How to Find Your Facebook ID

As of March 2012, an estimated 901 million people are active users on Facebook, the most popular social media network on the planet, I believe this number has increased to over 1 billion people. The social networks has taken great measures to manage each users account with a number of features to provide their members with security and privacy while using their accounts. When a new member sets up their Facebook account for the first time, the system immediately assigns the Facebook user with an ID number.

For whatever reason, users may want to know how to retrieve their Facebook ID. The steps to do this are simple, and just a few clicks away.

How to Find Your Facebook ID Number

1) Log into your Facebook account.

2) You should be able to see your name beside your profile picture at the upper right corner, click on it

3) There are two ways of doing this, you can either hover your mouse over your profile photo or click on your profile photo and wait for the page to load.

5) Go to the URL bar in your browser with your mouse and slide it along the bar; you should see a string of
numbers appear.

6) Look for the set of numbers that follow after the word “fbid=”.

7) This is your Facebook ID number.

Social networking websites such as Facebook has one priority which is to help their account users stay connected with their family and friends, and also have endless opportunities to meet new people along the way. Email, phone numbers, and physical addresses can all be easily accessed with an active Facebook ID. The Facebook ID number especially comes in handy if you’re a person who uses Facebook applications on a regular basis. It also allows you to compare your social ranking with your friends’ ID’s as well.

Also See: How To Enable Your Facebook Timeline: Fast & Easy

A Facebook user who wants to know how to find their ID number by means of an app can retrieve it by following these instructions:

1) Log into your Facebook account

2) In the search box, type “What is My ID?”. Locate the top search result from your query in the drop-down
menu.

3) You will see the phrase, “Go to App”, click the tab and then click “Allow”.

4) Your Facebook ID will appear.

To locate Your Facebook Fanpage ID, you can follow similar steps

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Alpha Centauri, Nearest Star, Has Earth-Sized Planet

Artist's conception of planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B. Image: ESO/L. Calcada

How many science fiction stories have been written about Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own?  How many serious scientists, in their quest to determine just how lonely we are in the universe, have wondered whether there are planets there, only four light-years away?

The first results are in — and yes, there is at least one planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, one of the three stars clustered together there.  European astronomers, using a 3.6 meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, report it is remarkably small — about as massive as Earth.  Worlds that small have been beyond earthlings’ capacity to detect them until just very recently.

Let’s get some details out of the way quickly.  The newly found planet is probably hellish, only about 4 million miles from its host star (we’re 93 million miles from ours). It’s also fast, completing one orbit — one “year” — in only 3.2 of our days.

For now, the most remarkable thing about the planet, say the astronomers, is that they found it at all.  It is much too distant to be seen directly.  Instead, they watched the planet make its star wobble slightly, pulled around by the planet’s gravity as it circled from one side to the other.

Their measurements showed the star moved from side to side at a top speed of 1.8 km (about 1.1 miles) per hour — “about the speed of a baby crawling,” they said.

“It’s an extraordinary discovery and it has pushed our technique to the limit,” said Xavier Dumusque of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, who is lead author of the paper reporting the find in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.

So the astronomers were able to detect the little world over a distance of 25 trillion miles, but just barely.  They kept watching for four years until they were sure.

It’s hardly a twin of Earth, but it is a neighbor of sorts, one more sign that the Milky Way galaxy is thick with planets.

Source : abcnews[dot]go[dot]com

Amazon launches Vine.com for eco-friendly shopping

Much to the delight of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Amazon-owned Vine.com went live to the public this week.

Covered on the New York Times Bits blog earlier today, Amazon has launched a new site that only carries products that have a low impact on the environment. Called Vine.com, the retailer stocks products that have such qualities as being reusable, organic or made from recycled products. Products could also be efficient in terms of energy or water usage as well as powered by a source of renewable energy. For instance, the Bedol water-powered clock forgoes batteries or electricity to display the current time. After filling the water reservoir, electrodes convert ions into a current that can power the clock for up to three months. In addition, a memory chip keeps track of the time when the user needs to refill the water in the device.

Interestingly, Amazon’s brand presence can’t be found anywhere on Vine.com. It’s also impossible to log into Vine.com using a preexisting Amazon username and password. The site is part of the Quidsi network which operates other retail sites like pet shop Wag.com, baby shop Diapers.com, health shop Soap.com and toy shop YoYo.com.

Amazon purchased the Quidsi network during 2010 for just over half a billion dollars. That purchase was more than a year after Amazon purchased the popular footwear retailer Zappos. Other retailer acquisitions completed by Amazon include Shopbop and Woot.

There are a wide range of environmentally friendly products on the new retail site including household cleaning items, baby products, health supplements, housewares, tech gadgets, lawn care equipment, sports equipment and grocery items. Vine.com site leader Josh Dorfman stated “This is a site that is not necessarily about saving the planet, though we feel the products are useful in that regard. It’s really saying to mom, ‘If you care about raising safe and healthy kids and you feel green products without chemicals can help along the way, we’ve figured out ways to help you do that.’”

Regarding the environmental impact of running a sizable retail site with large fulfillment warehouses, Dorfman said “It’s a fair point that no matter how you’re going to engage in commerce, there’s going to be an environmental impact. We’re not promising to be the greenest company right away, and we’re owning up to the fact that it’s not the way we operate across the entire company.”

Vine management has also reached out to all vendors that supply products for the site to make sure all products meet certain requirements before anything is listed for sale on Vine.com.

In order to appeal to people that want to support their immediate community, Vine.com has a section where the user can look for products being made within 100 miles of their city. By isolating the product search by city, shoppers can help out local businesses. As of right now, Vine.com offers twelve choices of location including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Raleigh, Boston, Philadelphia and New York City.  Similar to other Quidsi properties, Vine.com offers free one to two day delivery on all purchases over $49 and charges a $4.99 flat rate fee for shipping on orders less than $49. 

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com