Facebook Apps – Warning

Some Facebook apps generate an enormous amount of spam and can annoy the heck out of your Facebook friends. Others are outright scams and should be avoided entirely. For example, any application offering to show you who has viewed your profile, who your Facebook stalkers are etc., are guaranteed to be fraudulent. Facebook doesn’t allow [...]

Facebook Friends Privacy

Keep your list of Friends private on Facebook and protect your list from being used by spammers 1. Click on the Friends link to go to your Friends Page 2. Up in the right corner is an image of a pencil. (Is it a pencil? It’s an icon for ‘Edit’ anyway) Click on that pencil [...]

Facebook Privacy Spoof

This is the comment being passed round Facebook For those of you who do not understand the reasoning behind this posting, Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Unless you state otherwise, anyone can infringe on your right to privacy once you post to this site. It is recommended that you and other members post [...]

Facebook, why are you phoning me?

Do you need your phone number/s displayed to the world at large? If you run a business that relies on people phoning in then, yes, you certainly do. Maybe your personal friends and family don’t feel the same about their phone numbers. We don’t know. We haven’t asked them. Just like Facebook hasn’t asked us [...]

Four Reasons to have a Facebook Fan Page

Public : Pages are public. Search engines can index the page. Links : You get to include links. News feed : When a someone joins your Fan page, it’s published in their News feed, you go viral Messages : Send “updates to fans”. Send messages about new products or services etc A Facebook Fan Page [...]

Two Things NOT to do on Facebook

Many times we take Facebook for granted, chatting with friends and generally enjoying ourselves, but before you start posting your favourite links today, check these two essential security steps first. (I’m assuming that you DON’T have your home address in Facebook, right?) Your Password Don’t use a password that’s easily discovered. Don’t use simple names [...]

Facebook Privacy

If you’re one of the 500 million plus users on Facebook you can’t be blamed for being confused about the privacy rules, The problem is, the privacy rules just kept on changing. Over the past six months, Facebook made a number of alterations to its privacy controls leaving you with 50 buttons and 170 choices [...]