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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 use Facebook you’re probably used to receiving cute and funny videos in instant messages (IMs).
And of course there are political videos and a wide variety of other types of videos being shared via IMs as well.
Truth be told, we all get them on a regular basis.
Dozens of videos land in my IM inbox every day, but I never click on any of them. And I strongly recommend that you avoid clicking on them as well.
Many of these seemingly harmless videos are actually quite dangerous because they have viruses attached to them. If you take the bait and attempt to watch one of them, your computer or Android device could become infected. And that could easily ruin your entire day. [Read more…]