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Your Phone Number is on Facebook – Who Cares?

A lot of my Facebook friends keep re-posting this.
Apparently people are outraged that their phone number is available to their Facebook friends.
Why is everyone so concerned?
The message:
PHONE NUMBER IS NOW ON FACEBOOK! Go to the top right of your screen,
click Account then Edit Friends. Go to the left side of yourscreen [...]

Facebook Rolls Out “Master” Privacy Controls

Got this in the mail from Facebook today. Turns out the rumors are true. Thought I’d share.

Hi Eddie,
Facebook will roll out changes today that will make it easier for our users to understand and control their privacy settings. As this change will have an impact on our users, we wanted to let you, [...]

Searching your Facebook page for “Automation Log” does not show you people who have “Hacked’ your account

A recent Facebook hoax reads like this:
IMPORTANT No joke! Apparently multiple people have had a hacker. I tried this and yes he was listed on mine too. The way to find them is to go into your settings, privacy settings, block list, and in the “person” box, type “automation log.” If someone pops up, block [...]

How to turn off the “Recent Documents” display in the Windows XP Start menu

By default, Windows XP displays a menu entitled “Recent Documents” in the Start menu.
This list of recently accessed files can be viewed by anyone using your computer, which can make for some uncomfortable circumstances when others sit down at your desktop.
Keep your files more private by turning that list off.
There are 2 ways [...]