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Facebook acting strange? It could be a malicious app.

Posted on July 19, 2023

There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.

Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.

Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.

Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account.

And how they do that just might surprise you…  [Read more…]

How to force your Facebook group to show the newest posts first

Posted on February 26, 2023

By default, Facebook doesn’t show the posts in a group with the newest posts at the top of the feed.

Instead, they start off with the posts that Facebook’s algorithm has deemed to be the most relevant.

Speaking strictly for myself, I prefer seeing the posts displayed in reverse order, with the newest post at the top and the oldest post at the bottom.  [Read more…]

Can you make money from YouTube Shorts?

Posted on February 22, 2023

YouTube’s “Shorts” feature has brought a massive win to both the platform and its creators, as it has helped create a valuable content resource for many of the company’s channel’s creators.

However, it has also raised some questions and problems about how to make a proper orientation of videos and how to profit from these.  [Read more…]

How to make your Instagram messages disappear after they’ve been read

Posted on November 14, 2022

If you’ve ever used SnapChat you’re probably familiar with how received messages simply disappear after they have been read.

Well, now Instagram’s Chat tool has a similar feature called ‘Vanish Mode’.

[Read more…]

Q&A: Can I block Instagram users from contacting me on Messenger?

Posted on September 29, 2022

Question from Joni:  Hi, Rick. I have a question for you.

Is there a way to block Instagram message requests on Facebook Messenger?

I don’t use Instagram at all and I’m getting a lot of message requests from scammers pretending to be friends of mine.

When I get a message request from a name I recognize I always hit them with my security question to see how they answer.  [Read more…]

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