Another stupid Facebook question

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Why would you block someone from seeing your wall posts and writing on your wall in Facebook when you could just block them entirely? Basically giving them access to nothing anyway?

I was looking around the privacy settings and just wondered why I would let "a friend" see my profile picture on facebook, but nothing else? Seems silly to me, so I just completely deleted the person.

 

[crz4mm2]

Maybe you work with them and don't want to piss them off right now.......

 

[PixieDust32]

I think you can only block them completely, there is a way to do it, you go to settings and then privacy I think and there is a box where you can write the name of the person you want to block.

 

[Becky2005]

I did it for businesses. There are a few that are set up to be "friends" vs. fan. They *really* don't need to know all my updates but I want their updates.

You can put them all into a certain group & then block what they see from you. I'm not 100% savy on it & only found that out by reading other things on how to do it but it worked.

 

[barrett7890]

my husband has friends he accepted purely for one of the games, these people are all in a group and can only see the most basic of info

cami
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[SC Minnie]

my husband has friends he accepted purely for one of the games, these people are all in a group and can only see the most basic of info

cami
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I have that too.

But you can also use the block for family members that would cause 'problems' if you didn't accept their friend request but you don't really want them to see all your postings. Also for co-workers that are in your small dept.

 

[bgirl29]

Does anyone know why on my daughters pictures I can only see some of them? Not the latest ones that she has added. Is there a setting that would limit pictures? I know that her postings show up on my page but I do not understand why I cannot see all of her pictures. Thank you for any help.

 

[RadioNate]

Does anyone know why on my daughters pictures I can only see some of them? Not the latest ones that she has added. Is there a setting that would limit pictures? I know that her postings show up on my page but I do not understand why I cannot see all of her pictures. Thank you for any help.

You can't see all her photos because she has blocked you from seeing them. If she has her friends sorted you are in the group that is blocked from that album. Or she just blocked you individually from the album.

Sorry.

 

[bgirl29]

Nate I have seen the pictures they are just more normal pictures of her with friends. My DD is only 14 so she is not allowed to be blocking me from anything. Where do we look to see if this has happened?

This is what I assumed had happened but she says that she doesn't know how to block anyone. I will be checking this out of course. The thing is as the pictures not showing up on mine do not look like they are in a seperate album from what I can see.

I have another question too if you do not mind. You know how when you look at a person that is not your friend sometimes you just see their name and sometimes you can see all of their basic info, what makes that different? I really appreciate your help.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

You know how when you look at a person that is not your friend sometimes you just see their name and sometimes you can see all of their basic info, what makes that different? I really appreciate your help.

I believe that you can edit what you want people to see then they try to find you on facebook. You can let them see your profile pic, or not, your other friends, or not, even your fan pages, or not.


I have a friend who has over 500 facebook friends. She does not let anyone write on her wall. She'll make a post and you can comment on her posts, which many of us do, but no one has access to write an original wall post. Just think this is strange. She may have a wall post about her dog, then someone will have to go under that post and comment about what a nice time they had together at lunch. I even wonder if she knows she has her facebook account set up this way.

 

[cat83]

But you can also use the block for family members that would cause 'problems' if you didn't accept their friend request but you don't really want them to see all your postings.

I was going to say the same thing I have a few people on there that I wish I could block, but would cause drama in the family so I don't.

Does anyone know why on my daughters pictures I can only see some of them? Not the latest ones that she has added. Is there a setting that would limit pictures? I know that her postings show up on my page but I do not understand why I cannot see all of her pictures. Thank you for any help.

I know for each album you add, you can individually set different privacy settings for that album (limit who can see it).
If she hasn't done that, though, I'm not sure?
Is it HER album or pictures OF her in a friend's album? Because if they are her friend's, and you aren't a friends with the album owner, then you may not be able to see them

 

[everylastbreath]

If you block someone and you have a mutual friend, how does that work? If you respond to one of their posts or post something to the mutual friend and the blocked person posts to it also, what exactly can they see? I blocked my BIL (Long story, yes it involved FB!!) and we no longer speak but my DIL still has him on her page and I have him blocked, if I post to her page can he see it or is it just me who doesn't see him?

 

[bgirl29]

I was going to say the same thing I have a few people on there that I wish I could block, but would cause drama in the family so I don't.



I know for each album you add, you can individually set different privacy settings for that album (limit who can see it).
If she hasn't done that, though, I'm not sure?
Is it HER album or pictures OF her in a friend's album? Because if they are her friend's, and you aren't a friends with the album owner, then you may not be able to see them

This could be what happened. I know that she did not take the pictures but when she is looking at her pictures they do show up after hers. Does that make sense. This facebook stuff is so confusing. I think she tagged herself in the pictures from a friends page.

 

[cat83]

If you block someone and you have a mutual friend, how does that work? If you respond to one of their posts or post something to the mutual friend and the blocked person posts to it also, what exactly can they see? I blocked my BIL (Long story, yes it involved FB!!) and we no longer speak but my DIL still has him on her page and I have him blocked, if I post to her page can he see it or is it just me who doesn't see him?

Anything you post on somebody else's wall, all of their friends can see.
Blocking somebody will only prevent them from seeing your profile and pictures, etc.

 

[RadioNate]

Nate I have seen the pictures they are just more normal pictures of her with friends. My DD is only 14 so she is not allowed to be blocking me from anything. Where do we look to see if this has happened?

This is what I assumed had happened but she says that she doesn't know how to block anyone. I will be checking this out of course. The thing is as the pictures not showing up on mine do not look like they are in a seperate album from what I can see.

I have another question too if you do not mind. You know how when you look at a person that is not your friend sometimes you just see their name and sometimes you can see all of their basic info, what makes that different? I really appreciate your help.

All the controls are under the 'setting' menu. It it on the top right hand side.

There you can control almost everything.

I could be an oversight or a change in the default settings. Do you see the photos on her page? All her photos won't show up on your page unless she has you tagged in the photos. Under the new 'home' page, people photos show up in the 'highlights' section more than they do in the news feed. If her pictures aren't in your news feed and they were that could be a setting change on your end.

I know FB has been playing with the news feed and taking a lot of that stuff out of the general news feed because people don't like it there. You could have your newsfeed set to status updates only or something like that.

All her photo controls are in her application settings. If she is posting them to her wall, they won't be an album (just the default 'wall photos' folder) and if you aren't tagged they will only be on her wall.

To edit what people see in search is again under the setting menu. There will be a subsection for search under privacy settings.

 

[RadioNate]

This could be what happened. I know that she did not take the pictures but when she is looking at her pictures they do show up after hers. Does that make sense. This facebook stuff is so confusing. I think she tagged herself in the pictures from a friends page.

I just read further and that is your problem. They aren't her photos.The friend could (and should) have her album set to "only friends." Even if your DD is tagged, if you aren't friends with the album owner you won't be able to see those photos.

This is actually the preferred privacy setting. It blocks strangers who are 'friends of friends" from seeing your photos.

Make sure you have your DD's log in info and monitor the account directly. You can't rely on just being friends with her. Or friend all her friends ... obviously they don't have to accept you.

 

[cat83]

This facebook stuff is so confusing.

Sounds like that's what happened then

And I know. My biggest problem is not being able to say "no" to people I really don't want to be friends with.
It already became an issue-
I gave somebody limited access to my profile. I did not want to become friends with this person, but he is family, so I did (in order not to look like the bad guy).

Of course, this person figured out he couldn't see everything- and in typical fashion, made a big deal out of it to mutual family and friends. In the end, I know I'm not wrong, but am so embarrassed, as if I did something wrong!

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I have always wondered how to group people and change the settings. I have a few people who I have accepted as Friends just to be farmville neighbors. Can anyone explain to me how I can make a farmville group and only have that group so the very basic of information? TIA

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Anything you post on somebody else's wall, all of their friends can see.
Blocking somebody will only prevent them from seeing your profile and pictures, etc.

I'm not sure about that. I blocked a person and then she blocked me. Her profile picture doesn't even show up under our mutual friends. Example: We are both friends with her brother. Her brother only has 25 total friends. She was not showing up in his friends list. It said he had 25 friends, but when people were counted there were only 24. So I believe when you block someone it's like they don't even exist to them. You don't see their profile, their messages or comments to others, etc. Yep, I was a bit anal about finding out. I feel confident that I can chat on FB with her brother and she has no access to any of it.

 

[RadioNate]

If you block someone and you have a mutual friend, how does that work? If you respond to one of their posts or post something to the mutual friend and the blocked person posts to it also, what exactly can they see? I blocked my BIL (Long story, yes it involved FB!!) and we no longer speak but my DIL still has him on her page and I have him blocked, if I post to her page can he see it or is it just me who doesn't see him?

If you block someone completely in the privacy settings using the 'block person' feature they shouldn't be able to see anything you post.

I have several people blocked and I don't see any of their activity on mutual friend's pages and I don't believe they see mine.

I have noticed that their name is there when we are both tagged in photos. I have a HS boyfriend blocked and people have posted group shots with both of us in them and I can see his name but I can't click on it or anything. I think he can see my name too but not do anything with it.