12 Secret Social Media Hacks You Want To Try Now
12 Secret Social Media Hacks You Want To Try Now
Just when you think you know everything about your favorite
social media site, there are always new and exciting changes. And then
there are some secret social media hacks you’ll wish you knew before reading
this.
There are so many of them
in fact, that I’m going to highlight a couple here for Instagram, Facebook,
Pinterest, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Instagram
Share Instagram Photos
Elsewhere After Uploading
Share the picture to
Twitter or Facebook after uploading to Instagram? Yep.
We all know you can share
the photo at the same time you upload it to Instagram, but you can also go back
to any of your pictures and share an Instagram pic.
Decide which Instagram
photo in your gallery you want to share. Down in the right corner, click on the
ellipsis button and you can select “Share”.
The photo and caption will
appear where you can edit what you originally posted on Instagram, so you can
make any change to what’s written before you share it. Choose what social media
site you want it to post on, and then hit share.
Done!
Take Better Photos
Without Posting Them
With your phone set on
“Airplane Mode” any Instagram photos you snap, will be saved to your phone but
not posted to Instagram! You can learn exactly the method here.
This is a sweet hack for
those power Instagrammers to ensure being able to pick the best image to post
on Instagram.
Best Time To Post on
Instagram
Ever wonder when the best
time to be sharing that tricked out Instragram pics? Well wonder no more.
Iconosquare (formerly Statigram) analyzes your
post history and interaction on Instagram and shows you when the times of day
are best to post.
In addition to that, you can see who are your most-engaged followers, most liked and commented on posts, your new followers, who un-followed you and so much more.
Facebook
Customize What You Share
With Whom
Don’t want Grandma to see
that picture? Or that post that your boss could see? It’s easy with this simple
hack:
After clicking on the tab
to the left of “Post” you’ll pick the “More Options” and Facebook will pop up
another page for you …
… Where you can enter in
the name(s) or even entire lists of people you don’t want to share that post
with.
Download Your Facebook
Pictures
With the Pick&Zip app not only can you download all of your
photos but you can also grab pictures that people have tagged you in. Not only
for Facebook, but you can download pictures from Instagram and your Vine video
clips! Here’s an added bonus … it’s free!
Hide from Your Annoying
Friends?
Ever have that friend who
the millisecond sees you pop online is blowing up your Facebook chat? Yeah, we
all have a couple of those. But there is a hack for that!
It’s as simple as creating
a specific list of people on Facebook that you can “Go Offline” to those
people.
Thanks to Mashable for sharing the handy gallery of
advanced Facebook settings to control your online status.
Pinterest
How to Pin Something from
Facebook
Ah yes, a major source of
frustration for many people. You can work around the problem with this hack.
Here you go:
·
Click on the
Facebook picture you want to pin.
·
Right-click the
image (or control + click on a Mac) and choose “Open Image in new tab” in the
drop down menu that appears as shown below:
You will then be able to
pin that picture from that page. Promise.
Highlight Text Before
Clicking “Pin It”
For those of you who are
power pinners, this hack can be a godsend. When you highlight text on a page
that you want to pin and click “Pin It”, that text you just highlighted is
auto-magically added to the description box.
What a time saver!
Twitter
Download Your Tweet
History
Didn’t you know you could?
Want to see the very first tweet you ever sent?
Nifty.
Are They Following You
Back?
Always a question for
people wondering if the person they followed a few weeks ago un-followed them,
but who really wants to try to scroll through Twitter to figure that out? Friend or Follow can help you with that.
It can also tell you about
your followers on Instagram and Tumblr. You can try them free for 7 days and
then it’s $9.99 a month which will give you more account to link to and gain
advanced features.
LinkedIn
Surf LinkedIn Anonymously
Is that possible? Oh yes,
indeed it is.
When you feel the need to
view other people’s profiles without being seen in their list of who visited
your profile, here are the steps you need to take:
·
Go to “Privacy &
Settings” for your profile when you hover over your LinkedIn profile image in
the upper right of the page.
·
Under the profile
tab for “Privacy Controls”, you can click on the option for “Select what others
see when you’ve viewed their profile” as the option and you will be given the
following option in this screenshot:
As noted in the image
above, when you choose the totally anonymous option, you lose a bit of history,
but, it’s up to you and why you’d want to surf LinkedIn anonymously.
Create A Printable Resume
I can’t believe this hasn’t
had more publicity with how big LinkedIn is. With LinkedIn’s Resume Builder, you can turn your LinkedIn profile into a professional
resume in mere moments.
Pick a template, customize
what you want to show. Save it as a Word or PDF doc and there you go. You now
have a well-crafted resume from all the hard work you’ve put into your
LinkedIn profile.
Seriously, there are myriad
of social media hacks and tricks for all of these sites. But I want to
hear from you. Do you have any social media hacks you’ve discovered
for any of these sites?
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