Do you review your Facebook friend list?

I just looked-I have 418 friends. Half of them are my kids,grandkids and other family members lol. Some are old high school friends. Many are people who are no longer with us-many of those have been gone for years. As you an see,I never clean things up.

On another note,this morning I got a friend request from one of dh`s high school girlfriends. They dated when he was 16-we met when he was 17 and have been together 58 years.I can only wonder why she would want to friend me.....
 
Jules said:
If your husband doesn’t have an account, she may be using you so she can get in touch. After 58 years, you’d wonder why.
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He does have an account and they have been "friends" for several years. She used to bring her car to us for repairs but I never met her.

She is married,so I doubt she`s "looking" lol. Probably just curious what our kids/grandkids look like or something. Dh never posts pics of anything or anyone...
 
I only have friends that I know from real life, or might be someone that showed up as a relative from Ancestry, and have questions about our family line.
I only follow a very few people, so i do not get all of the useless chatter , recipes, and cat pictures that some people seem to post incessantly. The people I do follow are my close family and I want to see it if they post something.
Otherwise, I just go down the list of friends and check out their pages every now and then to see what is happening, and this works for me.

I do belong to quite a few of the facebook groups that I am interested in, but I do not follow those either; so again, I just go to the groups section and read the groups that I am most interested in.
Every so often, I do pare down both the friend list and the groups that I no longer am interested in reading.
 
I should do the same thing 🌹 Rose.

There are plenty who say nothing or maybe they left without deactivating their account.

I don't share things really personal though. I mainly go there to visit several groups and some family and a few friends.
 
debodun said:
No, but I ignore friend requests of people I already know I have "friended". I assume it's hackers.
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That's wise, Deb. I had my account hacked by someone who masqueraded as a friend of a friend. Now I limit my account to a handful of actual friends.
 
I think I had 22 friends, now I have 20. If they don't post or comment, they usually get removed.
And, I have it set to private.
I don't respond to friend requests either...20 is plenty. :)
 
Pinky said:
That's wise, Deb. I had my account hacked by someone who masqueraded as a friend of a friend. Now I limit my account to a handful of actual friends.
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This is usually not hackers; it is scammers that clone a legitimate facebook account. All they have to do is screenshot your facebook pictures for your avatar and background, and then they make a new facebook page using your information. Once they do that, they start sending friend requests to your friends, and most of them will accept, especially if you have a lot of friends.

After they get one of your friends to accept the request, they will send them a private message, just saying hello, and then they bring up the subject that they are really, really happy because they just got a huge sum of money (in various ways) and want to share with your friend that they can have all of this money, too, if they just follow your (fake you) instructions.

That is when the scam begins, and they start asking for personal information from your friends, who might still think it is you sharing something good with them.

The best way to avoid this is to make your friend list private, then no one can message them from looking at your facebook page, which stops the scam before it even starts.
Since they didn’t actually hack into your account, nothing has been stolen, like passwords, they just copied your pictures and pretended to be you.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
This is usually not hackers; it is scammers that clone a legitimate facebook account. All they have to do is screenshot your facebook pictures for your avatar and background, and then they make a new facebook page using your information. Once they do that, they start sending friend requests to your friends, and most of them will accept, especially if you have a lot of friends.

After they get one of your friends to accept the request, they will send them a private message, just saying hello, and then they bring up the subject that they are really, really happy because they just got a huge sum of money (in various ways) and want to share with your friend that they can have all of this money, too, if they just follow your (fake you) instructions.

That is when the scam begins, and they start asking for personal information from your friends, who might still think it is you sharing something good with them.

The best way to avoid this is to make your friend list private, then no one can message them from looking at your facebook page, which stops the scam before it even starts.
Since they didn’t actually hack into your account, nothing has been stolen, like passwords, they just copied your pictures and pretended to be you.
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I have only a handful of Fb friends and my settings are "private", thank goodness.
 
Rose65 said:
A vital point, I no longer have a profile pic of myself. People are encouraged to give way too much information on there - why? It's frankly dangerous. So I literally keep a low profile.
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I have a friend whereby her young grandchildren are all over the internet in photos. I think she's nuts. However, her whole family are into FB.
 
I updated my photo with an avatar. The photo itself could have been an avatar it was so old. No one meeting me would have known it was the same person.
 
Rose65 said:
I do. Once in a while I get rid of people who never say anything to me and who I can't remember anyhow. Either that or I make them acquaintances and restrict them if it seems too brutal or undiplomatic to get rid.
I'm careful who is peering into my life. Who are you granting that privilege to and is it justified?
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Dumped FB four years ago.
 
DaiwaGuy said:
Dumped FB four years ago.
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I can understand that. However, I find it useful to keep in touch with real friends and the messenger part is free and easy. Used as a tool, sensibly, it is good. But I set all possible security on high, I have no profile photo and I give none but absolutely minimal information about myself. It is dangerous for everyone with a view to identity theft and all sorts of other criminals. People don't realise it is foolish to lay out their lives to be viewed by strangers.
 
Jules said:
I updated my photo with an avatar. The photo itself could have been an avatar it was so old. No one meeting me would have known it was the same person.
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That's actually no bad thing. Many people have an object or abstract image instead of a profile picture, I do.
 
1DomesticGoddess said:
"Do I review my Facebook friends List?"

Can't say that I do, especially now, and I have no interest in doing that at all.
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Only to see if you still have enough in common with so called 'friends'. I find I have often forgotten who people even are as I meet them through mutual interests. But interests change with time. I may change them to acquaintances and restricted, they then see almost no more. I choose my audience carefully for each post. Facebook is useful, fun but not exactly vital to me.
Also security is paramount, I have highest settings.
 

Do you review your Facebook friend list?​


I should, there are a few dead friends there.. o_O
 

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