As usual with most information about Facebook and changes to privacy settings, there’s a bit of a kefuffle brewing about Facebook’s most recent blog post “Reminder: Finishing the Removal of an Old Search Setting“. Many people are, quite rightly, concerned about this change however – IT IS NOT NEW. This is the extension of a […]
Has Facebook Changed Your Default Email Address?
Whilst reading my various news feeds today, I saw on an Op Ed piece on Mashable (Facebook: The Honey Badger of Social Media) that indicated the default email address I use on Facebook may have been changed from the one I had set, to my new facebook email address – so I checked. Sure enough, […]
Does Facebook Becoming A Publicly Traded Entity Affect my Privacy?
I noticed another round of ‘status spam’ in my Facebook feed today. This related to a PRIVACY NOTICE because Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. In the first instance, the information seemed pretty succinct but then my logic circuits kicked in…. how did Facebook become a public entity affect our privacy? I was 95% […]
Will Facebook Be Charging For Membership?
While browsing my Facebook feed tonight, I saw the following status: FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON […]
Facebook – Fanpages, Apps & SSL – The Deadline Approaches
There is a lot of noise around about the need to secure our Facebook Apps and Fanpages with SSL – effective 1 October, 2011… but what does it really mean? Just what is SSL? Let’s look at what SSL really is first – Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a way of creating an encrytped connection […]
Facebook – Indexed 2 Million times?
Whilst checking my Facebook feed tonight, I notice my Google Toolbar was showing that Facebook had 2,000,000 entries in Google! and a PR 10. Wouldn’t you like 2,000,000 entries in Google?
Facebook: Adding An Admin To Your Facebook Page
When you create a Facebook Business Page, you are the only administrator for that page. This can be a bit of a risk – if your personal account is ever locked, you will loose access to manage your Business Page. Adding an extra admin user to your business page will give you a ‘fall back’ […]
Facebook Send: Are You Using The New SEND button?
This week, Facebook announced it’s new SEND button – part of it’s social plugins functionality. SEND extends the existing LIKE capability previously introduced by Facebook, by allowing visitors to your website (or other web presence) to ’email’ your page to specific Facebook friends. Once the Send button is added to a page, it’s three simple […]