General Chat

thanks Lyndi - Supercrutch - my computer savvy friend who has been helping me through this says I'm just very unlucky!! I can go with that :-D

Ann, I have seen a few times recently on FB a message from friends saying 'if you get a friend request from me, do not respond, I did not send it' - so it would appear that whatever has happened to them has now happened to you :-(

Just so you know it is not just you lol. Hope you get it all sorted soon :-)

stop sniggerin' Wend :-D :-D :-D

Didn't that happen to your email account not so long ago?

I would check your own computer.

I've always thought you were a bit suspicious Ann. What have you been up to?

*Sniggers* :-D :-D :-D

it's locked - let's hope it stays that way :-D :-D :-D :-D

just had a message from facebook - my account has been suspended due to suspicious activity - suspicious!! I should say - they can keep it suspended

hmm - well now someone is sending out messages in my name to all my contacts advertising cheap sunglasses :-S

I just want out of facebook - full stop

well thank you all - my lovely pal Supercrutch just phoned me and went through it with me and it's done - hopefully - thank you Sue and all the others who tried to sort me out <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

If you click on the lock(top right hand side)

you get "Privacy check up"
in that box you can see an option for
"who can contact me" then
" who can send me friend requests"
click that and you should see
"friends of friends" on a list of options
click that and only friends of friends will be able to
send you a friend request

:-D

well that didn't work - they're still rolling in :-( :-( :-( :-(

I'll stop banging on about it now - it's getting boring :-D

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

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

one of the latest

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

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

Ann log in, press small arrow top right of screen

select "settings"

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

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