valincal
Drama Llama
Southern Alberta
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Post by valincal on Oct 5, 2015 15:01:09 GMT
Ugh. I didn't know about this either. I only use my iPhone or iPad and they don't show up on my newsfeed so I've never given it any thought.
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grinningcat
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,663
Jun 26, 2014 13:06:35 GMT
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Post by grinningcat on Oct 5, 2015 15:10:40 GMT
I don't really see the problem with other people seeing what I have posted or liked on other people's posts, what about that is going to make you stop posting and PM instead? You say you're not embarrassed but it kind of sounds like you feel like you got caught doing something to be embarrassed about. To be honest, I wouldn't want to get a PM every time someone liked something I posted. I would wonder why they couldn't just post on the thing they liked in the first place. Hmmmm. Interesting comment. Do you have some kind of hangup about getting caught doing things? Sounds like it. I simply don't want my friends' Facebook pages littered with my comments to people they don't even know. It's annoying to me, and very likely to them as well. Nope. No hangups about being caught... I am who I am who I am. If others have problems with what I post, comment or like that is their problem, not mine. And as for people being annoyed by seeing what others are posting on, I completely disagree. At least with the people I know, it starts conversations and often the stuff that people comment on is interesting to more people that just the one liking it. |
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milocat
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,899
Location: 55 degrees north in Alberta, Canada
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Post by milocat on Oct 5, 2015 16:55:58 GMT
It bugs me to see everything my friends comment or like that is public, I don't care about a friends' friend post I only care about my friends' post. It clogs up my feed and can't see things my friends directly post.
Knowing that people can see what I comment on public pages stops me from commenting more often than not. I do post in the closed groups I'm a member of. It's not that I'm embarrassed or have a hangup about being caught but it's just that all my Facebook friends don't need to know every thought I have if they aren't into that subject. For example there is a Federal Election happening in Canada, if I want to post my opinion on a certain party's page I don't need all my FB friends to know what I said. Or I like some health/fitness pages and maybe I'd chime in on a post and say that I'm struggling and ate a whole bag of cookies yesterday. Somehow I'd be ok with it on an anonymous page but I don't want all my FB knowing that. Some would be ok since they have the same struggle/opinion/lifestyle or whatever.
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Deleted
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Aug 18, 2025 19:31:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 17:59:48 GMT
And as for people being annoyed by seeing what others are posting on, I completely disagree. At least with the people I know, it starts conversations and often the stuff that people comment on is interesting to more people that just the one liking it.  |
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breetheflea
Drama Llama
Posts: 7,316
Location: PNW
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 5, 2015 18:05:10 GMT
I am now (as in this changed recently) seeing people I don't know's surgery pictures, pictures of their kids, posts about depressed people, people dying, pictures of gross things I usually avoid looking at... because someone on my friends list knows the people and commented. It has limited what I want to comment on because although my Facebook is pretty locked down, what if I missed something?
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Post by annabella on Oct 5, 2015 18:33:10 GMT
@breetheflea go to that friend's page and click "unfollow"
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Post by STBC on Oct 5, 2015 19:48:03 GMT
I am now (as in this changed recently) seeing people I don't know's surgery pictures, pictures of their kids, posts about depressed people, people dying, pictures of gross things I usually avoid looking at... because someone on my friends list knows the people and commented. It has limited what I want to comment on because although my Facebook is pretty locked down, what if I missed something? Out of curiosity, I looked up the last 20 posts on my FB news feed (sorted by most recent.) Only one post was about someone "liking" something for a page that I don't follow. Everything else was a friend's post or another friend commenting/replying on a mutual friend's post. Nothing gross, (overly) weird, or belonging to people I don't know. |
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Deleted
Posts: 0
Aug 18, 2025 19:31:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 19:50:38 GMT
I'm setting up a Secret group so I've just been learning about all of this. Here's a chart that shows the differences in the 3 types of groups:  Wellll, that's super small. Here's a link to the page: www.facebook.com/help/412300192139228/ |
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Post by Zee on Oct 5, 2015 19:59:50 GMT
I almost never get on fb on my computer anymore, just my phone, so i never see any of those things anymore. I totally forgot about them.
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breetheflea
Drama Llama
Posts: 7,316
Location: PNW
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 5, 2015 20:03:36 GMT
It has just changed in the past few months. On my page I have a profile picture of someone I don't know who I guess changed their picture, and someone we both know liked it, a story about someone I don't knows memory of their recently passed away relative, with photos, and someone I don't knows rant about cats and immigration (which doesn't make any sense) because my mom know the person and "liked" what she was ranting about. Also my aunt commented on someone's post and now I know they are going to New Jersey and when ... I'm sure they didn't mean for everyone on Facebook to know that information...
I guess I will have to hide friends of my friends one by one so I can not feel like Harriet the Spy when I'm on Facebook.
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Post by Native New Yorker on Oct 5, 2015 20:29:47 GMT
Yes. I have very few Facebook friends. I don't have 4,000 friends in my day to day life. I am very selective of who I share my life. I had a "friend" recently who posted that Obama is a racist Muslim piece of shit on another Facebook board and I saw it. I'm not Muslim but my son's best friend in elementary school and part of high school is. He was like a second son to me. I couldn't figure out what being Muslim had to do with the rest of her comment if that's what she believes. I really liked her and it felt like a punch in the gut.
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