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February 15, 2010

Is Facebook Allowing Multiple Accounts Now?

In a post from last year, Setting Up Your Facebook Page, I explained how important it is to think up front about whether to set up your fan page attached to your personal profile or as a separate identity. I mentioned you could also set up a separate "personal" profile and, as an aside, said:

I should also point out that having two individual profiles is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Service as well.

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First Thoughts on the Latest Facebook Redesign

I'd been reading various snippets about the latest redesign from my friends and on industry blogs but still wasn't really sure what to expect. So when I finally got it yesterday, my first thought was that it didn't seem too bad.

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Why Facebook’s Recent Privacy Changes Were Worse Than I Thought

Shortly after Facebook rolled out its new privacy settings last December, I wrote a post explaining the new controls and what I liked and didn't like about them.

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T4L Is Getting Socialer

After starting Tech for Luddites last year, I created both a Twitter account and a Facebook page for it, which have provided other options for readers to keep up to date with my blog posts.

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T4L Redux: Managing Your Privacy on Facebook

Privacy is an important concern when it comes to any online service, especially social media, but I think it's even more so on Facebook.

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T4L Redux: Unhiding Friends on Facebook

I really should send the folks at Facebook a gift basket to thank them for all the traffic they've driven my way this year by virtue of their never-ending interface changes, confusing privacy settings, random bugs, and completely unwillingness to fix common user problems. Case in point: the nightmare that is trying to add a friends' posts back to your timeline after you've hidden them, whether accidentally or on purpose.

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The Good Part of Facebook’s New Privacy Settings

In yesterday's post, I talked about the new way Facebook is managing privacy controls and pointed out a couple of issues I have with their new approach. However, there's also one major improvement to the system.

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Facebook’s Latest Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Oh-So-Ugly

If you've logged into Facebook over the last few days, you were likely welcomed with this pop-up window alerting you to new changes to the site's privacy control settings. (And if you haven't been, you will be shortly.)

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QuickTip: Change the Title and Blurb for Links You Post on Facebook

I share a lot of links with my friends on Facebook, and I'm always frustrated when the site I'm sharing from is coded in such a way that there's no useful or interesting info in the link text.

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Facebook Announces Upcoming Changes to Privacy Settings

Over the last couple of days, you may have seen a notice at the top of your Facebook home page, linking to an open letter from Mark Zuckerberg, the company's CEO.

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Weirdest Facebook Bug I’ve Seen to Date

And that's saying something!

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Update Your Facebook Fan Page Status with TweetDeck

This morning, a reader contacted me because every time he updated his business page status line, the status line on his personal profile was also being updated.

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Vote for T4L in the Mashable Open Web Awards

Woo-hoo! Tech for Luddites has made it into the top 5 finalists for a Mashable Open Web Award in the Most Educational To Follow category. Thanks to everyone who nominated me!

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