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In this post, I am sharing my personal tutorial on how to remove Facebook user(s) from a Facebook fan page. I spent quite some time going over tons of websites that claims to be able to guide you to remove users but it does not work for my case because I have over 15K followers on my page and a lot of these website guides are feasible for fan pages with less than 1000 followers.

For example, if you have less than 1000 fans on your page, you can simply scroll through your likes page from your admin panel and click the X button to remove and/or ban the particular user. But anything more than the 1000 fans, you cannot scroll past the amount as Facebook does not do that!

So, I managed to find this very helpful website and hence am sharing my methods here (please note that I'm using Firefox to do this):

1. Find the Facebook numeric user ID of the user you want to remove. As most user pages now display the user’s name instead of the numeric ID, you can go to http://findmyfacebookid.com to find the ID.

2. Paste the profile url of the user (it will be something like www.facebook.com/username) and it will show you the numeric ID. Copy that numeric ID.

3. Next go your Facebook fan page, look for the "Get More Likes" section on the left, you can see the "See Likes" link. Click on it and you will see a pop up window showing you the list of all your fans.

4. I choose the 1st one on the list and right click on the X button next the user and select ‘Inspect Element (Q)‘. A developer window should open below the page as shown in the screenshot.

5. In the developer window below, look for the user-id keyword. You can double click the 'value' field entry and paste the user's numeric ID that you want to remove from your fan page.

6. While the developer window is still open, just click on the X link on the same 1st user again (instead of right click as in step 4), and a window will pop up to ask you whether you want to remove the user. Click OK to remove the user from liking your fan page.

7. You can also tick the 'Ban permanently' option at the bottom if you do not want the user to comment on your fan page in the future.

** IMPORTANT NOTE - I did a test using my fan page (which I have restrict to readers 17 years old and above):

• Test #1 - Age Limit: I did a test by creating a test user profile in Facebook, firstly by putting my age as 13 years old. Once I'm in Facebook, I cannot find my fan page - this is due to my fan page only allows readers above 17 years old.

• Test #2 - Changing my test profile age: I changed my test profile age to above 17 years old and this time I can find my fan page. I click the 'Like' button to subscribe to the fan page.

• Test #3 - Remove and ban the test profile: Using my own FB ID, I look for the test profile ID and remove it using the above tutorial steps.
  

• Test #4 - Trying to comment using test profile: I look for my fan page but am no longer able to comment on any posts in the page. I also noticed that the 'Like' button is no longer checked, meaning I have been unsubscribed from the page. However, I am still able to click 'Like' again and browse through all the posts and everything. Just not able to comment.

• Conclusion: Setting age limit to above 17 years old will not work if the user purposely faked their birth year to bypass Facebook checking. Also, after removing and banning a user profile from FB, they can still go to your page and stalk you, or click 'Like' to subscribe again. So you will need to repeat this tutorial whenever they click 'Like' to your fan page.
  

I hope the above tutorial helps you!

A while ago, we reviewed "Little Critter-Trick or Treat" and now, we have the privilege to add this story app to our collection! We are a big fan of Little Critter's apps and our 4.5 years old boy loves dinosaurs and to have the opportunity to review this app is just awesome!

* Title: The Lost Dinosaur Bone
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Released: Oct 23, 2013
* Version: 2.4
* Size: 32.2 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"Join Little Critter in this interactive storybook app as he embarks on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. Will Little Critter find the Triceratops bone missing from the dinosaur exhibit?" 

* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* It is such a nice coincidence as we have been watching 'Night at the Museum' movie lately and our boy could relate with the dinosaur bones and the museum exhibits.

* I used the opportunity to teach our boy to be helpful like Little Critter when he tried to help by searching for the missing dinosaur's bone.

* I also used the opportunity to teach him that he should always inform his whereabouts unlike Little Critter who got separated from his schoolmates and teacher because it is dangerous actually if anything bad happened to him, nobody knows where he is!

You can purchase the "The Lost Dinosaur Bone" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

I have previously written about our kiddos' final playgroup session for 2013. Just want to share that when we first started attending the playgroup sessions in September 2013, there are quite a number of parents and caretakers of the children there asking me which kindergarten Benjamin goes to. When I said none, they will asked why I did not send him yet or whether I will be looking for any soon and some kind-hearted ones will even start recommending me which kindergarten to ask around.

Later on, a mummy friend told me that the playgroup session we are attending is run by a church and they also run kindergarten as well. According to her, the kindy classes come in highly recommended by a lot of those playgroup mummies and told me to try asking whether there are any slots available for 2014 batch.

Why the kindy classes is highly recommended? There are only about 18 children in a class, they do 5 days a week classes of 3 hours every class, homework given during the school holidays and they instill a lot of Christian values to the children and they still have the fun element plus a bit of academic structure in their classes.

Few days later I went to inquire from the person in-charge and was told that the 2014 batch is full already and if I'm still interested, she will put us on waiting list for 2015 batch or if we don't mind, she will slot Benjamin in for the K4 class (which is for 6 years old). I felt sad seeing the gloomy outcome of having only 2015 to hope for!

When I got home with our kiddos, I told hubby what happened and he was upset that I did not register our kiddos even though we will be put on the waiting list. Hubby said, "At least by that time there is available slot, Alyson will be old enough to go to the class! And as for Benjamin, just because the lady said no more slots available until 2015, that doesn't mean you should just listen and give up. Even if there is slot for 6 years old and Ben is too young for the class, just register! At least few hours away from the house and he gets to make friends is better than nothing. Just register and leave it to God to handle this!'

And so the very next day, I brought our boy along to see the person in-charge again, and this time, registered both our kiddos' names in the waiting list. I told the person in-charge even though Ben might be too young, if there is any slots available even for the 6 years old class, just let him join. And so we waited.

2 months later, I received a call and it was from the kindy's person in-charge. She asked whether we are still keen to enrol Benjamin in the kindy class. I said YESSSSSSS!!! She said there is a boy who pulled out from next year's batch and so there is a slot available. I said thank you, we will take it and asked what age group will Ben be placed in. She said it is for K3 class which is meant for 5 years old. Perfect! Benjamin will turned 5 years old in March next year.

Oh my... God is really awesome! Truly awesome! And so I am reminded with this bible verse, Luke 18:27 (NIV) ~ “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Just because I was told there is no more slots available until 2015 and I think there is no more possibilities for us and our boy, God turned it around and shoved it at my face that yes, everything is possible through Him! Amen to that!

Thank you God for You truly knows what is best for us: Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) ~ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

And when is the best time to reveal everything to us. Habakkuk 2:3 (NIV) ~ For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it[a] will certainly come and will not delay.

Now if you are wondering why we wanted our boy to go to classes when we have plans to teach him, well, like I mentioned above, hubby wanted our kiddos to mix around with other children, to make friends and to get away from the house for a few hours everyday so I can spend time to focus on our 2 younger kiddos. We also wanted Benjamin to be more sociable (unlike his super shy anti social mummy) and make more friends.

I plan to still teach Benjamin after he finishes his class (half day) and on the days when there are playgroup sessions, I can bring our girls along and be able to handle 2 kiddos instead of 3 which I have been worrying of earlier. So yes, God plans out everything for us nicely!!!

Looking forward for our Benjamin to start his classes in 2014! And what an awesome God we have!

**Personal notes: Apologies but due to my paranoia of privacy and security of myself, my family and my kiddos, I am not going to reveal what is the playgroup name, the kindergarten name, the area and so on. Apologies but like I said, I am really paranoid and with info like this being shown in public, I hope you can understand my reasons for doing so.