facebook

tommyboy26

can anyone tell me how to hide my complete facebook account so that if im not friends with someone and they search for me they cant find me.

is this even possible?

i have my instgram as a private account so only friends can see my posts can that be done for facebook?

AttentionBebe

Block them. It's the only way you won't show up when they search

tommyboy26

AttentionBebe wrote: »

Block them. It's the only way you won't show up when they search

its not one person just want my facebook more private

AttentionBebe

It's not possible to remove your profile from the general search. Are your posts set to public or friends only?

GingerLily

AttentionBebe wrote: »

It's not possible to remove your profile from the general search. Are your posts set to public or friends only?

It is, I have it set so that only people with mutual friends can search and add me.

There are tonnes of privacy settings available if you look

igCorcaigh

AFAIK, your name and such is always findable via search engines. Your content can be hidden, but not your profile as such.

Faith

Probably easiest to change your name, tbh. I use a different last name and have extra letters in my first name. Makes it pretty hard for anyone to find me.

GingerLily

Go to your Privacy settings on Facebook and theres a section 'How people find and contact you', you can adjust a lot of general settings therento restrict who can see your profile.

AttentionBebe

GingerLily wrote: »

It is, I have it set so that only people with mutual friends can search and add me.

There are tonnes of privacy settings available if you look

Not anymore. Anyone can now search for anyone, you can restrict who can message or add you but your profile can always be searched.

GingerLily

AttentionBebe wrote: »

GingerLily wrote: »

It is, I have it set so that only people with mutual friends can search and add me.

There are tonnes of privacy settings available if you look

Not anymore. Anyone can now search for anyone, you can restrict who can message or add you but your profile can always be searched.

Must have changed in the last two weeks!

tommyboy26

AttentionBebe wrote: »

It's not possible to remove your profile from the general search. Are your posts set to public or friends only?

yes i have

Faith wrote: »

Probably easiest to change your name, tbh. I use a different last name and have extra letters in my first name. Makes it pretty hard for anyone to find me.

good idea never thought of that

GingerLily wrote: »

Go to your Privacy settings on Facebook and theres a section 'How people find and contact you', you can adjust a lot of general settings therento restrict who can see your profile.

that option use to be there but i cant find it now

GingerLily wrote: »

Must have changed in the last two weeks!

seems alot of settings have changed recently. you use to be able to view your page as someone who isnt a friend but that option says its unavailable now

GingerLily

tommyboy26 wrote: »

GingerLily wrote: »

Go to your Privacy settings on Facebook and theres a section 'How people find and contact you', you can adjust a lot of general settings therento restrict who can see your profile.

that option use to be there but i cant find it now

GingerLily wrote: »

Must have changed in the last two weeks!

seems alot of settings have changed recently. you use to be able to view your page as someone who isnt a friend but that option says its unavailable now

I still have the option so it's probably about whatever version you have.

That's a shame, I really liked those privacy features

beauf

Faith wrote: »

Probably easiest to change your name, tbh. I use a different last name and have extra letters in my first name. Makes it pretty hard for anyone to find me.

I used a fake name from the start and facebook changed it to my real name. It also got my DOB and other details. I have no idea from where. I don't use my real detail or name online. I assume its grabbing data from other apps and other people's phone. I have to keep hiding and changing my details. I don't use the face book app only the website. I've pretty much disabled most of it.

GavMan

tommyboy26 wrote: »

seems alot of settings have changed recently. you use to be able to view your page as someone who isnt a friend but that option says its unavailable now

That feature led to a bug which allowed for the session authorisation token to be found and used. Effectively meaning a malicious actor would have authenticated access to your account.

As such, it was disabled

Ducky00

GavMan wrote: »

That feature led to a bug which allowed for the session authorisation token to be found and used. Effectively meaning a malicious actor would have authenticated access to your account.

As such, it was disabled

Can two people block each other at the same time? Or will person A have to have unblocked person B at some stage for person B to be able to block person A?

Like two people can block each other on Instagram if person A didn't refresh the page before they reblocked person B and in that space of time person B managed to block person A. Neither can then unblock the other. (I know this works on Instagram because I have blocked someone in this manner)

Can the same thing happen on Facebook if person A didn't refresh the page on their laptop or phone?