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Your Facebook News Feed is About to Change (Again)

Posted on 03/7/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

TechnologyLet’s get the hard part out of the way: Sometime in the next few days, what you see on your Facebook homepage – or News Feed – will look a lot different. Not again! Yeah, we know. Here’s the good news: It seems a whole lot easier on the eyes. You’ll notice much bigger photos and less clutter. Here’s two things we think you’ll notice first. First, let’s say you shared a photo. Below, left, is how it looked in the …

Prepare your Facebook Security Settings for New Search

Posted on 01/16/2013 by | AARP Social Media Strategy/Trainer | Comments

Technology | Your LifeFacebook announced this week it will make it a lot easier to search your personal page along with all of your friends. It’s called the Facebook Graph Search. While this announcement does not change your privacy settings on Facebook, it means if you’ve ignored your privacy settings, now is a really good time to check it out. (Facebook wrote up more details about how privacy works with the new search.) Facebook says the graph search will take already existing information …

Check Out Posts Before You Share

Posted on 11/27/2012 by | AARP Social Media Strategy/Trainer | Comments

TechnologyThere’s a Facebook post you may have seen again and again over the past week. It’s a post your friends are copying and pasting from each other without checking to see if it’s true. It looks something like this: Anyone reading this can copy this text and paste it on their Facebook Wall. This will place them under protection of copyright laws. By the present communiqué, I notify Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate, or take …

Presidential Politics Strain Facebook Friendships

Posted on 10/15/2012 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News Roundups | PoliticsWe’ve all had them — those people in our Facebook news feeds whose political updates we find abhorrent or stupid or just plain irritating. But with Election 2012 drawing nigh, such updates seem to have increased tenfold, leaving us with that mighty modern quandary: To block or not to block? Or perhaps even – gasp – to unfriend altogether?

Wisdom From Our Dads: Fathers Day Memories From Facebook

Posted on 06/15/2012 by | Movies & TV | Comments

Home & FamilyMy dad is the wisest man I’ve ever known, but he’s never been much for offering sage advice. Just ask my brothers and sisters, and I guarantee they’ll all relate the same piece of classic advice from our dad: “Don’t ever place anything on the fire escape.” I suppose you could say the phrase has some allegorical meaning, that Dad was in his own way warning us not to block our life’s paths with unnecessary obstacles. But really, it’s probably …

What Happens to A Deceased Loved-one’s Facebook Profile?

Posted on 02/23/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

TechnologyNebraska has a bill before it’s legislature that will address the difficult issue of a deceased person’s online life by giving access to the executor of that person’s estate. The bill does not just focus on Facebook, but takes into account the myriad social network, blogging and email accounts that a person can acquire over the years.

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