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How can I block all of a page's content on Facebook?

A number of my friends, who I otherwise enjoy seeing content from often share content from a particular page that I don't care to see ever again. Is there a way to block content from a page?
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Mobile Status Update Not Visible to Everyone on Facebook

My FB privacy setting allows everyone to see my status update. This works perfectly when I update my FB status using a computer. However, when the update is done via mobile device, it is only visible ...
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How do I set the privacy for a single pic/photo in Facebook?

I want to restrict viewing of one of my single uploaded pic on facebook ... how do I do that ?
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Is there a way to see a list of pending friend requests on Facebook?

Is there a way to see a list of my pending friend requests on Facebook - that is, a list of people to whom I have sent a friend request, but who have not responded. I know that status is indicated ...
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Need to erase child's Facebook account without email address

My ex-husband created Facebook accounts for our under-age children. I now can't access the account because I don't have the email addresses to log in. How can I erase these profiles for my children?
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How can I change the visibility of a secret Facebook Group?

My Facebook group has roughly a thousand members. While I was on vacation, I let someone else admin in my place. Well, this person switched my group to secret, I need to change it back to Open. I ...
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Can't post to Twitter from Facebook

I have recently connected my business page @libertykalinah on FB to post automatically to Twitter @Libertykalinah but nothing seems to be posting through. I can see people had this issue back in ...
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Accidentally unfollowed a friend on Facebook and want to reverse it

When I look at my activity log on Facebook, I see I accidentally unfollowed a good friend. Now I can’t see comments he’s posted in the upper right hand corner where you see comments your friends have ...
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How can I view my followers on Facebook?

Facebook must have changed something again because I cannot find out how to view the list of subscribers. In Googling for this, I came upon this question: Facebook: List of subscribers However, it ...
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Create a feed of someone's facebook wall

Is there a way to create a feed of a friend's facebook wall updates such as status updates, shared links, uploaded photos...? I have been using the following to subscribe to a facebook page: ...
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Facebook `find friend box` visibility

The box is sometimes visible for a friend, as snapshot #1 & #2, and sometimes not visible for another friend, as snapshot #3. I don't know why. Why is that? "Search your friend" box is visible ...
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Blocking 'friends' from seeing group posts

I am in a group for Buying and Selling on Facebook. A few of my friends are too but I do not want them to see my posts. These friends are 'restricted' on my account so they do not see statuses, etc. ...
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New 2013 Facebook timeline (left sidebar) not showing up the same for friends in same lists?

With the new sidebar on the left of personal FB timelines, there are "sections" including "about" "friends" and "photos" on the top. Then you could add things like "music" "movies" "likes" and any ...
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My account on Facebook has been hacked - how do I recover it?

Someone is sending spam messages from my account in Facebook. How do I get back control of it?
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Is there any way to change my facebook username more than once?

I know you guys know a lot about web applications, and I was wondering if there was some way I could go into the site's code and directly edit the variable for my username? Or anything like that?
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Receive a notification when a friend appears online in Facebook chat

Recently, I've been wondering about the possibility of receiving a notification when a friend comes online in Facebook chat. After a bit of googling, I've found http://www.gmarjil.com/ and ...
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How do I add everyone on Facebook to Google+?

Simple: how do I attempt to add all my Facebook friends to Google+
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How do I remove a Facebook app request?

Unfortunately, because of some fat fingering when browsing the Klout website from my iPad I accidentally sent app requests to 50 friends. I am really annoyed by these sort of requests and certainly ...
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Why can some Facebook users currently be messaged, but not others?

According to Facebook’s current messaging policies, all users should be capable of receiving messages. However, when viewing some profiles, belonging to Friends of Friends or non-Friends, while logged ...
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Changing name of facebook app developer

Is it possible to change name of app developer (which is shown here: http://appdata.com/apps/facebook/124024574287414-instagram). I have got name of company in payment tab set to "A", name of ...
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How do I get the phone numbers of my Facebook Friends?

There was a time that somehow Facebook synced to my phone and that was great but I did not want all of them. How can I manually select the Facebook numbers and then export it to my phone via Contacts ...
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Twitter no longer posts to Facebook page

I have 2 Twitter accounts and 2 Facebook pages. Everything was working fine all my tweets was posted to each Facebook page automatically until around 11 April 2013. Is there anything Facebook ...
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How to search OR download all previous facebook posts

Basically the ultimate goal is to search my old posts for something rather obscure (it was something like '1 + 2 + 3') If I had a giant webpage it would be very easy to do a quick search. Indeed I ...
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Facebook All-day events show up in Google Calendar a day early

I have, using the export feature in Facebook, imported the ical feed in Google Calendar for Events. This works as it should, except that events that have no hour defined, show up a day early in Google ...
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Ignore one Facebook wall but receive notifications for a 2nd Facebook wall

For work, I've been added as admin for a company Facebook page. I don't want to get email alerts when someone posts to the company page wall, but I do want to get alerts when someone posts to my ...
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Facebook - download chat history

I have a quite long (several thousands of messages) chat history with one of my friends which I'd like to download and store safely on my own computer. I did not bear this in mind from the beginning ...
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inviting friends to like business page

I am an admin on a shared business page. My partner can invite friends when we pull down build audience. Mine does not show this option it only says invite email contacts. why is this?
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Showing updates in Facebook

A previous answer stated: For example, if you untick Life Events, they will never get displayed no matter what frequency you choose. Wrong. I’ve unticked the Comments and Likes setting for ...
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Using a Previously used username that is no longer in use for my new facebook page

Facebook will not allow me to use "godjhavoc" as my username for my facebook page. The thing is, that username is no longer in use so I don't understand why facebook won't let me use it. Previously ...
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facebook electronic signature for uploaded video [closed]

I uploaded my own-made video on FB this morning and they deleted it. If I make an appeal, I would have to do the "electronic signature" thing, and I have no idea how to do it. Hope someone could give ...
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Is there a Facebook post character limit difference between group and individual pages?

I am a member of several open groups on Facebook, and I notice that in the group people are posting quite large posts. The suggestion from the group owner was that maybe the limit is different for ...
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How many times can I change my Facebook name?

I must have a facebook for business reasons, but I’m not comfortable using my real name or email there due to privacy issues. A such, I frequently change my “name” to various pop culture references. ...
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How to hide friend from Facebook account [closed]

I am using Internet in my iPad, and it doesn't have the edit option for hiding my friends. Is there another way to hide my friends from Facebook account.
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Facebook posting issues

I have a "community" page on Facebook, which I have used to post comments on other community pages, but they don't show up properly—the only people who can see them are people who already "like" my ...
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How to hide all posts from timeline in Facebook

Is there any way to remove all of my previous post from my Facebook timeline? Or remove all activities from a Facebook app with a single click?
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How do I download videos from Facebook?

I have a video on Facebook that I'd like to share with people outside Facebook, but I don't have the original video file. How can I download the Facebook video to put it on public web sites, like ...
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UnfriendFinder alternative?

There were an browser addon which showed message when someone from Facebook unfriended you. However now it is dead. Is there any alternative to track my friends?
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How can I search for friends who live in a particular place?

I'm going to be visiting a distant city in a few months, and want to start making plans with people I know there, some of whom I don't keep in touch with as regularly as perhaps one ought to. The ...
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Why can't I see birthdays on my Facebook home page?

I used to be able to see friends' birthdays in the right panel of my homepage. But now all I get is the minifeed and ads. And this isn't because none of my friends are celebrating today; If I click ...
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Tagged facebook photo's not showing up in friend's view.

I had strict privacy settings that prevented anyone's posts from showing up on my timeline. I was just tagged in a few photos that I would like to appear in my Box photos when friends view my profile. ...
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Is it possible to include a hyperlink in a Facebook private message?

Is it possible to include a hyperlink in a Facebook private message? I only see text without clikkable link.
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Problem with full visibilty of Facebook question posted from business page (no answers showing)

I have a Facebook Page for my (very small!) business and I posted a question with different options for my customers to answer. In the past there has been no problem with this - the posts have been ...
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Sharing “Likes” with friends

If my son is tagged in a photo (who I am friends with) by one of his other Facebook friends that I am not a friend of and I like the photo, is there a way to get it to show up on my other Facebook ...
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Search shows mutual Facebook friend, but mutual friend's profile doesn't show anywhere

I was searching for a person on Facebook, e.g. John Doe. When I type in the Facebook search bar, it displays "John Doe" as the first result and indicates "1 Mutual Friend". When I click on John Doe, I ...
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How can users I am not friends with like my picture

How can I set my Facebook settings so that people I am NOT friends with can like my pictures? Simply putting them on 'public' did not solve the problem.. please help!
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How to prevent Facebook from showing your likes, comments on friend's news feed?

Currently, whenever I like or comment on Facebook, in my friends’ news feed it shows as “Pradeep Simha likes John's photo,” “Pradeep Simha commented on Jay's status” etc. How do I prevent this from ...
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How do you use the new Facebook “download everything you’ve ever posted” feature?

I read about this in the press today, but can't find it anywhere within Facebook. Perhaps the feature isn't live yet? I've tried clearing cache and reloading, but don't know where I should be looking. ...
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What is the back story or history behind Facebook's 'Putnam' smiley?

Please explain the reason for and back story to Facebook's hidden PUTNAM smiley (:putnam:). Here it is:
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How do I get Facebook chat to show me online friends on top instead of a random list on top and online friends at the bottom?

Now, its showing me some offline friends on the top and making me scroll to see the remaining friends who are actually online!!!

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