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How to Hide Your Tagged Photos in Facebook

Posted on January 18, 2010 by greenbucks| 3 Comments

Friends and family love to tag you in photos taken with them when they post these photos in Facebook’s albums.

But when embarrassing photos come out for everyone to ogle at and talk about, you tell yourself, “Oh nooooo!!!!”

So you want to hide these tagged photos especially that one where it looks like you need the best acne treatment but don’t know how?

Here’s how:

  • Go to the clickable “Settings” on the top right of your Facebook page
  • Click the “Privacy Settings” when the menu drops down
  • Click on “Profile Information” and you will see a lot of choices like About Me, Personal Info, Birthday, etc
  • Scroll down till you reach “Photos and Videos of Me” Photos and videos you’ve been tagged in

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  • Click that button and choose your preference whether you want “everyone”, “friends of friends”, “only friends” and “custom”
  • Custom setting will let you choose “Only Me”

So there. No need to un-tag your tagged photos nor have everyone see you in your third grade photo 😀

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Looking for Balloons and Other Party Needs

Posted on January 11, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I have been thinking about starting a balloons business with my mom since she has already clients in the province who orders balloons, birthday cakes, invitations and party needs from her.

Of course I wouldn’t want to tire myself while I traverse the roads going to Divisoria yet, where everything is being sold in retail prices, so I got to turn to online Classified Ads to see what it has on these party needs that I may write on my list when I have the resources and time in place.

And because I am excited, I decided to dream on when I saw this:

inflatables

I must say this is quite a wonderful way to advertise a balloons/party needs biz 😀

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Supervising Children’s Online Activities

Posted on January 3, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

That children are tech-savvy these days,there is no doubt about it.

Why, even my children who are in early grades have an account (one account for both of them) in a popular social networking site. They use it primarily to play the games there.

When children are doing these, parents should be nearby to supervise their accounts. It is unwise to let them do unsupervised online activities using a laptop computer.

Even  if parents lecture about not divulging private information like home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers, still parental guidance is recommended (yes, I sound like a tv ad but this is very important).

Oh wait, before I forget, even parents or adults need some supervision too when it comes to supervising their privacy settings in these SNS.

Have you checked your privacy settings lately?

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How to Avoid Being Phished

Posted on December 18, 2009 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Unbeknownst to most people, the way they deal with their online log-ins and passwords makes them victims of phishing. Phishing?

Phishing is a way personal and sensitive information are stolen. These do not just limit itself to e-mail log-ins but to credit card details too and accounts made available online. This is online theft, in other words.

It pays to have a know-how on identity theft protection.

There are password-stealing malwares lurking at every corner in the world wide web waiting for opportunities to steal these information.

How should you avoid being phished?

  • Avoid using your birthdate or Social security number as your password.
  • Avoid using letters and/or numbers in sequence
  • Check the url of a site first before you click on it. For example, an email gives you notification about your paypal account but has a url that is not paypal’s site. Or, if you have an email stating you have purchased something but did not do so or an unclaimed package but did not send anything? Do NOT click on the links there.
  • Check the security settings of social networking sites where you have accounts for these have third party applications that fish information you put.
  • Should you find the need to use an internet cafe, be sure to clear the cache or clear history before you leave the workstation.

Being careful with online activity is something one should take note of.

And please, change your passwords every now and then and avoid being predictable 🙂

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Organizational Leadership Program

Posted on October 22, 2009 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I met my brother last weekend. It was our first time to see his cute daughter Amara (my first niece!).

Brother went here to accompany his wife and daughter who will have a short vacation. Brother also planned to enroll for the second semester for his Master’s.

We got to talking about the alternative of enrolling in an online program to save on fare and time travel. If road conditions prove to be not good, he runs the risk of not being able to go to school.

He majored in Industrial Psychology. I can’t particularly remember what he is majoring in right now but during our talk, we got to discuss the merits of enrolling in a program that about organizational leadership.

He was at first not sure if there are online programs being offered for that course so we were surprised when chanced upon an online Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership when we were scouring the web for programs like these.

Now, if only he can afford it, I know he will enroll in this program because it offers a lot of good topics like problem solving skills, strategic planning, team building and instituting change within an organization.

My brother was particularly interested in organizational communication and psychology of motivation.

If I may say so, students these days are too busy with mundane tasks (social media for one) that they need a lot of motivation to keep focus on their studies. Oh well, maybe its just me.

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