Women's Voices For Change

Alexandra Boghosian is our resident techie. She frequently answers questions from our readers about their pressing technological issues. Here, she weighs in on the ins and outs of Facebook and other social media platforms.

Google decided that it would partition your inbox for you into four categories, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. I might go so far as to be outraged by Gmail’s fascist presumption that everybody’s mailbox can be neatly organized into perfect little pristine boxes. Here's how to undo those categories.

Before you go on a random clicking spree, make sure you’ve saved your work so that you can get it back should anything go wrong (like you accidentally delete the entire novel you’ve been writing). It might even help to write down the problem on paper so that you can do some semi-targeted clicking rather than randomly tapping your index finger.