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Facebook Concerns

Mistreatedbycs — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:32:38 GMT

This evening I requested my account be deleted.

I submitted through the "contact us" page on numerous occasions and all "the system" did was send me what I think is an automated message for letting us know.

My issue was the scrolling list of possible "friends" that appear and even you if click "hide" they still come back. I even went and tried to delete them and they still came back. It was disturbing because what appeared was "kids with guns", pictures of these people with the gun looking at you point blank. .....and that's allowed? Yes, you can hit report button and all that but no response from FB and to me, it's not worth waiting for them to do anything or even a response. There were similar other people but to me, the lists that were there and never disappeared were at least disturbing.

So in summary, when you really need them (FB CS), I really don't believe there's anyone answering let alone care, no one did for me.

Re: Facebook Concerns

JaneMarple — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:38:47 GMT

January 28th and ANOTHER anti FB thread! Is it 4 or 5 this month?

Re: Facebook Concerns

MyGirlsMom — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:39:39 GMT

You can change your settings to: friend of friend only

You can also look into facebook purity which will block pages, people word etc. at your request.

If you have a few moments of time,go in and block each person you do not care to ever see pop up again.

Re: Facebook Concerns

Moonchilde — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:49:40 GMT

I disagree. Both times I needed to contact FB I received a response within a few hours.

You delete your own account. They're probably ignoring your request because they don't "do for" people, they expect you to do it yourself. I found this in a 30-second google:

How to deactivate your account
Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
Select "Settings"
Click "Security" in the left column.
Choose "Deactivate your account", then follow the steps to confirm.

As to your other claims - I've belonged to FB for about 8 years at least and I have never seen anything remotely like what you describe. Bear in mind that your "Suggestions" for friends are based on friends of your friends. I would be wondering about that if I were you.

Re: Facebook Concerns

Mistreatedbycs — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:50:14 GMT

MyGirlsMom: Thank you so much, did not know that. BUT, why does it take another user to sort this out, if a user has an issue, I would think the FB team would chime in.

Re: Facebook Concerns

sunshine45 — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:50:34 GMT

@JaneMarple wrote:
January 28th and ANOTHER anti FB thread! Is it 4 or 5 this month?

@JaneMarple

it is going to be a very LONG year i am afraid. LOL

Re: Facebook Concerns

MyGirlsMom — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:57:16 GMT

facebook is hard to get help from, you have to ask other users. A year ago, I was tired of all the movie spammers, I tried to block as many as I could. Then it occurred to me that many of them started off the post with, "I finally found the link.." I blocked the phrase. through facebook purity. LOL

It'sa FREE extension and you can pay them whatever you like. You can find their page on facebook or go through your server. I use Chrome.

Re: Facebook Concerns

Mistreatedbycs — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 04:59:33 GMT

I did deactivate my own account, I don't expect them to do that.

If FB is working for you, all power to you. I'm just clearly stated I had an issue with scolling lists of questionable people appearing on my home page, I guess you can say they are not people I would ever associate with and I couldn't get rid of them. Asked FB for help, no response and thought, if these people are showing up on my page, am I showing up on other people's pages?

Re: Facebook Concerns

skuggles — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:08:17 GMT

Not a fan of FB, AKA Nosybook. The founder made a bundle "farming" this aspect of human nature. It has a dark side too.

Re: Facebook Concerns

MyGirlsMom — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:09:15 GMT

@Mistreatedbycs Please set your privacy settings

There is an image of a lock on the upper right hand corner, it's a pull down tab.

You will be asked a series of questions, one of them i, "who can see my stuff?" Set to friend, family, public or only me.

As far as the suggested friends, it will take a little while but submit their names in the block feature in that same pull down tab.

Be very careful with your private information, hometown, location at time of posting, vacations, etc.

Re: Facebook Concerns

JaneMarple — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:37:59 GMT

@skuggles wrote:
Not a fan of FB, AKA Nosybook. The founder made a bundle "farming" this aspect of human nature. It has a dark side too.

Just like television!

Re: Facebook Concerns

itiswhatitis — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 06:24:09 GMT

@Mistreatedbycs wrote:
This evening I requested my account be deleted.

I submitted through the "contact us" page on numerous occasions and all "the system" did was send me what I think is an automated message for letting us know.

My issue was the scrolling list of possible "friends" that appear and even you if click "hide" they still come back. I even went and tried to delete them and they still came back. It was disturbing because what appeared was "kids with guns", pictures of these people with the gun looking at you point blank. .....and that's allowed? Yes, you can hit report button and all that but no response from FB and to me, it's not worth waiting for them to do anything or even a response. There were similar other people but to me, the lists that were there and never disappeared were at least disturbing.

So in summary, when you really need them (FB CS), I really don't believe there's anyone answering let alone care, no one did for me.

@Mistreatedbycs can't you attempt to delete it again? Delete everything in your timeline, all photos and such and then try deactivating the account. BTW, Facebook never deletes an account. They simply "de-activate it."

Re: Facebook Concerns

itiswhatitis — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 06:25:36 GMT

@JaneMarple wrote:
@skuggles wrote:
Not a fan of FB, AKA Nosybook. The founder made a bundle "farming" this aspect of human nature. It has a dark side too.
Just like television!

And now, just like Alexa! Listening in on what you say during the day. LOL.

Re: Facebook Concerns

TX-starlight — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:44:10 GMT

@Moonchilde You are correct. Sounds like OP need to read up on security for FB.

@OP- I admin several types of FB groups. I report broken features & all sorts of things. Facebook always responds very quickly. It might be a generic response, but they send something. I would just block unwanted people. Sounds like you need to read up on Facebook security

Re: Facebook Concerns

Raider Fan — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:18:25 GMT

From the beginning I thought that facebook was actively engaged in social engineering and with everything going on now concerning that company it sure looks like it.

Re: Facebook Concerns

TY — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:53:34 GMT

One of the reason why you may be seeing various people suggested as friends is that those people may have your email address, such as work colleagues or friends of family members.

Facebook is not intuitive for many people and facebook has engineered it that way. Then add various desktop and mobile and app platforms to the mix and it can be confusing.

Definitely check your privacy settings and what you allow others to see. Be judicious as to who is allowed to be a friend on facebook too.

Re: Facebook Concerns

NYC Susan — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:58:25 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
I disagree. Both times I needed to contact FB I received a response within a few hours.

You delete your own account. They're probably ignoring your request because they don't "do for" people, they expect you to do it yourself. I found this in a 30-second google:

How to deactivate your account
Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
Select "Settings"
Click "Security" in the left column.
Choose "Deactivate your account", then follow the steps to confirm.

As to your other claims - I've belonged to FB for about 8 years at least and I have never seen anything remotely like what you describe. Bear in mind that your "Suggestions" for friends are based on friends of your friends. I would be wondering about that if I were you.

I've never seen anything even remotely like that either.

And yes, friend suggestions are based on your current friends. Facebook is simply suggesting other people you may know or may like to know. If four of your friends are also friends with someone else, Facebook may suggest that person to you. If the people who are being suggested have sketchy profile photos, that's on them. Not Facebook.

Re: Facebook Concerns

NYC Susan — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:06:31 GMT

@TX-starlight wrote:
@Moonchilde You are correct. Sounds like OP need to read up on security for FB.

@OP- I admin several types of FB groups. I report broken features & all sorts of things. Facebook always responds very quickly. It might be a generic response, but they send something. I would just block unwanted people. Sounds like you need to read up on Facebook security

I agree. Help with all of this is readily available right on Facebook. But if anyone has trouble with a specific question, Google provides a lot of information too. It's definitely worth the time to learn the basics re privacy settings, security, etc. It's really not that complicated.

Re: Facebook Concerns

JaneMarple — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:35:49 GMT

@NYC Susan wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
I disagree. Both times I needed to contact FB I received a response within a few hours.

You delete your own account. They're probably ignoring your request because they don't "do for" people, they expect you to do it yourself. I found this in a 30-second google:

How to deactivate your account
Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
Select "Settings"
Click "Security" in the left column.
Choose "Deactivate your account", then follow the steps to confirm.

As to your other claims - I've belonged to FB for about 8 years at least and I have never seen anything remotely like what you describe. Bear in mind that your "Suggestions" for friends are based on friends of your friends. I would be wondering about that if I were you.
I've never seen anything even remotely like that either.

And yes, friend suggestions are based on your current friends. Facebook is simply suggesting other people you may know or may like to know. If four of your friends are also friends with someone else, Facebook may suggest that person to you. If the people who are being suggested have sketchy profile photos, that's on them. Not Facebook.

I don't know why people can't understand this! It's the same argument week after week, after week!

Re: Facebook Concerns

NYC Susan — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:59:32 GMT

@JaneMarple wrote:
@NYC Susan wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
I disagree. Both times I needed to contact FB I received a response within a few hours.

You delete your own account. They're probably ignoring your request because they don't "do for" people, they expect you to do it yourself. I found this in a 30-second google:

How to deactivate your account
Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
Select "Settings"
Click "Security" in the left column.
Choose "Deactivate your account", then follow the steps to confirm.

As to your other claims - I've belonged to FB for about 8 years at least and I have never seen anything remotely like what you describe. Bear in mind that your "Suggestions" for friends are based on friends of your friends. I would be wondering about that if I were you.
I've never seen anything even remotely like that either.

And yes, friend suggestions are based on your current friends. Facebook is simply suggesting other people you may know or may like to know. If four of your friends are also friends with someone else, Facebook may suggest that person to you. If the people who are being suggested have sketchy profile photos, that's on them. Not Facebook.
I don't know why people can't understand this! It's the same argument week after week, after week!

It really is!

And the suggestions are just suggestions. Facebook isn't forcing friends on anyone. Friend who you like, and ignore the rest. No one will know, no one will be offended, and everyone can move on with their lives. :-)