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How to block political posts from your Facebook Newsfeed

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Important update: The Social Fixer browser extension can no longer be used to filter political posts from your Facebook Newsfeed for the reasons stated here. Please disregard the original post below.

If you enjoy following politics you probably don’t mind the political posts that pop up in your Facebook Newsfeed at times.

And as you’ve probably noticed, they tend to pop up fairly often.

Many Americans have strong beliefs and ideals when it comes to politics, and that means regardless of where a particular post might happen to fall on the political spectrum it’s sure to evoke strong emotions – both for and against.  [Read more…]

Q&A: Why is there no ‘Share’ button on my Facebook posts?

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Question from Billie:  Rick, I’ve had several of my friends tell me they can’t share my posts because they don’t have “Share” buttons on them.

Apparently this has just started happening because people used to share my stuff all the time.

Is there a setting that I need to change or something? I really need to get this fixed ASAP.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Q&A: How can I print recipes that I see on Facebook?

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Question from Connie: I love to cook and I’m always seeing recipes that I want to try on Facebook.

The problem I have is when I go to print them it wants to print all the other posts too.

What’s the best way to print just one recipe and nothing else?  [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I hide from a stalker on Facebook?

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Question from Leanne:  I hope you can help me, Rick.

I have a serious problem and I don’t know how to fix it.

I have an ex that’s stalking me on Facebook. Every time I block him he just opens a new account and starts stalking me again. I really need your help.  [Read more…]

Facebook acting strange? It could be a malicious app.

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There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.

Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.

Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.

Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account.

And how they do that just might surprise you…  [Read more…]

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