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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 can I revoke rights for all Facebook applications?
I know I can disable and revoke rights for specific application, but I have so many applications that will take so much time to remove them all.
Is there a way that I can revoke all these ...
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Link my profile employer to company page on Facebook
The company I work in doesn't appear in the list that pops down when I type in the box "What's your employer?", but it does have a Facebook Page.
I want to "link" the page to my profile info, so when ...
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Why can't I see some mutual Facebook friends?
I share mutual friends with a lot of people on Facebook, yet on some they don’t show up. It shows that we have 12 mutual friends, but I only see 4. How does that happen?
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How to disable in-page Facebook chat for good?
I know you can go in Options > Go Offline. But since I use Pidgin to connect to Facebook Chat, it keeps coming online again. I only want to use it in pidgin. How to remove it from the Facebook web ...
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View a list of URLs that I Like in Facebook
I'm testing the Like button out, and I'd like to check which 'Likes' have been recorded against a Facebook account.
How do I view a full list of URLs that I've previously Liked?
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Is it possible to include a hyperlink in a Facebook wall post?
I want to turn a word in my Facebook wall post into a hyperlink, like this. As far as I can tell, your only options as to include the plain text of the link in your post, or "attach" the link to the ...
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On Facebook, is there any way to restrict access to individual photos I'm tagged in?
I would like to some people to be able to see some of the photos I'm tagged in, but not all of them. Is this possible?
I know I can make a list of people that won't be able to see any of the photos ...
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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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Unable to change birthdate on Facebook account
How can I change/correct my birthday on my Facebook profile after it was set incorrectly?
My roommate and a friend of hers went on my computer where my Facebook was open and changed my birthday. ...
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Delay a wall post on Facebook
How can I schedule an update to be posted to my Facebook wall, at a certain time in the future? I presume there is no official feature for doing this, but it seems like it should be possible with an ...
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How can I add a new recipient to a Facebook message?
I've sent a message in Facebook to multiple people. I want to send another one to the same group without adding them one by one, but just add one new person instead. Is there a way to do this?
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How do I automatically post my Tumblr posts to Facebook?
How do I automatically post or publish my Tumblr posts to my Facebook page? I don't mean the News Feed one, but a Facebook page.
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Blocking a person from tagging you in photos
Out of my 600+ contacts on Facebook, there is a single one who's constantly tagging me on photos I'm not present. I don't want to block or unfriend him. I know it is possible to block app/game ...
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Preventing new friends from seeing old Facebook posts
I'd like to add some new people as Facebook friends so that they can see baby pictures, but not the rest of my posts and other items.
Going forward, this is easy, as I can just add them to ...
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Access Facebook without HTTPS
Is there a way to access Facebook without HTTPS? My proxy blocks HTTPS pages, so what can I do?
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Facebook “share link” feature feature for Blogger, Google Buzz, or other Blogs?
Facebook has a nice share feature to share links.
When I share a link on Facebook, I paste a URL into the status box (The box which says "What's on your mind?"). Facebook will automatically populate ...
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I change locations frequently and Facebook doesn't like it
I change my location quite frequently and every now and then Facebook prompts me to confirm the location by tagging friends’ pictures.
Are there any means to avoid these prompts, other than staying ...
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Facebook keeps sending friend notifications despite settings set otherwise
While I am trying to surf, all of these Facebook notifications flood the right side of my screen one after the other. It freezes my computer and I have to wait until I can click one of the Xs on a ...
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How do I forward my Gmail to my Facebook email address?
I have been trying to find a way to forward emails from my Gmail address to my Facebook email address. When I went to Gmail settings and tried to set up email forwarding from there, Gmail was unable ...
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Getting an account's login details if I am an administrator of a Facebook page
I work for a business and we have a few staff members registered as admins on the business' Facebook.
However, the person who originally started the Facebook no longer works with us and we need to ...
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Is there a way to import Facebook messages into Gmail?
Is it possible to import my Facebook messages into Gmail?
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View all my Facebook fans similar to “Social Graph” app
Social Graph is a Facebook app that lets you view your friends, grouped by their interactions. Is there something similar for Fan Pages? I would like to know how my fans are grouped (I have 41 Fans at ...
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Importing RSS items into Facebook
I want to import my (Wordpress-based) blog entries into my Facebook account to share them with my FB friends.
FB already has a built-in function to create Notes based on RSS items. The problem is ...
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Linking Flickr to Facebook
I'd like the photos I post on Flickr to be available on Facebook, ideally appearing as a status update on my wall.
I tried linking my flickr account to facebook on the extend tab but the permissions ...
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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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Untag myself from an unrelated Facebook pic: which option?
Every once in a while, a friend mistakenly tags a photo thinking it is me, whereas it is not (frequent during Halloween). Other times it seems due to a Facebook bug, I was wrongly tagged whereas I ...
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What does using 'Login with Facebook' or 'Facebook Connect' to login to another site allow the site to do?
When I use a Facebook account to login to another website, what does 'logging in with Facebook' allow that website do with my Facebook account?
Can they post messages on my wall or news feed or ...
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How can I delete my Facebook posts from an open group?
Background
Long time ago I have, unfortunately, created an embarrassing Facebook group and later decided to remove it. According to Facebook's instructions, that can be done by removing all members ...
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How to remove yourself from an event on Facebook?
How do I remove an event from My Events? I can't find the old "Remove This Event" link anymore.
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How do I tag all my friends in a Facebook photo album?
I have uploaded several photos to Facebook with friends in them and want to tag them all.
How do I tag all my friends to a particular album?
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How do you block someone who has subscribed to you?
How do you unsubscribe someone that has subscribed to you? My son has a woman who has subscribed to him on Facebook and is sending him links to objectionable sites. How does he stop this?
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Is there any way to tag more than 50 people in Facebook photo?
My dear friend is stuck in a problem. He's tagged his wedding invitation to his friends but he have a lot of friends and now there become angryness between friends who want to know why they are not ...
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What is the purpose of poking in Facebook?
I have a Facebook friend who keeps on poking me. I usually poke back to be polite. However, I don't understand what it's for.
Other than a small notification, what does poking somebody on Facebook ...
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How to remove Facebook username and return to profile ID?
I want to remove (not change) my Facebook username, so that my profile page should be accessible from my ID number. Is this even possible?
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What is the maximum number of characters allowed in Facebook status box?
People often update their status on Facebook, but what is the maximum number of characters allowed in Facebook status box?
Any ideas?
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In Facebook's privacy settings, what does the Other category mean?
I understand the other categories, but what does the 'Other' one mean. Who does it include?
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When did Facebook start using the OAuth protocol?
When I last used Facebook authentication, it provided it's 'Facebook Connect' protocol which wasn't necessarily implementing the open source OAuth protocol but now they say that they are using OAuth ...
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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 can I stop a Facebook app posting spam stuff on my twitter account?
I keep getting twitts like this on my timeline:
@pascale_66: Awesome! I made $102.54 this week just filling out a couple of surveys. http://t.co/GwjDUPK9
I've gone into Facebook, followed the ...
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Why have some of my friends have gone missing from Facebook?
I was looking through my friends list and spotted this:
Some of my friends (well more like acquaintances, but you get the picture) are displayed in the list, but don't have a "Friends" button and ...
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What is Socialcam and how do I disable it?
More and more frequently, I am seeing posts tagged "Socialcam" pop up on my Facebook feed. When I click these links (which often feature gaping shark jaws, large snakes, ambiguous ladyskin, or other ...
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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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Disable facebook facial recognition
I recently noticed that Facebook was tagging me in my wife's photos that she did not tag me in. Apparently Facebook now tags people automagically by facial recognition.
How can I disable this ...
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Facebook Profile name with Fancy and Stylish Font
I have found some people are writing their profile name in fancy and stylish font. How do I write a name or add some stylish font to the profile?
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How do I hide events in Facebook?
Sometimes I will be invited to an event that I don't care about. In these cases, I would like to hide the event from my event list. In some older version of the site, I could do this. I just can't ...
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Can I change my Facebook login email?
My wife and I have been "sharing" a facebook account under my name, and we're finally going to get her her own account. The problem is that the facebook "login" email is really her email account.
Is ...
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How can I make my Facebook profile completely private?
How can I make my Facebook profile completely private?
I don't want people to be able to see cover photos or my Facebook photo profile.
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Facebook: List of recently added friends?
Is there a way to see what friends I recently added? It used to be possible using "Edit friends" but this part has changed it seems.
"Became friends with" stories are set to not appear on my wall.
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Email address through which I can update my Facebook status
There used to be an option to upload photos or post a status on Facebook by sending a mail to a specific address.
What's the process of finding this email address associated with my account?
(I'm ...
