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How Facebook Brought The World Closer and Made Relationships More Intimate

Can you possibly connect or keep in touch with your close buddies without joining Facebook? Facebook is not just an Internet portal for reading news or posting photos, it’s a whole new tool to keep you connected to those who really care about you.You can always consider a number of unique options provided by Facebook to decide why Facebook has become indispensable to socialize with your loved ones.

Socialize with Friends through Apps and Games: Facebook belongs to the league of social networking websites that allow users to interact with their friends through various Facebook applications and games. A user can avail some of the apps like Get-to-know-yourself, what does your birthday mean, are you normal tests to encourage more social networking among friends. In addition to sharing status updates, personal messages, photos and videos, you can use a set of fun apps to meet and stay in touch with your friends without meeting face to face. The feature can also be used to invite your friends to join some common causes or events having some mutual importance to a group of friends.

  • Sync Your Twitter Updates with Facebook: Most of the modern Internet users like to join more than one social networking website. They look for convenient options to post a message on a single platform and automatically get the message updates reposted on other websites. As Facebook and Twitter are two of the most popular social networks and have a large number of common members, the Facebook users can avail the options to sync Facebook with Twitter status updates. You can use certain apps to auto-repost all or selected tweets on your Facebook wall without putting any manual efforts.
  • Hide Boring Status Updates from Friends: In comparison to other social networking websites, Facebook offers more fun and convenient features to share your posts with selected individuals or a group of users as well as hide all the status updates posted by some friends. You can still accept friend request from some of your grade school friends without displaying your unwillingness or hurting their feelings. But once you accept such friends, you can select the “hide all post options” to avoid seeing these updates on your Facebook wall. Further, your friends will never come to know about your action.
  • Track Birthdays of Your Friends: Most people find it difficult to remember the birthdays of their loved ones. That is why Facebook has incorporated an effective feature to send emails to its user notifying the upcoming birthdays of their loved one. A user can also click on the Birthday link (facebook.com/events/birthdays) from the Events section and see the birthdays of all his Facebook friends. The automatic reminders sent by the social network also help you in remembering the birthday of your close friends and make them happy by sending a virtual gift or organizing a memorable event. The feature is very much effective in bonding with your friends in a more exciting manner.
  • Organize an Event and Invite Your Friends: There are many Facebook users who prefer to organize events on the social network and send invitation to their friends to attend the event. When a person receives an invitation to an event on Facebook, he has option to accept as well as deny the request. These convenient options to send and accept the event invitations have made it very much popular among users spread word among a group of people regarding a popular event.
  • Conduct Online Polls: Facebook has recently included the option to Ask Question to your friends. A user can use the feature to compose a multiple-choice question having a number of preset options or an open-ended question to receive different answers from the recipients. You can use the feature to easily conduct an opinion poll among your Facebook contacts and start a debate of specific topics or issues.
  • Millions of Users to Connect With: Facebook has become the most popular social networking platforms with millions of users accessing it on a daily basis. If you are new to online social networking and have not joined Facebook, then you have much better chances to find most of your old and close friends on Facebook. Once you create a profile on Facebook, you can further import your friends from your email contact list and know what your loved ones are currently doing without using any instant messaging software. Further, Facebook is providing the online chat feature for instant interaction with your friends who are currently online on Facebook.
    • Try being away from Facebook for a week, and they will ask if everything was alright with you 🙂

PayPal Auto Withdrawal and Receiving Limit : How to Get Around PayPal Issues

With PayPal imposing fresh restrictions on their Indian users, many small and medium scale web start-ups must be panicked and scouring for alternative solutions. Today, many Indian PayPal users must have received a very depressing email from PayPal on two more changes in the way we do business with PayPal. Here’s what the email says:


As communicated earlier this year, we are working to implement RBI’s Guidelines regarding the processing of export-related payments. As a result the following changes will be made to your PayPal account:

  1. Effective 26th September 2011, you will not be able to receive overseas payments exceeding US$ 500 per transaction into your PayPal account.
  2. Any balance will be auto withdrawn out of your PayPal account daily.

We understand the impact this may cause to your business and seek your support and understanding as we continue to work together with the RBI. We will keep you updated as our conversations progress.

Many view PayPal as a very arrogant body that doesn’t seem to comply with RBI guidelines although PayPal may have its own commercial interests at stake.

RBI on the other hand, has been relentlessly after PayPal to comply with their regulatory mandates, which has resulted in PayPal imposing overnight restrictions on Indian users time and again. With last two changes already functional with immediate effect, India PayPal users must be wondering if they could use any alternative PayPal platforms to run their web start-ups.

When PayPal woke everybody Indian PayPay user with a start with their very first imposition back in 2010, many vented their frustrations on PayPal and RBI alike. But, we at Top League Technologies started deliberating on various alternative platforms available for running our business in an efficient manner. After using a couple of other services, we wrote a post on “How to rescue your funds from PayPal”.


The situation back then wasn’t as bad as it is now. PayPal has imposed Daily Auto Withdrawal which means you can’t have any balance in your account. And, the receiving limit is to remain intact.

One of the best ways to get around PayPal issues at the moment is to switch to Wire Transfer. It is convenient, quick and saves a lot of money if you consider the unreasonable PayPal transaction fees.

However, Wire Transfer has two problems: First, your clients will have to pay certain fees to the bank. It is usually fixed and may not make sense for your clients if the invoice is very small amount. Plus, your clients may find it as a chore to visit the bank to send you the money. If the total amount on your invoice is less then say 500 USD, you can ask your clients to pay your bills once in every two months. That way you can save their time and money as well.

Technically, PayPal charges you nearly 4.5 USD per every 100 USD. Suppose your total bill for a month is 1000 USD, you clients will need to send you 1050 USD to compensate for the PayPal fees (nearly 45-50 USD). Again, PayPal will decide its very own currency rate regardless of the standard currency rate in the International market. Usually, PayPal takes away 1.50 rupee per every USD withdrawn by you. This literally eats into your resources and hard-earned money.

If you switch to Wire Transfer and ask your clients to bear the fees at their end, you will be able to receive your funds directly from client without PayPal’s interventions, which also means you get the best currency rate per USD. One more thing – regardless of whichever bank account you have linked your PayPal to, make sure you contact the branch foreign remittance department to offer you a good rate. Generally, they have the discretion to bring the rate down for you. The key lies in knowing how to handle them.