How to stop Facebook Stalking?

LegacyUser

A relationship ended finally. We agreed to cut all contact as it's no good for us to move on. But I myself could not stop checking the person's facebook profile. What make it worse it that the person made the wall public. I thought of blocking the person, but I could even open another account to check the profile. It's wasting a lot of my time when I needed to do work on the computer instead of reading the person's profile or even the person's friends' profiles!!!! My friend told me it's no good but asked me not to put pressure to stop and eventually I would stop myself with something new in my life or someone new in my life. I know it's an addiction, how can I stop? I cant ask the person to change the facebook privacy. Anyone has this serious addiction like me?

Oryx

Like any addiction, you stop one day, one hour, one minute at a time. Find distractions, other things to make you happy and stop you dwelling on this. It might help to give up facebook completely for a while.

astra2000

Try going into your settings and blocking this person it should mean you can no longer see their page.

curlzy

Here's a novel idea: Delete/Close your facebook account and don't use it ever again. The way people go on you'd swear having a Facebook Account is as important as having a liver, it's really not though.

liah

Is there any way you can ask our ex if they can block you?

Johnny Bitte

Same when my last relationship. So unfriended them but their profile was public so blocked them in the settings and just did my best not to look.

And never been so glad I did, you really dont want to see what these people are up to. It will drive you mad.
And as said above if you really think you need to delete your account or suspend it, although I had so many people come out to support me and they did so on Facebook.
You can always open a new one eventually if you want too.

LegacyUser

OP here.

appreciate the advice. I did think of asking the person to block me, but just dont think it's good to contact the person now. i would not want to sound very weak as well that i need the person's help to move on my own life. i did already something very silly before we halt all contacts, and would feel bad to contact the person at this moment while we both are back to our lives. so time to really halt all contacts.

i de-activated my account just. i did that before. but i activated it again 'cos i felt myself lost touch with my other friends which i did not want to.

i emailed my friends (just few closed one) about the deactivation. i gave myself 6 months time. and i would re-activate the account again. fingercrossed that i would not re-activate again this time and that i could completely move on by 6 months time.

ah, mind you, i am not a teenage. really am angry at myself for such silly things while there supposed to be something more important to do that stalking.

LegacyUser

tks for leaving messages, especially for those who told me that s/he did the same before. at least, i am not the only one who 'was' mental (hopefully i can keep on using past tense for this one), although i was quite mental that i can check many many times if i work on computer on documents etc.