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Yet another Facebook-related scam is making the rounds, but this one isn’t being perpetrated on the Facebook website.
It’s actually taking place on Messenger app instead.
As Facebook scams go, this one is pretty simple but it’s also unusually widespread.
In a nutshell, the scam goes something like this… [Read more…]
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Have you noticed that you’ve stopped seeing some of your friends’ posts in your Facebook Newsfeed?
Well, there’s a reason for that…
Facebook’s algorithm is programmed to determine which of your friends’ posts (in the algorithm’s opinion of course) are worthy of landing in your Newsfeed.
It makes that determination based upon which friends you interact with the most by liking, sharing and commenting on their posts and photos.
The problem is, the algorithm’s assumptions about whose posts you’d rather see are often very poor.
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I write a lot about Facebook security, and I usually include one very important tip…
Set the privacy level for most everything on your Facebook account to Friends.
While I still strongly recommend that you do that, it’s important to remember that simply setting everything to “Friends” won’t guarantee that your personal info will never be seen by a nefarious stranger. [Read more…]
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If you use Facebook you’re probably aware that both the Facebook website and the mobile app collect all manner of data about you and then use that info for marketing and other purposes.
But did you know that other companies share the info they collect about you with Facebook as well? [Read more…]
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Question from Darla: Hi, Rick. I hope you can answer a Facebook question for me.
I’m an amateur photographer but I’m hoping to go pro before too long.
I regularly upload some of my best photos to my Facebook profile to get feedback from my friends and other photographers.
I was chatting with one of my photographer friends the other day and she said once I upload a photo to Facebook they automatically become the copyright holder of that photo and they can do anything they want to with it. [Read more…]