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For every webmaster, Facebook has become just as important a traffic source as Google. In the past, we did a lot of SEO work for search engines, but did you know that Facebook has also published a document, “Best Practices for Sharing Websites and Mobile Apps,” that explains how to adjust your web pages so they are displayed in the best way when users share them on Facebook? In this article, I’ll share what I tried on my personal blog. ...

Are you sure there are no Trojans or viruses on your computer? Can you say your computer is completely safe? Are you worried that your Facebook account might be hijacked? Here I’m going to show you how to turn on Facebook’s free service, Account Security. It gives your account more protection, such as encrypted connections, login notifications, and login approvals. ...

Unfriend Finder is a Chrome-only extension that lets you find out which people have secretly removed you from their Facebook friends. Some people don't care about this kind of thing, but someone like me really does care! (I care a lot, but I still really want to know who unfriended me...) We were already friends, so why remove me :(( But then again, if you haven't installed Unfriend Finder, you won't know when someone unfriends you, so maybe that makes you feel a little better... ...

Google has tried to beat Facebook before with Buzz and Google Wave. I remember they got slammed by netizens. Google Buzz in particular was so bad I didn’t want to use it at all. Google Wave, on the other hand, I thought had real potential, but its weakness was that it had too few users, and it couldn’t connect with MSN or other instant messengers. The most important thing for an instant messenger is having lots of users. But this post isn’t about those two. It’s about Google+. ...

A “malicious link” is an attack method that is especially well suited to social networking sites. It’s relatively easy to pull off, and its success rate is quite high. For example, the recent Facebook scam “How to see who viewed your profile!!” is a malicious link attack. A malicious link can be explained in one simple sentence: it’s a URL that contains a Trojan, a virus, or something that can take control of your computer. When you click on such a link, your computer has probably already been infected. ...

Does setting up your privacy settings really keep your personal data from leaking? ↑↑ Not long ago, many bloggers and news outlets wrote at length about the privacy risks of Facebook itself. So many users went and set up their "privacy settings," thinking that as long as they did, nothing would go wrong. In reality, though, the huge number of games and personality quizzes on Facebook can also cause your personal data to leak. Many users don't know this, so let's analyze it below. ...

Many people today advocate for privacy, saying you should share as little personal information online as possible, or none at all, because posting it online carries many dangers, the most common being harassment. But I think many people simply don’t pay attention to privacy (at least, that’s what I’ve observed). Plenty of people generously make their phone numbers, addresses, and other details public, and some even dare to upload intimate photos online. Others are more aware and understand the dangers of making personal information public, so they don’t openly post their data online. Instead, they set up some protections, such as passwords and Facebook privacy settings. Honestly, these measures barely work. The most fundamental and safest approach is simply not to put anything online at all. ...

Besides the browsers we all know, like Opera, IE, Firefox, and Chrome, there's a group of less famous browsers that use one of the four browsers mentioned earlier as their core, then improve the interface or features on their own. For example: TheWorld Browser and today's RockMelt both belong to this category. Today’s RockMelt is a social browser built on the Chromium core. You can think of Chromium as basically Chrome, with no big difference between them. What sets RockMelt apart is that it’s a social browser: it’s integrated with Facebook and Twitter, so you can use those two social tools right inside the browser. Because it’s built on Chromium, it has almost all of Chrome’s features too. For example, extensions and themes work. However, RockMelt doesn’t support sync, which is a major shortcoming. ...