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Avoid Facebook Email Scams, Facebook, Facebook Secrets, Facebook Tricks

Best Protection for Facebook Hacking

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If you’re concerned about the security of your Facebook account, here’s how to eliminate the biggest threat. It’s easy, fast and once you set it up, you can rest a lot easier knowing that one route into your account has been plugged.

Facebook loves to send you emails. If you let Facebook have it’s way, your inbox would be chock full of notifications about this and that. Right now, there are many email scams out there. You might get an email that looks like it’s from Facebook, but it’s a very clever attempt to get your password in order to hijack your account. Here’s how to stop those emails in their tracks:

1. From any page on Facebook, look up on the top right and click on the arrow beside Home to bring down this menu:

Photo of Facebook Account Settings menu
Click on Account Settings

2. Once you are there, click on Account Settings then Notifications and you’ll see this menu next:

Photo showing notifications in Facebook Account Settings
Notifications is the one you want now.

3.Start with clicking on the word Edit to the right of Facebook. This is what you’ll see:

Photo of Facebook Account Settings showing unchecked boxes
This is what you want the menu to look like, all boxes unchecked.

4. If you use Facebook every day, why do you need an email to tell you that something has happened inside Facebook? You’re going to sign in and see the notices anyway, why do you need a follow-up email? We would strongly advise you to uncheck every box here.

5. Move down the list for each of the sections: Photos, Groups, Notes, Pages and so on. Make sure each box in each section is unchecked.

6. Now, look up on the top left for the word Apps and click on it. This is what you’ll see next:

Apps Menu in Facebook Account Settings
Make sure that the Apps never notify you.

7. Here you will see that we have prevented Words With Friends from notifying us. See the word ‘never’ on the bottom right? Make sure that is showing and click Close to ensure that you will not get any notices from this app. Move down the list and do the same for every app that you use.

You’re done! Now, you won’t get any email from Facebook. Whatever email comes to your inbox or your junk box will be a scam. Guaranteed. If you follow our directions here, you’ll be safe from phishing emails. Phishing is where an email tries to get information from you in order to hijack your Facebook or your bank account.

If you still want Facebook to email you, you’re on your own. You risk getting tricked by one of these clever emails. Good luck! It’s scary out there sometimes.

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Facebook, Facebook Tricks, Scam, Security

Facebook Scams – Don’t fall for them

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Don’t respond or click on any link that you get from Facebook, unless you are 100% sure it is from Facebook. Here’s why:

1. We got this email today in one of our junkmail folders:

Photo of junk mail from Facebook
Looks legitimate, right?

2. We do have a Facebook account for this email address but we rarely use it. We’ve got our email settings in this Facebook account set to never send email. We also don’t know anyone named Christine McLain Gibbs.

3. We didn’t click on the link, that’s for sure. But we were curious as to how this think worked. We knew it was a scam but didn’t know what it was supposed to do. The links led to the following address: (We’ve left spaces in it so it doesn’t work and don’t try to make a link out of it) http://www.  unitedtec.org  /mobile.html

Our browser asked if we wanted to use Java when we pasted the link into a new window. We didn’t allow it and after a few seconds, we were taken to a real Facebook page. We assume the link sucked Facebook passwords from our cache using Java. Even though we didn’t allow Java to run, we changed our Facebook password anyway.

4. Unitedtec.org is a legitimate site, we think. It seems to be some sort of religious, Christian teen site. The url in the IP address leads to Site5 hosting. We’ve notified both of these sites in the hopes that these emails can be stopped.

If you remember to never click an email link from Facebook, you’ll be safe. Good luck!

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Computers Made Simple is on Facebook!

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We finally took the plunge and started our own Facebook  page. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/ComputersMadeSimple

We’ll give it a shot and see if we can get some fans, some action and maybe even some questions. We love comments here, too, but if you comment on our Facebook page, you will get an answer right there instead of having to come back here to read it. We usually send an email response as well so here or there, it doesn’t matter. We love comments.

The Facebook page will allow us to share links that don’t really fit here plus it will give us an opportunity to actually interact with our readers. Computers Made Simple gets quite a few hits for such a tiny spot on the ‘net and we’re excited to provide a new opportunity to get our solutions out there.

This is what our new page looks like:

Photo of Computers Made Simple Facebook page
Only one ‘like’ so far but we hope to see more!

In the near future we’re looking at posts on QQ, Facebook, back-ups, recording different things with your computer, etc. There’s always something new to write about. If you have requests or problems, contact us here with a comment or on our new Facebook page. We’d love to hear from you.

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Facebook, Facebook 101, Facebook Secrets, Facebook Tricks, Hide Likes from Timeline, Timeline

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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Facebook, Facebook 101, Facebook Secrets, Facebook Tricks, Hide Likes from Timeline

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.