Search for “Ways to make money online” and you’ll find millions of so called tips. But today, I’m going to talk about a related topic of online surveys, that are often used to gauge the opinions of people on different subjects, and can be excellent means to earn decent dollars online and yet is often neglected as a viable alternative.

The advantages of using the Internet in these matters are evident. First, the low cost because there is no need to use an outside company if you do not want, second immediacy because the results are still in situ , third much higher participation if it knows how to reach users choice service and fourth simplicity because the tools available on the network are not difficult to use.That said, let’s see as the different quality options available to us on the Internet to create a survey and earn money online.

Google Docs

The search giant has its own generator hidden in Google Docs surveys – using which you can build your own survey without spending any money and with very little effort and time. To perform one of these surveys you have to go to Google Docs and create a new document form — and the rest is accomplished by following the easy steps that are marked by adding responses to each new row. At the end of the process it generates a code that we embed in a web page for example so that everyone can respond.

The advantage of this method is that it is very easy to do and like many other Google tools, you can track the results from a spreadsheet that can also lead to a graph to taste, all without leaving Google Docs. In contrast, the results are not always reliable because nothing prevents duplicate voting.

Facebook

Social networking is another ideal place for surveys where there is more contact with other users on the network. And if we talk about the most important community that exists today on the Internet, Facebook should be a priority. Therefore, in the portal there is a tool called Poll for Facebook that is free and consists of three steps:

1. Create the description and the title. At this time we also define the options and edit the text to our liking
2. Include possible questions and answers
3. Network share

Google+

Google+ does not yet have any utility to do surveys, but as in the previous case should have some method of consultation with users on a network that generates great exchange of information among its members. In this case, and while awaiting an API that allows apps to include surveys, best practice is that some users begin to use: write a post on the stream on a point (with the option of commenting disabled), and quickly added possible answers in your own publication comments making it clear that everyone does +1 in the response with which you disagree.

Yes, it is a rudimentary but effective technique, although there may be errors if one user decides to vote in several answers at once. In any case we could do a trace to find the matching user through the various responses, a task that seems cumbersome if there were many participants.

Twitter

Perhaps one of the best places to do a quick poll is the microblogging network, which is aimed at brief and hurried conversations. In fact, there are many options if we decide to use the platform of the blue bird, but we will talk about that we think is the best at this time — Pollowers.

Once you enter the account of Twitter in Pollowers website, you have to create the survey with the question and possible answers and send it to Twitter. The best thing about this development is that it has a function for which other users can return to share the survey with their followers with what the data are amplified.

Others

We end our review by focusing on two quick survey services more generally:

- Twtpoll was designed at first for Twitter but can be extended to our Facebook and Gmail contacts. Some functions are extra service though.

- Quipol is designed for a very specific type of survey that requires only two possible answers. Since the website is tailored to the survey you can participate in other’s surveys as well. It also allows sharing on Twitter and Facebook Analysis.

As you can see the online survey creation options are varied and the employment system as well. If you are faced with the need to make an opinion poll ever, remember that the Internet offers the most powerful of all space to do so, especially if the surveys are integrated with social networks.

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So in order to keep track with the times they have registered on Twitter and after a couple of months they have become so addicted to this social media site that it has become quite impossible to get out of its influence.

Nowadays a great deal of people is suffering the so called Twitter mania, which does not allow them to devote their time to anything else but tweeting and gaining followers. Now you can tell me that Twitter mania is not an illness and one should not take it so seriously.

However I shall object to it by saying that if you get that illness and become a Twitter maniac it will become rather difficult for you to recover it as there exists no remedy for that.

If you wonder what I mean by saying a Twitter maniac I can clarify it to you. If you prefer to spend more than half a day in front of the computer tweeting some new updates about how you have spent your evening or with whom you have had you lunch rather than to spend that time together with your friends or family, it is the first symptom of a Twitter maniac.

At first you won’t notice how you are gradually getting into the net of Twitter. You will pay no attention to the fact that you are concerned with nothing but tweeting, changing your profile picture on Twitter or reading the tweets of your followers.

You are becoming so involved and wrapped up in these activities that you lose the sense of hunger, thirst and fatigue and think only how to be successful on Twitter and become popular with the help of your Twitter account (especially when you enumerate the number of people that have gained that popularity online).

Afterwards you will begin to avoid human communication, I mean face to face interaction as you are got used to see only the computer screen in front of your eyes and a real human face can seem a bit strange and even frightening to you. You will want other people to leave you alone with your computer as you will, from that day on, prefer its companionship rather than a human one.

This fact will undoubtedly worry your friends and people who are really close to you. But believe me that you won’t listen to their complaints and will be deaf to them.

Read how Twitter can land You in Jail

Maybe you will find this description a little bit exaggerating and in some sense ridiculous, however I can assure you that I am more than serious. Twitter mania is a kind of illness that cannot seem serious from the first sight. However I advise you to take it serious in order not to catch that illness.

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Review of New Chat Feature (Interface) of Facebook:

But review from users of Facebook and various polls reveal that the users have not liked the Facebook side chat bar. The reasons for the negative feedback are:

1. Interface not appealing: Users find that the chat bar, which occupies the screen on the right side of the browser, is not visually appealing.

2. Makes the screen cluttered: Apart from the facility of video chat which is not used by several of the users, the new feature seems to be useless as it occupies a lot of space unnecessarily on the Facebook screen. This leads to the screen of Facebook appear cluttered, and also reduces the width of the Facebook page. This disadvantage is more annoying if you are working on a small width screen.

3. The option of groups have been removed: Due to this, users cannot hide their online status from the people with whom they do not want to chat.

4. The friend’s list: It is detected automatically, and the users have no choice in its selection. This automatic selected list does not have the names of the friends you chat the most, and so is not a good feature.

How to Get the Good Old Classic Chat Interface Back in Facebook [Using Browser Extensions (Add-ons)]

However, there is good news for the people who do not like the new chat feature and want to switch to the old classic chat interface of Facebook.

In order to disable to new chat interface and get the old one back, there is a browser add-on/extension which can be installed on your computer and you can get the old chat interface of Facebook back. It is an excellent extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera web browser users, which can bring back the good old classic chat in Facebook.

For this, you can install the add-on as per the browser you are using. The add-ons are available on the respective browser’s official web sites.

“Facebook Chat Sidebar Disabler” is a free extension, which helps you in disabling the new Facebook chat sidebar and return the good old normal chat window back. Simply install it and open Facebook and click on chat link. You’ll get the old chat back.

You can also toggle between old-style chat and new chat using “Use Old-Style Chat” option in chat menu.  To use video chat, just open a normal chat tab and click the video icon in title bar of the conversation.

Download Link (Mozilla Firefox)

Download Link (Google Chrome)

Download Link (Opera)

If you do not want to install this add-on, you can open your chat in a separate page and chat on this. As it will be in a totally different page, your browser page will not get cluttered. To open this new chat page, press Ctrl+D, and this chat page will be added to your browser bookmark list.

How to Get the Old Classic Facebook Chat Interface Back [Using Userscript]

You can also use “Facebook Sidebar Chat Reversion” userscript to disable new chat sidebar and bring back old chat in Facebook.

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The Big G just reiterated plans to restore its social networking search function, based on Google+ and “other sources,” but it made no mention of its former sweetheart – Twitter!

Google’s specialized Realtime search engine allowed users to get information from social networks, and most notably Twitter, as soon as it happened. Realtime also imported a stream of data for standard searches related to major world events, ranging from the Royal Wedding to Japanese tsunami. It made Google‘s search engine more relevant during major world events.

Google had rolled out the Real-Time Search in Dec 2009 to compete with Microsoft’s search engine – Bing, which also has the similar feature, which showed results from Twitter and Facebook.

However, after about an year and half of running, Realtime Search was taken down in July after Google failed to come to an agreement with Twitter for continued access to Twitter’s firehouse of data.

But now when Google is talking about integrating Google+ streams to revive their Real Time Search, they are obviously forgetting something! Twitter has a familiarity to the general public, and it’s open to them. Google+ isn’t even open to the general public without invitation, and they’re already talking about using it to power the realtime search features, which was mainly powered by Twitter?

Even once (if) Google+ becomes heavily trafficked, it’s likely that the postings will resemble those you find on Facebook. Google already admitted, that Facebook wasn’t very effective as a real-time news source, so how is Google+ supposed to be going to be any better?

If you want to see up to the second results from around the world on what people are saying about any given topic, where do you go? Google+ or Twitter?

If Google really wants to organize the world’s information, maybe it needs to fork out enough money to get that fire-hose back. At least for a while. The early days are promising, but it’s still entirely possible that Google+ could turn into another Google Buzz or worse yet, another Google Wave.

Anyway, soon you can start seeing  streams from Google+ on your search result page through revamped Real Time service. But, will it be as effective and as popular like the earlier Twitter streams? Only time will tell…

Google+ is in limited beta release, available only by invitation from current members and from Google, which is purposely limiting access to refine the site and fix bugs before opening it up broadly.

Google Plus Traffic Declines 3% Over One Week

For the week ending July 23, Google+ received 1.79 million visits, down 3 percent from the previous week, and the average time spent on the site also fell 10 percent to 5 minutes and 15 seconds, Hitwise said Wednesday. The company extrapolates its figures from data from ISPs and from an opt-in panel of about 2.5 million users.

At any rate, a drop in activity is never a good sign for any website, especially a social networking site and one whose launch at the end of June was welcomed with such enthusiasm and buzz. This is not at all good for a company like Google, whose past social networking efforts in the form of Google Wave and Google Buzz were huge flops and went into oblivion after initial few weeks of fabulous user response.

Interestingly when contacted, Google refused to comment on specifics of the report but cautioned it’s based on the number of visitors and not the number of actual users. Google also said third-party metrics don’t factor in two “very critical” modes of interaction, namely mobile usage and navigation bar usage, in which members interact with Google+ from another Google product, such as the drop-down menu while in their Gmail account.

Google+, the Search Engine giant’s latest attempt to challenge Facebook for the social-networking crown, launched late last month in a field trial, letting in only a handful of users, who could later invite their friends and family.

It is no surprise that Google+ is an important initiative for Google. The company has high expectations that the site will finally make it a strong competitor in social networking, where it has struggled to find its footing.

In the past week or so, Google+ also has been dragged to a couple of controversies. One centered on Google’s decision that people must use their real name for Google+ accounts, which led the company to delete many profiles. That prompted complaints from members who claimed they used their real name and had their account deleted anyway, and from others who argued they should be able to use a pseudonym to protect their privacy.

Also at one instance Google+ servers were run out of disk space and started sending spam like emails to users before Google intervened and fixed the problem. Could this recent drop in traffic be a result of these controversies? We wonder…

Google thinks that Google+ will prove compelling enough to eventually prompt a massive exodus of Facebook users. But what do you think? Has the charm and shine of Google+ worn off or is this just a bump on the road to world domination? Let us know in the comments.

Interestingly, there is no friend requests on Google+. You cannot send someone a request to be their friend. All you can do is, add them to your Circles. And, when you add someone to your circle, they get a notification that you have added them to your Circle. And the notification mail has this typical subject line: <Person’s name> added you on Google+

So essentially, Google+ is pretty similar to Twitter and Facebook in terms of the email notification system. But, it notifies  users ONLY when they get added in other people’s Google+circle. However, Google+ does NOT notify users when they get removed from others circle.

Google Minus: Who REMOVED You From Their Google Plus Circles UnCircle Notifier

If you happen to be one Google+ Circles user and are as curious as us to get notified when someone removes you from their circles, we have got good news! Aaron Frost has developed Google Minus Browser extensions, which notify you about people when someone removes you from their circles.

In case, you are yet to jump on to Google+ bandwagon, do check out our Easiest Trick to Receive/Send Invites To Join Google+

After you install Google Minus, you will see an alert pop up in top right corner of your Google Chrome browser with the information about who removed you from their circle. Every time the user visits plus.google.com, Google Minus will check the list of people who have added him/her to their circles, and if you are no longer in that list then Google Minus will let you know.

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This goes without saying that Google Minus will probably be used as readily as the Google+ itself. Many users are Circle sensitive. Being in and out of Circles is becoming a prestige issue. And hence we feel it is ironical that Google+ didn’t consider the idea of having this Google+ UnCircle Notifier in their plans.

Google Minus extension is available for Firefox, Chrome and IE browsers. This extension is developed on Kynetx platform, which allows developers to build cross-platform apps that runs on multiple browsers. However, it also means that this browser plugin (extension) can access your browsing history data on all websites and also can track the list of your installed apps, extensions and browser themes.

If this is a tread-off that you are ready to bargain for, then go ahead and give this cool Google+ ‘Who Removed Me From Circles’ Notifier and feed your curious mind with some interesting stats.

At the same time, however, this function is every day abused. You know exactly what I’m talking about. These updates clog up your newsfeed, waste your time, and sometimes they even may make you rethink why you joined this Facebook circus to begin with. Here are some of the top 5 worst offenders that have every trait to be included in the ‘Most Irritating Facebook Status Updates’ list.

Top 5 Facebook Faux Pas That You Should Avoid

1. Cry for attention.

This is one of the most irritating of all Facebook status updates, because they are usually vague and, more often than not, they’re overblown. For example, one day you will see on your news feed Ms. Drama Queen’s update: “Could life get any worse…“. A few hours later, concerned friends post comments, asking if everything is alright, but she would never reveal precisely what happened (if anything happened at all) because she craves the comments and attention.

2. My kid just accomplished X.

It’s wonderful to be a proud parent. But it’s just plain annoying when a parent uses Facebook as some sort of promotional tool for their kid. While, yes, I’m very happy when your little bundle of joy learns how to control its bowel movements, or when he gets an A in gym class, I honestly don’t want to find out on Facebook, if I wanted to know at all.

3. Complaining about Facebook on Facebook.

This may be my all-time least favorite status update, simply because whenever anyone complains about a new Facebook policy that upsets them, they do so without understanding the extreme irony embedded in this. If you don’t like Facebook, don’t use it.

4. Posting a news story everyone has read.

Now there are some Facebook users out there who somehow think that no one else in the world reads the news. Of course, it’s different when you link to an interesting, obscure story that you found in an alternative newspaper or magazine. Or, if you have some insightful commentary to add to what has become stale debate on any given current event. But don’t link a New York Times headlining story about the death of Michael Jackson. We know already.

5. My life revolves around my significant other.

When love is in the air, that’s all well and good. But writing you and your sweetie’s love story using Facebook status updates does not make for good entertainment or even informative news. If you want to send her private messages, go ahead, be my guest. Very few people want to know the details of your love life.

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There you have it, some of the most annoying status update offenders out there. If you’ve done one of these things before, it’s not that big a deal. But think twice before posting something that may make you cross those implied lines etched in the social fabric of Facebook.

Are there any other status updates that have become pet peeves in your book?

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Google has apparently admitted that it ran out of disk space for part of its Google+ social networking service, resulting in a torrent of alert notifications to users. Vic Gundotra, SVP of Social [networking] at Google, took to the fledgling service to apologize and explain what happened.

In his Plus posting Gundotra admitted, “For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes“.

“We didn’t expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly,” added Gundotra, “but we should have. Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam.“

(PHOTOS: Life Inside Google+ Headquarters)

Interestingly, the reason for the exponential growth of users in the service (even during the field trial) is due to a Google+ loophole that enabled users to invite their friends to join Google+ before the official invitation scheme was in place. Apparently due to this, the company lost control of the number of people joining their service and ended up running out of disk space.

The spam messages that were sent to the users’ emails are to be assumed as the product of bugs in the Google+ code. It kicked in because the website’s servers were unable to cope with the high demand.

At any rate, if Facebook has over 750 million members, surely Google+, as a direct competitor, would aim to have just as many users in a few years time, if not sooner.

Hence it’s strange to imagine why Google wouldn’t have the budget and manpower to make this work smoothly and why it ended up in this major oversight to fail to anticipate how much data it would be dealing with in the early field trial days. Either way, this has been a classical example to explain why Google didn’t open the floodgates to the mass and why it opted for a controlled (limited) field trial first.

But for non-techno-savvy users, enabling Facebook’s new social video calling feature might not be a straightforward affair. If you are looking for an easy way to enable video calling feature on any user’s Facebook account, it is essential to install Facebook video chat plugin for your web browser. In addition, Windows users also have to ensure that they have the latest version of Microsoft DirectX installed.

Step-by-step Guide to Enable Facebook Video Calling (Powered by Skype)

1) Login to your Facebook account and open Facebook’s Video Calling Setup page — http://facebook.com/videocalling
2) Click on the “Get Started” icon.
3) At this junction, you will be asked to select any of your Facebook contacts who are online.
4) Select any of your online contacts to open the chat box with “Video” symbol.
5) Now click on the video symbol to raise a pop up asking if you want to “Set up Video calling”.
6) Click on the Setup, which will ask you to save a plug-in. [assuming that you have NOT already installed this plugin]
7) Install this plug-in to enable Facebook video chat in your browser.

That’s it fellas. Now, you are ready and equipped to start using Skype powdered video chat in Facebook. All you need to do from here on is to just open the chat box and click on the Video symbol to start video chatting (calling) with your online Facebook friends. The video call will be started as soon as your friend answer.

You can see if a friend is available by entering their name at the bottom of the chat list on the right side of the page. Friends that appear online in chat are also available for video calls. A green dot next to a friend’s name means they’re online and a moon icon means they’re online but inactive. Just like with chat, only your confirmed friends can call you on Facebook. You also have the option to ignore any call you receive.

How to Easily Setup and Use Facebook Video Calling Feature?

However, according to Facebook some users may face issues with video calling because of hardware and/or software incompatibility. Facebook video calling is supported for the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer web browsers.

If you face problems using this feature, you should probably check if any other program is currently (simultaneously) using your webcam.

Some other issues with Facebook video calling include the inferior quality of the video, as compared to Skype. Also there is no way to resize the video window. Also, Facebook video does not work with mobile phone yet… you need a computer and wi-fi connection for best results.

Is Facebook’s new video chat something you’ll use? Do you find it as “awesome” as Zuckerberg promised? Do you think Facebook can compete with Google+ Hangout (which lets you video chat in groups)? Let us know in the comments below.

If you are someone who received the Google+ invite, joined the esteemed hoard of ‘selected few’ beta testers whom Google hand-picked but had not sent as many invites to your friends as you would have liked before this shut down happened, then here is hope – there is an easy way (hack/loophole) using which you can still bring your friends in to it while Google has a lock-down on the service.

How to Invite your Friends for Google+ ?

Without further ado, here is the easiest trick (hack) to send Google+ Invites to your friends. If you have already joined Google+ and want to share with your friends and family, here’s what to do:

1. Ensure that the friends you want to invite to Google+ is already in your Google contacts. If that is not the case, first add their email IDs to your Gmail account contacts list before proceeding to the next step.

2. Login to your Google+ page and from your Circles page, create a new circle [lets call this circle as 'Invites' or anything else you like]

3. Now, drag all your friends into the newly created ‘Invites’ circle.

4. Once you have done the above, its time to share something with the friends that you added to the ‘Invites’ circle. TO do so, create a status update (it’s called a ‘Share’ on Google+), ['Inviting Friends to Google+'] and then add the circle ‘Invites’ into the ‘add people’ box (Next to +1 and Comment links). Alternately, you can also paste the Gmail addresses of friends you want to invite in the ‘add people’ box and share the status update.

5. Your friends will receive an e-mail that asks if they want to learn more about Google+. When they click the link in their e-mail, they’ll be prompted to join Google+. That’s it. You have successfully sent invites to your friends to join cool new Google+ even if Google is NOT allowing any new invites at the moment.

Try this trick yourself and let us know if it worked. By the way, TechChunks team is on Google+ right now and we will be glad to send you an invite. If interested, leave a comment and we will be glad to invite you to Google+.

UPDATE:
1. It may take up to 48 hours to receive the Google+ email.
2. We checked with an Google employee and he confirmed that this loophole may or may not work for people ‘based on their Gmail account’s age‘! So for people who could not use the invite email to join, your email account age might have been a factor!