How to Block Annoying Notifications from Facebook Groups

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Coming online to see over fifty notifications on Facebook is one of the things that annoys me most about this social network. You get added to groups without your approval and then get bombarded with useless notifications you don't need. Real notifications to posts I'm subscribed to get drowned in the sea of useless group notifications. Normally, you should confirm before being added to a group but the whole Facebook setup is rather stupid. From silly photo tags notifications down to group notifications, it's easy to get tired of Facebook. So, is there a way to block these group notifications? There are four  different ways to do this. 1. From notifications The easiest way to … [Read more...]

Hiding Old Facebook Wall Photos From Friends and Public

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For reasons best known to you, you may decide to hide some of your old Facebook wall photos from public view. It's easy to control privacy settings for other albums you created yourself but it's a bit different with the Wall photos album. You're expected to change the privacy for each photo one after the other. You can change the audience for each photo in this album. That is what you see if you're trying to change the privacy settings for the whole Wall photos album and mobile uploads. I still can't figure out why Facebook locked this folder but there's a workaround. Hiding your profile pictures from public and friends Hiding your profile photos is quite easy. When hidden, only your current … [Read more...]

5 Things You Should Hide From Your Facebook Profile

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One way or the other, Facebook has benefited you and with a lot of people using it these days, it's easy to hook up with old or make new ones. Perhaps you're not so much into social networking, Facebook can still benefit your business in a lot of ways through social marketing. Facebook is fun to use but it can also be a nightmare. Leaving your personal information lying around the internet isn't such a good idea. With so many people sending your friend requests everyday, it's almost impossible to know everyone on your friend list personally. Some basic things on your profile should be hidden from the public, some should not even appear on your profile at all. 1. Primary email You … [Read more...]

Facebook Changes all Emails to @Facebook: How to Get yours Fixed

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It's cool to have a Facebook email address and I sort of like it though I'm not actively using it. Almost everyone now has one and just yesterday, Facebook forced all primary emails to be @Facebook. There was no message to inform users about this and again, it looks like another privacy blunder. Without informing anyone, they removed everybody's contact email from their profiles and replaced it with the internal Facebook email.. The reason they probably did this was because most people don't use the email function that much and they're trying to make it work. It still looks pretty like a social network messaging system to me and I doubt if it's ever gonna replace my GMail. The fact is, … [Read more...]

Hiding your Facebook Status Updates, Photos and Posts from Certain Friends

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Lots of people add you as friends on facebook including people who drop comments you don't really like that much. You might not wish to totally remove this people because of certain personal reasons and the best thing to do in such a situation is to hide your updates and photos from them. It might even be your boss at work, your parent, your teacher at school or someone you can't definitely remove from your list. Hiding your status updates and uploaded photos from them can be the perfect way out. So how do you get this done? Everytime you post a status update or upload a new photo, you can easily use the inline audience selector to hide the post from certain people just before … [Read more...]

Facebook Chat Gets Better Privacy Options

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Seriously, I used to hate facebook chat because there was little or no privacy options there. I'm the type that sometimes have up to one hundred and fifty friends online and that is definitely not fun. Before now, you can never see me on facebook chat because I just can't deal with it but things has changed over the last few days. Facebook upgraded its chat and it makes a whole lot of sense now. If you love privacy as much as I do, you'll be happy with the new feature. With this new privacy settings, I can select just a number of people to see me whenever I'm online. Presently, I selected just about ten people who are actually close to me out of the thousands of friends I have. :) … [Read more...]

How to Hide Facebook Timeline Completely

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OK, you're sick of facebook timeline, right? Facebook timeline has finally gone public and believe me, your old profile is gone for good! There are just three things you can do with timeline even if you don't feel convenient with it: you either get used to it, delete old posts if you're not comfortable with or totally hide it. I'll be explaining the simple steps you need to take to completely hide your timeline from both friends and public. You should note that these tips won't make your timeline totally disappear, it only limits it to a certain degree. Note that after these steps are taken, you will have a completely blank wall. No timeline and no story on your wall feed, got it? We are … [Read more...]

New Facebook Ticker And Your Privacy Options

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As usual, facebook rolled out a couple of updates and there was a mixed uproar of positive and negative reactions. Users' privacy on facebook has always been a subject of controversy and the controversy even thickens with the new updates facebook released. Controlling one's privacy on facebook is getting a bit harder, making it easier for cyber-stalkers and identity thieves to get access to more information about you through facebook. Certain security settings that used to work in the past stopped working since the introduction of timeline profile and the new ticker box (the news feed box on the right sidebar).According to facebook, "Ticker, on the right-hand side of your account, … [Read more...]