Fake FB friends

My dad is on there, what a drag :\

I've a couple of childhood friends that live far away. A couple of cousins that also live far away. My likes do average that 4-5 number. If I go in a couple of times during the week, I'm ok. My gram says she hardly goes in and we discussed the fakeness aspect today, when I called her.
It can be an alright tool to get group photos from family reunions.
I've actually noticed one cousin and one friend from childhood that in months haven't liked on fb or instagram. Sooooo...does it help recognize there's a rift? [I kept liking away....no reciprocal likes??]

Pen and paper works nicely. Dialing digits does, as well. The friends that I actually participate in real life with, don't and probably won't take the fb plunge.

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Criminals actually use Facebook to download pics of good looking people so they can use them for creating fake accounts and profiles and scam their victims. This is not paranoia but well known fact. So when people befriend total strangers they have never met they might be unknowingly assisting criminals. Just saying

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I just find it boring these days, I don't find any use for it except to keep in touch with A Red Panda and Christina because they can't Whatsapp chat with me.


If it weren't for these two ladies I would deactivate my account in a heart beat.


Not for the fakeness, I know all the people I've friended, its just an unnecessary drag when I can and do IM, video chat, call, arrange get togethers in group chats, share pics, videos and songs with them on WhatsApp instead.

I don't have a Facebook account, but I do have a Twitter account, and a lot of the things being said here have crossed my mind. Even though I know there is tons of manipulation of self-image going on, the way people present themselves on social media can sometimes make me feel crappy about myself. Even when I KNOW it shouldn't.

When I had real life friends, they didn't want to use social media, we would just talk on the phone or in person. Now that I'm in a more isolated area (no friends) I started going online to talk to people with similar interests but it's a really mixed bag. Mostly meh.

I feel like I'm the one going to people to start a conversation and they're not doing that in return, making me feel like I'm a boring person. Then I give up and stop trying.

The key word is what does 'care' mean? I care about the people I friended and ignored friend requests from people I have no idea who they are or from people who really didn't know me at all but had some relation to me, like went to my school. I feel they care enough about me to have at least pressed a button on my behalf. That's good enough for me for Facebook purposes.

I guess Facebook serves its purpose to help keep in touch with friends and family that have moved away, but I think that some people use it as a substitute for real human interaction, which it's not. I have been inviting people to come out and join me so that we could have a conversation that is more substantial than clicking "like" on a picture or a post. I also know that people primarily post the good things, and even though I know this, it kind of brings me down. It doesn't help that the weather here has been horrible and that I have been cooped up in this house.

I was trying to figure out how to fix something else on my Facebook and saw a list of people I friend requested. I did not request these people, and one of them was my ex boyfriend's wife! Also, I saw a whole section of placed I checked in. I never check in anywhere! It looks like Facebook automatically accesses my location as I unknowingly go places and checks me in. I hate that, really freaks me out, Big Brother!

I don't have my photo on fb as a profile image, and if I put a photo on my 'diary' I put it public only for friends (that are people I know)...hope this will be a good protection.

I'll never ever use FB again as my FB account was hacked last year. Whoever did it was able to still get onto any new accounts that I created and have full control over viewing my pics and videos despite me using different names.

That is really scary! I had to delete it. I had my real email and phone number on there at the time. I no longer trust social media. It's not safe to add anyone that you don't really know that well on there at all. There are lots of nuts out there. I recently am still dealing with the same hacker I believe since a few more of my accounts got hacked the same way, ugh

I don't know anyone who'd want to stalk and harass me on here. Because of that, I have to stay off social media and censor what I information I give out on here now, ugh! Eff those hackers and weirdo stalkers! I hope that they eventually leave me alone! No one knows about my personal info now except for real life friends!

yes. I feel like crap because I know that my friends on facebook, even in real life, don't care about me. They don't tell me happy birthday (so i always deactivate on that day) never like or comment on my statuses and on top of that, never talk to me in real life. I hate being 25. I have no life now without school.

someone could have suggested them. They add them to your friends list.

nobody wants to hang out with me. even when I ask them. it's always, I'm too busy. But yet they post something on facebook seconds after... with a friend.....

Hi Little Cat. Interesting what you bring up. I was internet stalked by an ex who was completed psychotic. He had the entire time a profile on my Facebook which became obvious as he always knew about things I didn't tell him. After relationship stop I was internet stalked and trolled, meaning they continued to seek information about me and bash my life on anonymous confession sites. The stalking continues or I am the victim of continual trying to pry in my business. I have about five fake Facebook profile friend requests a day I am learning to ignore. I unfortunately have an internet and tech savvy family that utilizes Facebook contacting more than the telephone so there I stay, utilizing it as little as possible because of the eavesdropping strangers and exes. You are wise to stay weary.

I don't like fb. I don't have an account and don't think I'll make one again.

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Sorry to hear that. I have felt that way lot of times, and I'm a lot older than you are. FB is BS. I'm so glad that I deleted it. Don't take it to personally. Just ignore those so called friends and make better ones. Eff people like that. It's better to be alone than with people who make you feel alone-quote by the late Robbin Williams.

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I'm guessing that little cat means me? lol. If not, I just want to say, yikes! I found a link that might be able to help you block your crazy ex, or at the very least, but able to stop him from finding you on there, on FB at least!

5 Ways You Can Block A Facebook Stalker

Also, since you have tech savvy family, ask them what you can do. I'm sure that they know about your situation. If so, email them privately, text them, or call them more often. If I were you, I'd delete every email that is known to him and change your number if you haven't already.

I'd create new accounts and only give it out to your real life friends and family. Change the privacy settings too. Also, check your log in settings to make sure that the location wasn't changed. That's how I found out that I got hacked. It was dumb luck. I check it out now on every site I'm on which is just email now mostly. If something looks off, then I know that someone has been snooping around, or that my account was hacked.

Disable third party apps and refuse game requests. I think that blocking him will help a lot. That way he won't be able to find you even with a google search. In the worst case scenario, change your user name to one he doesn't know. Use a nick name or delberately mispell your real name on there so that you're next to impossible to find. Also, never use your real pic as your profile pic! I hope that helped you some!

I'm sure that there are stalking laws out there for the internet, so look them up by state. Contact the police if you have to if he threatens you and save all info. Contact FB and ask them for help on what to do. Don't contact your ex at all. It just encorages the stalking. Any attention is better than no attention to them. Good luck with everything!

Facebook is for real friends, who do care about you, and are barred from your real life, so they watch you and live vicariously. I have friends on there who are acting out and trolling me because they're being a baby and also I told him he walks a fine line'.

I've been trying to ask these cute questions because I don't know what else to say on there anymore. And he keeps answering me like INSTANTLY with these inappropriate, trolling responses.

I don't look to see what people say until maybe the next day. He texts me late last night to tell me one of our mutual friends, defriended him because he made a Hitler reference in some way he had just trolled me.

I know many people on my facebook that have 10000's of friends. Pretty much everybody from school lol.

I've said this before but I'll say it again here FB has it's uses.

But for me, I have maybe a handful of friends I keep up with on there and those are only ones I have as friends elsewhere, I interact with them in other ways, so fb is just a tool to sometimes see different posts by those friends. I have a lot more "friends" (note the quotes) than this on fb but they are all acquaintances that I do not expect or think are close friends nor do I want that from them. They are people who share interests in some things like Art, gaming and such.

I never use fb as a tool to share my personal life, my kids, my family pics or such. What people know of me on fb is that I'm an artist that posts art from time to time there, I game like crazy and post about it. Outside of those things FB is useless to me as a 'social' platform.

In fact when "friends" start posting too much personal stuff, what they ate, how their day went and all kinds of unimportant life things, I will quietly stop following them because frankly I don't share nor want to see that stuff. If you're a close friend I'll hear about those things in real friendly conversation elsewhere anyway.

FB is only as bad as you let it be. Expect it to be a place to find lots of good friends, you will be terribly disappointed.

for me, it's just a fun, casual outlet for the subjects I stated earlier. I don't RELY on it for anything more. that's why even though I sometimes feel like quitting, I don't. it's really not affecting my life adversely either.