I'm going to be perfectly blunt here -- I really think a lot of you are taking out your own insecurities on Facebook. I don't use it to make others or myself "feel special." The majority of my friends don't live near me, and I like to see what they're up to and how they're doing, and I like to share how my life is going too. I especially enjoy going through photos, particularly if they involve travel. Also, people sometimes put up interesting/fun links or videos.
If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. If you don't want strangers to know your info, don't Friend people you don't know, and change your security settings so that only your Friends have access to most of your profile (this is what I do). You can even temporarily deactivate it if you need a break, something else I've done before.
Facebook is only evil for how much it's a time suck.
csmswhs said:
then i tried to deactivate my account, which is virtually impossible. but i thought finally it had truly deactivated.
so then, lol, i sign on to see if it actually was deactivated. and you know what?? it says something like 'heeeeey welcome back!' 'your now reactivated!!' (without me requesting reactivation).
I did this recently too, because I needed to take a short break. They tell you, both on the page and in a follow-up email, that it will save your settings and you can reactivate simply by logging back on. So you did "request" reactivation by signing back on, just like it told you that it was going to do. I also saw a link on the deactivation page somewhere about where you can contact them to actually DELETE your account, so you can try looking for that.
csmswhs said:
then today i see on his or was it my page(?)(its hard to tell on facebook) that someone is asking one of those question things, supposedly all about me and for all my details???? and he answered??? the way it looks???
this freaks me out!!! and to top it off, oh, nevermind, but i don't know how, but all these people i don't want near the page that i've met in my past for 5 days, and some relatives, god knows who and some blankface strangers are trying to get in, something like that? how the hell do they know i have an account?
then i'm thinking, i have the settings set to private, as you can only see my pic on the front page unless accepted as a 'friend'. so i'm thinking one of these people i'd rather not view my account or be in contact with saw the man i'm talking about picture as a friend on my page??? and so they contacted him inquiring about me???
(i don't know if they can see it or not)
that's all i can figure. and its starting to creep me out. and irk me.
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Don't worry; even if strangers try to access your page, as long as you have your privacy settings up, they won't be able to. Unless you Friend them of course...if you get a request from someone who you don't want, just click on "Ignore" and they won't be able to get to your account.
If it still really freaks you out that much, you can delete your account, or you can just deactivate and this time don't sign back on!
