Entries from BatesLine tagged with 'Facebook'

Your Facebook account has been cloned, not hacked

A Facebook worry has gone viral, with a warning of this sort appearing all over the timeline: "If you receive a friend request from me, my account has been hacked." Some are dismissive of the threat. Here's what's actually going on: Facebook accounts are being cloned, not hacked. Scammers can...

Hacked by Facebook spam: Changing your password is not enough

Time for a public service announcement. Seems like this comes up about once a month, so I'm putting it here on BatesLine, so that I can easily "refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago." Yet another rash of Facebook spam should serve as a reminder...

Two things that should work consistently, but don't

I have a couple of technological frustrations that I would like to vent: 1. I plug an external hard drive into a USB port on my laptop. The drive is a USB 2.0 device, capable of transferring data at 480 Mbps. The laptop is new enough so that all of...

Fifties Facebook Faux Pas

This instructional film from the 1950s explains the mistakes young people make in dealing with relationships via Facebook. Dig the steampunk computer and camera: (Via Christian Clark on -- what else? -- Facebook.)...

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