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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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Once again this very dangerous scam is making the rounds on Facebook and via email.
What makes this scam so dangerous is the way it appears to come from Facebook themselves.
But trust me, it does not.
The scam is a fake warning that Facebook is preparing to disable your account. [Read more…]
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If you use Facebook you’ve probably started seeing ads that appear to be from Lowe’s Home Improvement offering to sell lawnmowers at ridiculously low prices.
I’m talking lawnmowers that sell for as much as $800 being sold on “clearance” or via a “Flash sale” for $99.
I checked into these “offers”, and as expected, they are all scams. [Read more…]