Facebook is many things to many people. For some it's a way to connect with friends and family and see what's going on in their day to day lives. For others it's a marketing platform - "Hey look at me, I have something you might want to buy!" (and I think that's ok) For other's it's a …
28 Days of Video: Day 16 – What to do about Facebook Identity Theft
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 16 Facebook Identity Theft. Sooner or later it'll catch all of us. One of my friends on Facebook just …
28 Days of Video: Day 15 – Why Do They Ask Those Facebook Questions?
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 15 Ever wonder why some people ask silly questions on a daily basis on Facebook? It's not like they …
You Can’t Be Trusted…
You Can't Be Trusted With Facebook (or Why I Left Facebook) Important Caveat: When I say you, of course I mean “them”. Regular readers of my little blog would never do anything like the things I describe below, right? The other thing that I'll mention here and then again in just …
What to do about Facebook Identity Theft
So... My identity was cloned last week on Facebook. It's not the first time. Much to the amusement of my Wife (of 28+years) I've also had people impersonate my on sites like Match.com and Christian Mingle (really!). I received a notification on my Facebook Business Page wondering if it was me. …
25 Things You Don’t Know About Me
This new thing that's going around Facebook right now called "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" should have one more thing added to it. The 26th thing should be "Are you willing to allow scammers and thieves access to your banking and other personal online information?" And if you completed …
Is Facebook cracking down on Profiles?
Real Estate Agents - listen up! I have a friend who is a car guy. Incredibly nice guy, incredibly cool car. That's an M4. If you are into BMW you might know that internally the M4 is referred to as an F82. He's kind of popular and on most other social media platforms everyone knows him as …
Why I deleted 2 of the most highly touted Apps
Recently two Apps for the phone became available. I downloaded them the minute they became available. Heck, one of them I was even a beta tester for. Today I deleted both of them. I've always been a big Alton Brown fan and one thing that he can't stand in his kitchen is what he calls a …
Facebook 101: Understanding Your News Feed
The first thing you see when you log into Facebook is what is called your News Feed. This is the stream of posts from your friends and their friends. It's filled with inspirational quotes, funny videos, photos and more. It's generally here that you'll comment, like and click to read some of the …
a Stripped Down Facebook
Here's something you didn't know. There's a fully functioning version of Facebook out there that's stripped down to the bare bones. It's kind of like Distract Free WordPress (if you know what I mean). Here's what your typical Facebook looks like on a desktop: Obviously, I placed red …
STOP Sharing Stolen Videos!
No doubt you've see posts in your Facebook newsfeed of cute, astonishing, and unbelievable videos. They are fun to watch, right? You may have also shared them with your friends. But what if I told you that video was stolen? Yup! Flat out Pirated from somewhere like YouTube and then uploaded to …
The Scoble Method is going to save you time.
I'm going to make this post short and sweet. (and that's going to save you time too!) Let's assume you don't use a Feed Reader. That's ok. It's first thing in the morning and you head over to Facebook. You have 1,000 friends who have all posted pictures of their oatmeal or yet some boring …