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Question from Elaine: I have a very annoying Facebook friend who drives me nuts on there, but for practical reasons I can’t unfriend him.
I have already unfollowed him to prevent his posts from showing up in my newsfeed.
My question is how can I prevent him from seeing MY posts as well? [Read more…]
Were you a Facebook user residing in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022?
If so, Facebook probably owes you some cash. And no, today isn’t April 1, and this isn’t a joke.
Well, here we go again with yet another round of a very irritating Facebook hoax.
Once again, this particular hoax is being spread via Messenger, and as usual lots of folks are falling for it.
The hoax message varies a bit, but it typically reads something like this: [Read more…]
Question from Brenda: I have a Facebook question that I hope you can answer for me Rick.
I have many varied interests so I “Like” a wide variety of pages, some of which I’d rather keep to myself and not let some of my Facebook friends know about.
Is there a way to “hide” those pages from my friends but still access them myself as usual? [Read more…]
Have you ever logged into your Facebook account at work and forgot to log back out before leaving for the day?
Or perhaps you borrowed a friend’s smartphone to post a quick status update and then handed the phone back to him/her without logging out?
Even worse, perhaps something happened that leads you to believe that someone else (a hacker perhaps?) was logged into your account on a remote device?
Situations like these can leave your Facebook account and all of the sensitive information stored therein wide open to people who might desire to use it for nefarious purposes. [Read more…]