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Well, there’s yet another extremely dangerous scam making the rounds on Facebook, and it’s an easy one to fall for. It goes something like this…
You’re scrolling through your Facebook news feed when an interesting video catches your attention. You click on it to watch it, but instead of the video you’re presented with a warning that your computer’s Flash Player is out of date and needs to be updated. Well, it doesn’t. [Read more…]
Have you ever published a status update, a photo, or a link on Facebook only to immediately have second thoughts about it?
If so, you probably deleted the post as quickly as possible, hoping that you got rid of it before any of your friends had a chance to see it.
Truth be told, most of us have published an embarrassing post at one time or another. It happens.
Luckily, if you use Google Chrome you can give yourself a brief moment of reflection after clicking the “Post” button before the post actually goes live, and change your mind if you end up thinking better of it. [Read more…]
Question from Carol: Hi there Rick! Thanks for all of these awesome tips you post every day! I have one quick, short question for you. If I decline a Facebook invitation to an event will the person who sent me the invitation know that I declined it?
I find myself facing this dilemma almost every day because I have lots of friends who are always inviting me to something or another. I don’t want to cause any hurt feelings, you know?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, hackers and scammers just love Facebook, and it seems like a new scam starts making the rounds every day.
Well, the latest scam has been going around for a couple of months now. It arrives in your Facebook Message inbox after being sent via an IM that appears to have been sent from a friend. Read on to learn how the scam works… [Read more…]
Facebook is a wonderful tool for communicating with family and friends, sharing photos and stories, and keeping up with your favorites music groups, charitable organizations and other interests. And as we all know, it can also be a huge (albeit fun) time waster.
But one part of the Facebook experience where most of us don’t really want to waste any time is the login process. To log in to Facebook, we first have to type in our email address, then our password. And if the email address is a long one and/or it contains several special characters, typing it in can be both time consuming and prone to errors (especially if you’re using a smart phone). [Read more…]