Questions tagged [facebook-privacy]
For questions regarding the privacy of personal information on Facebook.
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Suspicious behaviour of Facebook account
In the recent days I have noticed suspicious activity in my account probably due to some apps I had added in my account. There were autolikes and automatic follows appearing in my account. So I ...
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Does Facebook notify a user when their picture is removed per privacy-violation request?
I found a few pictures of my kids on Facebook that I would like to file a child privacy take-down request. What happens when Facebook actually removes the pictures... is the picture-poster notified?
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Public "in a relationship" Facebook status without news feeding?
I changed my relationship status a few weeks ago from "single" to "in a relationship" (leaving the person-in-question box empty). Today I want this info as-is to be publicly accessible on my profile, ...
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If I like a friend's old post, would my 'Like' appear to our friend's (mutual) news feed? [closed]
If I like a friend's really old post (2011 - something he posted to me - it actually appeared to me on my "ON THIS DAY" section) would my 'Like' appear on our mutual friend's news feed?
I don't want ...
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How to prevent users from finding you by your email address in Facebook?
I want to have enough closed account in Facebook. I do not want that people knowing my email address can find me.
I know the following cases but they do not target the problem, since I have all those ...
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Does Facebook respect your "except" list if those people are in "friends of tagged"?
If I post something on Facebook I can see in the privacy settings, I can make it visible to all of my friends and I can also choose "except" and list any individual people to not be included.
I am ...
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Can a friend of a friend see my post?
I did not block the person I do not want to see my post. I want to know if a specific person, who I am NOT friends with,can see my post if a mutual friend likes it or comments on it. I have searched ...
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Will Facebook suggest my Facebook friends to my Facebook acquaintances?
I have set my Facebook friends list to be private, so that, supposedly, only I can see who my Facebook friends are.
However, one of my FB friends (let's call him "A") has also set his list to be ...
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Prevent my own message from being received if I report it as spam
I have sent a message to someone that shouldn't have got it. They haven't read it so I reported it as spam and deactivated my account. Will this definitely stop the person from seeing the message? Has ...
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If I like a post that is shared with friends but the original post was public, who can see that I liked the shared post?
If I like a post that is shared by a friend with their friends but the original post was public, who can see that I liked the shared post?
In other words, if friend A (let's call her Anna) shares a ...
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How can I be sure who sees what post on Facebook when I'm restricting which lists see what I post?
Say I have several groups/lists of friends on Facebook.
Group A is family
Group B is co-workers from company B
Group C is co-workers from company C
Group D is friends from university
Group E is a ...
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Is there a way to control whose news feeds my likes, comments, and photos I'm tagged in, appear on?
There are some pages that I really like following, because I feel that they make quality posts, and I want to help them out by liking their posts. However, I do not wish my friends to see that I have ...
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Who sees my comments on my friend's posts?
A friend of mine posts updates on his timeline and sets their privacy to be only shared with his friends. I am on his friends list, so I can see his posts. But, if I were to comment on his posts, who ...
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Privacy of subscribing to a Facebook page's events (without liking the page)
I would like to be notified about the new events created by a Facebook page:
But I don't want anyone to know I have ever seen this page, so in particular I cannot "like" it.
Is it possible?
I ...
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Does everything disappear when I block someone on Facebook and Messenger?
If I block someone on Facebook and also block him on Messenger, does everything on Messenger disappear or still is shown as active from the person that blocked him ?
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Hide friending activity from Timeline by default
Whenever I get a new friend on Facebook, a new entry appears in Activity Log with a pencil icon. Clicking this pencil icon reveals that it is "Allowed on Timeline". I would like to make it "Hidden ...
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What will happen if I change the privacy of a photo from "Friends" to "Public"?
I uploaded a picture to my timeline and set the privacy to "Friends". My friends received notifications. But now I have changed the privacy of the image to public. Will my friends get new ...
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Are some profiles on Facebook un-blockable?
Facebook habitually recommends some names totally out of the blue as "You may know". My stock response is to view that profile, and if it sets my spidey sense tingling - block.
Recently I moved to ...
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Does deleting posts and comments on Facebook, delete all copies from Facebook servers?
I'm deleting some older posts from Facebook.
These are made up of my original posts, my comments and, depending, might have; likes, other people's comments, images and shares.
When this material is ...
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How do I allow getting Facebook event invitations from the general public?
I don't see anything in the privacy settings that would prevent people from inviting me to events. Some people say they cannot invite me to events as my name is not populating, even though we are part ...
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How secure is Facebook's custom search?
If I share a photo album on Facebook with "custom audience" then will their mutual friends will be able to see those photos?
I want to upload family albums and I want only selected people to see.
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How to prevent people from finding me by name search on Facebook?
I don't want my profile to appear in search results for user profiles.
Is it possible to configure my account to be unsearchable?
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How to change the privacy of all posts in Facebook?
I've been a user of Facebook since 2006 and I need change the privacy setting of all my posts to "only me" so no one can see them.
Is this possible?
How can I achieve this?
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Why does Facebook show last login of some friends and doesn't show that in others?
When I am using Facebook on my PC, on the chat bar I see last online time for some of my friends. But I don't see last seen for some of them. Why does this happen? Is it because the person has turned ...
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Privacy Restrictions on Facebook
If I post a status on Facebook, but restrict a specific someone from seeing it - Will they still be able to see it if a mutual friend comments on it or likes it ? (No one is tagged, just a status ...
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How to make my Facebook profile picture private for non-friends?
I've set my profile picture only available for Friends.
However it's still visible for the public.
Non-authenticated users can see the profile thumbnail and authenticated (non-friends) can still ...
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Facebook ticker and privacy related specifically to groups?
Does the ticker show a message to my friends when I join a specific closed group? What about the same for the people who follow me?
If someone is a member of the same closed group, but not a friend of ...
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Last Active on Facebook without any mobile session
It's been a long since I removed all my Facebook App for Android. However I still can see "last seen" timestamp. How? I have two FB accounts, A and B.
A -> chat turned off, no app sessions in Secury ...
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Some of my friends can't see my friends publications (restricted list?)
I remember that at some point I added a few friends to a "restricted list". Things seem to have changed now and I cannot seem to find a way to edit these settings.
Whenever I post something, next to ...
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Limiting Exposure on Facebook
I want to know if there is any way to modify my Facebook profile so that no other user can click on my photos tab and see other photos. Within the condition I'm outlining however, I could still see ...
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Making all Facebook posts visible to only me
Is there any way to make all Facebook posts visible to only me (without having to manually change the visibility of each post one by one)?
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Friend request that now shows "cancel"
If I sent a friend request to someone and now in that box it says cancel, does that mean that person cancelled my request?
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Is complete control over tagging me on Facebook possible?
Facebook allows me to approve all photos where I am tagged to appear on my timeline. However, Facebook states:
Note: This only controls what's allowed on your timeline. Posts you're tagged in still ...
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How to improve privacy from non-friends on Facebook?
I thought I was able to turn of the ability for non-friends to search me but apparently not. I'd prefer that only friends can view my profile (and if I wanted new ones I would add them). This doesn't ...
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How to hide the new friendship with a user from few of my friends on Facebook
I want to make a friendship with some person, but I don't want to let some of my friends know that me and that person have become friends. How can I achieve this? What privacy settings changes do I ...
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Facebook friends list, including disabled accounts, shows one less than friends count!
For a while now, Facebook has been showing deactivated accounts in one's friends list, which is nice. However, the total number of friends in my list, including disabled accounts, is one less than the ...
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How to hide from the public "comments and likes from friends" underneath my Facebook cover photo
My Facebook friends list is set to "friends only" so the public cannot see this. They can, however, see who SOME of my friends are by viewing the comments and likes from friends underneath my cover ...
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How to stop strangers sending me event invites in Facebook?
I relocated and some requests are too country-specific. I am looking for a way to block all requests to other countries. I can only block events from my friends but not from non-friends, strangers and ...
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Automatically not allow tag for certain friend
I have an overzealous friend on Facebook who always takes random pictures and tags me in them. Is there an automatic way to prevent having him tag me?
If I am actually in a picture, is there a way ...
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"Photos of Jonathan" missing while 'viewing as public'
When I look at my Facebook photos via "View as Public" I notice I don't have the Photos of Jonathan tab. I only have the Jonathan's Photos and the Albums tab. I browsed some profiles and noticed some ...
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How do I hide my activities from my friend's news feed?
Assume I liked or wrote a comment on a post of Enrique's page.
All my friends are able to see all posts which I liked or commented on News Feed.
How do I hide my activities from my friend's news ...
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How can you remove a Facebook “Community” Page?
A while back, my friend put my name as the name of the university he attended on Facebook as a joke. Facebook automatically created a community page for the 'university' but he doesn't see a delete ...
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How to make Facebook likes private?
I know there's a way to hide what I like from my newsfeed and hide my activity log, but to illustrate my question...
Say I am friends with Joe and Nancy but they're not mutual friends. If I like Joe’...
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In Facebook, how to restrict my own posts in a group only visible to the group members?
In Facebook, how can I restrict my own posts in a group to only be visible to the group members? In other words, I don't like the posts that are only relevant to the members of that group being ...
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Public profile information
How do I stop Facebook naming my mother as a Parent in the "Born" section of my timeline that is viewable to the public?
I don't think I made this information public and I have even updated my ...
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Find out what data Facebook stores about non-users and non-members
Where can I see the data Facebook knows/has about me, a person who has not registered for the service?
I've never signed up for Facebook. I tried back in 2006, but was denied, and never finished the ...
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What is really displayed on Facebook's timeline – and how to preview it?
When I preview my timeline as someone else in my privacy settings, I cannot see f.e. the articles that I currently liked or the comments I wrote. However, when reviewing my timeline, they all appear ...
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How can I see my Restricted friends list on Facebook?
Each time I post, it comes up with "friends except restricted". I have no "restricted" list on the left hand side of the screen where lists appear.
I did have a restricted list ages ago but now I ...
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I want to hide myself from a particular friend's friends
I guess this is a special case but I want to hide my profile, especially DP (Profile Picture) and timeline, from a particular friend's friends.
I know we can hide ourselves from friends of friends. ...
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How to increase privacy on Facebook from non-friends?
I happened to see my Facebook account from a profile who isn't my friend. Basically everything is public. I thought I had fixed this with the settings.
My issues are:
I don't want strangers to see ...
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