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Question from Terry: Rick, you’re the one I trust to suggest what to do about this “Off-Facebook Activity” that is in the Facebook settings.
Lots of people have said turn it off and clear its history so we won’t be tracked.
Is there anything to this? And mainly, do we need to turn off this feature?
Thank you!
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Does your smartphone seem sluggish and slow compared to the way it ran when you first got it?
If so, there is one hugely popular, but quite unnecessary app that could be slowing your phone down to a crawl.
Chances are you use this app every single day, even though you don’t really need it and you’ll give up absolutely nothing by removing it.
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Question from Glenda: I’ve been following your Facebook page for several years but a couple of months ago your posts stopped showing up in my Newsfeed.
I read a post you wrote a while back that said when that happens to go to your Timeline and Like, Comment and Share a few posts every day for about a week to get them to start coming into the Newsfeed again.
I’ve done that three times during the past couple of month but Facebook always stops showing me your posts again after just a day or two.
How can I fix this? I love your tips and I don’t want to miss any of them.
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Facebook is a vast community consisting of approximately 2 billion users, and over time it’s easy to amass a large number of “Facebook friends”.
As your friends list grows, it’s inevitable that some of your friends will deactivate their accounts for some reason but never got around to actually deleting it.
The thing is, when a friend’s account is deactivated that person isn’t automatically removed from your friends list.
Those friends who are no longer active on Facebook are called “ghost friends”.
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A while back I wrote a post discussing the extremely irritating “Why are all these strangers following me?” hoax on Facebook.
In a nutshell, that hoax tells you to type the words “following me” into the Facebook search box to see a list of all the people who are following you.