3 Ways To Hack Facebook

I'm not going to talk about hacking Facebook in the malicious sense, but rather I'm going to discuss ways to improve your productivity on Facebook with some simple steps each day.

First off, I'm assuming that you have some form of social life and value friends and people. From that, you should be aware that it is always better to be more connected with people. Therefore, it should be in your best interested to nurture that human connection so long as you can do it without taking too much time out of your day. The following steps will take less than 5 minutes each day, combined.

1. Set a time everyday to give a quick happy birthday wall post to each of your friends that has a birthday. I usually also try to include some way to further the conversation so that I can start a small dialogue with a friend that I haven't talked to in a while. Who cares if you're not close to them, it's always nice to have someone celebrate your birthday. I have started to do this first thing in the morning.

2. Surf status updates and comment on them. People set status updates because they have something to share and always appreciate the responses (just don't make them creepy). Status update comments are the new wall posts, which were the new e-mail.

3. Link Twitter and Facebook together. If you're a Twitter use, you know the power of microblogging. There is no reason why Facebook status updates will be anything less than Twitter updates. If people don't want to see your spam, kindly show them how to block your status updates on the newsfeed. Don't be afraid of letting the web 2.0 savvy you intermix with the regular social life you -- the reason we all love web 2.0 is because there is inherent value to improving communication and human relationships, this transcends just simply being a nerd.