While you can edit your privacy settings or restrict what other people can access on your feed, you should hide yourself from the search engine. Don't allow users to look you up with your email address or mobile number. You may alter the settings in your control panel. Using the same email address on every website you register on can make it easy to be followed by undesirable people. You probably still have to use your real name when you sign up. So far, I've not been able to counter that.

I'm really on it just to keep tabs on ads relating to extras work posted by film makers in my hometown. I've really no interest in this Nicolette tart badmouthing me so I don't get work, nor do I want any bother from other troublemakers that want to slander me. That can have a detrimental effect on people when they go around black balling others with libel. Since I'm just wanting to be an extra, it's inconsequential to those idiots should I lose out. I'd rather nothing fell back on me.

I tried to sign up with a false name and a fake photograph so I could use the groups anonymously, but Facebook staff somehow know the account wasn't genuine. The problem with some groups is that you cannot leave posts until you are a confirmed member. Sometimes, you can contact someone directly, but the message goes into a different folder because you probably aren't their friend. In the past, you could pay a fee to have a message reach the person's inbox, which I felt was unusual. Facebook doesn't do that anymore.