (Specially Pakistani) show anything related to but response against those who want to boycott facebook in the name of education. Especially GEo TV who is also known as “JEW TV” show different report in their show “Ajj Kamran Khan Kay Sath” that due to banned of facebook and youtube, Pakistan cut off from the world and the banned also effecting students education.

I want to ask them that how did you get education through facebook and youtube? facebook and youtube are two social net working and social media sites respectively where people login for social networking. “May be” “some” Pakistani use youtube as education purpose (i don’t think so, but let us suppose) but how did they get education through facebook? May be they learn some thing for their exams by helping their neighbors in Farmville? Huh!!

Any ways, I thanked Pakistani Gov and specially PTA who blocked facebook and helped those including me who want to remove the hate page from facebook.

But its hurting me because the other Muslim countries has not show any response about this event and not a single news was published about it. And that is the end where boycott against facebook is useless. Because only 1% of facebook traffic came from Pakistan, its around 2.2 millions, and this little amount of people boycott will never effect profit of facebook.

So here are the main reasons, which makes protest against facebook failed?

1. Pakistani Media does not support the boycott.
2. Pakistani Media does not spread the public view about facebook after banned
3. Muslim country does not promote boycott against facebook.
4. The whole Muslim Ummah once against failed to be united.
5. The banned on facebook is just temporary.
6. Legal action should be taken against facebook.
7. No IT expert help to make make boycott successful.
8. International media have not show any statement from the other side, facebook.

So, next time when some one stand for religion should remember that only rely on your own strength rather than expecting help from any one.

According to the report, Islamic Lawyers Movement filed the petition in Lahore High Court (LHC) through Chaudhry Zulfiqar advocate, who stated that under the law no practice against Islam could be allowed in the country.

He told the court that the website, having various features against the injunctions of Islam, is banned in various countries.

On Tuesday, LHC issued notice to the Ministry of Communication to submit its reply.

Ministry of Communication told that the link of blasphemous caricatures has been blocked, adding that the website can not be completely banned.

Facebook users in Pakistan, however, told AFP they could still access the site after the ban was imposed on Wednesday.

Officials with the Pakistani government told the court they had already blocked Facebook pages relating to the competition, but the lawyers group argued that no part of a site can be banned unless the entire site is blocked.

Pakistan has 45 million Facebook users, according to lawyers.

The Facebook page for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” had just over 40,000 supporters while the opposing “Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” had more than 53,000.

Every body Draw Mohammed Day is an Event in which Jews and non- muslims are going to draw a sketch of Hazrat Muhammad PBUH (naozubillah) The Event is going to be held on 20th Of May 2010.

You can report about this event from here

“Open the link ” http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113257775375783 then click report event ,choose reason & submit.21th May 2010 remove accounts”

The bad thing is that after thousands of reporting against this event facebook not yet closed or removed this event. Because one of facebook employee is admin of this event.

So, here i am going to tell you how could you damage facebook throug boycott.

• Don’t click any ad you see on the right side of each facebook page. Because every time you click on the add facebook get money for this through advertiser.
• Don’t buy anything from facebook like some people buy gift credits to send birthday wishes.
• Many of us play farmville and other game by same company Zynga. Try to stop playing this game. If you can’t then dont buy any thing like XP or coins through credit card. Because facebook earn commision on each sale
• Upload as much as videos and picture (prefered to upload Islamic stuff) through this we can make heavy their datacenter and they will need to purchase new one (which will be too expensive)
• Don’t use facebook ad to promote your business. Use google adword for this. because this is the main source of facebook to earn money
• Don’t invite your friends and family members to facebook.
• Share link of this post with as much as people you can, so every person become part of this protest against facebook