10 ways makes Facebook better

Facebook may be the de facto social network of, frankly, almost everyone, but that doesn't mean you have to use Facebook exactly the way its creators, or your Farmville-addicted friends, want you to. Here are 10 tweaks to make Facebook better.

10. Access Facebook Chat Through Your Preferred Client

Feel free to set that little box in the lower-right hand corner of the Facebook page, the chat box, to "Go Offline." If you really want to have even more up-to-the-second chats with your Facebook contacts, you can do so through your own favorite client: Pidgin, Adium, iChat, Trillian, Digsby, whatever you'd like. Many clients have set up Facebook log-in on their own, but if not, you can do so with some simple XMPP configuration.

9. Back Up Your Account with SocialSafe

There's a whole lot of data, and photos, in your Facebook account, and getting them all out is no small feat. SocialSafe, which costs just $3, lets you save all your photos, friends, photo albums, and even friends' photos that you're tagged in, along with your status updates. It doesn't grab everything in and around your account, but enough to liberate you from feeling chained to the service. 

8. Have a Plan for Your Account After Death

It could be more than a little awkward for friends, distant relatives, and others to leave you messages on your Facebook account, then find out you passed away. Even more awkward for those around you when people go digging through your account, or when your account can't be deactivated. All pause for thought, and a motivator to set up a post-mortem plan for Facebook. There are services that offer professional account-after-death services, like Entrustet and Legacy Locker, but really, just thinking through a system where somebody you trust has the keys to your account and instructions on what you want done with it. Officially, Facebook offers a "memorialized" account for relatives that can prove their loved one is deceased, but won't hand over the keys to anyone on their own part.

7. Prevent Sites from Auto-Customizing Content with Your Facebook Login

You can turn off Facebook's "Instant Personalization" service in your settings, but the reality of your Facebook login status following around the web, and occasionally allowing less scrupulous sites to glom on, is still there. Shut down access to your Facebook credentials from anyone except Facebookusing Adblock Plus and custom filters.

6. Filter and Compress Your Activity Alerts

If you let Facebook dictate how it emails you about status updates, replies, "Likes," and other changes, it will overwhelm you. If you leave it to yourself to check, you can just as easily overwhelm your willpower to avoid distraction. Compress all your Facebook notifications into one or two emails per day with NutshellMail, a social media aggregator that we recommended for filtering and managing your online social life and never missing important events—that last one set up so that event invitations come through right away, but friends tagging you in old college photos waits for your end-of-day web checks.

5. Find Out When Anyone Else Logs into Your Account

Maybe you left yourself signed in at a friend's house. Perhaps you found out too late that you should have given your old cellphone a better wiping clean. However it is that you're concerned about other people getting access to your account, you can wipe the slate clean and pin it down from your Facebook settings. As the Trouble Fixers blog explains, there are settings to get email or SMS notices whenever your account is accessed from a "new" device, be it a browser, phone, or other gizmo, once you wipe the slate clean and register your computers and phones as authorized.

4. Get Back the Basic Privacy You Signed Up For

If you'd wanted everything you posted to be public, you'd use Twitter. If you wanted all your co-workers to see it, you'd send it over email. You signed up for Facebook to give a select group of friends access to the more private side of your life and thoughts, and you can get back to that kind of small-circle feeling. We've previously posted guides toFacebook's simpler privacy controls, as well as getting back to what you first signed up for. Even with Facebook's latest round of comprehension improvements, it's still worth looking at what you might not know you're sharing.

3. "Quit" Facebook While Still Staying in Touch

Facebook can be more trouble than it's worth, especially for those who have anything approaching privacy concerns. Still, it's becoming the world's phonebook replacement, and some people still want to get messages and sign in for events when necessary. So go ahead and quit Facebook without actually quitting Facebook, by wiping out one account and building another with very limited access to prying eyes.

2. Strip Out Annoying Facebook "Games," Quizzes, and Other Cruft

Sure, you can click on every single one of your friends' indulgences to hide them, but there will always be another questionnaire, turn-based addiction machine, or other viral thing right around the corner. Wipe them all clean from your account with F.B. Purity(technically "Fluff Busting Purity"), a user script that installs on nearly every major browser and cleans away all those status updates you never want to see again.

1. Stop Your Friends from Revealing Your Location

Facebook's new Places feature? Yeah, it's a lot like Foursquare, Gowalla, and other I'm-here-right-now apps. The big difference is that your Facebook friends can, by default, check you in somewhere without your knowledge. To prevent letting everyone else publish your social calendar, you can disable Facebook Places, or just disable your friends' ability to geo-tag you.


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