Yet another recent Facebook change now allows your so-called friends to sign you up for Facebook Groups without your permission. If you find yourself in a group you want to drop, click on the group name to visit their page, …[Continue]
Secure Login For Facebook
If you ever use open Wi-Fi spots in coffee shops, hotels or airports, the easiest way to keep your account passwords safe is to use a secure (https) connection for your email and other favorite Internet hangouts, like Facebook. Although …[Continue]
Facebook Offers New Layout Option
Facebook introduced a new profile page layout as a user option a few weeks ago. This new layout includes a horizontal grid of five photo thumbnails, flanked, on the left, by a profile picture. Inspired by French artist Alexandre Oudin, …[Continue]
Reduce Your Risk on Facebook
Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd explores some unusual ways to reduce risk on Facebook at her blog Apophenia. For example, some Facebook users deactivate their account whenever they log out. This doesn’t delete any friends or settings, and when you login …[Continue]
Limiting Facebook Updates to Certain Friends
Facebook status updates generally are sent to all your friends, but there are controls that can customize exactly who sees your update. After typing your update into the Facebook status update box, click on the small lock next to the …[Continue]
Facebook Privacy Guide
With its new Facebook Places service, Facebook recently pitted itself against Foursquare in the location-based social media market. Almost immediately concerns over privacy were raised by the ACLU, who says that opting out of public tagging of your location is …[Continue]
How To Untag Yourself on Facebook
Sooner or later it’s bound to happen. One of your Facebook friends thinks that photo of you is just so hilarious. They’ve uploaded it and tagged you. And now it’s there for all your friends to see. You, however, don’t …[Continue]
How To Delete Your Facebook Account
The blogosphere has been all a twitter lately about the rise in popularity in searches for “how to delete my Facebook account.” Here’s one such rant from ReadWriteWeb. If you also want to leave the iconic king of social networking, …[Continue]
