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Question from Pete L.: Several of my Facebook friends use “Facebook Live Video” to broadcast all kinds of stupid stuff.
Personally, I find the invitations to view their videos to be very irritating.
I’ve watched a few of these videos in the pastout of curiosity and I have no desire to ever watch another one.
How can I completely disable Facebook Live Notifications and prevent them from popping up when I’m using Facebook?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
By now you’re probably aware of the massive Facebook hack that resulted in approximately 530 million users having their info stolen.
That makes this one of the largest successful hacks in the history of the Internet.
Question from Mark: I read your blog post explaining why it’s a bad idea to log into third-party websites with Facebook.
That’s some pretty scary stuff.
My question is how can I see which websites have access to my information right now?
The reason I’m asking is because I’ve used Facebook to log into lots of websites in the past, and I’ve forgotten what most of them were.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
As I explained in this post, apps are the sources of many of the problems that afflict Facebook users on a daily basis.
Well, there’s a very popular set of apps and games that are spreading like wildfire among Facebook users, and you should know that using one of them could well put your personal information at risk.
Have you ever noticed how Facebook and Google pull in the first few lines of text from your blog posts and use that text as the “snippets” they display in the search results?
That’s not always a problem, but it can be a big one if the snippet contains text that doesn’t accurately describe the content of the post.
For example, if you always begin your blog posts with generic content such as an author bio, the first few lines of that bio will be displayed as the snippet in the Google search results and on Facebook for every post you write.
That means every post you publish will have the same snippet, and that snippet won’t do anything to accurately describe the content of the post and entice the reader to click the link and read the post on your blog.
Luckily, there’s an easy way to get both Facebook and Google to display your own custom snippet for every post you write on your WordPress blog. [Read more…]