What the Tech? How Facebook Groups Can Help You Find Bargains at Walmart
Over a half-million people are using Facebook to find secret bargains at Walmart and other major retailers.
Over a half-million people are using Facebook to find secret bargains at Walmart and other major retailers.
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…
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…
A 2+-year-old data breach of Facebook information is back in the news and in terms of data breaches, this one is pretty bad. The Facebook information was taken by hackers two years ago and includes phone numbers, names, birthdates, gender, Facebook ID, and location of over 32 million Facebook users in the United States alone. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s information…
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…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A former president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham who also served as mayor of Vestavia Hills died Saturday. A cause of death for Dr. Charles A. “Scotty” McCallum Jr. was not released. He was 95 years old. News outlets report McCallum’s son, Chris, posted on Facebook about his father’s death, saying “Dad made it…
Posting something controversial on social media is risky. Whether it’s about protests, conspiracy theories, masks, religion, or college football you can alienate, offend and anger some people you like in real life. According to MentalHelp.net, social media is a breeding ground for conversations that make you and other people angry. You can defriend or block them forever, or keep them…
Facebook will bar President Donald Trump from posting on its system at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. In a post Thursday morning, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the risk of allowing Trump to use the platform is too great, following his incitement of a mob that later touched off a deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol on…
Two companies used by billions of people every day are fighting and your privacy is why. Facebook accuses Apple of putting small businesses at risk due to a new feature that shows iPhone and iPad users a window into what each app does with their data. This all has to do with what data apps collect and what they do…
Have you gotten an invitation from a Facebook friend to join “MeWe”? If you haven’t yet, just wait a couple of days. The new social media network is attracting millions of people who are tired of the noise on Facebook and looking to stay connected while unplugging from the other 4 billion Facebook users. MeWe says there’ are no ads,…