The tag [profile] pertains to questions related to one's personal page in a network, whether social or otherwise, such as Facebook or Twitter.
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Someone memorialized my Facebook profile but I'm still alive!
Apparently, it’s pretty easy to memorialize someone's Facebook profile. I am greeted with the following message after entering my valid and correct username and password:
Account Inaccessible This ...
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How to see my profile from a friends of friends perspective on Facebook?
I can see my profile from the perspective of a 1st level friend, but I would like to see how my profile looks for a specific friend of a friend, or even from a general "friends of friends" ...
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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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Linking Google accounts after registration in Trello
Originally, I registered using my email address (@gmail). Now I would like to link that account to my Google authentication credentials. Is this possible? Or do I need to create a new Trello account ...
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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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How do I give another person admin rights to a company profile so they can edit it on LinkedIn?
Someone else at my company created a LinkedIn company profile for our business. Both of us will be doing a lot of editing for it though.
It would be nice if we both had the ability to edit the blog ...
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How do I delete my Ohloh profile?
How do I go about deleting my Ohloh profile?
I have two Ohloh profiles. I want to delete one of them so that the profile that remains may use the email and username of the deleted profile.
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How to view a LinkedIn profile anonymously?
I saw this ad this morning:
Is there really no way to avoid the awkwardness?
This page describes a solution but the settings menu they are suggesting does not exist anymore.
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How to get a Google Profiles name?
I already have a Google+ profile with this ugly long URL:
https://plus.google.com/106542087505398120198/
I recently discovered in this LifeHacker article that the author has a much shorter Google ...
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How to hide specific education in LinkedIn profile?
Is there a way to hide specific school in LinkedIn profile?
I mean hide not completely remove.
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Block all non-friends on facebook
Is there any way to block all non-friends on facebook?
Well, I know of a profile which can't be viewed by any non-friends at all? Why is it behaving that way? Is it because it is about to deleted by ...
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Is it possible to 'Like' a page without it appearing in your Facebook profile? (Without hiding the category that page is in)
I'm trying to 'Like' a certain page, but I don't want it to appear in the 'Info' part of my Facebook Profile. Is this possible without hiding the category that the page is in, or to move the 'Liked' ...
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How do you delete an alternate profile on LinkedIn?
I created a second language profile on LinkedIn which is becoming too much of a hassle to keep up to date. I also no longer need a profile in that language.
This was created on the same account as my ...
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New GitHub organization isn't showing on my profile
My new organization (created yesterday) is visible in my account settings:
but it isn't visible when viewing my profile:
Any idea why it's not showing?
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How do I select my city in Drumo?
I am not sure I understand what is going on with Drumo, I signed up but it seems only two cities are offered:
Sydney
Singapore
I am not from any of these cities. I decided to select one just to ...
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How to create a named Google profile?
According to Google Offers Named OpenIDs blog entry I should be able to create a named Google profile. However, going to http://www.google.com/profiles redirects me to my Google+ profile with 21 ...
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Facebook home page post display changed
Two days ago my wall on Facebook changed, the link facility to have either top stories or most recent stories has gone and I cannot change between the two, does anyone have any idea how I can get it ...
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How to private and hide some modules in last.fm profile
I have a profile on last.fm
I want to hide it completely from any search results. Maybe show it
only to people to whom I give direct link.
I don't want visitors to see the any modules there like ...
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Why are the people I've circled not showing up?
How come the number of people shown "in your circles" on my page are only half of what I actually have?
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Can I control the profile image shown in the Facebook activity feed
I am creating a Facebook activity feed of my page for my site, and it of course shows the profile picture. The problem is that the profile picture is very big, and when it shows up in the activity ...
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Delete facebook profile for a buisness page account
I have a page for my business. I accidentally created a profile for it through the page. I want to delete the profile. Can someone please tell me how?
Thanks
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Animating your Facebook Timeline
Some users have found it's possible on Google Plus to animate your profile.
What I'd like to know is if anyone has found a way to animate your Facebook timeline, through either an animated .gif, a ...
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How to backup and export all my pictures and data from Facebook?
Before, in Facebook I found a feature for backup my data. I sent that request and then Facebook sent me an email containing a link for downloading a file larger that 100 MB.
I want to back it up ...
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Is there any way/website to find similar profile pictures in Facebook?
I want to know if is there any way to find similar profile pictures in Facebook, because many girls/guys are using another picture and declaring it as their own. How to find the cheater in Facebook? ...
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Is there a known place for gathering all my public profiles in a single place in the Web? [closed]
I have many accounts with public profiles in different web-services. They are, for example, linkedin.com, coursera.org, bitbucket.org, projecteuler.org, dropbox.com and etc. Unfortunately, not all of ...
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How do I edit my Fitocracy profile?
Today I signed up for an account on Fitocracy, which is pretty much a social network for tracking (and I guess sharing, if you're into that) your workouts and other fitness achievements. Setting up ...
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Can you upload a saved profile to Google Plus?
Using Takeout, you can download your Google Plus profile information to a json file.
Is it possible to use this file to upload the information to a new Google Plus account?
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Don't show me on other profiles
I would like to disable showing me on other users' profiles in sidebar in circles.
I am pretty sure there was such option in settings, but I can't find it now. To support my thought i've checked my ...
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How do you select which Google profile is used with the Google Bookmark Bookmarklet?
I have 2 different gmail/google accounts. I'm usually logged into both. When I set up Google Bookmarks and dragged the bookmarklet to the toolbar, all was well. It was associated with the right ...
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How to change twitter profile text color?
How can one change the text color for one's profile such as in the popup in twitter? The text being displayed includes a few items like name and web site link.
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Imgur: How to see who uploaded an album
How do you see what user uploaded an Imgur album? I do know that it was uploaded by a registered user, because I've been to their profile before from their album, but I can't find the link anymore.
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Facebook profile unviewable by others, but still able to post and chat from [closed]
A couple of days ago my Facebook profile disappeared. I can still post, comment, chat, etc. with everyone.
However, when I click on my profile, or someone else clicks on my profile, it goes to the ...
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Recent location & photo album have been removed from my Facebook Wall, and would like them to reappear on Wall in original order
I recently updated my location to "Ibiza Spain" but the "location post" (and like/s) have been removed from my Wall (I'm not sure whether I accidentally did so myself). Is there a way for this ...
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How do I update profile name in DISQUS account?
I have logged in to DISQUS via google account for providing comments. I would like to change profile name but i couldn't. I've changed name in google account but its not reflecting in DISQUS. I dont ...
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Change Age on Facebook
When I try to change my birthday on Facebook, it won't let me. How can I change it so that my correct age is displayed?
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View users Tumblr/Instagram pages witout logging in
A client asked me to add links to their Tumblr and Instagram accounts on their websites. Trouble is I have no idea how to find them and no idea what their URLs are (or even, in Instagrams case, if its ...
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Does Facebook still have a place for favourite quotes and music and if yes how do you edit them?
In the past Facebook had a place where one can specify their favorite music, films, quotes etc. Do they still have this? If yes how can I edit it?
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Can I add a tab to my Facebook timeline for my Facebook Page?
I'm wondering if it's possible to add a custom tab to my Facebook timeline (the boxes to the right of the "About" summary) that links through to a Facebook page of which I am the admin?
Thanks for ...
