Category Archives: Facebook

An Upgrade for SMUGgles?

When I visited the SMUG Facebook group this evening, I saw a message that gave me pause (click to enlarge): From the language of the alert (and what I found when I read more), it appeared that the archiving function would migrate the posts on the wall into the new group format, but that everyone [...]
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Facebook 111: Customized Facebook Privacy Settings

In Facebook 110 I provided a basic intro to Facebook privacy settings, and how by selecting one of the pre-configured settings you can substantially control access to your personal information on Facebook. And it only takes a minute or so. This course will help you take the next step. Shaun Dakin, a commenter on the [...]
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Facebook 110: Protecting Privacy in Facebook

In “What’s Wrong with this Picture?” I made an analogy that relates to a situation I think is all too common: people who express anxiety about their privacy in Facebook, but who haven’t taken advantage of the privacy protections Facebook offers. It’s like playing goalie in the National Hockey League without a mask, and then [...]
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Facebook Star Chamber

I got an unwelcome notice when I signed in to Facebook Monday night: The help link didn’t live up to its billing. Since I knew I wasn’t guilty of posting videos that were hateful, graphic, or attacking an individual or a group (although I occasionally take a poke at Green Bay Packers fans), I was [...]
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What’s wrong with this picture?

Meet Gump Worsely, who played goalie in the National Hockey League. Gump was famous for playing without a mask and helmet long after almost everyone else in pro hockey had adopted this protection. Slap shots would fly at his face at speeds often exceeding 100 miles per hour, but as Wikipedia says (so we know [...]
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