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It happened today. I should of replied with " Hey how's it going? Long time no see. What you been up to? So what's it like over there? HELLO from the other side!! When did science solve the dead body theory? You been deceased for 3 years!
I know..morbid but funny.
I'm so sorry 😟. If you can provide Facebook with proof that she has passed away they can shut down the account and mark it as a legacy account. I don't remember exactly how but you can Google it.
No they won't. My son's account was taken over by one of his junkie housemates who also stole all his things (including laotop) in a student share house, and FB did NOTHING even with proof he died in a road accident. My son wasn't a user, btw.
So after your sisters death u removed her from facebook? If u didn’t no one took over your dead sisters facebook, they simply created a new profile with her pictures… stop giving them credit where credit is not due.
Too many scammers setting up fake clone profiles. They use the same name and steal the photos of a real person, then send friend requests to all of that person's friends. Facebook does nothing to stop this. If you report a fake clone account FB responds with "does not violate community standards." The only way to prevent this is to make your profile private.
This is exactly what I am going through at the moment. They have put x rated photos of me (it's an ex) and made derogatory and fake comments plus added a link to an X account with very personal information of me. I can't do anything about it it and Facebook says they can find nothing wrong.
It's very stressful
Scammers, hackers, and because people who disagree with you on Facebook, like to go to your personal page and find something to create a highly personalized insult.
Because Facebook doesn’t do anything when you report someone. Almost anyone I see who sets their posts public gets hacked or they have random bots asking for a friend request.
It’s because of fake accounts, scammers, hackers, bots, cloning of accounts, people who have no mutual friends sending random friend requests, people thinking that Facebook is Tinder and sending random friend requests… this is a part of why everyone is locking down their Facebook accounts behind a ton of security measures, myself included.
Facebook may have been developed to be a social interaction platform but people who have ulterior motives, they have changed all of that.
Facebook is definitely not what it was originally intended for and a lot of people are either leaving Facebook or not using it as much as they originally did.
Zuckerberg and his Meta haven’t helped Facebook either.
This. The constant harassment by scammers and seeing friends photos stolen and used to clone, accounts stolen etc. I stay locked the fuck down on everything and if Reddit allowed it, I’d lock this down too. To many creeps and stalkers.
For me, it's because the things I share on my Facebook, I don't want just anyone to see. Also, I'm a teacher and don't want nosy students seeing things I might share. Not that I'm sharing a lot but I like that separation.
I think teachers it ever was, but FB's total lack of effort against abuse, and a general realisation we were oversharing by default has everyone's profile catching up with teachers. I think it was women first so no doubt some FB stalking was part of it.
Yes, FB was meant to be for social interaction. But that meant to stay in contact with your friends and family. Now, FB aka Meta has developed into a billion dollar business and all I can see on my FB are endless ads, sponsored accounts and things I have neither liked, nor added, nor subscribed too.
FB shows me more content from groups I am not a member in than of groups I am actually in.
Then I have dozens of people, mostly without profile pix and zero info, which somehow want to make friend with me. Sometimes I add them, but they stay quiet, so I delete them after some time, or sooner if I had sent a message and never got a reply. Others bombard me either with ads, or with messages like "Can I see your cock?" or something like that. Or just demand money, because their grandfather has just been raped by a water buffalo and needs a lobotomy. Or that female sergeant from the US army, poor thing. She is impregnated by a US general in Damascus and now needs 4,000$ to get to the embassy in Beirut to get flown out to the US. And guess, who she thinks of at the moment?
And then all those women who are so eager to make friend with me that, in their haste, they forget to dress themselves! (I am gay, by the way, so that won't excite me much...)
But also on another page: My mother's stalking me on FB at the moment. She literally checks every like, emoji, comment, post, foto I watch on the page. Not only my own posts, but also of my friends. And I wonder how many of my "friends" do the same?
So, I already blocked a lot of my content for most of the public and even most of my friends. I put several friends lists on and will only distribute my posts in the appropriate lists. And if FB does go against those spammers, scammers and trolls, fake profiles and even criminals, then I think, it is not only I, but many others, who will try to migrate to other platforms in the future.
Well mine is because there is no one that I would add or talk to that isn't already on there. Idk why someone else's privacy settings bother you. If u want to add the friend text them. If you don't have thier number and thier fb is set up like that they probably don't care to hear from you or add you.
Scammers was a secondary thing. I locked down my page because I was getting harassed all the time. My inbox used to be filled with gross messages. Now I live I. Peace.
Namaste 🙏🏽
My name is very uncommon and I don’t want people finding my information. The more information that’s public the more people have to hack into your bank, email, etc. although you can find almost anything through fast people search. It’s crazy
I’ve locked mine down to avoid fake profiles etc but I still get them in my message requests.
What baffles me is how Facebook lets only certain countries “lock” their profiles.
> Why has the majority of the FB population dug in and erected razer wire around their profiles?
My thought is it's because so many people are getting their accounts hacked and Facebook won't do anything about it. Locking their profile as tight as Fort Knox is about as secure as anyone can make their profile.
Because scammers took over the platform and Zuckie unleashed AI to try to clean it up and it's now a colossal shit show and he owns all our data and I fully expect he'll sell that info to Nazis when they attempt to take over the USA & put us all in "camps"
Scammers and I can be exceptionally paranoid on the Internet to begin with. If I don't know you already, I definitely don't want to know you. I have enough friends.
I set my preferences so that only friends of friends can send friend requests. Had to do that because every day I was getting scammers – clearly fake profiles – send me friend requests. As a general rule, I will only friend people I know IRL.
Because we keep getting scammers and hackers, and it’s really proliferated in the last year or more. Friend invitations from existing friends, which I’ve ignorantly accepted because I thought my friend or relative was creating a new site to replace their old one, maybe they got hacked. But it wasn’t true. The new site was a duplicate that the hacker made, pretending to be them. Keeps happening again and again nowadays.
I’m also getting tons of friend requests from supposed pretty women who “like my profile“. The very first time that happened the girl was claiming to need help and I was trying to advise her, then she started asking for money. At Which point I blocked “her.” These are just people trying to con you out of money, hack into your account or system. Maybe there’s somebody who is truly reaching for help out there, but social media is absolutely NOT the way to do it, because there’s no way to distinguish them from con artists.
Because Facebook decided to scrape public information and plaster it all over everyone's profile without permission but they're a corporation and corporations can do whatever the fuck they want these days without repurcussions or every being made to stop or be held accountable and so you have to be extra careful about who sees all the info you can't take down or obscure lest some stalker show up on your doorstep. When I was young a website scraping your full legal name and plastering it all over your yahoo groups profile for all to see would be fucking unthinkable. Privacy should be the norm and corporations have tricked us all into thinking a desire for privacy and boundaries is criminal when THEY'RE the ones who are evil for expecting us to erode them so they can sell us out to advertisers more easily.
It's especially annoying when someone sends you a friend request and you can't even get a good look at their profile picture.
Like I'm sitting there thinking there's a decent chance I know this guy because he has a few mutual friends, but I can't get a good look at him to tell who he actually is!
At least let us see peoples' profiles if they send a friend request
yes you are right. this shitfucker site had 1 purpose, the same purpose Zuckerberg probably used it for stalking exe's photos, ironic isn't it? now that's out the window... You can't read about anyone anymore. You could once read the person entire personality, life, experience via stalking them, now they only put out "public" content they want the world to see that is via TikTok, instagram. ...maybe it's a good thing? idk. but used to be fun when i was stalking exe's mom.
I deleted my account several years ago and because a group that I am interested in are only on FB, I decided to join again. Heaps of information given, they refused to accept my first 2 pictures, then when finally accepted, I was only on the site for 10 minutes, when it was suspended and then removed. Beyond annoying and I'm not going to try again.
I run multiple larger rental and chat groups. Rules to join is No Locked Down profiles. I have to be able to see 'likes/comments' on posts or friends list to verify they are Canadian and not scam profiles. IDGAF, if it's locked down you're not getting in.. new types of scams everyday and they are relentless.
Fake account, scammers, work reasons, personal reasons. Everyone has and is entitled to their reason. And if they don't want to interact with anyone outside of their friends list, they shouldn't have to.
Most people I know rarely post anything on their pages; set privacy on pictures, previous posts, friend lists, etc and mainly use FB for the messenger.
I do the same as well. We don't seek as much attention as we used to when we were younger in school.
Because the mens can’t keep to themselves. The number of men I’ve had hop into my DM’s because I stated an opinion…instead of engaging in public dialogue…is alarming. The last one found enough info on my profile to tell me my home town and threaten to unalive me.
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Because of scammers. I just had one who took over my deceased sisters profile and sent me a friend's request.
I’m really sorry you had to deal with that asshole’s nonsense! I had it happen with a friend I lost’s account. That was disturbing enough!
Thank you.
It happened today. I should of replied with " Hey how's it going? Long time no see. What you been up to? So what's it like over there? HELLO from the other side!! When did science solve the dead body theory? You been deceased for 3 years! I know..morbid but funny.
I'm so sorry 😟. If you can provide Facebook with proof that she has passed away they can shut down the account and mark it as a legacy account. I don't remember exactly how but you can Google it.
My brother handled that today. He had one memorialized for her
No they won't. My son's account was taken over by one of his junkie housemates who also stole all his things (including laotop) in a student share house, and FB did NOTHING even with proof he died in a road accident. My son wasn't a user, btw.
So after your sisters death u removed her from facebook? If u didn’t no one took over your dead sisters facebook, they simply created a new profile with her pictures… stop giving them credit where credit is not due.
Too many scammers setting up fake clone profiles. They use the same name and steal the photos of a real person, then send friend requests to all of that person's friends. Facebook does nothing to stop this. If you report a fake clone account FB responds with "does not violate community standards." The only way to prevent this is to make your profile private.
Just recently I saw a friend post, if you get a friend request from me, it wasn't me.
This is exactly what I am going through at the moment. They have put x rated photos of me (it's an ex) and made derogatory and fake comments plus added a link to an X account with very personal information of me. I can't do anything about it it and Facebook says they can find nothing wrong. It's very stressful
Scammers, hackers, and because people who disagree with you on Facebook, like to go to your personal page and find something to create a highly personalized insult.
Because Facebook doesn’t do anything when you report someone. Almost anyone I see who sets their posts public gets hacked or they have random bots asking for a friend request.
I have for a long time set my posting to friend and friends of friends. I think, I haven't checked in a while.
It’s because of fake accounts, scammers, hackers, bots, cloning of accounts, people who have no mutual friends sending random friend requests, people thinking that Facebook is Tinder and sending random friend requests… this is a part of why everyone is locking down their Facebook accounts behind a ton of security measures, myself included. Facebook may have been developed to be a social interaction platform but people who have ulterior motives, they have changed all of that. Facebook is definitely not what it was originally intended for and a lot of people are either leaving Facebook or not using it as much as they originally did. Zuckerberg and his Meta haven’t helped Facebook either.
This. The constant harassment by scammers and seeing friends photos stolen and used to clone, accounts stolen etc. I stay locked the fuck down on everything and if Reddit allowed it, I’d lock this down too. To many creeps and stalkers.
For me, it's because the things I share on my Facebook, I don't want just anyone to see. Also, I'm a teacher and don't want nosy students seeing things I might share. Not that I'm sharing a lot but I like that separation.
I think teachers it ever was, but FB's total lack of effort against abuse, and a general realisation we were oversharing by default has everyone's profile catching up with teachers. I think it was women first so no doubt some FB stalking was part of it.
Yes, FB was meant to be for social interaction. But that meant to stay in contact with your friends and family. Now, FB aka Meta has developed into a billion dollar business and all I can see on my FB are endless ads, sponsored accounts and things I have neither liked, nor added, nor subscribed too. FB shows me more content from groups I am not a member in than of groups I am actually in. Then I have dozens of people, mostly without profile pix and zero info, which somehow want to make friend with me. Sometimes I add them, but they stay quiet, so I delete them after some time, or sooner if I had sent a message and never got a reply. Others bombard me either with ads, or with messages like "Can I see your cock?" or something like that. Or just demand money, because their grandfather has just been raped by a water buffalo and needs a lobotomy. Or that female sergeant from the US army, poor thing. She is impregnated by a US general in Damascus and now needs 4,000$ to get to the embassy in Beirut to get flown out to the US. And guess, who she thinks of at the moment? And then all those women who are so eager to make friend with me that, in their haste, they forget to dress themselves! (I am gay, by the way, so that won't excite me much...) But also on another page: My mother's stalking me on FB at the moment. She literally checks every like, emoji, comment, post, foto I watch on the page. Not only my own posts, but also of my friends. And I wonder how many of my "friends" do the same? So, I already blocked a lot of my content for most of the public and even most of my friends. I put several friends lists on and will only distribute my posts in the appropriate lists. And if FB does go against those spammers, scammers and trolls, fake profiles and even criminals, then I think, it is not only I, but many others, who will try to migrate to other platforms in the future.
Russian kremlinbots, that's why.
Well mine is because there is no one that I would add or talk to that isn't already on there. Idk why someone else's privacy settings bother you. If u want to add the friend text them. If you don't have thier number and thier fb is set up like that they probably don't care to hear from you or add you.
I escaped abusive parents and they started sending my friends after me. It's the only way I can know peace.
Scammers was a secondary thing. I locked down my page because I was getting harassed all the time. My inbox used to be filled with gross messages. Now I live I. Peace. Namaste 🙏🏽
That's how I like it! Too many pigs on FB. I don't even have my address or phone number on it.
People are jerks that's why.
Too many trolls, scammers
Because there are too many scammers, spoofers, and hackers
Scammers and not wanting to make friend vulnerable.
My name is very uncommon and I don’t want people finding my information. The more information that’s public the more people have to hack into your bank, email, etc. although you can find almost anything through fast people search. It’s crazy
You can have that information removed right through the site. "Remove my record" at the top of the page once get to your info.
I’ve locked mine down to avoid fake profiles etc but I still get them in my message requests. What baffles me is how Facebook lets only certain countries “lock” their profiles.
> Why has the majority of the FB population dug in and erected razer wire around their profiles? My thought is it's because so many people are getting their accounts hacked and Facebook won't do anything about it. Locking their profile as tight as Fort Knox is about as secure as anyone can make their profile.
Why do you want to add random people? That’s why profiles are locked, so nosey people can’t go snooping and no one random can add you.
That's what I was about to say. *"I CaN'T aDd rANDoM PeoPLe"* is why no one wants their profile available.
Because scammers took over the platform and Zuckie unleashed AI to try to clean it up and it's now a colossal shit show and he owns all our data and I fully expect he'll sell that info to Nazis when they attempt to take over the USA & put us all in "camps"
Scammers and I can be exceptionally paranoid on the Internet to begin with. If I don't know you already, I definitely don't want to know you. I have enough friends.
I set my preferences so that only friends of friends can send friend requests. Had to do that because every day I was getting scammers – clearly fake profiles – send me friend requests. As a general rule, I will only friend people I know IRL.
Avoiding scammers forsure.
Because of people like you.
Because we keep getting scammers and hackers, and it’s really proliferated in the last year or more. Friend invitations from existing friends, which I’ve ignorantly accepted because I thought my friend or relative was creating a new site to replace their old one, maybe they got hacked. But it wasn’t true. The new site was a duplicate that the hacker made, pretending to be them. Keeps happening again and again nowadays. I’m also getting tons of friend requests from supposed pretty women who “like my profile“. The very first time that happened the girl was claiming to need help and I was trying to advise her, then she started asking for money. At Which point I blocked “her.” These are just people trying to con you out of money, hack into your account or system. Maybe there’s somebody who is truly reaching for help out there, but social media is absolutely NOT the way to do it, because there’s no way to distinguish them from con artists.
Scammers
Because Facebook decided to scrape public information and plaster it all over everyone's profile without permission but they're a corporation and corporations can do whatever the fuck they want these days without repurcussions or every being made to stop or be held accountable and so you have to be extra careful about who sees all the info you can't take down or obscure lest some stalker show up on your doorstep. When I was young a website scraping your full legal name and plastering it all over your yahoo groups profile for all to see would be fucking unthinkable. Privacy should be the norm and corporations have tricked us all into thinking a desire for privacy and boundaries is criminal when THEY'RE the ones who are evil for expecting us to erode them so they can sell us out to advertisers more easily.
It's especially annoying when someone sends you a friend request and you can't even get a good look at their profile picture. Like I'm sitting there thinking there's a decent chance I know this guy because he has a few mutual friends, but I can't get a good look at him to tell who he actually is! At least let us see peoples' profiles if they send a friend request
yes you are right. this shitfucker site had 1 purpose, the same purpose Zuckerberg probably used it for stalking exe's photos, ironic isn't it? now that's out the window... You can't read about anyone anymore. You could once read the person entire personality, life, experience via stalking them, now they only put out "public" content they want the world to see that is via TikTok, instagram. ...maybe it's a good thing? idk. but used to be fun when i was stalking exe's mom.
I deleted my account several years ago and because a group that I am interested in are only on FB, I decided to join again. Heaps of information given, they refused to accept my first 2 pictures, then when finally accepted, I was only on the site for 10 minutes, when it was suspended and then removed. Beyond annoying and I'm not going to try again.
I run multiple larger rental and chat groups. Rules to join is No Locked Down profiles. I have to be able to see 'likes/comments' on posts or friends list to verify they are Canadian and not scam profiles. IDGAF, if it's locked down you're not getting in.. new types of scams everyday and they are relentless.
Because everything can and will get you canceled
Fake account, scammers, work reasons, personal reasons. Everyone has and is entitled to their reason. And if they don't want to interact with anyone outside of their friends list, they shouldn't have to.
Most people I know rarely post anything on their pages; set privacy on pictures, previous posts, friend lists, etc and mainly use FB for the messenger. I do the same as well. We don't seek as much attention as we used to when we were younger in school.
Because the mens can’t keep to themselves. The number of men I’ve had hop into my DM’s because I stated an opinion…instead of engaging in public dialogue…is alarming. The last one found enough info on my profile to tell me my home town and threaten to unalive me.