This post originally suggested Facebook Stories was rolling out globally, but Facebook tells us it’s simply expanded its test to include more countries. We’ve update the post to reflect this information.
Facebook has brought an imitation of Snapchat’s Stories to Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, but it’s also gearing up to bring it to the biggest platform of them all: Facebook itself.
The feature has been testing in Ireland since at least January, but Facebook is expanding the test to include more countries, including Chile, Vietnam, and Greece.
Stories have been a huge hit on Instagram, with 150 million people already using it back in January, so it’ll be interesting to see if Facebook proper can replicate that success. It should at least make more sense than WhatsApp; Facebook is the place I go to to see what my friends are up to, so Stories should feel somewhat at home.
That said, if you’re a heavy social media user, managing all these Stories clones has got to get tiring. I use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram regularly, but I definitely don’t want to waste time uploading images for a story to each of those platforms.
It originally appeared Facebook might be rolling out the feature globally, but it turns out it’s simply expanding the test to more countries. Still, at this point it appears it’s only a matter of time until it hits Facebook users around the world.
Early Irish-American immigrants couldn't foresee the St. Patrick's Day celebrations of today: Hoards of drunken people elbowing their way to the bar for another green Bud Light.
After all, 19th Century immigrants celebrated St. Patrick's Day — always March 17 on the Feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland — as a way to honor their heritage while embracing their new homeland. It often came with parades, food and a little bit of partying.
It wasn't until later on that St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in Ireland. There it's a national holiday with schools and government buildings closed. Eamonn McGrath, a native Irishman and executive director of the Irish Cultural Center of New England, equates the day to the Fourth of July, where people spend time with family, attend a special Catholic mass, drink, eat and go to a parade.
McGrath claims St. Patrick's Day is "more raucously and widely" celebrated outside of Ireland than inside, a phenomenon he said makes sense. All people with Irish heritage, he said, long for home."
"You have to really leave it to know what you've left," he said. "It makes sense that it's more poignant and more expressive."
Plus, he adds, Ireland is "a nice country to be associated with."
Sure, many would concede their annual bar crawl doesn't fit traditional Irish norms, but there is a way to have your fun, fill your belly and celebrate St. Patrick's Day the authentic way.
"Pub culture was never about getting drunk," said Professor Christopher Dowd of the University of New Haven, "It was about socializing, usually around music or storytelling."
That means any St. Patrick's Day revelry should be kept social and celebratory. Here are other ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the right way.
Eat Irish
It's peasant food, but a perfect meat and potato base for your celebration.
Shepherd's Pie is made with beef and vegetables and topped with mashed potatoes. There's colcannon, mashed potatoes mixed with a type of green, often cabbage. Irish soda bread is a simple, dense, not-too-sweet bread that goes well with corned beef and cabbage. That dish, it turns out, may be more American than Irish. McGrath said Irish immigrants ate bacon and cabbage in the homeland. But they couldn't afford bacon in America, so they opted for the cheaper corned beef.
Don't forget about Irish boxty, a potato pancake, and Dublin coddle, a mixture of potatoes, onions and sausage topped with bacon.
Drink Irish
The Irish are known for their Guinness, but there's plenty of other beer options such as Harp, Murphy's, Smithwick's and Beamish & Crawford. If it's in the cards, Irish whiskey is always popular. Try Jameson, Bushmills and Tullamore D.E.W. For those early starters, Bailey's Irish Creme goes well in coffee.
The raucous nature of today's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, McGrath explained, doesn't rattle the Irish.
"I think people want to feel Irish for the day and feel part of the Irish diaspora," he said, but added, "it kind of feeds that old stereotype that the Irish are drunks. That's probably not a good thing."
Jam Irish
Upbeat traditional Irish music is crucial, McGrath said, to a proper St. Patrick's Day. Some Irish classics to consider: "Skibbereen," "Finnegan's Wake," and "The Fields of Athenry." Crank up the Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners and The Wolf Tones. When the fiddle and banjos wear off, there's always other Irish artists Van Morrison, The Pogues, U2 and The Cranberries.
Watch an Irish movie classic
Dowd suggests people pay homage by watching a movie rooted or set in the Emerald Isle, such as The Quiet Man, which according to IMDB, features John Wayne as a boxer who returns home to Ireland, where he falls in love. Dowd, who teaches Irish literature, also recommends The Commitments, about a Dublin soul band, andThe Wind that Shakes the Barley, a story of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence.
Read like the Irish
Dig up some Irish poetry or gothic literature. There's always James Joyce, the author of great Irish novels such as Dubliners and Finnegans Wake. There's also Bram Stoker, who brought us Dracula.
Watch Gaelic hurling and football
The two sports unique to Ireland, Gaelic hurling and Gaelic football, host championship games on St. Patrick's Day.
If you can, watch as the Irish do.
Remember Irish contributions to society
The Irish helped build canals, railroads, cities and infrastructure despite being disenfranchised and subject to prejudice.
Ideally, Dowd said, this is how most people would celebrate the day.
"Reflect on what the incredible contributions this immigrant group made to the country," he said. "Look at how an immigrant group benefited the United States in pretty profound ways."
The residents of Dublin, Georgia don't just celebrate St. Patrick's Day, one day a year, or even one month out of the year, they celebrate their Irish roots all year long. Kelly Jordan, USA TODAY
In this post you learn how you can apply for Jobs through Facebook job section. Good news for job seekers, it is now possible to apply for jobs directly on Facebook. This is a new Facebook features which was activated on Wednesday, 2017.
Facebook users in the U.S and Canada are the first to benefit from this new feature on Facebook. Users can search and apply for jobs directly from Facebook’s website and mobile app. Facebook now gives Jobs advertiser the opportunity to post job opening directly into their Facebook page and Job seekers can now apply directly by clicking apply for jobs.
Facebook is a social media community that connects billion of people around the world but it seems the social network is not resting in its laurels to take on LinkedIn in the job listing industry.
How to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section
Like I said earlier on, the new Facebook job listing is only available for U.S and Canada users for now but the feature will be available to other countries when Facebook will roll it out globally.
Firstly, For those that want to apply for jobs through Facebook job section, You can do so by checking your company of choice Facebook Page- New job listing will be posted and displayed on their page so if you have been following them on Facebook, you can now apply for job directly on their Facebook page by clicking on Apply Now Button
Secondly, you can head over to Facebook new jobs section where you will find the link to all available jobs, since the feature is not officially available in Nigeria I check the new Job section on Facebook and I found about three companies already showing job listings. Facebook has said that the new job listing feature will enable company to drive traffic to their page and also able to pay Facebook when the feature is fully operational.
If you see a posting you like, you can click an “apply now” button that leads them to a pre-populated page with your name and any education or employment history that you’ve made public on the site; you can then either send the info as it is or make changes before submitting. There’s no place to upload a resume, but a 1,000-character text box allows for a cover letter-style note.
If your Facebook profile hasn’t been well curated and organized, it’s time to package your Facebook Page to reflect all your achievements just like we have it on LinkedIn. Though, through privacy settings on Facebook you can hide some information you don’t want employers and Hiring Managers to see but nothing stop you from making your Facebook Profile your resume
So guys if you have been following a particular employer, it might be helpful if you like their page so that when they post a job Vacancy, it will appear on your newsfeed.
Those are the steps you must take to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section. If you have any questions and comments about how to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section, feel free to leave them below.
Facebook messenger day;another clone of Snapchat Stories.If you think Facebook is done with the cloning of Snapchat stories then you may be in for a shocker as the social network giant has introduced yet another Snapchat and Instagram like ‘stories’ on Messenger and is called FacebookMessenger Day. The new feature allows users to post stories which expire after 24 hours.
According to Stan Chudnovksy, head of product for Messenger, he said the Facebook Mesenger Day would be launching globally on Android and Apple devices
At the end of last year, we launched Messenger’s new fast, powerful built-in camera to help make your conversations better than ever,” Chudnovsky wrote.
At the same time, we also began testing a way for you to share these photos and videos as they happen, by adding to your Messenger Day, where many of your friends can view and reply to them.”
Facebook Messenger Day is also similar to WhatSapp and Instagram stories which were launched recently and Messenger Day’s photos and videos also disappear after 24 hours.
How to use Facebook Messenger Day
First make sure you’ve updated your Messenger app so you have the latest version.
Open Messenger, and tap on the camera highlighted with a sun to celebrate this launch. Doing so drops you right into the full-screen camera. Or, tap the “Add to your day” button at the top of your inbox to get started.
Snap a quick selfie or take a photo or video of what’s around you.
To add art and effects, tap the smiley face icon in the top right and then tap to add to your photo or video. You can also add text over your images by tapping the “Aa” icon, and you can overlay a drawing by tapping the squiggly line in the top right corner.
Once you have your photo or video the way you want it, tap the arrow in the bottom right corner. You can then add directly to your day, save it to your phone’s camera roll, and/or you can choose to send it to a specific person or group of people. The photo or video that you add to your day will be viewable for 24 hours.
You can also add to your day from a conversation you’re having with a friend or group of people. After you send a photo or video, you’ll see the option to “add to your day.” Simply tap that text, and you’ll be asked to confirm you’d like to add it to your day.
While you’re messaging with someone, you’ll see if they have anything new from their day, too
This post originally suggested Facebook Stories was rolling out globally, but Facebook tells us it’s simply expanded its test to include more countries. We’ve update the post to reflect this information.
Facebook has brought an imitation of Snapchat’s Stories to Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, but it’s also gearing up to bring it to the biggest platform of them all: Facebook itself.
The feature has been testing in Ireland since at least January, but Facebook is expanding the test to include more countries, including Chile, Vietnam, and Greece.
Stories have been a huge hit on Instagram, with 150 million people already using it back in January, so it’ll be interesting to see if Facebook proper can replicate that success. It should at least make more sense than WhatsApp; Facebook is the place I go to to see what my friends are up to, so Stories should feel somewhat at home.
That said, if you’re a heavy social media user, managing all these Stories clones has got to get tiring. I use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram regularly, but I definitely don’t want to waste time uploading images for a story to each of those platforms.
It originally appeared Facebook might be rolling out the feature globally, but it turns out it’s simply expanding the test to more countries. Still, at this point it appears it’s only a matter of time until it hits Facebook users around the world.
Early Irish-American immigrants couldn't foresee the St. Patrick's Day celebrations of today: Hoards of drunken people elbowing their way to the bar for another green Bud Light.
After all, 19th Century immigrants celebrated St. Patrick's Day — always March 17 on the Feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland — as a way to honor their heritage while embracing their new homeland. It often came with parades, food and a little bit of partying.
It wasn't until later on that St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in Ireland. There it's a national holiday with schools and government buildings closed. Eamonn McGrath, a native Irishman and executive director of the Irish Cultural Center of New England, equates the day to the Fourth of July, where people spend time with family, attend a special Catholic mass, drink, eat and go to a parade.
McGrath claims St. Patrick's Day is "more raucously and widely" celebrated outside of Ireland than inside, a phenomenon he said makes sense. All people with Irish heritage, he said, long for home."
"You have to really leave it to know what you've left," he said. "It makes sense that it's more poignant and more expressive."
Plus, he adds, Ireland is "a nice country to be associated with."
Sure, many would concede their annual bar crawl doesn't fit traditional Irish norms, but there is a way to have your fun, fill your belly and celebrate St. Patrick's Day the authentic way.
"Pub culture was never about getting drunk," said Professor Christopher Dowd of the University of New Haven, "It was about socializing, usually around music or storytelling."
That means any St. Patrick's Day revelry should be kept social and celebratory. Here are other ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the right way.
Eat Irish
It's peasant food, but a perfect meat and potato base for your celebration.
Shepherd's Pie is made with beef and vegetables and topped with mashed potatoes. There's colcannon, mashed potatoes mixed with a type of green, often cabbage. Irish soda bread is a simple, dense, not-too-sweet bread that goes well with corned beef and cabbage. That dish, it turns out, may be more American than Irish. McGrath said Irish immigrants ate bacon and cabbage in the homeland. But they couldn't afford bacon in America, so they opted for the cheaper corned beef.
Don't forget about Irish boxty, a potato pancake, and Dublin coddle, a mixture of potatoes, onions and sausage topped with bacon.
Drink Irish
The Irish are known for their Guinness, but there's plenty of other beer options such as Harp, Murphy's, Smithwick's and Beamish & Crawford. If it's in the cards, Irish whiskey is always popular. Try Jameson, Bushmills and Tullamore D.E.W. For those early starters, Bailey's Irish Creme goes well in coffee.
The raucous nature of today's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, McGrath explained, doesn't rattle the Irish.
"I think people want to feel Irish for the day and feel part of the Irish diaspora," he said, but added, "it kind of feeds that old stereotype that the Irish are drunks. That's probably not a good thing."
Jam Irish
Upbeat traditional Irish music is crucial, McGrath said, to a proper St. Patrick's Day. Some Irish classics to consider: "Skibbereen," "Finnegan's Wake," and "The Fields of Athenry." Crank up the Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners and The Wolf Tones. When the fiddle and banjos wear off, there's always other Irish artists Van Morrison, The Pogues, U2 and The Cranberries.
Watch an Irish movie classic
Dowd suggests people pay homage by watching a movie rooted or set in the Emerald Isle, such as The Quiet Man, which according to IMDB, features John Wayne as a boxer who returns home to Ireland, where he falls in love. Dowd, who teaches Irish literature, also recommends The Commitments, about a Dublin soul band, andThe Wind that Shakes the Barley, a story of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence.
Read like the Irish
Dig up some Irish poetry or gothic literature. There's always James Joyce, the author of great Irish novels such as Dubliners and Finnegans Wake. There's also Bram Stoker, who brought us Dracula.
Watch Gaelic hurling and football
The two sports unique to Ireland, Gaelic hurling and Gaelic football, host championship games on St. Patrick's Day.
If you can, watch as the Irish do.
Remember Irish contributions to society
The Irish helped build canals, railroads, cities and infrastructure despite being disenfranchised and subject to prejudice.
Ideally, Dowd said, this is how most people would celebrate the day.
"Reflect on what the incredible contributions this immigrant group made to the country," he said. "Look at how an immigrant group benefited the United States in pretty profound ways."
The residents of Dublin, Georgia don't just celebrate St. Patrick's Day, one day a year, or even one month out of the year, they celebrate their Irish roots all year long. Kelly Jordan, USA TODAY
In this post you learn how you can apply for Jobs through Facebook job section. Good news for job seekers, it is now possible to apply for jobs directly on Facebook. This is a new Facebook features which was activated on Wednesday, 2017.
Facebook users in the U.S and Canada are the first to benefit from this new feature on Facebook. Users can search and apply for jobs directly from Facebook’s website and mobile app. Facebook now gives Jobs advertiser the opportunity to post job opening directly into their Facebook page and Job seekers can now apply directly by clicking apply for jobs.
Facebook is a social media community that connects billion of people around the world but it seems the social network is not resting in its laurels to take on LinkedIn in the job listing industry.
How to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section
Like I said earlier on, the new Facebook job listing is only available for U.S and Canada users for now but the feature will be available to other countries when Facebook will roll it out globally.
Firstly, For those that want to apply for jobs through Facebook job section, You can do so by checking your company of choice Facebook Page- New job listing will be posted and displayed on their page so if you have been following them on Facebook, you can now apply for job directly on their Facebook page by clicking on Apply Now Button
Secondly, you can head over to Facebook new jobs section where you will find the link to all available jobs, since the feature is not officially available in Nigeria I check the new Job section on Facebook and I found about three companies already showing job listings. Facebook has said that the new job listing feature will enable company to drive traffic to their page and also able to pay Facebook when the feature is fully operational.
If you see a posting you like, you can click an “apply now” button that leads them to a pre-populated page with your name and any education or employment history that you’ve made public on the site; you can then either send the info as it is or make changes before submitting. There’s no place to upload a resume, but a 1,000-character text box allows for a cover letter-style note.
If your Facebook profile hasn’t been well curated and organized, it’s time to package your Facebook Page to reflect all your achievements just like we have it on LinkedIn. Though, through privacy settings on Facebook you can hide some information you don’t want employers and Hiring Managers to see but nothing stop you from making your Facebook Profile your resume
So guys if you have been following a particular employer, it might be helpful if you like their page so that when they post a job Vacancy, it will appear on your newsfeed.
Those are the steps you must take to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section. If you have any questions and comments about how to apply for jobs through Facebook Job section, feel free to leave them below.
Facebook messenger day;another clone of Snapchat Stories.If you think Facebook is done with the cloning of Snapchat stories then you may be in for a shocker as the social network giant has introduced yet another Snapchat and Instagram like ‘stories’ on Messenger and is called FacebookMessenger Day. The new feature allows users to post stories which expire after 24 hours.
According to Stan Chudnovksy, head of product for Messenger, he said the Facebook Mesenger Day would be launching globally on Android and Apple devices
At the end of last year, we launched Messenger’s new fast, powerful built-in camera to help make your conversations better than ever,” Chudnovsky wrote.
At the same time, we also began testing a way for you to share these photos and videos as they happen, by adding to your Messenger Day, where many of your friends can view and reply to them.”
Facebook Messenger Day is also similar to WhatSapp and Instagram stories which were launched recently and Messenger Day’s photos and videos also disappear after 24 hours.
How to use Facebook Messenger Day
First make sure you’ve updated your Messenger app so you have the latest version.
Open Messenger, and tap on the camera highlighted with a sun to celebrate this launch. Doing so drops you right into the full-screen camera. Or, tap the “Add to your day” button at the top of your inbox to get started.
Snap a quick selfie or take a photo or video of what’s around you.
To add art and effects, tap the smiley face icon in the top right and then tap to add to your photo or video. You can also add text over your images by tapping the “Aa” icon, and you can overlay a drawing by tapping the squiggly line in the top right corner.
Once you have your photo or video the way you want it, tap the arrow in the bottom right corner. You can then add directly to your day, save it to your phone’s camera roll, and/or you can choose to send it to a specific person or group of people. The photo or video that you add to your day will be viewable for 24 hours.
You can also add to your day from a conversation you’re having with a friend or group of people. After you send a photo or video, you’ll see the option to “add to your day.” Simply tap that text, and you’ll be asked to confirm you’d like to add it to your day.
While you’re messaging with someone, you’ll see if they have anything new from their day, too
