10 tips and tricks to make your Facebook experience even better

New Delhi, Nov 29: Facebook is a popular global social networking site that people use to keep in touch with friends and family, plan events, receive news, and play games. If you are a regular user, you may be familiar with most of its functions, such as updating your status, uploading photos and adding/deleting friends.But even if you are routine user, you may not be completely aware of the list of functions that it offers. Here is a list of the top 10 Facebook tips and tricks that can be of great help when utilizing this already popular social network to your advantage.How to download Facebook photo albumsEvery day, millions of people share special moments with their friends and family on Facebook by saying 'Congratulations,' ‘Happy Birthday,' or simply ‘I am thinking about you.' As per a report, on a daily basis people share: 2.5 billion content items shared2.7 billion Likes300 million photos uploaded500+ terabyte data ingestedA huge volume indeed! If you are using Facebook routinely then you must know how to upload images, but have you ever wondered how to download Facebook photo albums? For this download and install the PhotoLive Chrome extension. Now navigate the album which you've got the permission to view and click the big blue “Download Album” on the top left. It will then download the zip file in the background. Now open the Zip file and extract the photos. How to appear offline to certain friends After signing into Facebook you're immediately sent a chat from your least favorite "friend." Well, if you know him/her then you can go ahead and talk to those people. But if you don't want to chat with them, it is entirely possible to hide yourself from those people. You can even pick and choose who sees that you're online or not. But before you can appear offline to specific people, you need put your friends into lists so that you can tell Facebook which friends you want to be hidden from. Now every time you open up the Facebook Chat, you should be able to see all of your Friend Lists that you just created. Each group will have a slider to the far right of the name; the slider will show green by default. Make it grey to those you do want to appear online. Reposition in your Facebook timelineFirst chose the news from your Facebook feed that want to highlight or want it stay for a longer period of time. Now go to the privacy settings of the story you would want to show by and hover over it in order to see the Edit buttons. Now you'll see a star and pencil buttons. Click on the star in order to "feature" the story on your timeline. This will make the story span across the page and will become one of your Life Events.Upload photos in high resolutionSometimes you'll find a really good photo what you want your friends to look at. Go to Facebook albums and, before uploading a photo, click the "High Quality" box. Facebook will now display images in high-resolution and users can view full-screen images. These will be crisp and can be up to four times larger than before.Hide app notifications for a cleaner experienceFirst go to account settings, then navigate to "Notifications" tab on the left side of the page. Now you can view what notifications you want and what's not. If find that a friend has spammed your feed with an excessive number of app notifications, simply deactivate the offending app.Download your entire Facebook historyUnder your Account Settings page, there will be a small link at the very bottom of the options list. Click "Download a copy of your Facebook data" to begin the process of securing your entire archive.Forward your Facebook conversations Having to repeat yourself can be tiresome. Instead of copying and pasting directions or instructions to multiple people, click the "Actions" tab at the top of any Facebook message thread to access the option to forward it to others. Easy, isn't it!Join college-specific groupsTo see if your college or university group has already been created on Facebook, go to Groups for Schools. This will make your your college and Facebook experience even better.Watch streaming TV Live on FacebookYou can watch a lot of International Channels using an app (http://apps.facebook.com/tvdream-app/). It is free of cost.Populate your map with picsYou can retrospectively add locations to images you've already uploaded to Facebook, making for an interesting map which shows all the places you've been.