Unique and Geeky Christmas Cover Images for Facebook

Tis the Season to Use Christmas Cover for Facebook

Here are some nice Christmas cover images we have found online. You may visit their respective sources for more images you can use for your social networking profile. Merry Christmas!

Best for Star Wars fans and geeks is this Stormtrooper gift-giving image from coverslike.com:



From addacover.com:

From cower.me

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From tweeting.com

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Facebook will end on January 15th 2013: The Truth

Another Facebook closing down news is taking rounds: Facebook will end on January 15th 2013.

FACEBOOK WILL END ON JANUARY 15TH, 2013!

ALO ALTO, CA – Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in January. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

 

The news is spread by Weeklyworldnews.com, a site known for distributing fanciful stories disguised as news articles. Other stories published by Weekly World News are alien stories and other otherworldly and tabloid stories.

The news of social networking giant Facebook shutting down is not new. People, for example, have spread news about Facebook closing down on March 15, 2011 and then July 2012 but the close down never happened because the claims are not true.

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Get the Black Facebook

Get the New Facebook Black

How do you change the color of your Facebook or use the black Facebook? These features sound cool and you may have just learned about it from someone who have posted about it on Facebook. Unfortunately, these features do not yet exist.

If you see a post on Facebook about a feature that allows you to change your Facebook color or one that allows you to get the new black Facebook, be advised that this is a scam.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="306"] A perspective of how a black Facebook theme may look like by rames.blogspot.com.[/caption]

Clicking on the get the new black Facebook link may direct you to a page where you will be prompted to do surveys. You may also be prompted to install a rogue facebook app that won't really give you the ability to change the color of your Facebook but instead will spam your friends on your behalf about this fake color changing feature.

Scammers spread misleading information about fake and non existent features on Facebook such as the Pink Facebook, dislike button and black Facebook to lure people to give their personal details and contact information. Scammers may use these details for their own advantage. Victims are also popularly redirected to survey scam pages. The scammers earn whenever people answer of complete those surveys.

If your account starts to spam your friends with the new black Facebook messages, here's what you should do.

Go to your account settings, then apps.



Remove the rogue facebook app by clicking  x mark beside it.



Make sure that you also remove all the spammy posts the app has posted in your timeline.

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Adam Sandler is Dead Hoax

The veteran comedy actor Adam Sandler is the latest victim in a series of online killings online-- by hoaxters. Hoax messages are spreading in popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter that Adam Sandler is already dead but the truth is, the actor is alive and well.

This is an ugly joke perpetrated by likely the same people who have spread the death news of other actors and singers like Morgan Freeman, Bill Nye, Rihanna, Bon Jovi Johnny Depp and Lil Wayne. Even Cuban leader Fidel Castro has also been victimized by a death hoax.

Hoax and false rumors such as this can be mitigated by verifying the authenticity of news read on social networks by using popular search engines like Yahoo and Google before reposting or resharing news.

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Free Twilight Vampire Contacts Scam

 

The final installment of the Twilight Saga movie series, the second part of Breaking Dawn will be released this month and scammers are already taking advantage of the Twilight fan base to set up Facebook pages with bogus offers.

A Twilight Facebook page, for example, with now over 35 thousand fans is offering bogus freebies: free Twilight Vampire contact lenses in different colors: golden, red and black. These, in exchange of liking and sharing the page.

“7 DAYS UNTIL BREAKING DAWN PART 2 IS OUT!,” the Facebook post reads. “To celebrate we’re giving away FREE Twilight Vampire contacts!”

The link for claiming the Twilight freebie, however, redirects to a phishing page that prompts you to enter your email, address and contact number. Be cautious of giving your personal details and contact information as scammers may use these to bombard you with more spam/scam.

How do you claim the free Twilight freebie you earned on Facebook?

Unfortunately, you won't receive any Twilight merchandise promised by bogus pages. Here's what you should do:

1. Report the fraudulent Twilight page by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the "report page" link.



2. Make sure that you remove the scammy free Twilight vampire posts you have shared by clicking the x button beside the post.

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Raspberry Ultra Drops Facebook Scam

Has any of your friend posted a status message that looks more like an advert promoting Raspberry Ultra Drops? Then your friend's facebook account is likely compromised by a rogue application that causes his or her account to post spammy messages.

How to Deal with the Raspberry Ultra Trim Scam

Here are the things that you should do if your Facebook account is auto posting and sending  the Raspberry Ultra Drops Facebook scam message that looks like the one below:

Raspberry Ultra Drops is cool stuff! Really rocks! lost 6 pounds within a week

If you want to lose weight you should try Raspberry Ultra Trip! I am down 18 lbs as of today and I've only been doing it for 2 weeks. It's amazing. www.projetosegurancahumana.org/raspberry.html

1. Change your password as soon as possible.


2. Review applications you use. Go to Privacy settings > Ads, Apps and Websites > Edit Settings and click the x mark to remove the suspicious app. If you do not know which app to remove, try to remember the app that you may have used or granted permission before your account started posting the Raspberry messages. 


3. Remove all your spammy posts in your wall or your friends' walls.

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Free $500 Woolworths Voucher Scam

Be cautious of clicking attached links in messages in Facebook that promise to give away free $500 Woolworths voucher. This is yet another bogus give away scam that was likely distributed to make people do surveys that in turn will bring profit to the scammer. You will not receive any voucher from Woolworths so it is best not to waste your time answering those surveys.

Make sure that you mark the the free $500 Woolworths voucher message as spam.

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