Hey, who goes there? Maybe it’s nothing—or maybe it’s the stealthy sound of someone tagging you in a Facebook photo, or a hacker sneaking into your account, or a rogue app having its horrifying way with your Facebook wall. Read on for five terrifying...
MissPhedora writes: Someone has gotten into my Facebook and deleted or changed my information (not good) and changed my password. I can not access it and it does not sent me a code (obviously they also changed my alternative email address). I want to lock my Facebook...
Don’t want everyone on Facebook to know about your addiction to the soundtrack of “A Chorus Line”? If so, think twice before teeing up “I Hope I Get It” or “What I Did For Love” (hey, they’re great songs!) on Spotify,...
Randy writes: I’d like my Google profile, Picasa, etc., to not show up on search engines. What do I do? Google may be all about search, but it is possible to hide your Google+ profile from the prying eyes of search engines. As Google points out, though, anyone...
More changes are coming to Facebook, and this one’s big: we’re talking a radically redesigned profile page, complete with a “Timeline” of what you’re watching, reading, playing, and listening to—and it’s all shared automatically,...
SFbayarea writes: So all of a sudden FB is listing BY NAME everyone you share a status update or other post with (if you use subset lists of your entire “friends” population) so everyone can see literally everyone else you shared that post with. You need...
So, how many of us actually use the “friend lists” feature on Facebook? I’m guessing that only a few hands are up—probably because until now, friends lists on Facebook have been a royal pain in the neck to create and use. Well, all that’s about...
Feeling bombarded by email messages whenever you post an update or leave a comment on Facebook? Well, relief may be on the way in the form of a new feature that replaces all those pesky notifications with a regular, less intrusive summary. The feature is still...
Some of the best new Facebook privacy controls—including the ability to pick and choose who you share your posts and photos with—just landed on Facebook’s iPhone app. Available now on the App Store, version 3.5 of Facebook for iPhone also adds several other new...
Don’t like the idea that you can be tagged in any photo uploaded to Facebook—including, say, that snapshot from the holiday party you’d rather forget? I don’t blame you. But while Facebook’s improved privacy controls (which went live last...
