There is NO ATM PIN Number Reversal System!

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Since yesterday I have seen this hoax once again being passed around Facebook. The gist is this: If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM, you can notify the police by entering your PIN in reverse. For example if your PIN is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your PIN is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you. This information was [...] Read more »

My guide to funny faces (emoticons) on Facebook

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If you have been on Facebook for any length of time I am sure you have seen these little icons depicting smiles, hearts, etc. Some people love them others not so much. Well love them or hate them back in October 2012 Facebook has added them to comments and replies. They used to only be in the chat window but now you can add them right to your comments. You still cannot use them in a status update yet. Here is a list of emoticons I have compiled that you can use on Facebook. Some of the emoticons have more [...] Read more »

Does your Facebook Page have a Friendly URL?

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So you created that great new Facebook page for your business or organization and you just started to get a bunch of ‘likes’. Now you want to share it with the world, through your blog, maybe Tweet about it, whatever way you share it you want it to be easy right? Well, when you first create a page on Facebook you get assigned a very long and ugly URL something like: https://www.facebook.com/pages/YourFantasticFacebookPage/182395468488524 That doesn’t look too appealing does it? Not to mention how could I ever remember that if I wanted to tell someone what the link is? What if [...] Read more »

Are you missing friends on Facebook? PART2

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Since my last blog post about missing friends on Facebook was posted, Facebook has changed once again. If you seem to be missing some of your friends status updates you need to go and fix your new subscribed setting. Yes, even if you are friends with someone does not mean you see all of their posts and updates. (Sometimes that could be a good thing I guess.) Either way to fix it is pretty simple although it will take a bit of time if you have a lot of friends. The easiest way is to go to your own profile [...] Read more »

Comment as yourself on Facebook Pages you admin

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Today I found a feature that I didn’t know existed. Yes me the Facebook guru didn’t know about a feature! I have many pages on Facebook that I administer, some are mine some I help out with for others. I have always stopped myself from commenting on pages that I admin for others because it appeared that the post was from the page and not from myself. This could be a problem if I said something contradicting what the page was all about or if the owner of the page didn’t like what I had to say. So today I [...] Read more »