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Question from Beverly: A man I work with but barely know sent me a nasty picture and a really disturbing comment in an instant message via Facebook Messenger and it really upset me.
I’d like to report him to HR but I’m afraid he’ll delete the picture and message before they have a chance to investigate.
I’d like to take a screenshot of the photo and message but I’m afraid if I do Facebook will notify him that I did it. Will they?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Kelly: I recently sent a friend request to a friend of mine after I found out she’s on Facebook. It’s been over a week and it still says “Friend Request Sent”.
I used your site’s search box and found this post where you answered a similar question for a woman named Delores, but my situation is a little different from hers.
Apparently Delores’ friend was receiving her friend requests and declining them because she was able to send multiple requests. But my friend hasn’t responded at all because the button still says “Friend Request Sent”.
I know this person has been on Facebook every day since the friend request was sent because she’s been posting like crazy. That’s why I’m thinking it was never received. Is there any way to know for sure that she has received it? [Read more…]
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Question from Yvette S.: Hi, Rick. I have a question about my three year old MacBook Pro.
My son usually helps me but he’s out of town at the moment.
It needs a new battery, but I can’t find the model number so I don’t know which battery I need to buy.
Can you tell me where to look for the model number? [Read more…]
Question from Polly: I bought a Chromebook a few months ago after my Windows laptop died, but now I’ve started having trouble with the Chromebook.
Starting last night everything I type is in all capital letters.
I checked to see if the Caps Lock key might be on, but I can’t find one.
Will you please answer these two questions? [Read more…]
Question from Carita: I’ve decided to take your advice about replacing the hard drive in my computer with an SSD.
I’ll be installing a 240GB SSD as the primary drive and leaving the 1TB hard drive installed in the computer as a secondary drive for extra storage.
The problem is I’m pretty sure the SSD will be too small to hold all the programs I currently use.
Will I be able to install some of them onto the hard drive even though the operating system (Windows 11) will be on the SSD? [Read more…]