General Chat

Trish. Hello I didn't know you were still on Genes, good to see you here.

Ann, are you sure they aren't just FB suggestions? 'People you might know'?

When ever I get those I just click repeately on the cross in the top right corner on any of them - it only takes a minute or so - and they disappear.
More will pop up another day :-| but just ignore or get shot.

and another two - all he latest have unpronounceable names

they are confirming my request to be friends :-S :-S

I get those too Island 'In people you might know'...... other than that I have friends requests posted direct to my status..... at the moment I have five people that are distant cousins in Canada that my brother has as 'friends'........

In the past I have had requests from people that are on my groups on Facebook and always reply that my account is only available to my friends and family......... everyone has been understanding and acceptable ....

The only 'strangers' I get are people asking to be contacts on my Skype account ...... these are blocked pronto !

another two just rolled in - one has a name using letters from what seems to be the Russian or Greek alphabet

Island, It is a genuine looking email saying Ann wants to be friends. It does look as though your account has been hacked Ann, I am hoping that because I accepted the request, people are not going to start getting requests from me.

well a guy called Dan Kimber just responded to me after I told him I had not made any request to be friends - think he's in USA - he can't work it out either

Well, it looks like you have been hacked ......... delete your Facebook account and re-join with a change to your original application ......

why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing - and how do I get out of facebook?

Just change your password Ann

Might be helpful to you Ann - https://www.facebook.com/help/359046244166395/

can't work out how to do it :-( :-( :-(

Ann log in, press small arrow top right of screen

select "settings"

Now press "edit" to the right of the word "password"

I'll have a go - they're still rolling in - must have had about 100 so far

can't see an arrow - I must be very thick :-(

one of the latest

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Ann it's very small, it's blue on blue and you use it to log out

I'm a lost cause Claire - I have however opted out of receiving messages so that might work - we'll see - really I want nothing to do with facebook at all - I only joined as a favour to a store in Abergavenny where I shop regularly - they wanted someone to go on facebook and give them some praise - which I had no problem doing as it is a great store

Ann, try


log out

(yes, it's very hard to see - dark blue downward arrow at the far right of the blue strip across the top - click it and then 'log out')

then go to log in again and after you type your email address, say you can't remember your password

Facebook will email you a link to make a new password.



What it sounds like is happening is what happens to me, that I described at the bottom of page 1, that is:

Someone used your email address to sign up for facebook, and facebook just let them go ahead and do it without confirming that the email address is actually theirs (by sending a link that they have to click to confirm - which is what any decently operated website does)

is the email address where you are receiving the friends requests the one you use for your own facebook account? because an email address can only be used for one account at a time at facebook


if it isn't, and you log out then try to log in using the email address where you are getting all the mail, and say you have forgotten your password ... then the email you get back, for resetting your password, should take you to the imposter's facebook page.


if it's somebody else using your email address, changing the password will stop them from accessing their facebook account and sending any more friends requests ... but you will continue to get "do you know" mail ... so in fact you can just delete that facebook page altogether then if you are able to log in to it


if someone has somehow accessed your facebook account (which I doubt), changing the password as others have suggested will fix that


have you looked at the facebook profile for the person who is getting all these friends messages?

I'm not very computer literate I'm afraid 0 born in the wrong era I suppose - I'll have another go at fixing it and in the meantime, thanks to all of you who have tried to help me <3