In the past few days there have been numerous postings and articles in presumptive serious magazines and tech blogs that claim if you are posting a photo of what you looked like ten years ago, and what you look like today, it will make you vulnerable when it comes to what Facebook knows about you….
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How to Stop Getting Fake Friend Requests on Facebook
I’m sure you’ve received them too. Friend requests from sexy bikini clad women who suddenly wants to be your friend. Or maybe you’ve received a friend request from a smiling man from Nigeria, who desperately wants to be your friend, so that you can help him with some money transfers?
How to Do a Search on Facebook
On of the most frequently asked questions I get about Facebook is how you can search for things that are posted there. Things just fly by in the news stream, and as long as you don’t save something to look at it later, you might never see it again. Or maybe you’d like to find…
Here is Why You Should Change Your Facebook Password. At once! NOW!
Last Friday 50 million Facebook users woke up and discovered that they had been logged out of Facebook. Not just one place, but on their computer, cellphone, the Messengar app and on all devices where they had used Facebook as their logon method. Facebook is saying that there’s no need for their users to do…
What to Do if Your IBM Connections Plugin for Outlook Goes Grey
Yesterday I upgraded Office 2016 manually on my computer. This because I changed my Office 365 subscription to a payment plan that gives me more apps, like Teams and Skype for Business. This made the IBM Connections plugin for Outlook stop working. But thanks to IBM, I managed to fix it. Here’s how you can…
How to Drag Attachments Directly from IBM Connections and into Webmail
If you have your files in a cloud solution like Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, IBM Connections or Google Drive, you can connect Windows Explorer directly to these services. By doing this, you get direct access to your files from your Explorer window, as if they were stored locally on your computer. You can even access them…
7 Tips About Your Facebook Settings
Here are 7 tips about your Facebook settings that you might not know about. To get to any of these settings you have to click on the pulldown arrow to the right of the question mark at the top of your Facebook stream or page, and then choose Settings: This screen will now open up:…
How to See Your Facebook Memories
One of the things I like about Facebook is that it can show you what you posted on this particular date all the way back to the year when you joined. Facebook is often showing you this functionality in your newsstream: Under the memory itself, you can click on See More Memories to see all…
Why the GDPR Emails You’ve Received in the Past Weeks Probably Are Illegal
I’m sure you have received them too. Tons of annoying emails where companies or organisations are explaining to you how they value your privacy, and that because of the new GDPR directive from the EU, they are asking for your consent to continue sending you emails. Yes, there is a new directive that will soon…
Security on Facebook #3: Do You Want to See What Facebook Knows About You?
Update 18.01.2019: This article is now out of date. Facebook has changed how you download your data. Read this updated article instead. In these days where Facebook is rocked by the Cambrigde Analytica scandal, more and more people are starting to wake up and reliase how much personal information they are actually giving Facebook. Especially…