We all have a Facebook that we spend countless hours on, but is it possibly to turn your Facebook page into a fundraiser for the organization closest to your heart? The answer is an unanimous YES! Facebook is becoming one of the leading tools non-profits have turned to, for fundraising during the downturn in the economy. Here’s how they are doing it:

1. Create a Facebook Group for your organization:

This allows you to get the word out about your charity and becomes the face of your donation page. The goal is to get the traffic to the group page to increase from not only your friends, but also the friends of your friends that are joining the group.

2. Find a sponsor to offer a match:

The business essentially universally admits to the  usefulness of Facebook for networking, advertising, marketing research, easy background checking, and other purposes.  As Facebook grows, users spend increasingly more time accessing it, driving potential internet entrepreneurs to this growing and easily accessible market.  One important concern to keep in mind through all of this, however, is that of scams.  While Mark’s instance in the picture provides a comical example of someone annoyed with the lemming-like nature of many Facebook users, it brings to light a valid point:  Some people will unquestioningly accept what they see on Facebook.  In light of this, there are two applications:

1. For Consumers- If the price is too good to be true, it’s probably not. “Free” products advertised beside your news feed are hardly that- check the fine print to see what other merchandise you have to buy and how many magazine subscriptions you need to purchase.

2. For Entrepreneurs- You are not getting rich quick, you are getting scammed. If paying $20 to be privy to that “trade secret” advertised would make everyone’s website an instant cash cow, everyone would be doing it.

Oh dear.

Your facebook data is finally safe (at least in this one area). Joy.

Note: HTTPS browsing is slowly being released to FB members these next two weeks; if you don’t see the box there just wait a few days and check again.

With 4,547,677 monthly active users family feud is one of the most popular games on Facebook.

Facebook is not only addictive in keeping up on old friends and finding out about new ones, you can also spend hours and hours of time playing addictive family fun games.

Family Feud is a game based on the TV game show, ‘Family Feud’. You play 4 rounds, each round guessing the top answers on the board. To continue you have to beat the average score, if you do you get to play fast money. After you complete fast money you send your half of the score to somebody else to have them compete and try to reach 200 points.

For completing all of the different parts of the game you receive points and  then you are ranked against all of your other friends that play the game.

Family feud is addicting and also made in such a way that you get points for getting your friends addicted also. The whole time you play you are on Facebook and seeing the ads pop up that Facebook puts up. Any of the games are draws for Facebook to advertise their sponsors.

Family feud is addicting and a great advertiser.

Yes people, it is true, not everyone likes Facebook. Even though the company has just passed Amazon.com to become the second most valuable web based corporation, second only to Google, not everyone enjoys Mike Zuckerberg’s creation.

A Philadelphia (Miss.) High graduating senior, C.J. Johnson, who also happens to be one of the nations top recruits to play division one football next fall, is less than thrilled with facebook. After receiving countless bogus comments on his facebook account for reasons why he decided to decommit from Mississippi State and later sign with rival Ole Miss, Johnson decided he had enough. His final post stated…. 

“This is my last Facebook post and I’m gonna leave facebook with this. Linda Johnson has never worked as a house worker making 100,000 dollars a year and I will not be a Mississippi state bulldog and I’m not considering Mississippi state anymore bc you have constantly comment on my page send me crazy inboxes and has made my recruiting experience a living nightmare. Goodbye facebook.”

All is not inherently good for this social network. According to Johnson, Facebook is a “LIVING NIGHTMARE” causing one of his greatest moments in life to become one of his darkest.