Top seven Facebook apps for business and marketing

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With an increasing number of web surfers and online shoppers, businesses are finding it more important than ever to reach out to the internet community. One of the best ways for a business to go viral is through strong use of certain applications that are linked to social networking sites. Here is a list of the top seven Facebook apps for business and marketing.

1. Networked Blogs - The Networked Blogs apps allows a business’ Facebook page to work like a blogroll, allowing users to promote their blog and link Facebook users over to their page. This directory of blogs linked right to Facebook sorts your posts by topic, allowing you greater user following.

2. Fanappz- Fan Appz engagement and promotional applications are designed for that purpose — to create unique and brand-specific experiences for your fans that enable them to interact with your brand. Fan Appz offers powerful promotional applications. Build a sweepstakes in which your fans are incentivized to invite their friends, or create an exciting promotional offer that requires fans to “like” your page and check in to a physical location to unlock an offer.

3. My LinkedIn Profile - The My LinkedIn Profile app displays a business’ LinkedIn profile on their Facebook account. LinkedIn is the go-to place to showcase career profiles and seek employees, so this app gives you greater access to the professional world.

4. SocialFly - The SocialFly application allows business page owners to make notes about their professional contacts, as well as to set notifications to contact them after a certain period of time. With SocialFly, businesses never lose track of their professional contacts!

5. Workin’ It! – Functioning similarly to a LinkedIn profile, Workin’ It! lets users send out their work history to companies seeking employees. This application also allows users to send work history to clients and retrieve recommendation from past clients and employers.

6. MyMoney – MyMoney is designed specifically with small businesses in mind. With a number of features to help manage your finances, MyMoney allows you to view account balances, transfer money and review account history, all under the protection of security measures in place to ensure your information stays safe.

7. Pagemodo – Pagemodo helps even the most inexperienced web user create a visually appealing and fully customizable business page. Pagemodo even allows business owners to display products on their main page.

If you’re ready to break into the world of online shopping and social networking, your business will greatly benefit from use of any of the top 10 Facebook apps for business and marketing. Improve your business today.

Latest Facts You Need To Be Aware Of

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Facebook has grown to become the most popular social networking website in a lot of English-speaking countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Facebook penetration is highest in North America  with a penetration rate of 69%, this is followed closely by Middle East-Africa at 67 percent, Latin America  has a penetration rate of 58 percent while Europe to my surprise has a penetration rate of 57 percent, Asia-Pacific has 17 percent penetration rate

In May 2012, the countries with the most Facebook users were:

• United States with 157.3 million members
• Brazil with 47.0 million members
• India with 46.3 million members
• Indonesia with 42.2 million members
• Mexico with 33.1 million members

Below are some of the Facebook Facts and Figures 

85%+ of all college students use FACEBOOK and 70% of them log in EVERYDAY.
People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
Over 70% of all USA internet users are on Facebook
More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex.
In 60 minutes 3,000,000 links are shared on Facebook.
In 60 minutes 4,452,000 event invites are posted.
In 60 minutes 3,969,000 photos are tagged.
In 60 minutes 5,553,000 status updates are entered.
In 60 minutes 6 million friend requests are accepted.
In 60 minutes 8,148,000 photos are uploaded.
In 60 minutes 8,148,000 messages are sent.
In 60 minutes 31 million comments are posted.
In 60 minutes 4,761,000 wall posts are written.
50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user on Facebook has 130 friends
People spend over 175 billion minutes per week on Facebook
There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
About 80% of Facebook users are outside the United States
More than 500 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices
Facebook is the second most visited website just behind Google (at the moment)
Al Pacino’s face was used on the original Facebook homepage
How does Facebook make their money? Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
The initial investment on Facebook was made by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal, he invested $500,000
Facebook is valued at just about $100 billion
There are more than 900 million active users on Facebook

10 More Amazing Facts of Facebook.

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 The average user has 130 friends

Are you worried about your popularity? The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people. 

So, what's YOUR number?

 Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook

A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users -- 70% of whom were male -- found that 25% had been "dumped" via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status).

Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single." While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.

PD: This photo is from a genuine FB status.

 Facebook doesn't allow breastfeeding photos

Facebook, the popular social networking website, provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it yanked photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)

In response to the terse notices alerting mothers that they were violating Facebook's decency policy, "lactivists" responded with a virtual nurse-in; 11,000 women posted photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or updated their profiles to read: "Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!"

The pro-breastfeeding group has attracted over 250,000 members.

 Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces

It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating.

 Al Pacino was the first ‘face' on Facebook

Remember that sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to stare you down every time you went to log in? They did away with him in 2007, so if you were late to the social networking party, then you probably have absolutely no idea what we're talking about. Anyway according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with a fog of ones and zeros — the elementary components of digital media.” Crazy, right?

 36% of users check Facebook, Twitter or texts after sex

Lighting a cigarette after sex? That's soooo last season.

An October 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that social networks are becoming an increasingly important part of young people's lives. Among under-35s, 36% admitted to "tweeting, texting and checking Facebook after sex." Forty percent of respondents admitted to doing so while driving, 64% said they do so at work, and 65% use these communication channels while on vacation.

 Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder

Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US phychologists for those who are addicted to Facebook and their life is really affected by their uncontrolled activities on Facebook. The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases.

It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.

 Facebook users have lower grades than non-users

According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.

The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.

 Burger King gave away free burgers to users who unfriended people on Facebook

In January 2009, an advertising campaign from Burger King titled “WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for publicly deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free hamburger. The campaign, conceived by Burger King agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky and executed by Refresh Partners, used the tag line “Friendship Is Strong, but The Whopper Is Stronger.” 

At press time the application had been downloaded more than 55,000 times and over 250,000 ‘friends' were sacrificed. 

 A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook

On perhaps one of the worst crimes perpetrated in Facebook, a Pennsylvania father was arrested for allegedly asking his teen daughter for sex over Facebook. John Forehand, 39, referred to himself as "Bad Daddy" in the online correspondence with his 13 year-old daughter, in which he openly propositioned her and made explicit sexual suggestions. Forehand told his daughter he had been having "inappropriate" dreams about her, and wrote to her, "I'll take very good care of my little girl."

The girl told her mother about the inappropriate Facebook messages, and she then alerted the police. The police captured Forehand by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting with his daughter. How sick is that?