What's an example of a project like Diaspora or App.net that's actually been successful?
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posted by pete_22
on Dec 16, 2012 -
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How/why is my Facebook profile pic turning up on emails I send from my Gmail account to Hotmail/Outlook?
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posted by crossoverman
on Dec 7, 2012 -
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I would like Facebook Connect to connect to the professional Facebook page I administer, not my personal Facebook page. Is this possible?
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posted by monkeystronghold
on Dec 7, 2012 -
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Mom was clickjacked on Facebook. The fake "video" is embarrassing, NSFW, and clearly spam. But she can't see it on her timeline or in her news feed in order to remove it herself. How do we remove it so it doesn't show up in all her friends' newsfeeds?
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 6, 2012 -
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I'm really tired of social media; I've grown to find all of it (FB, twitter, etc.) endlessly boring. For those of you who have come to the same place, have you just faded away, or do you leave notes on your open accounts to the effect that "I'm not really here anymore?" Prolly not going to shut it off altogether.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Dec 4, 2012 -
26 answers
My friend's son has a band. They've received a few thousand fake FB likes in the past couple of days. Any advice on how to respond, disavow or prevent?
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posted by bleeb
on Dec 3, 2012 -
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i share a somewhat random name with a miscreant from the midwest. when i google my name, i get a mixed return of my stats and his; his being mostly juvenile youtube vids of him skateboarding and flipping off the camera. i KNOW employers in my field google search/research online profiles heavily. what to do?
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posted by ps_im_awesome
on Nov 27, 2012 -
15 answers
You're on Facebook and many of your contacts are expressing their opinions, frustrations, affirmations and wit by means of shared and reposted .jpgs with some sort of text sentiment on them. Sometimes they're simply text, sometimes there is a background photo or illustration. What are these things called? Have we got a collective term for these graphic motto things?
posted by Lou Stuells
on Nov 21, 2012 -
25 answers
Should I contact an acquaintance who recently de-friended me on fb for no apparent reason to ask why?
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posted by Rinoia
on Nov 19, 2012 -
23 answers
Help me figure out how to set up an iPad so my elderly mother (who is intimidated by the internet) can view Facebook, etc with a highly reduced chance of accidentally doing … anything. I'm hoping to find a way to use FB (etc) in read-only mode, but maybe you have other ideas.
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posted by Ookseer
on Nov 15, 2012 -
11 answers
My phone number is being listed as the contact in a phishing email. Who do I report this to and how worried should I be?
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posted by naoko
on Nov 5, 2012 -
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Facebook riddle: How do I remove all of MY comments on the posts of a local politician?
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posted by LarryC
on Nov 3, 2012 -
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Is there a way one can prevent people sharing a Facebook page's photos on your newsfeed -- either using Facebook's native settings or a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript? I'm trying to weed out the memes and sassy e-cards. Can I block the pages like I would a person?
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posted by WCityMike
on Nov 1, 2012 -
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What is the name for the phenomenon of creepy guys being overly protective of women they barely know on the internet, in particular on facebook?
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posted by albrecht
on Oct 31, 2012 -
14 answers
Where did these
facebook buttons come from on my firefox? they just appeared this afternoon and I haven't added any add-ons in a long time. I'm running firefox 17.0 according to the about page.
posted by Might quack
on Oct 25, 2012 -
3 answers
My old friends from high school and I have been using a Facebook message thread to stay in touch over the past few years since we graduated. However, the new interface is really driving us crazy. Help us find an alternative?
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posted by Strass
on Oct 25, 2012 -
18 answers
I'm in the process of emptying out my Facebook account. I appreciate any tips on this, but there's a couple of things I'd like to know in particular.
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posted by ignignokt
on Oct 24, 2012 -
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My Facebook posts appear on my twitter feed, but my tweets dont appear on my Facebook feed (which is what I really need)...
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posted by sandra_s
on Oct 22, 2012 -
7 answers
Could you point me in the direction of interesting scholarly work being done on social networking sites, especially Facebook?
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posted by dontjumplarry
on Oct 14, 2012 -
11 answers
Please help me find a website I used last week that shows you public Facebook events for your city, broken down by date, and - rather uniquely for such websites - lists the confirmed attendees by their self-selected Facebook gender! When you clicked on an event, it would pull up a map, and a list of the attendees, and then give you the option to click through to the Facebook event page. It was such a great resource and it's killing me to not be able to find it anymore!
posted by texano
on Oct 5, 2012 -
4 answers
Facebook showing private messages. Has anyone noticed that PMs are showing up in the timeline? I've personally seen some of my own PMs on a friend's wall. Facebook of course,
denies it all.
posted by xmattxfx
on Sep 26, 2012 -
21 answers
I have a bunch of first cousins, aunts, and uncles whom I've never met (or if I did I was too young to remember). Both of my parents had falling outs with their siblings and haven't had contact with them for decades. How can I best connect with these folks without stepping on landmines?
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posted by teg4rvn
on Sep 24, 2012 -
9 answers
Is there any way to block Facebook's sponsored stories (ads) that are suddenly appearing in my news feed on my iPhone?
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posted by looli
on Sep 22, 2012 -
6 answers
What did I do to my iPhone 4 that caused it to not be able to "save images" from Twitter and Facebook anymore? All the gory details inside...
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posted by Hanuman1960
on Sep 20, 2012 -
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Facebook people search: Every time I search for a name I get the message:
"No results found for your query.
Check your spelling or try another term."
Internet searching has found a lot of people with this problem, but not solution that I could find. What gives?
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posted by pdq
on Sep 9, 2012 -
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For the past week or so I have been receiving phishing emails at my non-Facebook email account which appear to be from my Facebook friends. The sender's name is one of my Facebook friends, but the email addresses are not their real email address. The subject line reads FOR (MY FIRST NAME) and the message contains a link (which I never click, of course). Clearly there has been some access to my friend list and my email address. I am not using any apps on Facebook, and never give apps access to my info—my privacy settings are pretty locked down, or so I thought. Facebook is absolutely no help on this. I can't find a way to even report this to them because their reporting mechanism asks for links and there are none. I've changed my password, and locked down my privacy settings even more. Any ideas about how this happened and how to fix the security hole?
posted by ljshapiro
on Aug 31, 2012 -
19 answers
A business was leased to another party and they set up and curated a business page on FB. When the lease expired they left and set up a competing business. They took the FB page with them and changed the name on the business page - keeping all the old content and relationships.
How do I get the page back?
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posted by ElGuapo
on Aug 30, 2012 -
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Instagram/Facebook issues - How do I get pictures not just on the little instagram portion of the timeline and get it to post them to my Facebook page?
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posted by jitterbug perfume
on Aug 28, 2012 -
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Someone has set up a Facebook account using my work email address. This person has the same first name as me, but a different last name. I am now receiving messages from Facebook meant for her. I have no idea how to contact this person about this, nor have I been able to find a way to contact Facebook about this. Help!
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posted by thereemix
on Aug 28, 2012 -
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So what function of Facebook is it that lets my friends see the comments I've made on pages I like - which they have NOT liked - and comment on them? I've gotten into several conversations lately made more uncomfortable by someone not in the community I'm commenting to jumping in and making a comment about my participation. I thought I had my settings pretty nailed down, but can't figure out where this one is. Thanks.
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posted by Miko
on Aug 23, 2012 -
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I enjoy using Facebook for entertainment purposes - I get a ton of party invites and information about my friends that way. However, I believe Facebook can also be a useful networking tool for my professional career, and I've underutilized it in that capacity because I'm hesitant to friend my co-workers or managers.
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posted by wolfdreams01
on Aug 19, 2012 -
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Wedding slideshow brainstorm: Is there a way to have an automatically updated slideshow running from a Facebook photo feed?
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posted by shinynewnick
on Aug 17, 2012 -
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Will someone please explain to me, assuming I am a stupid 5-year old child, how to get off Facebook. "Settings" is useless. Maybe there is a trick I don't know? Thank you.
posted by Punctual
on Aug 8, 2012 -
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I'm hoping MeFi can help me with the why and how of an unusual business situation. I own a small marketing agency. An elderly woman wants to retain me to make a Facebook page and write about how she was wronged/is still being wronged by a pair of judges who will not drop a case that should be dropped. In addition to calling out the judges she will make a larger point that judicial character reform is necessary.
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posted by michaelh
on Aug 6, 2012 -
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Does Facebook publish statistics? I'm specifically interested in statistics about photo uploads and camera metadata / popularity.
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posted by ztdavis
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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Is joining the Facebook Club worth the deals you may get by "Liking" businesses, etc. - or is it really just a pain in the ass?
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posted by foxhat10
on Jul 26, 2012 -
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Is there a way to enable Facebook Comments Box for mobile viewing in Google Blogger?
I used these
instructions to enable Facebook comments on my blog. It worked out, but it's not showing up in the mobile view.
This
site discusses how to add a widget to the Blogger Mobile Template. The Facebook Comments Box is not exactly a widget. I imagine there's probably a solution to getting it to appear in the mobile view, similiar to
this, but I don't know how to do it. Is there a way to add something like this (mobile='yes') to the plugin code?
posted by Bushmiller
on Jul 25, 2012 -
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