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What the heck is going on these days?  I got a phone call from a friend that asked if I knew a certain person.  The name didn't sound familiar.  My buddy then told me he found my picture being used as his profile picture in a fishing group.  What the heck?

You can't always take things at face value on the internet. The latest example of this popped up this week, as people mistakenly thought they were doing a good deed by sharing a missing person story on Facebook. The problem is, the story was exactly a year old, and she had been found not long after being reported missing.

If you've been on Facebook for awhile, you probably remember the days of Facebook's news feed being so much more simple. Things were in chronological order, and there weren't any "algorithms" telling you what you should see and when you should see it. While we can't fix that completely, we can offer a good piece of advice to see the things most important to you first in your feed. Read M

I'll be completely honest.  I got a little freaked out the other day when Facebook suggested that I may know someone.  Let me explain.  This person was someone who I had just sent a single e-mail to, and had never saved their contact information, phone number, or anything.   We have no mutual friends, and live 120 miles apart. How would Facebook know that I have been communicating with this person

Over the last couple days, another one of these status update-based hoaxes has popped up, and people all over my Facebook feed are going nuts sharing it. Just like every other time this has come up, Facebook is not going to do what these viral hoaxes say. Here's the text of the latest hoax you've probably seen (or maybe you've even posted yourself) by now:

Some big news from Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

I have been reading many messages about facebook charging money for your privacy and people are seeing it on the news or reading it in the paper. I'm sorry if you did because they got the story wrong. Here is the right story.

While there was plenty of excitement about the announcement of an upcoming 'dislike' feature on Facebook, use some patience and avoid falling for these new scams targeting eager users.

We've been asking for it for years, and now we're finally getting it.

There is this common misconception that our right of Freedom of Speech means that you can say whatever you want without getting into trouble.  The truth is, you can get in a whole heap of trouble for anything you say.  You just can't go to jail.  Let me elaborate, again.

This may offend some people.  No, I guarantee it will offend some people because that's all we are anymore.  A collective group of people looking to be offended about something.

We've heard horror stories about someone being robbed, assaulted or even killed while meeting a stranger for a transaction that originated through Craigslist or Facebook.  While the majority of such transactions are between two law abiding citizens, it's still best to protect yourself by meeting at a safe place in the Northland.