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Question from Anthony: If I send a message to someone on Facebook Messenger but then immediately change my mind and delete it, will the other person still see it?
I got mad at my girlfriend and sent her a really mean message. I’m afraid if she sees it she’ll break up with me.
I deleted the message less than 30 seconds after I sent it.
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As you probably know by now, Microsoft has officially stopped supporting both Windows XP and Windows Vista, leaving users pretty much on their own when it comes to system security and malware protection.
As expected, many of the most popular online services quickly started ending XP and Vista support as well, and the stream of companies taking that action is expanding month by month.
Apple is the latest company to jump on the “Dump XP and Vista” bandwagon. [Read more…]
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you have probably read this post that explains just how easy it is to create and sell ebooks on Amazon. But once your ebook is for sale in the Kindle Store, how do you promote it in order to make lots of sales?
Kindle Domination: 25 Strategies To Sell More Books On Amazon offers plenty of solid advice for increasing your ebook sales and income.
Author Alan Woods explains his proven strategies and methods in powerful, yet easy to understand language and without the use of confusing and unfamiliar jargon. [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
Facebook has risen from its humble beginnings in Mark Zuckerberg’s college dorm room to become one of the most powerful and most-used entities on the Internet.
For example, did you know that Facebook now has over 2 billion registered users? That’s an astounding number considering there are only about 7.5 billion people living on the entire planet!
Even more astounding to me is how the folks at Facebook keep the site up and running as smoothly as they do given the mind-boggling number of people who are actively using the site at any moment in time. [Read more…]
As you probably know, it’s getting harder with each passing day to protect your privacy on most major social media websites.
Some venues are worse than others, but they all seem to be getting more invasive with the passage of time.
While Facebook’s privacy issues are well-known, many Twitter users are unaware that they need to lock down their privacy settings as well.
The purpose of this post is to highlight several essential privacy tweaks that can make your interactions with Twitter safer and a bit less invasive of your personal and professional privacy. [Read more…]