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Cancel a Friend Request on Facebook

JohnF — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:44:27 +0000

Did you friend request someone on facebook and suddenly regret it? Facebook says you can’t cancel requests, but there’s a simple way to do it.

Steps

Click on the ‘privacy’ link which is located under setting menu in the upper right hand corner of the page.
Go to the section marked ‘Block People’.
Enter the name of the recipient and click ‘Block’.
Facebook will show you a list of people with the same name or variations of the recipient’s name. Locate the recipient and click ‘Block Person’.
- The recipient is now blocked and will not see your friend request! Congratulations.
- Immediately afterwards, you can unblock the recipient. They will not see the request anymore, but now they can search for you and/or view your profile. This depends on your privacy settings.

Heres one other way!

- Click on Account tab, then select Edit Friends
- Click on your friend lists.
- And then click on the X icon.
- Approve cancel request
- The person won’t see it and you won’t have to fret about how dumb it was for you to add them.

Tips

Next time, think carefully before friend requesting someone who is not guaranteed to accept.

Warnings

Remember that while a person is blocked, they cannot interact with you through any Facebook channels. If you decide you’d rather wait until the friend requests you, you should unblock them as soon as possible.
If the person is online while you do this, they may have already seen the request. There’s nothing you can do at that point, unless you have the power to modify memory.
Alternatively, if the person sees your request before you have a chance to cancel it, you should still block him or her. Depending on how facebook-savvy the person is, you should be able to convince him or her that they only imagined the request, or that it was some odd thing that happened by accident.
If the person receives email notifications, they will see your friend request. This is why it’s important to block the person as soon as possible, before Facebook can send them an email.
Good luck and choose wisely next time!
Don’t remove all your friends

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Become Popular on Facebook

JohnF — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:32:39 +0000

Ever wanted to know what you can do to become popular on Facebook? This is the article for you!

Steps

Improve your profile. Add your best photo shot from your
digital camera on Facebook. Update your status every day and better
yet, every few hours. If nothing exciting happened to you, just add a
witty status about something. Add a photo gallery, of you, your
friends, and family members, or even vacation places.
Participate in many opportunities. Join as many
interesting groups as you can. Add as many applications as are
interesting and useful. Become fans as many things that you like, that
is a great way to show your friends what you like. You don’t want a
bunch of profile junk. Take cool quizzes.
Join a network including your school or college network. You can then meet people through your network.
Search for as many friends as you can and add them. Add friends of friends. Add family members.
Socialize! Write on peoples wall. Send them virtual
drinks and gifts. Poke some of them. Throw stuff like elephants, water
bombs, or coconut at your friends. Send kisses to friends. Comment on
peoples photos.
Add information to your profile. Write your (IM) name
on your profile. Write your e-mail address on your profile. If you want
you can write your cell phone number on your profile, it’ too dangerous
to put your land line number on there. Put your school or college on
your profile. If you have declared your major or your program, just put
your major on there. Put you place of employment and previous place of
employment. Facebook is somewhat of a resume so try to make it
professional as possible because employers and teachers do look at your
profile.

Tips

Spice up your profile. There are lots of Apps out there to
express your individuality. Try to put the apps in the boxes because
you don’t want to junk up your info.
Try to add as many people in your network as popular (the more friends) the more popular you will look!
Look good in your photos.
Like they say: “If you want to have a friend, you have to be
one.” People never write on your wall? Ask an old friend how it’s
going, or ask that girl on your soccer team if practice is cancelled,
and hopefully you’ll get a conversation going, giving both yours and
their wall some action.

Warnings

Some friends you may try to add, will deny (reject) the request.
Do not put too much personal information on there.
Be careful who you add, try not to add strangers.
Do not harass people.
It is possible to seem too eager and that would make you unpopular.

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Parent’s Video Guide to Facebook.com

JohnF — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:33:38 +0000

A step-by-step video tour of facebook.com to help you protect your kids online. This 20 minute video explains:
The dangers of facebook.com

Tips for teens:
1. Only friend people you know
2. Never share your password
3. Think before you post
4. Your friends see your posts

Tips for parents:
1. You are in control of your computer
2. Check in on your teen
3. Know your teen’s password
4. Create your own facebook profile
5. Friend your teen on facebook

Bonus:
How to create your own profile
How to find your child on facebook

Steps to take to become less addicted to Facebook

JohnF — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:35:33 +0000

Try spending your time on other things, go out with friends,
go camping, try some new hobbies, try to break down your relationship
with the internet…
Block applications that takes your time on Facebook
Limit usage time to 30 minutes a day
When you reach 30 minutes a day, try to minimize the usage to 10 minutes or less
Be self confident to accomplish all these steps, and you will
notice that you begin to ignore Facebook and use your time in other
important things

Facebook planning to simplify privacy controls

JohnF — Sun, 23 May 2010 04:40:58 +0000

Facebook says it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.

“We’ve spent the last couple of weeks listening to users and consulting with experts in California; Washington, DC, and around the world,” Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said.

“The messages we’ve received are pretty clear. Users appreciate having precise and comprehensive controls, but want them to be simpler and easier to use.”

Facebook contended that members like new programs rolled out at the California-based Internet hotspot but want easy ways to opt out of sharing personal information with third-party applications or websites.

Dave Tollner Facebook page closed

JohnF — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:52:26 +0000

FACEBOOK shut down a politician’s page after receiving complaints it carried an “offensive attack” on indigenous locals.

Dave Tollner, who won the inner Darwin seat of Fong Lim for the Country
Liberal Party at the last election, caused outrage after he wrote on
his page that itinerants were “parasites terrorising innocent citizens”.

He said that he was “sick to death” of them and warned that “the fun will
be over for these parasites on the very day we get a Country Liberal
government in the Territory”.

Many people left angry messages on his page, one going so far as to accuse him of advocating
“genocide”. However, there were just as many messages of support.

Mr Tollner’s Facebook page was suspended for two weeks and has only recently come back online.

However, within minutes of the site functioning again a left-wing political activist posted a cartoon of a Ku Klux Klansman.

Mr Tollner said that he did not expect such a strong reaction from his
comments, adding: ”Political correctness has never been my strong
point.”

He accused Labor activists of lobbying Facebook to shut down his profile page.

However, the man who posted the Klansman cartoon on the page is a Greens supporter.

Justin Tutty said the cartoon was Patrick Starfish from the Sponge Bob Square
Pants children’s television show drawn as a Klansman.

Read more about Dave Tollner’s Facebook woes at ntnews.com.au.

Spamming on Social Networks increasing

JohnF — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:42:48 +0000

The third party application can covertly collect private data behind the scenes. According to Joe Jim, country lead for e-Corp. there are over 55k external applications on Facebook alone. According to the recently released Sophos Security Thread Report, approximately 57 percent of the folks using social networking sites have been spammed. This is a significant jump from the previous year as it has increased by 70.6 percent.

Your Children on Facebook? This is a must read

JohnF — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:09:05 +0000

Even after 15 years in child protection, I was shocked by what I encountered when I spent just five minutes on Facebook posing as a 14-year-old girl. Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.

I was deluged by strangers asking stomach-churning questions about my sexual experience. I was pressured to meet men with whom I’d never before communicated.

So I wasn’t surprised that a vulnerable teenager, Ashleigh Hall, was groomed on Facebook before being brutally raped and killed.

How many facebook friends can you handle

JohnF — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:18:58 +0000

HUMAN brains can only remember up to 150 meaningful relationships, despite the huge amount of Facebook friends some people can gather.

Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, says that this number has been the same throughout history and among different societies.

“The interesting thing is that you can have 1500 friends (online) but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world,” Prof Dunbar told the Times Online.

Last year, Facebook’s in-house research scientist Cameron Marlow told The Economist he found that Facebook users only actively communicate with a few of their online friends.

Suicide prevention for social networks

JohnF — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:16:19 +0000

SOCIAL network sites including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace could be scanned for depressed and “at risk” users under a bold new program to combat youth suicide.

The rise in popularity in social networking could allow authorities to spot users at risk and offer help, researchers believe.

Researches from New Zealand’s Victoria University say they have devised a program that scans posts to identify key words that people aged between 18 and 24 are using.

A high proportion of key words could mean that the blogger is at risk of depression, suicide, self-harm or harming others, the researches believe.

“Our technology picks up words or phrases such as ‘depressed’, or ‘I don’t want to live any more’ or ‘I want to kill somebody’,” Dr Tiong-Thye Goh said.

“We analyse the database of phrases and rank them according to frequency of use – if certain key words are used a lot it is likely that the particular person may be emotionally depressed.”

The Net and nothing but the Net » Facebook

Cancel a Friend Request on Facebook

Steps

Heres one other way!

Tips

Warnings

Related Tips and Steps

Become Popular on Facebook

Steps

Tips

Warnings

Related Tips and Steps

Parent’s Video Guide to Facebook.com

Steps to take to become less addicted to Facebook

Facebook planning to simplify privacy controls

Dave Tollner Facebook page closed

Related Coverage

Spamming on Social Networks increasing

Your Children on Facebook? This is a must read

How many facebook friends can you handle

Suicide prevention for social networks