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Facebook Likes – The Ultimate Guide – Part Four

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This post is strictly for your Likes, the ones that your Like box is linked to. Go to your Facebook timeline and click on the Like box. This is that page that will pop up:

Photo of Like editing page
See the word Edit up on the top right? Click it.

The next page, after you click the Edit button, looks like this:

 

Photo of Editing your Likes 2
This is where you choose what to show and what to hide.

This is a long page, starting with your Favorites. (The photo reads Favourites because we’re in Canada and use the British spelling.) Your page of Likes is made up of both your favorites as well as the pages you like. The pages are all at the bottom.  Right now, let’s look at the Music box. You can do two things with each favorite. You can show it or hide it. If you decide to show it, you can choose who you want to see it or who you want to hide it from, the same as if you post a photo on Facebook.

Once you decide who you want to share this favorite box with, you’re left with showing them every type of music you like. You can’t break up this box into pieces, say Techno being one piece that you don’t mind showing and Andy Williams being another piece that you don’t want to show. If you show your music to anyone, they see all of the music you like. If you want to hide old Andy, you have to hit the X beside their name to delete it.

The same applies to all of the topics that Facebook thinks should be listed as Favorites, whether they be books, TV, movies or whatever. If you want to hide your Favorites from someone or only show them to a group of friends, click on the icon on the right. That will bring up this menu:

Photo of Favorite share menu
Sort out this menu as best you can. This applies to the particular favorite you are working on, not every single one of them.

You can see from the photo above that you can hide a particular favorite from some people but you can’t hide only one of those individual items unless you hide the whole group of favorites. Get it? If you like Madonna in your Music favorites and you show your Music favorites to your friends, you can’t hide the fact that Madonna is in that group.

Useless Favorites Tip:  These favorites are really useless in the whole scheme of things to share on Facebook. The only reason they are even on your timeline is to open yourself up a bit to your friends. You may have an acquaintance who knows a bit about you but they didn’t know that you like Bladerunner (a movie). Once they find out that you like something, they have a fuller picture of you as a person and, possibly, might feel better about chatting with you about similar interests. Having a favorite in this group doesn’t mean that you’ll get inundated with offers or emails or updates on anything. These favorites are just there in order for people to get to  know you better.  Hide them, show them, it doesn’t matter.

 

Let’s move on to items that actually get updated every now and then, Facebook pages. As you know, Facebook pages are full of information, updates as well as photos and links, all pertaining to the person or company that created the page. Virtually every star, celebrity or company has a Facebook page. If they don’t, they’re missing the boat.

Facebook Page Likes – Options Available

As far as Facebook page likes go, you can hide them or show them as a group. Yes, you can show or hide them all to whatever group of friends you choose but you cannot hide one of the pages and show the others. This is the same as your other favorites, it’s all or nothing. All means every page you like will be shown to whoever you show any page you like. You can’t pick and choose what to show.

If you like a page, only you will see the updates and information that this page feeds out. No one else will see anything that a page feeds out to you unless they follow the same page.

TIP: There is no reason to show anyone what pages you like. Why not hide all of the pages you like? That way you won’t slip up. Close friends, relatives, employers and employees don’t have to know what pages you follow, do they? Instead of tripping up at some point as you try to keep track of who can see what, why not just shut out everyone? Makes sense to us. Once you lock your page likes from everyone, you are free to be yourself. We advise you to set your Page Likes to this setting:

Photo of perfect privacy setting
Set this page to ‘Only me’ and feel free to ‘like’ any page you bloody well want to! Yay freedom!

 

We’re done. Over the last few posts we’ve tried to sort out everything about Facebook like boxes, Facebook likes and, finally, Facebook page likes. We hope things are a bit clearer now for you. Questions, comments, all are welcome. Good luck!

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Facebook Likes – The Ultimate Guide – Part Three

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To review, we know now that you can’t hide likes or comments on someone else’s post, no matter what kind of post or share it is. Next, lets take care of our ‘likes’, those  bits of personal information that Facebook feels are vitally important to share with your friends. They are contained in one of those little boxes under your cover photo. You can choose to show whatever boxes you want in that row that Facebook has termed ‘Favorites’. There are a total of eight possibilities for your Favorite boxes.

Not to confuse the issue even more, Facebook has two concepts of ‘Favorites’. The first has to do with which boxes you choose to show to the right of your profile photo. The ones across the top row are your ‘favorite’ boxes. The other boxes, if there are any, are available by clicking the little arrow on the far right of the row.

The second kind of favorite is used to describe your ‘favorite’ likes such as your favorite movie, your favorite TV show and so on.

The Boxes: 

The boxes to the right of your profile photo could show one of eight things. All boxes are links to whatever one of those eight things you decide to put up there. The eight things could be a link to your friend list, your photos, your likes, your notes, your subscribers (if you have chosen to allow subscribers), your maps, etc. It has occurred to us that there may be more than eight boxes available or your choices may very. Everyone’s Facebook timeline might be a little different.

The bare minimum seems to be two boxes, those being friends and photos. Even if you hide your friend list from everyone, there will be a box that shows any mutual friends that you and the viewer have. Here is a shot of the skimpiest timeline you’ll ever see:

Photo of a streamlined Facebook timeline
Only two boxes, one of mutual friends and one linked to photos.

This is the least amount of information that Facebook allows you to show on your timeline. The Like box is gone, as are the rest of them. Let’s add the Like box back and see what we can do with it:

Photo of adding boxes
Two boxes are standard, click on a + sign to add more.

 

If you click on the + sign on the top row, remember that they are termed ‘favorites’ by Facebook, you will get a different menu than if you click on one of the bottom boxes. Here’s what you see on the top:

Photo of top box menu
Everything seems to be here but ‘Likes’.

No Like box yet. Click on one of the bottom boxes to bring up this menu:

Photo of bottom row of boxes
Likes is there. Click the words Likes to add that box to the bottom row.

 

Seeing as how we only have two boxes on the top row, Facebook automatically adds your new ‘Likes’ box to the top row when you refresh the page. If you had a full row of boxes on the top, you’d be able to choose which ones you want to make your ‘favorites’. Hover your cursor (mouse) on the top right of the Like box and this menu will pop out:

Photo of swap box
‘Swap position with’ means you can arrange the favorite boxes as you wish.

 

Right now, we can only swap our Like box with Gamer Friends since we have removed all of the other box choices from our favorites.

 

Next time we’ll get deeper into sorting out our likes. This is enough information for this post. Play around with these settings until they are second nature to you.

 

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Facebook Likes – The Ultimate Guide – Part Two

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Let’s take a look at our Facebook Likes and see what we can do with them. When someone visits you on Facebook, they see your timeline, of course. What we’re going to do is take a look at what they see, not what you see. You can hide things from your friends but you can’t hide things from yourself. (That’s actually quite a pithy statement, isn’t it?)

Tip: To get the most out of our articles, set yourself up with another Facebook account. Do that now. Add yourself as a friend and open the new account in another browser (not the same browser you are using now). Go to your timeline in your new profile where you are a friend and get used to using the refresh button to see what affect the changes you make on your other profile have as your friends see it. You are editing one account in one browser and checking out the results in another account that is open in another browser. Get it? Yes, you can use the ‘view as’ button but that isn’t as fast as using a separate Facebook profile.

Here is a perfect example of what we’re talking about. The first photo is from the original person’s profile. The second one is how a friend sees the same profile. Note that the ‘Likes’ are different.

Photo of likes menu
The two ‘likes’ show in this photo are hidden from everyone but are visible to the profile owner.

 

Photo of Likes menu
Innocuous likes such as Mickey Dolenz and Triumph are fine, right? You may want to hide the fact that you like Andy Williams, however.

 

Now that you can see why it is valuable to have two profiles, let’s get back to work. The next step is to show you the difference between sharing and allowing things to be seen on your timeline. So far, all of this has to do with YOUR stuff and YOUR actions. We’ll get into your various interactions later.

 

Your Facebook timeline is a constantly evolving record of what you do on Facebook. As long as you stick to simply sharing things, you can hide that from others, all or some or none. As we showed you in our last post, you choose whom you want to share your own stuff with. That post is here: Ultimate Guide Part One . Today, we’ll deal with your timeline and show you how to use its edit feature.

There are two ways, at least, to keep things off of your timeline. Let’s deal with your Activity log first. Head to your own timeline, click on your profile pic up on the top right then click on Activity log. The next page that opens is a long list of things you’ve done recently. Each of those things can be edited, depending on what it is. Two more pics will explain this better.

Photo of Activity log
This item is something that someone else posted. Hovering our cursor over the circle icon, we can see that it is allowed on our timeline.

In the photo above, there is a comment on something that was posted on someone’s profile. It is allowed on the timeline. How do we get it off the timeline?

Photo of Activity log 2
Because we commented on someone else’s post, we can ONLY delete the comment. That is the only way to get it off of our timeline.

 

We can only delete the comment. Yes, this is going over the same stuff as our last post but we feel that we have to reinforce this concept. Let’s deal with something that we did. Facebook is more forgiving with things that you post yourself.

 

Photo of a photo
This album is, for now, allowed on the timeline.

 

Photo of another photo
If you click on the circle, you can perform several actions as far as your timeline is concerned.

 

If you put something up on Facebook, you can hide it from your timeline. It sounds simple but we think it gets a bit confusing (and frustrating) for some of you.

 

TIP: When you share something with some of your friends but not all of them, the former can see it on your timeline but the latter can’t. If you hide something from your timeline, you are hiding it from EVERYONE. More on this in the next post.

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Half a solution – deleting a like box, probably forever

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We’ve been confronted by a problem this week, a problem that we could duplicate but not solve. One of our readers commented that she was unable to unhide her June like box on Facebook. To get to the root of this problem, we deleted the June box in one of our profiles on Facebook. Lo and behold it’s gone, forever it seems. If we find a way to get it back, you’ll be the first to know. Here’s how we got rid of the box:

1. Head to your timeline and find the box you want to delete. In this case, our June Like box is the target.

Photo of a like box on Facebook
This was our June Like box before we deleted it. No edit button shows at this point.

2. Hover your cursor (mouse) over the top right corner of the box to bring up the edit button giving you a choice of editing or removing the box:

photo of edit button on like box
Hovering your cursor over the top right corner brings up this Edit button.

3. Click on the icon to bring this menu up:

photo of Facebook box edit menu
The choices for this box are to simply hide it from the timeline.

4. You would think that if you can hide the box from the timeline, you’d be able to unhide it, right? Well, we can’t. We also hid another box and lost it too. If you don’t refresh your page, you can undo the hide but once you refresh the page, it’s gone forever…we think.

photo of hidden box
It’s gone! We’re looking for it. If we find it, we’ll let you know.

5. Once we refreshed the page, not only were the two likes gone, the whole damn box was gone!

Facebook is chock full of mysteries and confusion sometimes, isn’t it? But it’s fun to try and unravel these mysteries. We often wonder if the people who created this mess will ever be able to simplify it or, perhaps, they don’t want to. The more confusing the interface is, the less chance that someone will be able to dodge Facebook’s ads and their various invasions of our privacy. The less people hide, the more money Facebook makes, right? You might want to think about that before you dive into it.

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Lost your Like box on Facebook? Here’s how to get it back.

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If you’ve lost your like box on your Facebook timeline, here’s how to get it back:

1. Head over to your profile and look for the line of boxes under the banner that has your profile photo, your name and the words Update Info and Activity Log. Look for the little square that has a down arrow and, probably, a number. It looks like this:

Photo showing various boxes on Facebook timeline
This box has the number 6 in it. Click on the down arrow.

2. Once you click on the down arrow, this is what you’ll see:

Photo showing various boxes on Facebook timeline
There are 11 boxes shown, meaning that 6 were hidden before and two boxes have nothing in them.

3. What you’re looking for is the box with the add or plus sign on the top right. Click the plus sign to see this:

Photo showing box choices on Facebook
Since this person already has a like box, the thumbs up icon is not shown here but will be if your Like box is missing.

4. This person can add three things to the box list, all three are apps. If this person had hidden the Like box in the past, there would be an icon like the one just to the left of this drop-down menu. Just click that icon and you’ll have your Like box back again.

5. If you have a box that you want to hide, hover over the right corner of the box with your cursor (mouse) and a little pen icon, meaning that you can edit the settings, shows up. Click that and you’ll see this menu:

Photo of menu to swap boxes on Facebook timeline
This is where you can change the position of a box or remove it from your favorites.

6. With this menu, you can swap position with another box to have it shown on your timeline without your visitors having to click on the down arrow. Alternatively, you can simply hide the box completely.