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Well, the account cloning epidemic on Facebook is showing no signs of letting up.
In fact, it seems to be getting worse.
Every day I see frantic posts from several of my friends saying they’ve been hacked and not to accept a new friend request from them.
I know how alarming it can be when your friends start sending you messages saying they’ve received duplicate friend requests from you, but the situation really isn’t as dire as it seems. [Read more…]
Question from Terry: Rick, you’re the one I trust to suggest what to do about this “Off-Facebook Activity” that is in the Facebook settings.
Lots of people have said turn it off and clear its history so we won’t be tracked.
Is there anything to this? And mainly, do we need to turn off this feature?
Thank you!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Question from Glenda: I’ve been following your Facebook page for several years but a couple of months ago your posts stopped showing up in my Newsfeed.
I read a post you wrote a while back that said when that happens to go to your Timeline and Like, Comment and Share a few posts every day for about a week to get them to start coming into the Newsfeed again.
I’ve done that three times during the past couple of month but Facebook always stops showing me your posts again after just a day or two.
How can I fix this? I love your tips and I don’t want to miss any of them.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Facebook is a vast community consisting of approximately 2 billion users, and over time it’s easy to amass a large number of “Facebook friends”.
As your friends list grows, it’s inevitable that some of your friends will deactivate their accounts for some reason but never got around to actually deleting it.
The thing is, when a friend’s account is deactivated that person isn’t automatically removed from your friends list.
Those friends who are no longer active on Facebook are called “ghost friends”.
As you probably know, Facebook is a favorite playground for scammers and hoaxsters.
It seems like a new scam or hoax pops up on a daily basis while others seem to come and go like the tides.
Right now a very dangerous recurring scam is once again targeting Facebook Messenger users.
The actual scams being perpetrated vary quite a bit but most of them typically work something like this: [Read more…]