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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…]
Have you noticed that the videos in your news feed start playing automatically as soon as they scroll into view?
Personally, I’m not all that fond of auto-playing videos. I’d much rather click the little arrow to manually play the videos I want to watch.
Truth be told, I don’t watch many of them because they are often malicious and dangerous. [Read more…]
Billions of people use the Facebook mobile app on their smartphones and tablets.
Unfortunately, the Facebook app can be one of the most frustrating apps you’ll ever use.
For example, you probably experience at least one of these issues from time to time: [Read more…]
If you’ve had a Facebook account for more than five minutes you’re probably aware that scams and hoaxes abound on there.
While the scams can be incredibly dangerous, the hoaxes are usually merely irritating instead of being truly harmful.
The thing is, the irritation these hoaxes cause can become quite intense when the same hoaxes keep popping up over and over again.
Luckily, most of the hoaxes that pop up and make the rounds on Facebook include at least one phrase that’s always a dead-giveaway that the post is a hoax. [Read more…]