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Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
I receive hundreds of tech questions each week, and many of them are about Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site.
I could write a book about Facebook’s many idiosyncrasies and the various ways to deal with them, but that’s for another day.
In the meantime, I thought I’d simply take a few minutes to share a few of my most popular (as determined by reader response) Facebook tips in this week’s newsletter: [Read more…]
Question from Elise: I hate it when I’m trying to type a comment or status update on Facebook and a tooltip pops up and won’t let me see what I’m typing.
I use Facebook with both Chrome and Firefox and the problem shows up in both of them. Is there any way to disable the annoying tooltips in those browsers?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
One of the most discomforting things about Facebook is having to click “Decline” when you receive an invitation to an event that you would rather not attend. After all, nobody wants to be considered a party-pooper!
While you can always click “Maybe” (or simply ignore the invitation altogether), that will leave the host wondering if you’re going to show up. [Read more…]
If you’re been using Facebook for a while, I’m sure you’re familiar with this scenario:
You’re scrolling through your Facebook news feed when an interesting post catches your attention. You make a mental note to come back and read it later when you have more time, but when you search for it later you can’t find it again.
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to bookmark an individual post on Facebook. That process isn’t complicated and it works extremely well, but now Facebook has added a new feature that makes bookmarking posts that contain shared links a quick two-click process. Here’s how to do it: [Read more…]
If you’ve been using Facebook for more than 10 minutes you’ve no doubt seen posts that made you so upset you wanted to click a button to “Dislike” it.
Well, before long you’ll be able to do just that.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the company is actively developing a Dislike button, and it WILL be rolled out to users when it is ready. [Read more…]