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I receive lots of questions here at Rick’s Daily Tips, and there’s one question in particular that I receive time and again:
“If I delete a message I’ve sent to someone
on Facebook will it be deleted from the
recipient’s inbox as well?”
The answer to that question used to be no, but Facebook has just changed that.
Question from Daniel: I’m in desperate need of your help with recovering a Facebook group that was stolen from me.
Back in 2015 I started a group about camping. I worked real hard at promoting the group and over time it grew to over 32,000 members.
I used this group to sell camping gear that I would ship directly to the customers from my brick and mortar store.
About 7 months ago I was approached by a woman who runs a fitness website asking if we could cross-promote each other’s products in our two groups.
I agreed and granted her admin access to my group and she reciprocated by granting me admin access to her group.
Her group only has about 12,000 members but I was making several sales a week from my posts in there.
All was well until this morning when I discovered that I’m no longer a member of either group.
I tried logging in with my email address and password and neither group will accept them.
It appears that this person has hijacked my group and kicked me completely out of it. Can you tell me what I need to do in order to regain control of it?
I reported the theft to Facebook but so far I haven’t heard anything back from them.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Facebook is a wonderful service that makes it easy to keep in touch with family and friends, but as we all know, using it can be an exercise in frustration at times.
One of the biggest frustrations for many Facebook users is how the newsfeed keeps getting switched from “Most Recent” to “Top Stories”.
Unfortunately, toggling the newsfeed from “Top Stories” to “Most Recent” seems to only work for a little while. Before you know it, you’re back to looking at Facebook’s list of “Top Stories”, whether you want to or not.
But guess what? There’s now an easy way to make your newsfeed stay on “Most Recent”, and after testing it for several days I can tell you that it works like a charm! [Read more…]
If you use Facebook you probably already know that thousands of companies advertise their products and services to Facebook’s roughly two billion users.
What you might not know is that dozens, and perhaps even hundreds of those advertisers have your personal information on a contact list.
Questions from Ellen H.: Hi Rick. I need your help with something on Facebook.
Can tell me how to disable the “Memories” posts that pop up in my newsfeed every day? I don’t like them.
They would be ok if they didn’t have a habit of reminding me of bad events from the past. The one from yesterday was about my divorce, and it really disturbed me.
I hope you can help me disable them. Thanks Rick.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]