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How to (temporarily) block a friend’s posts from your Facebook Newsfeed

Posted on November 28, 2025

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Do you ever feel like you really need to take a temporary break from seeing one your friend’s posts in your Facebook Newsfeed?

For example, you might have a friend who generally posts interesting things that you really enjoy seeing but they have a habit of getting overbearingly political during election season.

Well, as luck would have it Facebook provides a way to take a temporary (30 day) break from seeing such a friend’s posts in your Newsfeed. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Dead-giveaways that a Facebook post is a hoax

Posted on November 5, 2025

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If you’ve been using Facebook for longer than it takes paint to dry you probably see a bunch of spams, scams and hoaxes hit your Newsfeed on a regular basis.

Some of the malicious posts making the rounds are cleverly written and well-presented, making it difficult for the average person to recognize them as being fraudulent.

However, the vast majority of fraudulent posts can be identified as such with just a quick glance once you know what to look for. [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I prevent a Facebook friend from seeing my posts (without unfriending him)?

Posted on October 18, 2025

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Question from Elaine: I have a very annoying Facebook friend who drives me nuts on there, but for practical reasons I can’t unfriend him.

I have already unfollowed him to prevent his posts from showing up in my newsfeed.

My question is how can I prevent him from seeing MY posts as well? [Read more…]

Scam alert: Scammers are using hacked Facebook accounts to place fraudulent ads (in your name)

Posted on September 23, 2025

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If you’ve been using Facebook for more than five minutes you’re surely familiar with all the ads that show up in your Newsfeed and over in the sidebar.

And if you’ve been using Facebook for more than an hour you probably know that a good portion of those ads are actually scams.

Well, there’s something you should know about those scam ads… [Read more…]

Q&A: How do you delete a Facebook group?

Posted on September 17, 2025

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Question from Ed: A while back I created a Facebook group in order to share information with our community about an upcoming project. That project is now complete and I’d like to delete the group, but I can’t find a way to do it.

Am I missing something? Can you tell me what I need to do to delete this group? [Read more…]