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Question from Maria: A good friend of mine kept hounding me to “Like” her Facebook page.
I finally did and now I’m seeing posts she’s putting up that I have no desire to see.
Can I change a setting somewhere that’ll let me stop receiving the posts but still “Like” the page? [Read more…]
Question from Chandra: I see people writing upside down text on Facebook all the time.
I’d like to give it a go myself but I can’t figure out how they do it. Can you tell me?
Rick’s answer: I sure can Chandra, and it’s literally as easy as doing a simple “Cut and Paste” operation. [Read more…]
Have you ever received a message from a Facebook friend that reads something like this?
“I think you’ve been hacked. Someone using your account just posted a nasty message [or photo] on my Newsfeed! You need to change your password.”
I received a bunch of messages like this during the first year or so after I started using Facebook.
And I’m guessing you’ve received them too. [Read more…]
Have you ever wished you could block all the distracting junk from the Facebook window so you could concentrate entirely on your Newsfeed?
Facebook’s user interface seems to get “busier” all the time with tons of other “features” competing with the posts in our Newsfeeds for our attention.
Well, if you use Facebook in a web browser on a laptop or desktop computer there’s a very simple way to block out virtually all the junk so you can concentrate entirely on your Newsfeed… [Read more…]
If you’ve been a Facebook user for more than 10 minutes you probably already know that scams and hoaxes pop up all the time on there.
Well, the latest hoax to arrive on the scene is claiming that Facebook’s algorithm is limiting users’ Newsfeeds to the same 25 friends, and no more.