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Question from Marie: I love your tips Rick, and I visit this site every morning to see what’s new!
Now, my question: I’m trying to completely delete my Facebook account because I’ve seen nothing but harassment on there since I signed up over a year ago.
The trouble is I don’t know how to delete the account. What do I need to do?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
You might no be aware of this, but many of the companies you do business with and websites you visit share information about your activities with Facebook.
While most of the info they share about you is fairly generic and non-user specific, some of the info shared by less reputable companies can be quite detailed.
This data sharing scheme is called Off-Facebook Activity and this page discusses which types of data most of Facebook’s partner companies share with them.
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There are many reasons why you might need to transfer control of a Facebook page that you created to someone else.
For example, perhaps you created a page for a less technologically savvy friend and now you wish to turn the page over to him/her and wipe your hands of it.
Or perhaps you sold a website that has an accompanying Facebook page and you want to transfer “ownership” of that page to the website’s new owner.
Whatever your reason, transferring control and “ownership” of a Facebook page to another Facebook user is quite easy to do…
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Question from Carla: A couple of years ago I had a really bad breakup with an ex. It hurt me so much I ended up in therapy.
We were together for 9 years and I have thousands of posts on my Timeline about the things we did together, and it seems like one of them is always popping up as a “Memory”.
Every time one of those bad memories pops up it puts me in a funk for the rest of the day.
I know I could never go through my Timeline and delete all those disturbing posts.
My question: Is it possible to block all of those posts about my ex from showing up as Memories on my Facebook newsfeed but still allow other ‘good’ posts to come up as Memories? [Read more…]
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Question from Anita: Rick, I have a problem, and I’m hoping you can help me figure out a solution.
When I was in grade school my best friend in the world moved away and I never saw her again. I think that was around 4th grade if memory serves.
The thing is I finally tracked down her profile on Facebook, but there’s no “Add Friend” button and no “Message” button. I can see her Timeline but I can’t post anything on it.
Do you know of ANY way possible that I can contact my long-lost friend? [Read more…]