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cheekyredhead Facebook...I want to scream. Oct 24, 2009 9:46 PM Alright, I am going to admit this right up front---I am probably one of the biggest Facebook noobs you have ever come into contact with.     I fought against the repeated temptations to join and then finally in May I did.  Spent a fantastically insane amount of time building connections between my blogs and those I found on Facebook and at one point the connections to my FB page was bringing in new readers so much per day that I marveled at my stupidity in dragging my feet in creating a Facebook page.   Then it happened.  My hard drive died last week, replaced it, spent several days trying to locate my bits-n-pieces...and then thought, "Gee I better check Facebook.  It had been only 4 days since I last signed in----BUT----they deactivated my page and it reverted to the page and content that was on there the first day (first 24 hrs) that I created it.  I  lost ALL my friends/followers, ALL my content, ALL my links.......ok----everything!   Then the anger set in.  When my hard-drive had died I had been relieved to know that all my content was elsewhere on the net and that all I had to do was go and collect it again.  WRONG.   Guess what?   There is no link on FACEBOOK for HELP...only more equally distraught and upset individuals who like myself just lost everything.  Seriously...there is no official help from Facebook.  In fact, people were so upset that they created new profiles with names like "Facebook AnswerURphone" or "Helpdesk Facebook" and "MIA Facebook Admin"  then finally "Contact Facebookgoodluck" so at least I know that I was not the only one to be in this mess.   In a way it was a little funny...because I knew Facebook was rapidly trying to delete those angry profiles just as fast as they were springing up...and at the same time millions of people were probably screaming nasty things that were best deleted anyway.  I posted a few myself while overwhelmed by righteous anger and they are all gone.    I did eventually find that teeny itsy-bitsy microscopic obscure note which said they were aware of the issue and working on it and to click "here" to make a report.   Really....it was so obscure it made me mad.  What kind of site expects you to hand over all your private data, steals it from you and then places a microscopic note in an obscure place?  I had temporary teamsugar flashbacks.  If they had any PR people at all it would be in a well-placed announcement easily found right?   Ok...venting here a little and please know I appreciate it.  Yes I am a big idiot for accidentally tossing my back-up disc into the trash when I moved.  Yes I am a complete Noob and Idiot for not backing it all up again.  But mostly...yes I feel better now that I can blame something on someone else.  I mean...what happened on Facebook was not my fault so reasonably I can be mad.   All those "FaceinHole" pics I created are gone---works of art---I am heartbroken.  I am so pathetic.   Whew.  Now...anyone got any answers besides pointing and laughing at me?
delaythespring How do you let a friend know that you saw something nasty they posted about you on Facebook? Oct 20, 2009 8:22 AM I have a friend (in real life and on Facebook) who posted a nasty comment about me to another person she knows. A mutual friend of ours took a screenshot of aforementioned comment, and felt it was her friendly duty to share it with me. It angered me, and I REALLY want to confront my friend about the comment they posted... but I'm not sure how to break it to her that I saw it without ratting my other friend out. Am I stuck or can I confront her?
DefyAllLogic Is it wrong to de-friend people because their status updates are annoying? Sep 14, 2009 6:09 AM i'm at work all day and go on facebook to zone out a bit. i'll have like 4 updates from people i knew in high school about how "baby jonas woves wittle cookies but not the big uns!" STFU! or "i'm so bored when baby's sleeping... I think i'll shop!" this wouldn't be interesting conversation much less an update to your status. maybe if your baby was smearing pop on the walls or caught a showijng of scarface and now you can't get him to stop swearing. or tells you "i'll do it tomorrow" when you ask him to do something because he got it from you. So i've already created a list of "friends friends" and "no really friends"  and have my home page set to only show the friends friends updates and and only share most of my info with them also. but I'm starting to think I need to just scrap them all and only be friends with people i'm still friends with IRL and then winnow it down by annoying ness of updates. How who you suggest organizing friends once the novelty of collecting wears off?
JenBrett Microsoft Office for Mac help Sep 6, 2009 11:02 AM 1. Get over it, I don't use Apple Works :)   2. Every time I open Word or click on the already opened program via the dock, a new blank document opens, any idea how to make it stop, it's annoying.
bluespirit Blue Screen of Death? Aug 22, 2009 2:44 PM So I just saw the infamous "blue screen of death" on my PC. I restarted my computer and it seems to be working fine...for now. I fear it will happen again and that it will only get worse.  My files are already backed up but what should I do next? Is there any solution really?

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