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Question from Sara: Facebook sends dozens of email notifications every day to my email account and it’s really a pain having to delete them before I can even begin checking my email.
I’m logged into Facebook for much of the day and see most of the notifications as they come in so I don’t really need to get them via email too. Can I just turn them off altogether? Thanks!
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Question from Yvonne: I’ve started seeing those posts asking people to post their senior year photos again.
I know there’s a lot of scams and hoaxes on Facebook. Is this one of them?
I guess what I’m really asking is if it’s safe to participate in this? I really like the idea but only if it’s safe.
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I frequently receive frantic messages from Facebook users asking how they can regain access to their accounts when they’re unable to reset their passwords.
Unfortunately, in most of those cases I’m unable to help those folks reset their passwords and get back into their accounts.
That means they have no choice but to abandon their accounts and open new ones.
People find themselves in this situation because Facebook has determined that it’s better to have some people locked out of their accounts forever than to make it easy for hackers to reset the passwords of unsuspecting users.
It always bothers me to have to tell someone I won’t be able to help them get back into their Facebook account, but unfortunately that’s just the reality we are faced with for the time being.
Now all of the above being said, there are steps you can take right now to ensure that you’ll be able to reset your Facebook password if you ever forget it or if a hacker breaks into your account and changes the password.
Question from Jean: A good Facebook friend of mine referred me to you regarding how to print out my entire Facebook friend list. Can you tell me how to do it?
Rick’s answer: I love questions like this, Jean. Short, and directly to the point!
To answer your question, you can indeed print your Friends List, but you can’t do it from within Facebook itself.
What you’ll have to do is use Facebook’s “Download Your Information” tool to download a file containing your Friends List to your computer and then print it from there.
Question from Curtis: I have a quick question for you.
I followed your instructions to see who is following me on Facebook and I saw that I indeed have a bunch of followers.
When I click on their names to look at their profiles I can only see the info on some of them. The other profiles have a message that says:
DO YOU KNOW [XXXXXX]?
To see what he/she shares with friends, send him/her a friend request.
I’m confused. If they’re following me shouldn’t I be able to see the stuff on their profile?
Also, do you recommend that I block those people just in case their profiles are infected with a virus or something?
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