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Question from Kayla C.: Every time I go to a friend’s page on Facebook it shows “Posts You Haven’t Seen” with all their new posts at the top.
I hate having to scroll down the page to find their most recent posts. I’d rather just look at the posts on their Timeline in their natural order like it used to be.
How do I turn “Posts You Haven’t Seen” off? Thanks.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
By default, when you receive a notification on Facebook your speakers will make a beeping sound.
That’s fine if you’re alone and you don’t receive all that many notifications, but if you’re at work or in a public place all those ‘beeps’ can really get annoying to the people around you.
Even worse, all that beeping can get on your own nerves as well, especially if you tend to receive lots of notifications throughout the day.
Luckily, it’s quite easy to disable beeping notifications on Facebook. Just follow the steps below: [Read more…]
As you probably know our Facebook newsfeeds are constantly being filled with posts of dire warnings to “do this” or “do that” or something bad will happen.
They usually ask you to share the post with your friends as well.
And as you also probably know, the vast majority of those “share this or suffer the consequences” type of posts are hoaxes and scams.
That being said, every now and then one of these posts will actually be based upon actual facts.
One case in point is a post that’s been making the rounds of late. The actual text may vary a bit, but it looks something like this: [Read more…]
Unless you were living on another planet during the 2016 election cycle you probably know that fake Russian Facebook pages posted tons of links to fake news stories about the candidates.
What you night not have realized at the time is any “Likes” and “Shares” you might have made on those posts were helping spread “fake news”.
This isn’t an accusation in any way. As we all know, it was very easy to get taken in by those sham pages. That being said, I thought you might be interested in knowing for sure whether you interacted with any of them.
Luckily, it’s very easy to find out if you interacted with any of those infamous fake Russian Facebook pages. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Note: Facebook has removed the “English (Pirate)” option from the list of supported languages, rendering this post moot.
Original post continues below…
Facebook has an enormous user base that literally spans the globe, which means they necessarily support a number of other languages in addition to English.
One of those supported languages is “Pirate English”. And yes, I am very serious.
Once you set your preferred language to Pirate English, you’ll be greeted with “Pirate language” in various places on the page (don’t worry, it’s all family friendly and in good fun!).
If you’d like to give it a try, follow these simple instructions to become a “Pirate” on Facebook: [Read more…]