What the Tech? How to Protect Your Facebook Page from Being Cloned
Cloning a Facebook profile is both easy and lucrative for the bad guys. There’s hardly any work involved. But there are ways to protect yourself and your page.
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What the Tech? Has Your Facebook Account Been Hacked or Cloned?
Facebook accounts aren’t just hacked, they’re cloned. Someone creates a new profile using your name and photo, then sends friend requests to people you know.
What the Tech? Remember Your Facebook Trusted Contacts
When did you first sign up for Facebook? For most of us it was at least eight years ago. You might have signed up using an email account you don’t use anymore, or you may have simply forgotten it. For the past several years you’ve simply opened the Facebook app on your phone or logged-in on the website with the…
What the Tech? What Does Facebook Do with Your Phone Number?
The huge Facebook data leak that compromised user information for over a half-billion Facebook accounts brings up the question (again) of what Facebook knows and stores about its users. It’s been so long ago, many of us have forgotten that we gave Facebook our cellphone number when we signed up. To refresh my own memory, I set up a new…
What the Tech? Facebook’s Fake Account Problem
By now most of us are aware there are fake Facebook accounts and profiles but according to Facebook, the problem is much bigger than we can imagine. As the House Energy and Commerce Committee examines how Facebook and other platforms are meeting the challenge of deleting false information, the company released statistics of fake profiles and false information. In the…
What the Tech? Deleting Facebook Friend Requests from People You Don’t Know
Remember the good old days of Facebook shortly after you joined? You’d be all excited to hear from that friend from 6th grade or a friend request from someone you’d lost touch with years ago? Today most of the friend requests we get are from people we don’t know. Many of them are fake accounts, set up by spammers and…
What the Tech? Avoiding a Facebook Messenger Scam
“Is this you?” “Did you make this video?” If you spend any time on Facebook you’ve probably received a message from a friend asking one of those questions. The message has a link to a video and might even include your profile picture. Don’t let curiosity get the better of you because it’s a scam and it could steal your…
