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One of my Facebook friends recently asked me what a person should do if their Facebook account gets hacked.
I answered her in a Facebook post but then thought it might be a good idea to post it on the blog as well.
The first thing you need to do is determine whether your account has indeed been hacked, or merely cloned. [Read more…]
Question from Amanda: Rick, I have a problem that’s been bugging me for a long time.
When I joined Facebook I put in a fake birth date because I was too young to open an account at the time.
Now I want to change it to show my real birthday. How do I do that? [Read more…]
Question from Eloise: I recently started using the Facebook app on my phone and there’s something that’s really bugging me.
Every time I “Like” something it makes an annoying popping sound and it’s driving me bonkers.
Surely there’s some way to stop it from making that sound. Can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]
Question from Javier: Hi, Rick. You seem to know a lot about Facebook so maybe you can help me.
Is there a way to see all of the friend requests I’ve sent out that haven’t been responded to?
I’d like to send reminder messages to those people and ask them to accept my friend request.
Rick‘s answer: Javier, I know how frustrating it is to send someone a friend request and never find out whether they have acted on it or not. [Read more…]
If you’ve been using Facebook for more than ten minutes you’re probably aware that scammers are constantly cloning folks’ profiles to create new fake accounts in their names.
They then send friend requests from the fake account to everyone that’s on the real account’s Friends List.
After several people have accepted the fraudulent friend requests the scammer will then use the fake account to target those “friends” with all manner of scams and hoaxes.