Top 5 Facebook Chat Secrets that you probably never knew about…

5. Hide from SELECTED People on Facebook Chat:

Do you want to Facebook Chat but don’t want certain people to see your online status?  It’s simple!

Just open Facebook Chat and click on your friends list.  Start creating a new list called “BlockList”.

Once the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. Bingo! You will now appear offline to everybody in the BlockList.  Now, you don’t need to worry about your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend or crazy family member seeing you online and chatting your brain off!

4.Access Facebook Chat From Your Desktop.

No need to go to Facebook.com if all you want to do is use Facebook chat. You can do it right from your desktop using clients like social.im , Adium or ChitChat.

3.Display Your Facebook Chat Upside Down:

This is a cool and fun trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to FlipText and type in your status. Then simply click on Flip Text and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.

2.Use Symbols

Copy and paste these to spice up your chatting on Facebook Chat

ƸӜƷ    Butterfly    ☮    Peace Sign
(●̮̮̃•̃)    Panda Face    ♩♪♫♬    Music Note
☨    Cross Sign    ☎    Phone
☯    Yin Yang    ♔    Crown
☆    Empty Star    ★    Full Star
ಌ    Heart    ♦    Diamond
♥    Black Heart    ☁    Cloud
☀    Sun    ☂    Umbrella
♀    Female    ♂    Male
♐☎☏☪☚☛☻☺☹    Others 1    ♼♽♻♺♹♨♧♥♤♣    Others 2
♲♳♴♵♶☃☝☞☟♎♰    Others 3     ಠ_ಠ ಥ_ಥ ☺ђέ«{^⌣^}»ђέ☺ ツ ｯ    Mimic
๏̯͡๏ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶    Faces 1    ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(×̯×)۶    Faces 2
“”̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿’̿’̵͇̿̿з=(•̪●)=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿ ̿””    Cowboy with two guns    (•̪●)=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿ ̿””    Boy with a Gun
╔═══╗ ♪
║███║ ♫
║ (●) ♫ ♪
╚═══╝♪♪    Sound System Music    ☻/
/▌
/\    Charlie
┌─┐ ─┐☮
│▒│ /▒/
│▒│/▒/
│▒ /▒/─┬─┐
│▒│▒|▒│▒│
┌┴─┴─┐-┘─┘
│▒┌──┘▒▒▒│
└┐▒▒▒▒▒▒“”    Peace Sign Hand

♥ (●•)(●•)
♥ /█\ /█\
♥ ||_ ||_♥    Two Lovers

1.Use creative (and hidden) Emoticons.

Bet you didn’t know about these little hidden gems!  Check out all the fun Emoticons you can use in Facebook Chat:

Emoticon Name : How you use it in the chat.

smile

:-) :) :] =)

frown

:-( :( :[ =(

tongue

:-P :P :-p :p =P

grin

:-D :D =D

gasp

:-O :O :-o :o

wink

;-) ;)

glasses

8-) 8) B-) B)

sunglasses

8-| 8| B-| B|

grumpy

>:( >:-(

unsure

:/ :-/ :\ :-\

cry

:'(

devil

3:) 3:-)

angel

O:) O:-)

kiss

:-* :*

heart

<3

kiki

^_^

squint

-_-

confused

o.O O.o

upset

>:O >:-O >:o >:-o

pacman

:v

curly lips

:3

robot

:|]

Chris Putnam

:putnam:

Shark

(^^^)

Penguin

<(“)

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This week’s Facebook Trend is to replace your standard boring profile picture with a picture of your favorite animal.  Help spread the word for this trend by sharing this post!  Simply find a picture of your favorite animal and posting this as your picture description:

“This week is FAVORITE ANIMAL PICTURES.  Post a picture of your favorite unique animal as your Facebook profile pic to participate!”

Here is our profile pic:

Hint: You can find tons of animal pictures in Google Image Search.

Some Ideas: Puppies, Giraffes, Kangaroos, Roosters, etc.

Here are some facebook tagging pictures to go along with this hot new trend.

And another:

(Via Geekers Magazine)

Sometimes it happens we feel boredom to put our real pics again and again or we don’t want to put our Real pics in any online profiles. So why dont we do some intresting things by create a cartoon characters of yourself? It’ll be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles such as Facebook and it also give a new look to your online profile!

There are many free web services and applications which can create cartoon of yourself and you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. Here you can find some of the best tools including Face your Manga, South Park and Meez ( A 3D Animated Avatar generator ) character generators. Here’s 9 websites that allows you to create a cartoon character of yourself.

Face Your Manga

Create your Avatar with Face Your Manga! Express yourself through your image and share it whoever you want. Enjoy yourself by discovering unlimited combinations to realize your virtual alter‐ego!

Yahoo Avatars

South Park Studio

For South Park fans, now cartoonize yourself and become one of them!

Simpson Avatar Generator

Meez – 3D Animated Avatar generator

One of the best Avatar Generator. By using Meez avatar maker you can Build and animate your own 3D avatar for free!

WeeWorld Avatar Maker

Portrait Illustration Avatar Maker

Cartoon Me

Cartoonize yourself as simple as uploading your photo, just upload your own pic, then click on Next and Bingo you will get cartoon Illustrator of yourself.

Befunky

BeFunky arms you with simple but innovative tools to turn ordinary digital photos into incredible artwork and designs that defy imagination.

Article originally found on GEEKERS Magazine.

Copy & Paste these symbols into your Facebook Status for some awesome results.  You’re welcome!

웃유 Σ⊗♒☠☮☯ ♠Ω♤♣♧ ♥♡♦♢♔ ♕♚♛⚜★ ☆✮✯☄ ☾☽☼ ☀☁☂☃ ☻☺☹۞۩ ♬✄✂ ✆✉✦✧ ♱♰∞ ♂♀ ☿❤❥ ❦❧™ ®©✖ ✗✘⊗♒ ■□▢ ▲△ ▼▽◆◇ ○◎● ◯Δ◕◔ ʊϟღツ 回₪

Let’s start a new FB Trend folks!  I call it, “Would You Rather?”.  It’s kind of like the questions game but, instead you ask really weird questions about would you rather.

The responses that you get to this are absolutely absurd and hilarious.  Try it out and you’ll thank me in no time!

Would You Rather….

Would you rather always take a cold shower or sleep an hour less than you need to be fully rested?
Would you rather always get first dibs or the last laugh?
Would you rather always have to say everything on your mind or never speak again?
Would you rather always lose or never play?
Would you rather always wear earmuffs or a nose plug?
Would you rather always win pie-eating contests or always win wheelbarrow races?
Would you rather be 3 feet tall or 8 feet tall?
Would you rather be 3 feet taller or 3 feet shorter?
Would you rather be a deep sea diver or an astronaut?
Would you rather be a dog named Killer or a cat named Fluffy?
Would you rather be a giant hamster or a tiny rhino?
Would you rather be a tree or live in a tree?
Would you rather be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say?
Would you rather be able to read everyone’s mind all the time or always know their future?
Would you rather be able to stop time or fly?
Would you rather be an unknown minor league basketball player or a famous professional badminton star?
Would you rather be born with an elephant trunk or a giraffe neck?
Would you rather be forced to tell your best friend a lie or tell your parents the truth?
Would you rather be forgotten or hatefully remembered?
Would you rather be go about your normal day naked or fall asleep for a year?
Would you rather be gossipped about or never talked about at all?
Would you rather be hairy all over or completely bald?
Would you rather be happy for 8hrs/day and poor or sad for 8hr/day and rich?
Would you rather be invisible or be able to read minds?
Would you rather be rich and ugly, or Poor and good looking?
Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?
Would you rather be the most popular or the smartest person you know?
Would you rather be the sand castle or the wave?
Would you rather eat a bar of soap or drink a bottle of dishwashing liquid?
Would you rather eat a handful of hair or lick three public telephones?
Would you rather eat a stick of butter or a gallon of ice cream?
Would you rather eat a stick of margarine or five tablespoons of hot pepper sauce?
Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?
Would you rather end hunger or hatred?
Would you rather find true love or 10 million dollars?
Would you rather forget who you were or who everyone else was?
Would you rather get caught singing in the mirror or spying on your crush?
Would you rather get even or get over it?
Would you rather give bad advice or take bad advice?
Would you rather give up your computer or your pet?
Would you rather go to an amusement park or to a family reunion?
Would you rather go without television or junk food for the rest of your life?
Would you rather have a beautiful house and ugly car or an ugly house and beautiful car?
Would you rather have a kangaroo or koala as your pet?
Would you rather have a missing finger or have an extra toe?
Would you rather have one wish granted today or three wishes granted in 10 years?
Would you rather have x-ray vision or bionic hearing?
Would you rather invent a cure for cancer or a cure for AIDS?
Would you rather kiss a jellyfish or step on a crab?
Would you rather know it all or have it all?
Would you rather live without music or live without T.V.?
Would you rather love and not be loved back, or be loved but never love?
Would you rather make headlines for saving somebody’s life or winning a nobel prize?
Would you rather meet an alien visitor or travel to outer space?
Would you rather never use the internet again or never watch TV again?
Would you rather not be able to use your phone or your e-mail?
Would you rather only be able to whisper or only be able to shout?
Would you rather own a ski lodge or a surf camp?
Would you rather publish your diary or make a movie on your most embarrassing moment?
Would you rather spend the day surfing the internet or the ocean?
Would you rather sweat moderately but constantly 24 hours a day all over your body or have a metal pin in your jaw that constantly picks up talk radio stations?
Would you rather die from falling off a cliff or by being threatened.