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Q&A: How do I bypass the 5000 friend limit on Facebook?

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Question from Alex:  I’m a singer/musician who has a large semi-local following in my city and the surrounding areas.

I created a Facebook page and tried to use it to let my fans know about my upcoming gigs, but I recently found out that Facebook only shows my posts to a just a small percentage of my 8,000+ followers.

I’ve found that I do a lot better when I post the dates on my personal Facebook Timeline.

The problem is Facebook won’t allow me to have more than 5,000 friends and I have new people wanting to friend me all the time.

Can you tell me how to bypass the 5,000 friend limit on a personal account? [Read more…]

Q&A: Is there an app to override Straight Talk’s monthly data cap?

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Question from Erin:  I have a Straight Talk phone and I have a question about the amount of data it’s using.

I always buy the $35 card and I often use up my 10GB of data several days before the month is over. I absolutely hate it when they switch my phone to slower speed.

My friend told me there’s an app that will let me bypass the data cap on my Straight Talk plan but he can’t remember the name of it. I searched the Google Play store high and low but couldn’t find it.

I think he might be just trying to pull one over on me. Am I right or is there really an app that will do this?  [Read more…]

Q&A: Will Facebook let someone know I blocked them?

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Question from Pam:  I have a question Rick. If I block a friend on Facebook, will Facebook tell her I blocked her? I hope the answer is no.

I know I could unfriend her but then my profile would pop up under “People you may know” on her page and that would tip her off that I had unfriended her.

Since I work with this person, I’d rather not upset her, but some of her posts are very crude and I don’t want them showing up on my page. Can you advise?  [Read more…]

Q&A: Can I change the name of a label in Gmail?

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Question from Amber:  I hope you can help me with a Gmail problem.

For several years I’ve been organizing and coordinating all of our annual family reunions, and that includes sending out emails about upcoming reunions to a couple of hundred family members.

To make that task easier to manage and track I created a new label in Gmail a while back just for emails pertaining to the reunions.

Now I’d like to change the name of that label to something that better identifies the emails as being reunion-related.

I have three questions that I hope you’ll answer for me.  [Read more…]

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