What we measure is what we get

There is a saying in quality assurance & HR: "what we measure is what we get". And often we may forget to clearly think about ...

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Swapping to Signal

Following the announcements earlier this year about how much metadata that FB products trap about our conversations, many people are swappin...

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Making Messenger private

I have written before about Facebook privacy issues ( here ), and I have written recently about the insecurity of metadata in Messenger ( he...

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Facebook Messenger's metadata harvest

I am a dark user on Facebook: I don't use any public groups, I make no posts on my own profile page, and if anyone tags me, I ask them t...

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Cleaning up Facebook activity

In July of this year I posted on how to delete our old Facebook activity ( here ), but Facebook themselves moved on with new platform update...

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Getting rid of Facebook activity

While many of us have gone dark on their own Facebook pages - me included - I still use Facebook messenger and have a bit of activity on a...

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Getting our own Facebook URL

Have you ever wanted to invite someone to message you on Facebook, so that you can use Facebook Messenger to have a discussion with them? ...

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Viewing Facebook post URLs

If you have ever wanted to share a particular Facebook post, but have not known how to get the unique URL for that particular post, there ...

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Mail Chimp 'Post to Facebook' images

I struck an interesting wee problem recently when setting up a new MailChimp emailer for my newsletter. The problem arose when I went to u...

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Cambridge Analytica & Facebook

It is so easy, isn't it, to do quizzes on Facebook. Friends send them to you, and we click on them and... give our data to whoever bui...

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Going dark on Facebook

Since the blow-up over Cambridge Analytica, I have been thinking about Facebook, and what it is for. For me, it used to once be a way to c...

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LinkedIn: A Lemon Going Down the Drain?

I used to be a staunch advocate of LinkedIn (LI). I joined LinkedIn because I felt was good for my profile, but I stayed for the groups. ...

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View Recent Facebook Posts using Bookmarks

Facebook is something I use to keep in touch with friends and family, and I am slightly active on it. However, one thing that continues to...

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Facebook's Annoying FB Messenger Invites

I don't know if you have been plagued recently by what seem to be FB friend requests, only to find that I have added people to Messeng...

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Calling all Migraineurs

This is quite off my usual topics, as it is more personal than professional. Eighteen months ago I had a terrible migraine which left me...

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Facebook fix to show posts in time order

While I am not a manic Facebook user, I do use it from time to time, mainly communicating with family and friends. I don't know abo...

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Turning off FB Auto-posting Apps

If you are like me, then you will use Facebook for private family & friends connection. Recently I had a " Who was I in a past ...

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Download Facebook video without software

Recently, there was a webinar that I was supposed to attend. However because it was 9pm Melbourne time, it ended up being too late for me ...

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Facecrooks fight Facebook like farming

Who knew that there was a Facebook watchdog? Well, there is, and it is called Facecrooks . They look out for Facebook posts containing k...

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Spelling

A friend of mine posted the image illustrating this post on Facebook. Interestingly, my first thought was not "That's clever...

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