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Comment on a Facebook page item owned by me, as myself
I'm the administrator of a Facebook page for an organization, and when adding comments to items posted there (by myself or by other administrators), the comments show up as being "added by the page". ...
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How can I prevent/lessen event spam on Facebook?
On Facebook, you can be invited to an event by any of your friends. Once you have been invited to an event, the admins of that event can send messages straight to your inbox even if you have not sent ...
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Reusing “freed” Facebook personal profile URL on another account you own that is a business page?
Okay here is what I did:
Let's see what we have here:
Inherited an Old FB profile and an Old FB Page.
Created a New (Timeline) FB Business Page.
Merged the Old FB Profile into the New FB Business ...
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People can see with whom I shared a post, when I post it with custom sharing
Usually I post status or links with custom sharing. e.g. I do post a status keeping 10-15 people in custom list. Now, if one of them hovers the mouse on the "gear" or "custom" sharing icon, they can ...
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How can I reset all public posts to be friends-only?
I recently found that despite my default posting privacy level being "friends" all of my recent posts are "public". Is there some way I can quickly move these posts back to "friends" or otherwise ...
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How to disable Facebook account verification when I login from different country
As Facebook is blocked by Iranian government, we have to access it through VPNs and other proxy software (e.g. Tor) which their servers are scattered over the world.
The problem is Facebook is ...
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How to disable Facebook email notifications?
Facebook sends me a lot of notifications on my email and sometimes it annoys me. How can I disable all these notifications? I just want to check the incoming messages only when I open Facebook ...
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How to create a “restricted” group in Facebook that is NOT public?
Is there any way to create a group of people who can't see any posts in my profile except for what I explicitly share with them, without being forced to make those posts public to the entire world?
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Select All Friends in Facebook
How does one select all ones friends when trying to invite friends into groups, etc.?
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Why is Facebook suggesting friends with no connections to me?
Under the People You May Know section on the right side of the site, Facebook normally suggests people with a lot of mutual friends, helping me get connected with people that I probably know. However, ...
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How to use ifttt to post Google+ updates to Facebook?
I found this recipe, but it doesn't work.
I put in either https://plus.google.com/103156295300828440975 or http://plu.sr/feed.php?plusr=103156295300828440975, but I keep getting an error
Trigger ...
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How to remove all networks from my Facebook profile?
How can I remove all networks from my Facebook profile including the main network that is displayed beside the name?
First, I could not find any network configurations in the profile options, but ...
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Is there a way to see all of my facebook activity of the (very long ago) past easily?
I've been trying to trace something out using facebook and I was all the way back by about 8 months and accidentally clicked the wrong thing and now I'd have to start all over(mind you, it took about ...
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Get a List of Facebook Friend's Email addresses
How can I get a list of email addresses of Facebook Friend's that have published their email address? My request is similar to the phonebook question.
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Facebook Business set up as a person, and a page. Can they be merged?
So I inherited a website that has 2 Facebook pages set up.
The business owners, not knowing any better, created a person page for the business. This "person" later went on to start, and adminsister ...
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Facebook is slow to post imported sites like Delicious and Google Reader
On Facebook, I set my settings to pull posts (saved items) from Delicious and Google Reader. It's set to show that I posted on either of the sites as part of my regular Facebook feed.
However, for ...
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How to hide Mutual Friends from others on Facebook ?
The new Timeline allows you to hide the friends list by going to friends tab and change the privacy to "Only me", but it still shows those friends in common .
Is there a way I can hide them?
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How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?
How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos, on their Facebook wall/news feed?
I see that there is a "share" or "like" option from Facebook but that seems to share the whole page.
I would ...
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How do you format Facebook Wall posts?
There doesn't appear to be any formatting links when I do a Facebook Wall post. Is there any way to do formatting like HTML, markup, etc?
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Who is looking at my Facebook profile or pictures?
Can a Facebook application or anyone track that information? Some applications advertise this feature. I'm not sure whether I can trust them.
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Reply to Facebook Message via Email
I know it is possible to receive your Facebook messages via email. I would like to reply by email, but Facebook doesn't allow me to do this and instead returns a delivery failure. Are there any ...
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What are the benefits of using the “I want to add your birthday” app on Facebook?
I have a number of pending requests from friends to install the "I want to add your birthday" application.
Given that I already have my birthday (day and month only) visible on my profile, what are ...
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How to set default visibility of FB likes?
For some reason when I like something on some webpage and click "post to Facebook", this is posted to my profile with a lock icon, meaning that only I can see it. I then need to manually go to ...
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How do I clear my Facebook status
I'd like to clear my Facebook status. With the most recent profile changes (December 2010) your status no longer appears at the top of the page with a clear link.
With the new interface how do I ...
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Posting to Facebook from Google+ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Send updates from Google Plus to Twitter / Facebook
How do I post something to Facebook from Google+?
I thought there was some type of plugin or Google Chrome extension ...
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How does Facebook know where I live?
How the heck does Facebook know where I live, when I have never provided anything about my address (or even city) to Facebook (or such companies)?
(My correct city was in the "anonymous" Sponsored ...
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How can I hide all “someone likes something” updates?
I'd like to hide all the "someone likes something" updates on facebook, but I don't want to block those people, as I still want to see status updates, pictures, shared links, and all else.
I just ...
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How to change Facebook username?
Do I have to re-register a new Facebook account to change my facebook.com/USERNAME?
Or are there any ways to change it?
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How can I disable facebook chat? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I log out of Facebook chat?
Can facebook chat be turned off? I dont like facebook chat and want to disable it. I would like to have it always disables and not ...
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How do I delete or merge a Facebook account I no longer have email access to?
I set up a Facebook account with a school email address long ago, when only school email addresses were allowed. I graduated and no longer have that email address, nor access to it. I have also ...
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If Joe likes my Facebook status update, will Joe's friends see my update?
The privacy settings of Facebook puzzles me. This is a thing I can't figure out:
Scenario:
I post a status update on Facebook, setting the privacy to "Friends".
A friend of mine, let's call him ...
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Is there still a way to send a message with a friend request on Facebook?
With the new Facebook layout (timeline, etc.) friend requests are made with one click (the old pop-up box doesn't show up anymore). I tried to send a friend request to someone I hadn't seen in a while ...
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How to block apps in the new Facebook interface?
Since one Facebook update some time ago, the procedure at the following FAQ page
How do I block or unblock an app?
Doesn't work anymore. How to block an app now?
List of Applications that seem as ...
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My Facebook Friends count is constantly changing
I tend to keep numbers in my head a lot so if I see <X> number of friends today that okay. But tomorrow or later tonight that number changes to <X-1> or <X+2>. This also happens ...
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Why do Facebook apps require a lot of permissions to be granted?
I can't feel comfortable installing any Facebook apps because they require a long list of permission which I feel I don't need to grant. However it's all or nothing which I means either I allow all or ...
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How to disable and revoke rights for a Facebook application?
I used a Facebook app but I want to remove it completely. How to do that?
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Opt out of Facebook comment updates
Is there a way (at the Facebook end, not via filtering my end) to opt-out of receiving notifications every time someone else adds a comment to a thread I am involved in?
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How do I view Facebook “Review Recent Activity” window and why can't I see the IP address of suspicious logins?
I previously asked a question about finding the ip of recent logins to my facebook account. It seems like facebook does not release this information.
However, I came across this:
How does this ...
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Facebook “friend list” members unable to post on wall
Prior to a lot of the privacy redesign changes that have been going on with Facebook, I had a specific set of friends grouped into a friend list. For this list, I restricted access so that these ...
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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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How do I remove Maps from Facebook?
The Maps feature on Facebook Timeline is nice, though recently I have established that I am location paranoid and wouldn't like people seeing all the places I have been to, so I want to disable and/or ...
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Why does Facebook Apps require disabling HTTPS
Facebook allows you to surf over a secure HTTPS connection, although sadly it does not enable this by default. Even when HTTPS is enabled, you encounter some annoying user experience when trying to ...
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How to specify a hidden email address when signing up with Facebook?
In the past, whenever I signed up to some web app with Facebook, I got the option to give them a custom email address instead of revealing my Facebook email address.
It now seems to be gone:
There ...
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Convert “friends” to subscriptions
I have quite a few "friends" who are people/entities whose public posts I am interested in reading, but really don't want to share with. I "friended" them long before Facebook offered the ability to ...
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Prioritize Facebook privacy between lists that are locked and not locked
I can set privacy settings no problem but I cannot find any reference to priority of privacy settings in Facebook.
That is, I have someone in a locked down list I also want to add them to a ...
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How does one prevent Facebook from automatically combining uploaded photos in the timeline?
If I use the secret email address to upload photos to my Facebook timeline, the photos will automatically be shown in one single post if I upload them within a certain timespan (after a day or so, ...
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Personal Facebook usage statistics
Is it possible to see personal Facebook usage statistics from facebook.com or some other web service? By statistics, I mean, for example, the total number of likes, posts, logins, etc. (maybe detailed ...
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Text formatting enhancements on Facebook
Does Facebook have any text formatting enhancements like Markdown? While writing a comment or status update, can I use linked texts or @-referrals? Or is it just like Notepad?
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How to wipe out everything from your Facebook wall?
Is there a method that actually works?
I tried some iMacros scripting, but that didn't go very well... I couldn't make a script good enough to do the job... Also, I imagine it would take ages to ...
