HOW TO: Create a Facebook Desktop Icon ?

When we come to social media its a vast area which is probably brought into two single ventures. First is Facebook and the next is twitter. Even though twitter is a micro blogging platform we need to consider the same under social media category. Having 750 Million users around the world Facebook is moving as the king with all types of users been added to their count daily. Hope everyone knows all sort of things whether it is about any how to’s in Facebook or any other social media this post will be really an exception but insular by its own kind.

It is simple to create an icon for Facebook in your desktop so that you may easily click on touch with your Facebook-ing experience. Most of the people would think its a pretty tiresome job to open your browsers each time, type the URL, and getting log in. Sometimes there is a also a feature to drag a Facebook shortcut in your browser tab which obviously gives a slavish look. To have a own customized Facebook shortcut in your desktop will be a even more flexible than all the above because you will be just a single click away.

How to Create Facebook Shortcut on Desktop ?

Step 1: Go to your desktop and right click on it.

Step 2: You should click on feature called New.

Step 3: Another tab open in which choose Shortcut.

Step 4: It will ask for “type the location for item” in which you need to type www.facebook.com

Step 5: After clicking next the step will be to add a name to the URL in you can give any name or just Facebook

The short cut will be added to your desktop showing a thumbnail of your default browser. You can also customize this icon like replacing it by a Facebook icon.

Download any Facebook icon from web and you need to replace the default icon with this.

In order to convert any of your images into icons you can use this online converter (http://iconverticons.com). It supports all files with respect to Mac and Windows.

To Add Facebook icon

Step 1: Right click on the shortcut icon.

Step 2: Click on Properties.

Step 3: Choose Change icon.

Step 4: Browse and replace the Facebook icon with it. You can easily compare this one with the URL Shortcut created with respect to default browser.