Having a copy of all your Facebook posts and photos can be useful if your account is ever hacked or deleted. And Facebook recently added new features that make backing up super easy. To begin, click the gears icon in …[Continue]
Help! I’m Blocked from Adding New Facebook Friends!
Facebook has an algorithm that determines when friend requests look unnatural. If you cross a certain line, Facebook will block you from sending any new friend requests for 30 days. The types of activities that can get you blocked include …[Continue]
How to Remove Facebook Tags
Sooner or later someone is going to tag you in a photo that you’d rather not have show up on your Facebook profile. So, you have two choices. First, you can politely ask your friend to remove the photo from …[Continue]
What Facebook Knows About You
Researchers at Cambridge University recently published a study that shows that by aggregating all your Likes on Facebook, an automated algorithm can describe you fairly accurately. Personal traits that can be determined include “race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use …[Continue]
What is a Facebook ‘Like’ Scam?
You’ve seen them on your Facebook feed, posts liked by one of your friends claiming a sick and dying child wants a million likes, or a friend will get her apartment rent free if she gets a million likes, or …[Continue]
Tell Facebook Which Pages You Want to See More Of
Facebook has recently implemented a way for you to choose to get a notification (in your message area) whenever a favorite FB Page (such as the Surfnetkids Facebook Page or the JokesByKids Page) makes a post. To change your settings, …[Continue]
Facebook Adds Emoticons to Comments
The smiley face emoticons that Facebook previously only allowed in messages and chat, are now available in comments. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your circle friends. For a list of emoticons, see this article from …[Continue]
View Your Facebook Wall as a Stranger Does
Facebook has a (well-deserved) bad reputation when it comes to respecting our privacy. On the other hand, there are plenty of times when all the hand wringing and cries of foul play are actually not Facebook’s fault at all. It is simply a matter …[Continue]
