Questions tagged [facebook-privacy]
For questions regarding the privacy of personal information on Facebook.
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Facebook: Getting tagged in a friends post
I've posted on someone's wall for their birthday, and I'm in a couple of the photos I posted. I tagged myself but it doesn't show up in my timeline or my "photos of me". I can't control the ...
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Help in tracking a stalker
My wife is being harassed on Facebook and Instagram. The messages are coming from fake names and when she blocks them, they just make another account and keep sending other things. Is there any way to ...
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Question about the search button in the right corner of a Facebook profile
In the right corner of a Facebook profile, there is the search button (pic attached)
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unable to find posts only on that individual profile. If I use that button could the person who owns that profile ...
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Is it possible not to show to public your real name on Facebook?
I have to sign up with my real first, last names but do I have to show them to public on Facebook? Is there way to not let people see your real identity, may be separate public page or something? And ...
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Why do I see “1” invite under members section in a Facebook group but there is no Facebook profile at the same time? Why that “1”?
As administrator of a secret Facebook group, it seems pretty strange to see that there is 1 invite but no related Facebook profile. How and where could I see who this mysterious person is? If members ...
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Notification of when on Facebook
I have noticed that Facebook posts how long ago someone was on Facebook, and if they are currently on Facebook. Is there a way to disable that feature?
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Why can't I see some mutual Facebook friend in their mutual friends section?
So me and A is friend on facebook while me and B is Not friend on facebook, When I clicked into B profile I dont see A as his mutual friend but I see my other friends are in mutual friend. But when ...
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How to see a friends mutual friends when they have hidden their friends list on Facebook?
If a friend has locked their profile and hidden their freinds list, is there a way to see their mutual friends list of Facebook?
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Can I customize who gets notification on my birthday on Facebook?
Suppose I want only a few of my friends to get notified. What should I do?
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How can I bulk remove all Facebook friends?
I'm tired of Facebook and the only reason I'm keeping it is that I use the login in quite a few places. I also have some facebook business pages that I manage that I need access to.
I have already set ...
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How does Facebook know I am the same person/computer trying to make separate accounts using different browsers?
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The essential question here is how does Facebook know I am the same unit that is trying to create a new account, even after I have deleted all cookies/history/cache from my browser, and even ...
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I'm very much still ALIVE and well.but Facebook memorialize profile
I'm very much still ALIVE and well
don't know how Facebook can memorialize an account without
proof of death.its been quite upsetting!
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ID Verification for under age
I was mistakenly minimized my age, after that Facebook where asking me t verify my ID i also given a verification back to them was my passport really i am 26 year old, it date i dint receive any ...
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Can Facebook's Custom privacy setting ever include the public?
On Facebook, I occasionally see certain friends with their privacy settings set to Custom. When I comment on their posts, I don't want my comments to show up publicly, but I can't know whether they ...
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How to share nested Facebook public posts?
On Facebook, I'm trying to share a friend's public post of a public post. I want to post my friend's post text and the post they posted. In both the app and the desktop site, when I go to share my ...
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How to delete old Facebook chats from both end?
I know Facebook doesn't allow users to delete chats from both side after 10 minutes. But is there any way or workaround to delete or vanish my sent messages from my friends' side?
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Is facebook in violation of CCPA if they don't delete all messenger messages when you delete your account?
It seems like Facebook won't delete your messages from the recipient's inbox when you delete your account. People send a lot of personal information in messages including their address, phone number, ...
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people may know doesn't show up and sync contacts doesn't work on Facebook. what should I do?
please help I need this to add my business connections.
people may know doesn't show up. when I try to sync contacts it just shows up 'no contacts to display' if I signed in with any account it ...
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How long does it take for Facebook to verify a new account?
I made a Facebook account for mom on April 24th and on the same day it got disabled. I used the same name, surname and birthday that is in her ID. The next day (25th of April) I saw that they were ...
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Can Facebook group admins see the location of people who contact them to join their group?
I messaged a group admin requesting to join their private group and the admin was able to see my location (albeit it wasn't my actual location because I was using company server).
I was using my ...
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Why can only mutual friends see my posts to a friend's Wall?
I'm trying to share photos to a friend's timeline and/or wall. This person wants me to post and is not intentionally hiding the posts. After posting, the post title is:
MY_NAME added a new photo to ...
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Why don't the Facebook relationship notification appear in my time line
I have set my relationship status to "in a relationship" and it appears in my about or public information however even though it is set as public the relationship icon or notification doesn't show in ...
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Facebook: if you change your name in your profile, can people still search and find you based on your old name?
If I changed my name in Facebook, say from John Doe to John Bow, would I still show if people searched for John Doe?
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Can my Facebook friends see if I'm tagging myself in my old photos?
I recently discovered that if I am tagged in a photo of myself, either automatically by Facebook using its machine learning algorithm or by manually tagging myself, it shows up on the more prominent ...
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Recover Facebook account, without access to email and
We have the following scenario:
Alice is authenticated on Facebook on her phone.
She forgot the password of her Facebook account
Can't access the email associated with the Facebook account and does ...
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Do comments on a site I posted on appear on my timeline?
If I post on a group or an individual Facebook page and they comment, does that then appear on my timeline?
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Why is Facebook recommending my friend to my other friends despite having nothing in common and having my list hidden
I'm using Facebook only as a means of easy contact (mainly messenger).
I have my privacy settings set as low as it was possible, with everything visible only to me. Basically everything that could be ...
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How can I download my own video I uploaded to Facebook to my hard drive?
I have the link of the video in my storyteller. But whenever site I paste the link I'm getting error say "the video might be private and not public".
But I never set it to private. Any way to ...
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Deleting Facebook Messenger messages for all users?
I am attempting to regain my privacy by deleting some social media apps. I'm starting with Facebook and Messenger, because those are the ones I use the least, but I see that deactivating or deleting ...
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Share your Facebook photo album with non-Facebook users
In the 2000s (before 2010) Facebook would allow you to get a direct URL to one's own Facebook album that could be emailed and shared with non-Facebook users. People have asked this question before ...
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How do I lock my Facebook profile?
I have found some Facebook accounts if someone is not my friend, it shows "This profile is locked". I want to do same with my Facebook account. How can I do that?
I have seen in other's accounts a ...
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My Facebook was disabled by mistake, how long does it take to get it back? [closed]
On November 20th I was first told you send a photo of me for security and it was being reviewed.
Now on December 24th my account was disabled when I had to wait a whole month to wait so I sent a ...
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Can “Watching now” be disabled?
I was watching a snooker game live stream on Facebook and noticed a FB friend being displayed as (also) Watching now:
They also mention it in the comments next to the video (which scrolls out of view ...
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How to Discover Facebook Fake Account Info?
Someone created a fake Facebook account using my name and my picture; is there a way to discover the phone number or email that was used to create the fake account? How I can discover who did that, ...
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If I change the privacy of a photo on Facebook from “Only Me” to “Friends”, will my friends get notified about it?
If I change the privacy of a photo on Facebook from "Only Me" to "Friends", will my friends get notified about it?
What can I do if I don't want them to be notified?
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Why is Facebook telling me “Only add people who you know”?
This is the message I am receiving:
Only add people who you know
Please only send friend requests to people who you know personally.
If you think you're seeing this by mistake, please let us ...
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Delete all data on Facebook without having an account
From the latest updates to security and data-protection there is now a way to delete all private data a company such as Facebook has collected together with the ability to get the collected data.
I ...
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Automated Facebook friend requests
My father has a Facebook account he barely uses, which I can't even find on google or Facebook. He changed his privacy settings a few days ago. Before everyone could send a friend request, now only ...
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When I comment on a post it does not display on my timeline or newsfeed
I have privacy settings set to Only Me (until I figure this out) for 'Who can see my future posts' and 'Who can see posts I'm tagged in', and when I post on an article it does not appear anywhere on ...
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Does turning off facial recognition remove (or prevent the creation of) facial templates
As I understand, facebook's facial recognition creates a facial template for each user based on their photos. Does disabling facial recognition suggestions either delete existing templates or prevent ...
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How do I ensure everything on my Facebook timeline is hidden to strangers?
When a stranger (i.e. person who is not my Facebook friend) opens my personal Facebook URL (i.e. https://www.facebook.com/myusername/), several posts on my timeline are displayed. How can I ensure ...
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Will I get a Facebook Login notifications about a device that has logged into my account a few times?
I've recently turned on the setting to be notified when an unrecognised device logs into my Facebook account.
However, I think that someone has used my account on another device BEFORE I turned this ...
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How do the Activity Log » Added Friends » 'Friend activity can show up in' settings work?
In Facebook: Activity Log » More » Friends » Added Friends » 'Friend activity can show up in', I see the following togglable settings: Highlights and Other Stories, Recent Activity, New Friend Reports,...
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Will 'going to' on public event in closed group show in news feed?
I'm in a 'closed group' which has a 'public event'. I want to press 'going' on this event. I don't want it to appear on news feed/timeline (or whatever it's called) of my Facebook friends.
Will my ...
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How to block Facebook friends suggestions?
I need to block Facebook friends suggestions. I keep seeing friends suggestions on the main page and on profiles of friends, and I don't want to be shown people I don't know.
Any way to block these ...
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FriendA and FriendB are also friends with each other. Can FriendB see if FriendA likes/comments a post meant for FriendA only?
I tried to find existing answer but could not find the exact situation. I would like to know how Facebook will behave in the following case:
A, a friend of mine
B, a friend of mine
C, a friend of A, ...
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How to appear offline on Facebook, to all but one person?
Sometimes Facebook is the best or only method of communication between her and a priority contact. So as not to seem rude to her other friends, customers, or whatever while she's busy; how can she ...
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How do you stop your friends from being notified of what you post on others' walls?
With Facebook, if you go to for example a company's page and post something on their wall, or even another friend's page, how do you stop it from notifying all your friends of what you posted?
I don'...
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Prevent Instagram from suggesting me to my Facebook friends (accounts not linked)
In my Instagram app I don't log in with Facebook (my accounts are not linked and have never been) but somehow Instagram is showing me contacts from Facebook and presumably showing my contacts my ...
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How can I block all the members of a Facebook group to which I do not belong?
I would like to block the entire member list of a Facebook group, which I do not belong to, all at once. Is that even possible?
