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Ahh, the Ol’ Facebook Algorithm Bypass Hoax

Charlie Choc Factory Meme - Facebook Algorithm

It's starting to make the rounds again through my Facebook feed so I hopefully I'll take a moment and circumvent the useless and misleading instructions for how to make Facebook do what you want it to do on your feed. The gist of the post goes a little something like this:

Hello just doing what everyone else is doing. Fixing my blocked posts. I wondered where everybody had been! This is good to know. It's ridiculous to have 331 friends and only 25 are allowed to see posts. I ignored this post earlier because I didn’t think it worked. It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years. Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed. Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. So, hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go to your page, start a new post, and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click "paste". This will bypass the system.
If you are reading this message, do me a favor and leave me a quick comment...a "hello," a sticker, whatever you want, so you will appear in my newsfeed It WORKS!! I don’t know how many friends I have. I just want to see all of your posts that I have been missing. We shall see....hello.
Might as well have a go. Because all I see now days is advertising rubbish and politics.

or

Just start I would like to thank Everyone for telling me how to do the bypass. I wondered where everybody had been!
This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have over 397 friends and only 25 are allowed to see my posts.
It WORKS!! I have a whole new newsfeed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years.
Here’s how to bypass the system FaceBook now has in place that limits posts on your newsfeed.
Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore,
Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go to your page, start a new post, and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up, then click paste.
This will bypass the system.
If you are reading this message, do me a favor and leave me a quick comment...a "hello," a sticker, whatever you want, so you will appear in my newsfeed Good to see everyone!

or... some other variation of the above.

This is a misunderstood fallacy.

What you are in effect doing when you follow these steps is actively engaging with the content someone shared on their page. That is one of the factors that Facebook uses in their algorithm to determine what posts to display in your feed with any kind of priority. It defaults to the people you engage with most. So, you're just tweaking the algorithm they already use for the most part.

Now, caveat... Facebook is not offering this service as a charity or some benevolent contribution to humanity. They're trying to make money. I like to say, if you're not paying for a service, then YOU are what's being sold... your eyeballs, your attention, etc. So, content being boosted by paid advertising is going to show up in your feed regardless of what you do. Don't like it? Go develop your own multi-billion-dollar social media network and you can call all the shots.

One trick you can do that helps a little bit is use this URL to do as much as you can to force Facebook to show you content on your wall in some sort of chronological order (https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr) Save that link to your favorites so you can always click on it and jump right to that display format.

 

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How to Spot Malicious Emails in Your Inbox

Malicious Email Example

Just a quick and hopefully helpful blog post to help you know what to look for in emails that you believe are suspicious and maybe malicious in nature.

For this email it states that it's from USPS.com and regarding delivery a package where they're suggesting money may be due upon receipt or before they will finalize getting the package to you.

  1. The "Friendly Name" of the email address says "USPS" but if you look at the actual email address you'll notice the actual email address is [email protected] via palmbeachpools.com. Doesn't really look like an email address that would be coming from the USPS right? There's your first clue. Also, it says "via palmbeachpools.com", which is stating what email server sent the email.

    Now I'm sure the owners of palmbeachpools.com are upstanding citizens in their community, but pretty certain they're not letting the USPS.com use their email servers as a business decision or gesture of good will.

  2. Looking at the general content of the email, things look like they could be legitimate. However, if you hover over the button link in the email they're wanting you to click on, you'll see they're directing you to that palmbeachpools.com website again and into a suspicious looking directory that's probably been hacked on their server and contains code that will do the malicious things they've designed this email to instigate.

As a general warning, don't click on things in emails received that you're not expecting to receive. Even if it appears to have come from a legitimate source. Do a couple of quick checks on things like this and make sure there's nothing that looks suspicious. I personally never click on an attachment in an email that I didn't specifically ask to have sent to me by someone that I'm expecting, so that's a pretty good tip too if you're prone to fall for this kind of stuff.

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How to Create an Animated Slide In Effect on a Divi Column

Divi Row Column Slide-In Animation Effect

Since I just finished creating this little guide for a client, I thought I'd publish on my site as well as I'm sure it could probably help someone else in the future.

If you're a Divi theme user, then you know there's a load of features and power available within the interface, sometimes the challenge can just be where to go to do the things you want to do. In this case, I was working on recreating a theme that someone had built. In there process they had ripped out all the benefits of using WordPress and buried code and functionality deep into the template files where nothing was easily accessible or manageable. In their design, the site appeared to be a continually scrolling website but scrolling right-to-left, not top-to-bottom. To keep that same feel and experience for the visitor, I created an animation effect for the main content column in the layout to appear like it slides in from the right when each page loads.

Now, how and where did I go in Divi to do it? Here we go!

First I used the Divi Theme Builder controls to build me a layout that consisted of a simple sidebar on the left and a wide content module on the right. That was achieved by adding a single Divi row container into the layout with a simple 2 column layout inside of it.

Follow these simple steps to animate the entire right-hand column of the layout:

Step 1: Access the Divi Theme Builder and Row Settings Control

You can access the Divi Theme Builder from the Divi section available in the main left-hand menu within the standard WordPress Admin Dashboard. Hover over the green row container until it's control module displays and click on the little gear icon

Step 2: Access the Column Settings Controls

When you access the Row Settings controls a new modular window displays with the columns displayed, just click on the gear icon for the 2nd column displayed, which then opens another modular window.

Step 3: Navigate to the Design Tab of the Column

As you're aware, each module, container, row, section in Divi normally has three tabs across the top for managing all the settings available (Content, Design & Advanced). We want to access the "Design" tab, so click on it.

Step 4: Scroll Down to the Animation Section

At the bottom of the Design controls is a section labeled "Animation". Within this section are all the controls you need to make your slide-in effect happen. Once you get in there you'll see, as usual with Divi, you have a plethora of controls and modifiers to take advantage of in your design.

In my case, the client was very pleased. Was not familiar with Divi, but seemed to be very impressed with the organization and ease of which managing content and manipulating features and controls were within the theme. The other thing that I thought was interesting, and surprisingly quite a challenge with this project was the broad range of responsiveness that was needed within the design. It stretches the full width of any monitor and resolution to fill the available space, but also shrinks down and displays well for mobile phones and tablets.

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