10 Awesome Hidden Features Of Facebook You Must Know

By Vijaykumar
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Facebook is the most popular social networking site with more than 1.44 billion monthly active online users. You might be using the Facebook for longer time, but there are many features that you are still unaware of.

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The social networking site provides the best features you can use and share your stuffs online. We have listed some of the best features of the Facebook that many of you are still don't know. Take a look at the slider below to know more.

How To Pronounce Your Name

How To Pronounce Your Name

You can easily teach your friend on how to pronounce your name correctly. You just need to go to your profile page, click on About and then go to Details About You. Now under Name pronunciation, you can add how to pronounce your name and finally save changes.

Disable Message Seen Receipt

Disable Message Seen Receipt

You can disable the Seen receipt for Facebook Messages. If you are using a Chrome browser, then you can download and install the Facebook Unseen Chrome extension that will disable your messages receipts. While, for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, you can download the Chat Undetected application to disable Seen receipt.

Export Birthdays, Events To Personal Calendars

Export Birthdays, Events To Personal Calendars

You can easily export all your friends birthdays and events on Facebook to Google Calendar, iCal or Outlook. You just need to do some tweaks in the setting to get all the details to personal calendars. Go to Events page in Facebook and copy the Birthdays and Upcoming Events link provided at the bottom of the page.

Open the Google Calendar, click on Other Calendars from the menu and add the Facebook URL.

In iCal: go to Calendar >> Subscribe and enter the URL.

In Outlook: go to Tools >> Account Settings >> Internet Calendars.

Stop Auto Playing Videos

Stop Auto Playing Videos

The Facebook app auto-play videos on the news feed. You can turn off to save your data play. Open Facebook app >> Settings >> Videos and Photos >> Auto-play and disable.

Stop Annoying Game Request

Stop Annoying Game Request

You might be annoyed for your friend's Candy Crush request. You can stop your friends to send you annoying game request. In the Facebook app, go to Settings >> Notifications >> Mobile Push and uncheck Application Requests.

Bookmark links

Bookmark links

We see lots of articles shared every day on Facebook, but there is not enough time in a day to read them all. You can save the link to read them later. Click on the arrow mark on the Facebook post and you will get Save link option. All the saved posts can be seen in Saved menu on left side in the Facebook page.

Facebook Look Back

Facebook Look Back

Go to Facebook's Look Back page and you can watch your entire Facebook life. The social networking site will create a video, which features your first moments, your most like photos, and a collage of your most recent happenings.

Auto-Download Tagged Photos

Auto-Download Tagged Photos

You can save all the photos that you are tagged in to your Dropbox accounts. First you need to create an account in IFTTT.com and then you will be prompted to connect your Facebook and Dropbox accounts. Once all the account verification is done. All your photos that you are tagged in will be saved to your Dropbox accounts.

Share Post Except One Person

Share Post Except One Person

You can hide your post from single person or many. Just click on the menu next to the post button and select Custom and add the the friend or friends to whom you don't want to share the post.

Hide Friends List

Hide Friends List

Probably many know this feature. Go to Friends list and click Edit Privacy and change the Friends List setting to Only Me. Now only you can see your Friends list.

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