Facebook

How do I make my profile be not accessible to others? Meaning, some of my friends have friends whose comments appear alongside a no picture and no highlighted name profile. I want mine to appear like that. What do I select under "Privacy"?

Ok, I must be old-fashioned because I am very reluctant to add people I just met. But is it normal for someone who met you once to look you up and add you to FB (I wasn't thinking straight that day when I accepted) and then comment on 9 out of 10 of your status updates and hunt you down for a lunch date, and then email you and post in your wall about this other event and if I'm attending and going to the dinner too.

It's just too overwhelming and I feel smothered. I'm sure she's a nice, harmless girl, but the persistence is too much and irritating.

ETA: I may be overreacting but it's too close to my comfort level.

Aficionada, she sounds...intense. Perhaps I am also old fashioned though.

If you go to Settings > Privacy Settings > Search, you can control who can see your profile picture and if they can add you as a friend. You could also set up a limited profile and then just add people to that if you don't want them to see your whole facebook. For now, you could add that girl to a limited profile so she can no longer see your status updates (or pictures, or groups - whatever).

Another option is LinkedIn. For networking stuff, I have a LinkedIn account. I have had people try to add me on facebook before, but I just redirected them to LinkedIn. I suppose though, that it would be rude to message her and say 'Just go to LinkedIn already! Get off my facebook!'

Thanks bluebird. I also use LinkedIn and there are some people I specifically want to only see on LinkedIn! I think it's too late for her.

Crap, I have no idea how this happened, but someone's posted some kind of spam crap under my profile from their phone. But it's not ON my profile, so I can't delete it. It's like they hijacked my name to promote their 'work from home' scam.

I've already changed my password and looked over my security settings, but I can't figure out how they did it. It's really pissing me off.

A friend of mine has been having the same problems, iirc, it was actually related to some app.

I saw something like that pop up in one of my friend's updates yesterday.

My sister got something like that from one of her FB friends, the friend later sent out a mass apology saying that it was not her that sent that.

Another one to look out for right now is an email from one of your friends saying that they have racy pictures of you, that just happened to someone I know. Again, she got a follow up from the person saying that they did not send it.

FB's security is a little alarming sometimes.

I had that happen a few weeks ago. My friend texted me about the tooth whitening system I was raving about on FB, and she wanted to know if I paid the shipping for the "free" sample. I quickly deleted the post, and warned everyone who had asked about it. It said it was posted from the mobile web. I changed my password and deleted most of the apps.

My friend was one click away from giving her credit card number to pay the shipping and handling when she noticed the small print informing her that she was signing up for a $89 a month subscription for tooth whiteners. Then a few days later, she got a call from some cell phone asking if she still wanted to sign up and complete her order. She gave the guy hell for hacking my page and she said he just laughed and hung up.

That happened to one of my FB friends with some weight-loss crap. Considering this friend is quite tiny, suddenly getting posts from her saying that she lost 15 pounds of belly fat with the help of this miracle drug were odd, to say the least. I don't think anyone fell for it because of who it was, but I can see how it would happen.

Why are these tooth-whitening spammers allowed to legitimately advertise if they're also hacking people's accounts? I suppose there's no proof, it might not be the same company, the tooth-whitening industry is just where the money is right now, etc. etc. But Christ I'm sick of those tooth ads (I MAY have mentioned that a time or two), and hearing that part of the MO of some of them is hacking FB accounts does NOT surprise me.

I was reading a series of articles from Tech Crunch just the other day about this kind of thing. They were really eye opening - here's a link to one of them and at the bottom are links to the rest of the related articles. Good reading (or scary reading, depending on your point of view).

Wow. I've just stumbled across my sisters other account (strictly for friends which means you know what's on there) on Facebook and am now mentally scarred for life.

So I've been unable to log in to my FB account from my home PC. I can access FB fine from my iPhone but when I try to access FB from my computer, it says I must be logged in or it keeps making me type in my password. I've changed my password but nothing seems to be working. I've even deleted my cookies and temporary internet files to no avail. Restarting my computer doesn't help either. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

Have you tried clearing your cache?

Yes. It hasn't helped.

Are you logged in from work? I had "keep me logged in" checked on my work PC, and it was playing havoc with my wife's attempts to sign in from home - it kept bouncing her to a "you must be signed in" screen with my username in the entry field. Once I logged out from work and unchecked the box, the problem went away.

No. I have no idea what the hell's going on. AAAAGH!

ETA: I tried what you said anyway, laddical, and it WORKED! OMG, you are a saint!