Guides for Social Media Search, Profiles & Public Content

This tag collects step-by-step guides, how-tos, and tutorials related to social media search, profile discovery, privacy settings, and navigating online networks safely and effectively.

Whether you’re trying to verify someone’s identity, find public accounts, or understand how content appears on different platforms, these guides will help you make sense of the process.

Use our Facebook viewer to find public Facebook profiles and posts
The Unofficial Facebook Viewer lets you browse publicly available Facebook content, including posts and profiles, without using Facebook’s native interface — ideal for research, verification, or discovery.

Users Search — discover public social media profiles
Users Search allows you to look up names and usernames across social networks to find public profiles, related accounts, and cross-network identities in one place.

How to Remove Yourself from Social Media Mentions and Public Search Results

Remove Yourself from Social Media Mentions and Public Search Results

Most people think online visibility is about profiles. In reality, it is about mentions.

Your name, image, username, or contact details appear online because they are referenced, copied, indexed, and republished across platforms. Social networks, websites, directories, news articles, and people search databases all contribute to whether someone can find you.

When personal information shows up in search results, it is rarely because of a single post. It is usually because many systems have detected, stored, and redistributed that reference.

If you want to understand how names and identities are discovered in the first place, start with our complete guide to user search across social platforms

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Recruitment 101: A Guide to Social Media Background Checks

Social Media Background Checks

Social media has transformed how people communicate, share opinions, and build professional identities. For HR professionals, this shift has introduced a new dimension to recruitment. Public online profiles can offer valuable context about candidates, but they also create ethical, legal, and professional risks if handled incorrectly.

This guide is designed for HR leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers who want to approach social media screening for employers in a structured, compliant, and fair way. Rather than focusing on how to “find dirt,” the emphasis here is on ethical background checks, compliance, and professional hiring frameworks that protect both the organization and the candidate.

When done properly, HR social media screening can support safer hiring decisions, reduce reputational risk, and improve culture alignment. When done poorly, it can introduce bias, violate privacy laws, and expose companies to serious legal consequences.

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UPDATE: How to Hide/Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results

facebook_fence_icoFacebook is constantly updating its inteface and settings configuration, so most of the How-To tutorials published in the various blogs are invalid now.

Today we are reviewing the up-to-date process of removing yourself from Facebook Search Results with screenshots:

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How To Quit A Facebook Addiction

Facebook-addictPreviously, we published 5 Tips To Quit A Facebook Addiction. Now The Daily Telegraph reports that Facebook addiction appears to be even more stronger than alcohol or tobacco ones.

One of the reasons Facebook can become so absorbing is how easy it is to endlessly browse profiles, posts, photos, and public updates. Tools like a facebook viewer make it possible to explore public Facebook content in one place, which also highlights how much information is constantly available.

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Facebook Promoted Posts Tutorial

facebook-promoted-postsIf your Facebook page has at least 400 Likes, then you have a new opportunity for Facebook advertising – Promoted posts.

By clicking on this button at the bottom of the status update widget, you can select your budget for advertising, and then see the percentage of the users who read it.

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TOP 7 Mistakes on Facebook

facebook_security_logoAs in any social network, Facebook is full of people who are not completely familiar with the privacy settings. If a person is engaged in serious business, and uses the Facebook page to attract customers, then open page is good, however, if the personal page is open to the public, it can lead to some problems, including hacking the page.

To better understand what information from a Facebook profile is actually visible to others, you can use a facebook viewer tool to explore publicly accessible Facebook posts and profiles as they appear outside the platform.

Let’s have a look at 7 common mistakes of the average user:

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How to Get Response From Your Facebook Fans?

Marketers introduce five methods to engage Facebook fans in communication process:
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How to Create Facebook Page for your website?

You will enjoy a lot of advantages in case you create a page in social networking site Facebook for you personal website. First of all, your site will be advertised in this way and this advertisement will definitely increase the number of visitors to your site. By the way, you can make the site visible for both registered and not registered Facebook visitors. Besides, you mustn’t have a plenty of accounts to create pages for different websites if you possess a lot of them. Having been registered once, you are allowed to create any number of pages for your sites as you only wish while clicking on “Community Page” or “Official Website”. Read more

WordPress Blog Crossposting to Facebook

Let’s finally unite WordPress blogs facilities with the social networking site Facebook. As a matter of fact not infrequently blog’s users are Facebook account holders at the same time. Linking of these two online resources will definitely be very convenient as the authors of WordPress posts will be able to promote their WP posts straight to Facebook pages without delay and receive estimation or better to say an assessment of their work at once from a larger quantity of people. Read more

GUIDE: Tagging Your Friends on Facebook

The present article introduces different ways of tagging your Facebook friends. It should definitely stir your interest especially if you are currently aware only of a pair of tagging methods or if are absolutely incompetent in the area mentioned. Read more