Category: blog
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Get Your Facebook Data Using Only Your Phone
A friend told me they just couldn’t download their Facebook data on their phone, so I told them to use a computer. “I don’t have a computer,” she said. Huh. Since you’re carrying around a computer in your pocket, maybe you need to get your Facebook data using only your phone. I made this short…
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Preserving Loved One’s Social Media Memories
At Recap Books, we want to help you with preserving loved one’s social media memories, especially when they are no longer able to do so. Dealing with the deceased’s social media: There are three key tasks: To properly care for their Facebook or Instagram pages, you will need to know their password. It is not…
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Find Your Facebook or Instagram Password
Sometimes, we need to know our password, like when we want to download our social media data. You may have been logged in to Facebook or Instagram so long ago that you can’t remember your own password. We all know this feeling. It might be in a little notebook on your desk, but we’ll help…
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What Happens to My Facebook when I Die? Create a Legacy Contact
If you have lost a loved one, you already know there is so much to do when someone dies. One thing that is often overlooked is social media. We have consolidated some resources to help you handle your lost loved one’s social media. In this post, you’ll learn how to make this much easier for…
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Tech Graveyard
In 2013, we took the kids on a mandatory family fun day to a state park we had never visited before. It was miserable. Flooding made parts of the park inaccessible, it was colder than we anticipated, and there were these bizarre gnats that incessantly flocked my husband. While we were assessing our options over…
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Everything Old is New Again
In 1990, a man in Boston bought a typewriter store. It was a silly time to buy a typewriter store, and he knew it. The customer base was already dwindling as the personal computer was becoming ubiquitous. But he loved repairing and refurbishing typewriters and so he bought the store and went from employee to…
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Done is Better than Perfect
A while back there was a blogger who went by the name of The Bearded Iris. She was funny and she blogged about whatever crossed her mind. A fellow scrapbooking friend tuned me in to her blog by sending me a link to a post that highlighted a photo album The Bearded Iris’s mom had…
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Should I Leave Facebook? 3 ways to save your memories!
Social media has been a great way to stay connected. Sometimes, though, there are reasons to leave. Regardless of the motivation to leave Facebook or to leave Instagram, the drawbacks are real. One obstacle many face is that they have used the platform as their photo storing house. Have you posted every memory to Facebook,…
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What can happen in twenty years?
No forgotten memories! Everything and nothing, really. Facebook helped us log the magnificent and the mundane since the social media platform hit the mainstream nearly twenty years ago. When I look back at my social media photos, I realize just how much can change in a mere twenty years. From cross-country moves to cross country…