Contests & Sweepstakes Tips, Advice, and Questions

Ohhh I see, thank you both for your help!

Do you guys check your junk mail for these sweepstakes?

Quote from BattleCry : Do you guys check your junk mail for these sweepstakes?

Yes and for wins.

Quote from Jang : Instants are good for instant gratification but they can also have a disappointing effect and turn you off if you keep getting too many "Sorry, you didn't win this time." messages.

Oh goodness.... you nailed that one LOL ~~~ it can get depressing

Question about the Facebook contests, since a ton of them seem to be through Facebook:
Almost all of them require you to "like" the page. Will unliking the pages disqualify you from the sweeps? I'm using my real Facebook and really hate having a million random facebook pages in my likes...

Quote from justinmyser : Question about the Facebook contests, since a ton of them seem to be through Facebook: Almost all of them require you to "like" the page. Will unliking the pages disqualify you from the sweeps? I'm using my real Facebook and really hate having a million random facebook pages in my likes...

You don't need to unsubscribe - just remove them from your feed. To do that:
1. Hover over the name of the page
2. Move your mouse over to the right and hover over the "like" box; a drop-down menu should appear.
2. Un-check "show in news feed."

Quote from justinmyser : Question about the Facebook contests, since a ton of them seem to be through Facebook: Almost all of them require you to "like" the page. Will unliking the pages disqualify you from the sweeps? I'm using my real Facebook and really hate having a million random facebook pages in my likes...

Lots of times they require you to be a fan/like the page at the time of the drawing.

Quote from KMA : You don't need to unsubscribe - just remove them from your feed. To do that: 1. Hover over the name of the page 2. Move your mouse over to the right and hover over the "like" box; a drop-down menu should appear. 2. Un-check "show in news feed."

Yeah, that's what I've been doing... but still, it's kinda annoying. I don't like having them "liked" when I don't actually like them... haha.

Quote from Jang : Lots of times they require you to be a fan/like the page at the time of the drawing.

That's what I figured... seems like it would take forever to figure out which ones are safe to remove.

Quote from justinmyser : Question about the Facebook contests, since a ton of them seem to be through Facebook: Almost all of them require you to "like" the page. Will unliking the pages disqualify you from the sweeps? I'm using my real Facebook and really hate having a million random facebook pages in my likes...

You can also hide ALL of your likes from your facebook. To do this:
1) Go to your fb main page by clicking your name up top.
2) Go down to your likes, click "see all".
3) Hover your mouse within the likes area and an "edit" button will show up. Click it.
4) Scroll down to the bottom of your "favorite" likes area to where it says "other pages you like", change setting to "only me".

*You can also keep certain likes, for personality or whatever lol, in the favorites up above, like music.

Quote from maimaimai : You can also hide ALL of your likes from your facebook. To do this: 1) Go to your fb main page by clicking your name up top. 2) Go down to your likes, click "see all". 3) Hover your mouse within the likes area and an "edit" button will show up. Click it. 4) Scroll down to the bottom of your "favorite" likes area to where it says "other pages you like", change setting to "only me". *You can also keep certain likes, for personality or whatever lol, in the favorites up above, like music.

Thanks for the tip!

Quote from maimaimai : You can also hide ALL of your likes from your facebook. To do this: 1) Go to your fb main page by clicking your name up top. 2) Go down to your likes, click "see all". 3) Hover your mouse within the likes area and an "edit" button will show up. Click it. 4) Scroll down to the bottom of your "favorite" likes area to where it says "other pages you like", change setting to "only me". *You can also keep certain likes, for personality or whatever lol, in the favorites up above, like music.

I wouldn't recommend doing that if you are entering sweeps, as they won't have a way to confirm your "like". What I tend to do is just let all the likes pile up and then go back about once a month and unlike anything from a sweeps older than 3 months ago. I do the same for apps; figure anything older than 3 months should have already picked and notified winners so not much risk. That keeps the backlog manageable without risking DQ's.

Quote from chuckecheez : I wouldn't recommend doing that if you are entering sweeps, as they won't have a way to confirm your "like". What I tend to do is just let all the likes pile up and then go back about once a month and unlike anything from a sweeps older than 3 months ago. I do the same for apps; figure anything older than 3 months should have already picked and notified winners so not much risk. That keeps the backlog manageable without risking DQ's.

I'm pretty sure a page can see everyone who likes them (it shows up on as list like friends do), well the page admins can at least.

Is anybody else having issues with the Firefox Roboform add-on? Mine stopped working the other day (there may have been a Firefox update, not sure), and I still haven't been able to log back in even after reinstalling it.

Quote from maimaimai : I'm pretty sure a page can see everyone who likes them (it shows up on as list like friends do), well the page admins can at least.

I agree with you on this but can anyone else confirm?