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How to Stop Spotify From Posting to Your Facebook Wall

by Barbara J. Feldman November 8, 2011

Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service with both free and paid subscription options for desktops, smart phones, and home media players. Social networking is integrated into the app, so that your music selections are automatically posted to your Facebook wall. You can turn these off in one of two ways. From Spotify, you can [...]

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Facebook Price Grid is a Hoax

by Barbara J. Feldman October 4, 2011

Recent rumors of Facebook’s new price grid for membership are a hoax. Several of these untruths have been making the rounds lately. One says “THIS IS OFFICIAL… IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS… FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES…” The other states “FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 [...]

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How to Modify Facebook Email Notification Settings

by Barbara J. Feldman September 18, 2011

Recently Facebook has changed their default email notifications settings, so that most people will be getting fewer emails from Facebook. To view or change your email notification settings, visit Account / Account Settings, and click on Notifications in the left-hand menu. The new setting is called Email Frequency, and the default setting is now checked. [...]

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Facebook has changed its News Feed Again!

by Barbara J. Feldman September 6, 2011

Have you seen this viral Facebook post recently? Click the thumbnail below to see it in full size. Despite recent viral Facebook posts suggesting that the way to see posts from “All Your Friends” is to go to your Facebook Account/ Edit Friends page, this advice is WRONG. The algorithmic changes to the Facebook News [...]

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Using Facebook Apps and a Secure Connection

by Barbara J. Feldman August 23, 2011

When Facebook started offering secure browsing, through the use of https://www.facebook.com they created another problem: many Facebook apps do NOT offer a secure connection option, and therefore to use them, you need to turn off SSL for the rest of your session. To better understand the implications, read this article from Simple Help.

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How to Hide Friends on Facebook

by Barbara J. Feldman July 19, 2011

Did you know that without unfriending them completely, you can keep certain annoying Facebook friends from cluttering up your wall by hiding them? To hide a friend named Tom (for example), simply move your cursor to the X in the upper right-hand corner of one of his updates, and then click “Hide all by Tom.” [...]

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