Some owners of Facebook groups (and some individuals) are over-using the @everyone and @followers tags to draw attention to their latest post. If you don’t know how to deal with this, your only option is to unfollow the group or individual, or more drastically, leave the group and unfriend the individual.
This is the solution:
Facebook setting to disable @everyone.
Steps:
From your profile icon at the top right, select “Settings & privacy”
From the Preferences group on the left, select “Notifications”.
Select “Tags” and scroll down to “Batch mentions”.
Toggle the switch to the “off” position. That’s all.
I needed to leave a couple of workspaces (Slack’s official term, although some people might call them a Channel, Group, Community, etc) because the owners were getting a little too enthusiastic in getting people to be active.
How to Leave a Slack Workspace
I’m unsure why Slack has made it so unintuitive to leave a workspace. This is how to do it.
1. Open the Slack App
Click your profile picture at the bottom left.
Click “Profile”
Click your profile image.
2. Edit Profile
The Profile dialog box opens on the right.
Click the three dots.
The Profile dialog box opens on the right.
3. Change Account Settings
Yes, you might be wondering where this is going.
After you click the three dots, your browser will open to the workspace’s URL, e.g. your-workspace.slack.com at your Account Settings tab.
Scroll down to Deactivate Account.
This is the scary part. No, you are not closing your Slack account. You are simply leaving this workspace.
Click “Deactivate your account.” You will be asked to confirm your Slack password and you will leave this workspace (after a few “Are you sure,” “Are you really, really sure” questions.)
Almost the last step to leave the workspace.
You will hit another snag at this point. When you were sent a link to click to join a Slack workspace, you clicked it and you got in. What you won’t know until you try to leave that workspace is that you need a password for that workspace! The wording is misleading, as it mentions “your Slack password”, but your have probably not created one for that workspace.
Create Slack password.
You click the link to be sent an email to “reset” your nonexistent password. See how hard Slack makes it to leave?
No, I never had a password.
Whatever. Just follow these instructions. Enter your new password.
Yes, just deactivate it!
OMG, they don’t want you to leave!
Yes, I mean it. Please don’t ask again!Free at last! Free at last! Free at last!
4. Clean Up the App
The desktop app will still show the exited workspace icon with an exclamation mark. To remove it, do the following:
I did not know that people were creating a QRcode for their LinkedIn profile pages. That isn’t surprising, as QRcodes are an easy way to display a URL – point your phone camera at one and you will see its destination. Click that button and your phone browser opens the URL.
I don’t network much with strangers, but if you do, here is the easiest way I could find. No need to search Google, at least in Windows, for the option seems to be built into Chrome. Many of the online sites need you to sign up before you can download the code.
Steps
Go to your LinkedIn profile page. You can reach it by clicking Me > My Profile in the top menu.
Right-click a blank area, not an image and you will see the option to create a QRcode for this page. Click that option
Download the QRcode and use it on your website, business card or elsewhere.
LinkedIn profile pageQRcode for my LinkedIn profileQRcode as seen in a phone camera.
