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  1. How To remove yourself from other peoples Twitter Lists

    Twitter “lists” give every user a way to group together Twitter users under one or more titles, for instance I might like to have a list of “Charity People” or “Cool Charities I like” and then assign particular followers to the more appropriate list.

    Lists are even public and show up on your Twitter Profile so you can see who’s list you are on, other Twitter...

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  2. How to Use Facebook’s Profile Subscribers feature

    Facebook allows it's members to  subscribe to other Facebook profiles and this works differently to adding friends. If a Facebook user turns on the Subscribers feature you will see a button on their profile.

    Clicking the button subscribes you to that user and you will now see all their public posts in your news feed.

    If you turn on the Subscribe feature you will automatically subscribe to all your friends, this...

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  3. Delete messages from the Facebook Message Platform

    Family Lives recognises that sometimes for whatever reason you might want to completely delete a message from your Facebook account.   It appears that this is not quite as straightforward as one might think.  There is a distinct difference between “archiving” which will still retain the information within your Facebook account and “deleting” which will remove it.

    We have put together a step by step guide to help you with this.  It should all be self- explanatory and we hope that it will make life a little easier.  Do bear in mind that this function can only be used to delete messages, chats etc.  It...

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  4. YouTube Privacy Settings & Activity Sharing

    YouTube is the world's leading video site, you can watch videos from around the world, comment, share them with friends and discover a world of moving images and sound.

    YouTube provides a few privacy options to help you manage who can see your data.

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  5. Protect your Twitter account from being Hacked

    Twitter is a great way to keep in touch with the world and have the world keep in touch with you. However from time to time Twitter is attacked by people who want to steal your account. 

    This guide will clue you into how the attack works so you can avoid it. Please pass this onto your network of friends. We are part of the problem and together we can bring it to a swift halt.

    The most common form of mass attack on the Twitter network are poisoned tweets. These messages arrive from a person you follow and who follows you and come into your Direct Message box (private messages).

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  6. Facebook Privacy and Safety - Your Guide

     

    Facebook is the world's largest social network with more than 400 million people chatting and sharing their lives, but we know from your emails that sometimes Facebook can cause problems for you.
    With so many applications, external services and friend requests to deal with, keeping the right information private is becoming even more important.
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  7. Twitter Privacy and Location Safety

    Twitter is the world's most popular micro-blogging service, great for sharing those little bits of your life just at the moment you're thinking about it. This guide to your Twitter privacy will help you to know what controls you have to limit, who can see your updates and how to block unwanted people from following you. We will also look at the GEO Location features as well.

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