The Older Geek

In the previous post, I showed you How to Remove Location in Your Facebook Status. A reader asked me how to do the opposite– how to add a location to your Facebook status. This feat is much easier! Here is how: 1. Log in to your Facebook account. 2. Go to the top of the [...]

I never altered my privacy settings or anything, but one day while logging my status of Facebook, I saw that Facebook was now displaying my location for all to see. I never gave Facebook permission to do this. But that has never stopped their privacy intrusions before… *sigh* Here’s how to remove your location from [...]

I’ve mentioned several times across my blogs the disdain I have for Facebook as anything more than a casual social networking venue. My opinion is more solidified by an article I read on Slate. The writer lost her very expensive laptop in a taxi and she figured it was lost forever. No, a good Samaritan [...]

Google Friend Connect will soon be no more. It was one of the few Google social networking products that I actually liked, so I am sad to see it go. The demise is set for March 1, 2012. Google is calling the removal a “house cleaning,” but I see it more as a “redirect.” According [...]

Those floating “share” buttons are very attractive and handy– I think they are more conspicuous than the “below signature” share buttons. Here’s what mine looks like. Here’s a very easy method for adding your very own floating share button for Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google +. Firstly, I’m assuming that you already know your way [...]

Face it, Facebookers, there is no such thing as privacy on Facebook. Problems with Facebook: 1. They sell your personal information, and you have no control over who gets it. According to CBS News, Facebook sells your information to third party vendors, such as marketers and advertisers. This policy seems to change from time to [...]

It’s so much fun to play with Twitter and the other social networking sites. But did you realize that the photos you post to such sites identify your location? It’s called “geotagging.” Most digital cameras take more than visual snapshots of your vacation– photos also include data snapshots, such as the location of the photo [...]