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HOW TO: Transfer your Facebook Friend List To Google+ Using Yahoo Mail

Tweet NOTE: Facebook isn’t happy about this workaround and is trying to put a stop to it. I’ve heard it still works for some but not for everyone. Since the recent launch of Google+, Facebook has frantically shut down any Google Chrome extension or tool that allows you to retrieve your friend’s email addresses. They…

HOW TO: Reset your Facebook News Feed and See All Your Friend’s Posts

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If you recently switched over to the “new Facebook” page layout, you may have noticed you are not seeing updates of some of your friends. Last year, I did a HOW TO post on personalizing your Facebook feeds. Well, it seems Facebook has changed this option completely and reset the option for everyone. Here’s what you have to do to fix it:

HOW TO: Enable Stealth Mode in Facebook to be Almost Completely Invisible

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Tweet Did you know there is a way to go completely stealth on Facebook? Concerns about privacy issues on the site are rampant, yet with over 2 million sites across the web using Facebook Connect, you are at a disadvantage not to have an account.  If you currently don’t have a Facebook account and have…

Facebook Celebrates National Data Privacy Day

Tweet I am breaking the normal schedule today to post this, since today, Friday, January 28th, 2011 is National Data Privacy Day. It is no wonder Facebook launched a new option to experience the site over HTTPS today of all days.  If you frequently visit Facebook from a public internet connection found at coffee shops, airports,…

Flashback Friday: Facebook

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Tweet Happy Friday everyone!  My blog post about my Barbados trip is a work in progress, so in the meantime, here’s a Flashback Friday post.  In case you missed it, last week’s topic was Dave Matthews Band. This week’s topic is….Facebook! Below are some previous blog posts about Facebook (in no particular order): HOW TO: Personalize Your…

HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists in 5 Different Ways

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Tweet When the Twitter lists feature was introduced, I was super-excited.  Before that day, I would use the search feature and save a column on Hootsuite. (Actually, I was using Tweetdeck at the time, but that’s a useless bit of info.) So anyway, Twitter lists were introduced last year, and are limited to 500 twitter…

HOW TO: Turn Off Google Personalized Search

Tweet It was recently brought to my attention by @jselss that Google saves your web history and has been doing so for some time.  Now, they are also using this information to fine-tune any searches you do.  See Google’s explanation of Personalized Search below: I understand that Google is trying to make their search engine…

HOW TO: Use Refollow to Manage Your Followers on Twitter

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Tweet There are a lot of different third-party applications that claim to make your Twitter experience even better.  One has certainly come in more handy than others for me, and that is Refollow.  I have found with the more followers I get on Twitter, it becomes a lot more tedious to keep up.  Once I…

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