Dating is something that will never go out of fashion. People have been using the dating apps for a long time. There was a time when there were no smartphones and only internet. Even at that time there were dating websites. However, with the smartphones have evolved and now we have the great dating apps like Tinder. In fact, Tinder is the most popular dating app around the world. Millions of people use Tinder today.

Tinder has many features that make it easy for you to find a match. This is one of the biggest reasons why it is so popular.

In order to use Tinder and find new people, you need a Facebook login. This means that you must have a Facebook account to use this app. But, many people are not comfortable using their Facebook account. So, what are their options? Let’s take a look.

Tinder without Facebook

First of all, let’s make one thing very clear. You cannot login to Tinder if you do not have a Facebook account. There is no workaround for this. If you wish to login to this application you will need a Facebook ID and matching password.

So, this must mean there is absolutely no way at all to use Tinder without Facebook. Yes, that is true. But there is one thing you can do.

You will need to login with your Facebook account to use Tinder. However, it doesn’t mean that you use your original account for that purpose. For whatever reasons you don’t want to use your Facebook account, you can avoid that now. You simply need to create a new Facebook account with a new email address. It will be like a clone of your original Facebook account. You can upload the same pictures as your original account. You can also have the same name. So, the only thing you will not have on the new Facebook account is your friends in the list.


Creating a new account doesn’t mean that you impersonate yourself as someone else. Since you are looking to date, you will want to make sure that you are being honest about it. You are simply cloning the account. You are not misleading anyone on Tinder.

Your original account is also fine

We will tell you why it is okay to use Tinder with your original account. Maybe you are concerned that Tinder will use your personal information and there will be a privacy breach. The truth is that Tinder is a reliable and trusted application and it will do no such thing. There are lots of trusted apps that use your Facebook login

If you are concerned that your friends will discover you are using Tinder, again you need not worry. This is because Tinder does not post anything on Facebook on your behalf. Even if any of your friends is using Tinder, they will not be able to see you. Tinder does not show the Tinder users from your friend’s list. So, again, you will remain undiscovered by your friends.

Who doesnt' have a Facebook or Twitter?


Nowadays, you'll rarely meet a person who doesn't have these two social media websites. The online presence of these two have an influential reach, that's why a lot of popular brands have jumped in the social media bandwagon since it began. It is truly an effective way to engage with your customers and followers, as it easily gets your messages across and helps build reputation and brand recognition.

Now, what social media platform to use, you might ask. It's advisable to have both Facebook and Twitter for your products and services. But if you want to know which has the most advantage when it comes to social media marketing use, then read on.

1. Images/Links

Posts are easily seen, such as screencaps of links, pictures, and videos.

In Facebook, posting a picture can be easily seen, and users immediately have an idea of what the post is all about. Even if it's with links to other pages, you get an idea of the topic of the article through an image screencap. Making an album is easier through Facebook, and you can easily locate your images through the timeline photo album or a more customized one. Even videos are sorted out into an album.

In Twitter, you can post an image, but you have to click on the image preview so you can see the whole of it. And you can't make an album; instead, you have to go to the "Photos and Videos" part of the Twitter page and click on the link to see the images and videos posted.

When it comes to user-friendly image interface, Facebook wins in this one.

2. Events/Groups/Invitations

Facebook provides a feature wherein you can make groups or events, and can be customized into public or private. If it's a public group or event, anyone can join. If it's set into private, the group or event is through invitation only. Either the user applies to be invited, or another invited member invites another user to join the group or event. When you're invited, you can post on the wall, comment on other posts, and be in the know about the latest about the group's cause.

Twitter doesn't have a feature wherein you can create a public or private group. But one can create a Twitter page about certain causes, products, services, and events, and have people follow you.

Facebook is still the way to go if you want to create a group and gather like-minded people to participate.

3. Hashtags

Twitter pioneered in hashtag use that helps users find a certain topic. Using the hash sign ( # ), a Twitter user will be directed to tweets about the said topic. This is very effective in marketing, because campaigns are started on Twitter through a user-generated hashtag. For example, a cosmetic industry can promote their new line of make-up through a hashtag in order to spread word about their newest products. #BoldRed is an idea if the cosmetic line wants to promote their newest lipstick color. So that's how hashtag marketing works.

Facebook just caught up with the hashtag use, and users can now use hashtags on Facebook. But it still has a long way to go before it can achieve what Twitter has done with hashtag marketing. Some posts in Facebook are private, and therefore, you can't see all posts using a certain hashtag. Twitter wins with hashtag use.

4. Customer Interaction

Facebook is more of reactions, while in Twitter, you can get directly by tweeting a Twitter user. Say, a customer had problems with a certain restaurant and wants to speak up about it through social media. If it's on Facebook, it's more on ranting and posting. There's a chance that even if you tag the said establishment on your public post or go directly to the Facebook page, your post might drown in all the other wall posts. If you decide to take it out on Twitter by tweeting the page for that establishment, it can be seen easily, because of the mention of the page on that tweet. There's a chance that someone might directly reply to your tweet.

It's a mix of timing, word choices, and user interaction if you want to praise a service or complain about it on Twitter or Facebook. So there's no singled-out social media platform for this purpose.

5. Popularity

Facebook and Twitter are two of the most popular forms of social media platforms. Both are highly recommended for brand promotion and interaction, although you have to tailor your posts and tweets so you will get noticed. What is it that makes your brand different? Make it stand out from the rest. Gaining a lot of followers doesn't happen overnight, and it takes hard work to spread the word about your products and services through these two social media outlets.

These are just comparisons between Twitter and Facebook for social media marketing. It's up to you on how to utilize both websites for marketing purposes. After all, it's not with the platform, but with the presentation, that makes social media marketing effective.

Author Bio: Lauren Todd is a freelancer at uk essay writers. She reads a lot about social media marketing, and it helps her to be in the know about the subject.

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As well all grow increasingly involved in online communities and social media, we expose ourselves and our families to more and more people, in more and more ways. While this is fun, entertaining, and even builds real connections, some caution is recommended. As with any strangers, be aware of danger!

What’s at Risk?

Identity theft is usually the first risk that comes to mind when discussing online safety. Identity theft is a major concern and can lead to disastrous ripple effects. This is not at all the only risk present though. You could also go the TMI route and cause problems at work or for future jobs.

Stay Safe Out There!

Follow these ten privacy tips and you will have a safer experience online using social media.

• Nom de Plume - For purely social interactions, such as on FaceBook or Twitter, there is no good reason to use your legal name. Your friends all know your nickname, so why not use that? Using a legal full name is an invitation for criminals to see you as ripe for the picking. 
• Address Unknown - Never post your address publicly online. Really, why would you need to? PM, baby, PM!
• App Aversion - Avoid the social media apps as much as you can. They notoriously offer some cute game in exchange for the data they mined from you. All that risk for crushed candy?
• Nothing to See Here - No nudity, okay? Not even a nip slip. Just don’t do it. And limit the crazed party shots too, drunky!
• The Separation of Work & Friends - Try not to hook up with your co-workers on non-career oriented social media. It is all too likely that things will overlap, possibly causing some awkwardness for you. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean?
• What’s the Password? - This is the best online safety tip that there is, and the most frequently ignored admonishment as well. Choose good passwords, and change them often. The definition of good is probably best chosen by a random password generator. Often. Just do it.
• Do Not Trust, Verify - As you go around social media you may see things that are almost too good to be true, that is because they are. Do not trust who you meet, what you read, offers to buy, and more, without verifying the source and the information.
• On Vacation - Stop telling the internet when you are leaving for vacation and your house will be conveniently open to thieves!
• No Children Allowed - And keep your kids off of most social media too. These last two tips are just so obvious, but...
• Privacy Settings, Use ‘Em - When all else fails, read the instructions.

Lock Up!

The dangers you face online using social media are very real. But most of these dangers can be avoided entirely, or at the very least lessened significantly. If you batten down the hatches and take some precautionary steps, you’ll be fine out there.

Author Bio: Sara Xiang searches for homes in lake Tahoe online when she's able to spend a little time dreaming about her future life.

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Everyone knows about using photos of more attractive strangers to catfish unsuspecting suckers on the internet. There’s the enraged ex,posting photos of their beloved with the intent to humiliate them into reconciliation. But more often than not, photos are stolen by the lazy. Those too slack to make their own images.

It seems the only guaranteed anti-theft is to never post anything. If thieves want it, they’ll take it. Depressing, and true.

How do you know if your photos are being used by other people? These steps will guide you through a simple search of the internet to find your photos. With any luck, you’ll just find your Facebook page, Twitter feed, or Instagram account.

Are You Feeling Lucky?

You will end up with a list of all websites where your photos appear, with or without your permission. These steps are simple - follow them carefully. Here we go!

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• You are going to use the website Google to create a “Reverse Image Search”.
• Open your internet browser.
• Find the image you want to investigate.
• Bring your pointer to hover over the image.
• Use the right click function.
• Now you will copy the URL of your image.
• If you are using Firefox, select “Copy Image Location”.
• If you are using Safari, select “Copy Image Address”.
• If you are using Explorer, select ‘Properties’, highlight the “Address”, click CTRL-C.
• Paste your image’s URL that you copied into Google and click “Search”.
• You will get a result page and you next click “Search by Image”.
• A grid of “Visually Similar Images” will appear.
• Scroll down to see the image you are searching for.
• Click on each image to take you to where your image is posted on the internet.
• Freak out.

Aaahh, Freak Out!

Well, don’t immediately freak out. Have a look around and decide the level of freaking out per result. Of course you’ll see anywhere you have posted the image yourself. You may also see where friends or relatives have copied and posted your image. And you may even find some places that your image is posted that discusses if for some reason, hopefully a reason related to you, and hopefully not with a sour snout full of snark.

But if you find your image on a site that is completely irrelevant to you and appears to be flat-out stolen you do have a few options, some preventative, some after the fact.

Protect Yo’self!

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• Digitally watermark or emboss your photos.
• Layer your images so thieves get only the top layer, which you’ve made clear.
• Cut your images up and reassemble via HTML code.

But remember, no preventative measure protects you against a thief who knows about taking a screenshot. Your recourse when you find theft is to complain to the culprit...ummm, yeah. You can complain to the company who hosts the offending site. You can complain to Google. Or you can crawl into a hole and stop using the internet. Sigh. SIGH.

Author Bio: Sheila Kurdinger likes DontPayFull because they offer such a wide selection of items. She also likes to read all sorts of infographics online whenever she has a little spare time because they help her understand complex topics easily - at least the good ones!

Lose Your Loser Friends, or You Lose?

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The Equal Credit Opportunity Act makes it illegal for a creditor to discriminate in any aspect of credit transaction based on certain characteristics. In addition, the Fair Housing Act makes many discrimination practices in home financing illegal. It is illegal to refuse you credit if you qualify for it, discourage you from applying for credit, offer you credit on terms that are less favorable (like a higher interest rate) than terms offered to someone with similar qualifications, or close your account on the basis of race or color, religion, national origin, sex or marital status, age (as long as you are old enough to enter into a contract), receipt of income from any public assistance program, or exercising in good faith your rights under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

Most lenders, particularly larger American banks, follow these regulations and stick to traditional methods of determining your riskiness as a borrower. Newer and internationally based lenders though are increasingly making use of social media data - and not really those regrettable selfies you drunk-posted - to help guide their decisions on which candidates should be privileged to expose the lender to repayment risk. This might also be a reason to look into efficient remote desktop services.

Practices such as assigning you a lower level of creditworthiness if you have few, or only farflung, Facebook Friends; or judging your ability to repay a loan if your lose your job based on the quality of your LinkedIn connections; or even refusing to lend to you outright if you are connected through social media to anyone who has been late in repaying the lender; are becoming more common. Lenders say they feel these types of assessments allow them to expand who they consider lending to by being able to evaluate an applicant who may not have accessible credit or employment history. As Shakespeare penned, “You are the company you keep.”

Online discussions of these controversial practices are dominated by those expressing outrage at the perceived unfairness of being further judged for creditworthiness (beyond common credit, employment, and criminal background investigations) using newly added criteria, and remain noticeably absent of those suggesting that lenders’ wishes to protect their assets would appear reasonable if the tables were turned. As there are more loan applicants than available funds to lend, screening out the least desirable applicants is a common-place market-based feature of the American capitalistic economy that, as stated by both financial analysts and consumer advocates, is very unlikely to disappear and is logically predicted to greatly expand.

How to Stop a Speeding Train?

To prepare for the inevitable, regulation such as the following could offer additional protection to loan applicants while not forcing lenders to ignore useful data to protect their business.

Advance consent of the applicant is obtained. Then what? Delete, delete, delete!

Transparent availability of reasons for loan refusal is required. Knowledge is power!

Options for recourse against contested information, or mistakenly associated data with the wrong applicant, are developed. Unless you are the ONLY John Smith, right?

Author Bio: Maegan Pulman is a freelance IT consultant and a fast payday loans specialist. She is active in local and international IT events and is always on the lookout for the latest industry trends.

Affected By Stalking On Facebook

If you want to keep your life private, creating a Facebook account isn’t the best decision. While it can be an easy way to keep in touch with their friends and family, you might also have to deal with all the extra hubbub - including but not limited to receiving messages from unwanted pests, the browsing of your photo albums by those who are not listed as your friends, and the reality that your personal information could be used and abused.

It is possibly to limit the viewable information on your Facebook page just by applying some simple privacy settings. Even though it’s social networking, you can be choosy of who you let see your posts, photos and information about where you work and who you are in a relationship with without blocking an individual altogether. Here’s how:

Make That Page Private

Log onto your personal Facebook page, and click on the settings tool at the top right corner of your page. You will there find an outlet to set your privacy settings. From there, you can chose who can see your stuff, who can contact you and who can look you up. The Preview my Profile option will allow you to see a sneak peak of what the average Facebooker will see.

No Chatting Today

If you are constantly being plagued by unwanted conversations while you are happily perusing the pages of your friends, all you have to do is turn off chat. Click on the settings tool in Chat and choose the option of Turn Off Chat. Alternatively, you can click on the Advanced Chat Settings and turn on chat for only some friends or turn on chat for all friends except the ones that you select.

Name It Something Else

There’s no rule in the Facebook files that says that the name of your Facebook page absolutely has to be your given birth name. To avoid unwanteds being able to look you up or recognize you, choose a nickname that not many have heard of. When you request someone as a friend, be sure to also send a message to them as well letting them know who you are and how you know them.

Incognito Image

While it is common practice to place a photo of yourself alone, or with your children or significant other, on your profile page, it is not mandatory. There are many who choose to apply a photo of a decorative image or symbol to represent themselves. For example, if you are a dog-lover, choose a cute little photo of a Cocker Spaniel. If you're into IT, choose a photo that represents convenient datacentre solutions.

Love to play cards, how about a queen of hearts or a Jack of Spades? To chose a photo, log onto Google Images, type in a subject name, choose an image, save it onto your computer desktop and upload as your profile pick by clicking on the top right-hand corner of your current picture.Social networking doesn’t mean you have to be social to everyone. Protecting yourself in the online world can save you a lot of heartache in the end.

Author Bio: Maegan Pulman is a freelance IT consultant and technology enthusiast for omeglesites. She is active in local and international IT events and does her fair share of digging into famous informative images & is always on the lookout for the latest industry trends.

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Are you looking to become an Internet Marketer? The skills needed to effectively work in internet marketing range from proficient writing skills and creative design to a firm grasp of online usability and social media. Understanding search engine optimization and the analytics of good marketing calls for someone with diversity in their skillset. It comes down to one point: knowing how sell it to the viewer or customer.

In a Word, No.

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Memes are so common in internet life that most don’t think much about them. Who doesn’t wake up to BuzzFeed and LOLcats? Who doesn’t Facebook-forward and Reddit-bump the funny and teh cute? Internet meme-spawned television programs like “Web Soup” and “Tosh.0” bring the hits daily. But memes are not limited to “nutshot” videos and captioned photos of “Business Cat”. I know, right?

Social networking sites have the largest internet traffic as compared to any other sites. There are thousands of employees sitting at the back end of these sites that ensure that it keeps on running successfully 24/7. Almost everybody we know is also present on social media networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc). Facebook became popular merely a decade ago. Orkut and MySpace were one of those glittering sites previously; but they were replaced within few years by Facebook. Now Facebook is the next big thing and has been ruling the social media networking sites from the past six-seven years.

Social Media tools are designed for "socializing"--not simply sending your thoughts out into cyberspace to be digested or ignored. The whole point of online social tools is to interact with your audience and build up a glowing online reputation, and as the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook is the perfect place to start discussions, exchange ideas, and make one another laugh.

Facebook Home, the new Android-based launcher that puts the social network and its messaging, photo and other services front and center on a user’s mobile device, is now available for download on Google Play for a limited selection of Android devices: HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II. Facebook also updated its Facebook Messenger Android app with Chat Heads functionality, as well as its basic Android app with Facebook Home support.


Facebook Home for Android replaces your default home screen with various new features such as Cover feed, Notifications, Chat heads and App launcher. You can see how these features works on your device here.


Facebook debuted Home earlier this month. At the time it announced that it would be available on Google Play now. Home is also coming pre-installed on the HTC First: this has been available on pre-order since April 4 on AT&T, and is officially on sale with AT&T from today (with a little promotional help from Facebook itself). The HTC First will be hitting France and the UK this summer via France Telecom’s Orange and its EE JV in the UK.


Now 'Home' is available on HTC First Users, along with four other devices (albeit including two handsets from the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung) — and is limited in its functionality (no ads… yet), if things go to plan for Facebook, this is just the beginning.


Click here to download Facebook Home from Google Play Store

Facebook announced a new application (launcher) for Android smartphones called Facebook Home that replaces your standard Android’s homescreen with an immersive Facebook experience featuring full-screen photos, status updates, and notifications. Facebook also announced a special version of Home will come pre-installed on the new HTC First phone on AT&T.


Facebook Home’s Five Most Promising Advantages Over Stock Android


1. Cover feed

• From the moment you wake up your phone you become immersed in cover feed. Cover feed replaces the lock screen and home screen. It's a window into what's happening with your friends - friends finishing a bike race, your family sharing a meal or an article about your favorite sports team. These are the beautiful, immersive experiences that you get through Home.
• You might have missed these updates before, but now they're a central part of the Home experience. Since Home is both your lock screen and home screen, the content comes right to you. You can flip through to see more stories, and double tap to like what you see.
• Cover feed is for those in-between moments ­like waiting in line at the grocery store or between classes ­when you want to see what's going on in your world.

2. Chat heads

• With chat heads you can keep chatting with friends even when you're using other apps. When friends send you messages, a chat head appears with your friend's face, so you see exactly who you're chatting with. Messages reach you no matter what you're doing - whether you're checking email, browsing the web, or listening to music.
• You can move chat heads around and respond to messages. And since SMS is integrated into Facebook Messenger for Android, chat heads include Facebook messages as well as texts.

3. Notifications

• Cover feed is great for seeing everything going on in the world. But when something happens that's more important and directed at you, like a friend posting on your timeline, you'll receive notifications with their profile pictures.
• To open notifications, just tap them. And if you don't want to deal with them right now, you can just swipe to hide them and keep flipping through cover feed until you want them back.

4. Apps

• It's as easy to get to your apps in Home as it is on any other phone. Swipe up to see your favorite apps in the launcher. There's also a screen containing all of your apps, and you can drag your favorite apps to the launcher.

5. Update

• Facebook will try to make Home available on tablets within a few months, and it’s supposed to be a great experience there. Every month, Facebook will release a Home update to add new features and make it accessible to new devices.

"We designed Home to be the next version of Facebook. But we also wanted to do something more. We wanted to reimagine the way we all use computing devices to make us more connected and bring us closer to the people we care about." says Tom Alison and Adam Mosseri Software Engineers at Facebook.

Here is the Introduction Video of Home


How to Get Home?

• Facebook Home Launcher will be available as a free download from the Google Play Store starting April 12th in the US, and will be available to users of Android Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich, but not Gingerbread.
• Home works on the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung GALAXY S III and Samsung GALAXY Note II. Home will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung GALAXY S4, and on more devices in the coming months.
• You have to use latest version of Facebook and Facebook Messenger android apps in your Android device to download Facebook Home.
• If you have these all, you will get alert from Facebook when it is available to download. Then you can download and install the 'Home' from Google Play Store.

Home will also be available pre-installed on phones through the Facebook Home Program. HTC and AT&T are the first companies working together to deliver a phone with Home. It's called the HTC First and it goes on sale April 12. Click here to pre-order the HTC First.

Download Home - and put your friends front and center on your phone.