Everyday we use various social networking sites
especially Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to connect with our friends virtually
over the wire. These social networking sites are now directly and/or indirectly
connected with our daily life.
As
a computer user, many time we are familiar with Keyboard to do some operations
and in such case we need to know the shortcut keys of those sites. In this
non-technical blog post, I will
share the shortcut keys of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
For people who works in front of the computer for
whole day, there is a big chance of having pain on your wrist if you use mouse
continuously. If you are using the mouse, this will increase the probability of
inflammation. Studies says that using the keyboard you can do your works faster
using the shortcut keys.
Most
of you spends a huge time in social networking sites and using mouse may
increase the pain in your wrist. Hence in this post, I am going to share the
shortcut keys of mostly used social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and
Google+ which will reduce your wrist pain and improve your productivity of using
those sites.
Facebook
is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, owned and
operated by Facebook, Inc. As of May 2012, Facebook has over 900 million active
users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Facebook was
founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students
Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The website's membership was
initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other
colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It
gradually added support for students at various other universities before
opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Here
is the keyboard shortcuts of Facebook:
Twitter is an online social networking service
and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based
posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006
by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide
popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340
million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.Since
its launch, the Twitter website has become one of the top 10 most visited on the
Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."Unregistered users
can read the tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website
interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices. Here is the keyboard
shortcuts of Twitter:
| Twitter Shortcut Keys | |||
| Twitter Action | Key | Twitter Action | Key |
| Favorite a Tweet | F | Home | G + H |
| Reply to a Tweet | R | Connect | G + C |
| Retweet | T | Activity | G + A |
| Direct Message | M | Show Mentions | G + R |
| Compose a Tweet | N | Discover | G + D |
| Open Tweet Details | Enter | Goto Profile | G + P |
| Close all Open Tweets | L | Goto Favorites | G + F |
| Show Keyboard Help | ? | Show Lists | G + L |
| Navigate to Next Tweet | J | Show Messages | G + M |
| Navigate to Previous Tweet | K | Open Settings | G + S |
| Page Down | Space | Goto User | G + U |
| Search | / | ||
| Load New Tweets | . | ||
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as
Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a multilingual social networking
and identity service owned and operated by Google Inc. It was launched in June
28, 2011. As of April 2012, it had a total of 170 million registered users.
Google Plus originally launched as Google Circles, a name alluding to its
emphasis on organizing friendship information. The service was launched as an
invitation-only "field test" in June 2011. Early invites were soon suspended due
to an "insane demand" for new accounts. On September 20, 2011, Google+ was
opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an invitation.
Here is the keyboard shortcuts of Google Plus:
| Google+ Shortcut Keys | |
| Google+ Action | Key |
| Move to Next Stream | j |
| Move to Previous Stream | k |
| New Comment on Current Post | n |
| Previous Comment on Current Post | p |
| Scroll Up | Shift + Space |
| Scroll Down | Ctrl + Space |
I hope that this post will be helpful for your
day to day works in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Bookmark this blog post and make a print out of the same. Recall this post
whenever you want to use the shortcut keys in those sites.
Ref:kunal-chowdhury
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