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1. Pinterest can be used to enhance collaboration.
 A little known, but very powerful, feature of Pinterest is the ability to allow other users to add content to your image boards. For example, you are working on a group research project pertaining to species of flora in the Amazon rainforest. You may enable other members of your group to add images of appropriate tropical plants to your Amazon Flora board. Now everyone has an online central resource where research findings can be pooled and organized collectively. This can be a huge benefit when arranging group meetings poses a challenge due to issues such as physical distance and scheduling conflicts. The only prerequisite to using this feature is members of your group must be following each other on Pinterest.

1. You can find sources of ideas and inspiration.
You are able to search through all of the images bookmarked on Pinterest. This function can be immensely helpful if you need ideas for projects such as planning a birthday celebration. With countless images of party favors, deserts, decorations, designs, recipes, etc., readily available, you will have plenty of sources available to help inspire you.

1. Arrange your next vacation.
 One of the most popular categories of bookmarked images on Pinterest is exotic travel destinations. If your dream vacation is to visit the Mediterranean coast, you will able to search for images of specific locales. In fact, Pinterest also allows you to add or "repin" the photos of other users to your board(s). So, you can collect images of intriguing Greek resorts or other attractions you may wish to patronize on your trip.

• First, log in to your Facebook account and click on Account, which is located on the upper right corner of the home page.
• Select Account Settings from the drop down menu of Account.
• On the Account Settings window, you will find Download a copy of your data, which is located in the bottom of the page.
• Click on download a copy, and you will be directed to a window, on which, you need to click on the button, Start archive.
• Once you click on Start Archive, your personal archive containing your information, will be generated and an email will be sent to you, once the archive is ready.

• Download the software, Facebook Friend Exporter and install it in your computer.
• Log in to your Facebook account, where you will find the tab, Export Friends in the main menu.
• After you click on Export Friends, you will be directed to a window, where you need to select, Let's get started!
• Cache all your photos and click on, Let's start.
• You will be given two options to export your friends list to Google+. One way is through Gmail, wherein you need to log in to your Gmail account and import your friends list and the another way is, through CSV (Comma Spreaded value).
• CSV is a simpler method, wherein you copy and paste the CSV file in a notepad, and save it in .csv format.
• Now, go to Google+ home page and click on Upload Address Book, and select the .csv file from the folder, where you have stored the file. That's it!
• Select the friends list that appear on your Google+ home page, and drag it and place them in the Friends Circle, which appears on your Google+ account.

• Download the software, Facebook Export.
• Log in to Google+, and follow the path: Videos → Upload new videos.
• Upload the photos which you have downloaded on your system, to Google+.

• Download Picasa.
• Add the photos, which you have downloaded, to Picasa. To do this, follow the path on Picasa: File → Add Folder to Picasa.
• After importing the photos to Picasa, find the photo album and click on Sync to web, which is on the upper right corner of the current window.
• A pop-up window will appear, on which you need to sign in with your Google+ account.
• A pop-up window asking you to verify the upload settings, will appear.
• Click on the option, change settings, and modify your settings.
• Enable the check box, Use the above settings.
• Go to Picasa, and click on sync button, and the uploading of your photos will be done automatically.

To begin with, login to your Google plus account with your user id and password. You will have your Google+ account open in front of you. Now, go to the tool bar at the top of your page and click on the circles icon like shown in the picture below. This will open the circles page in a new tab.

By default there are 4 circles created by Google+, which include Friends, Family, Acquaintances, and Following. Apart from these default circles, if you wish to create some new ones, here is what you have to do. Select the people you want to add to the group. You can either select one person by clicking on the name title or multiple titles using your cursor. You can put the same person into as many circles as you like. For example, if you want your cousin to be in your family as well as your friends circle you are welcome to do so.

Once you are ready with a friend or list of friends, drag and drop them in a blank circle, which would read "drop here to create new circle" like in the picture below. You will find this icon at the bottom of your screen. When you are done with the above, the circle will display the number of people you've added in the circle. If in case you happen to add a person twice or if you have added someone to the circle already, they wouldn't be added twice. So, you don't worry.

When you finish with adding all the friends, the text on the circle will change to "create circle." Click it. You will have an empty box pop up, asking you to name the circle. The format that empty box is given below. Type in the name of your circle and click "create circle with x people." you can always add more fiends to this actual circle, which appears in your profile now. You can also rename your circle, whenever you want. For that you need to click on "rename" next to the name of the circle, edit it and click save.

If you have done everything properly, the newly created circle should appear near the four default circles in your profile. In case you want to get a person out of your circle; click on that particular circle to which the person belongs, select the one you would like to remove and click remove. Done! To delete an entire circle, you select that specific circle, click "delete this circle" at the end of the pop up box and you are done. Remember, once you delete a circle, you cannot recover it back in any case.

• Fill “Facebook Chat” in the space provided in front of the “Name” section.

• Type the URL “http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php” in the space provided in front of “Location” section.

• Also check the check box as shown

1. To begin, log onto Facebook and head on over to your profile page. To the right of the page, you’ll see a list of the years you’ve been on the social network.

2. Click on any previous year listed. A “Friends” menu will pop up on your profile. This will tell you which friends you added during this particular time period.

3. Scroll over the friends and it will tell you whether or not you’re still friends with the person.

4. Install a plugin to identify who has unfriended you. Another option is to use a reliable plug-in to find out who unfriends you. For instance, the Unfriend Finder works on Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome browsers. Once installed, you’ll receive notifications when someone unfriends you or deletes his or her account.