ha I did not...I guess I just skimmed and I also don't understand how FB works.

Although I'm thinking of joining simply to provide fodder to this thread.

dude posted this:
Due to "lack of room", NYC Police Officers, Port Authority Police Officers and FDNY Firefighters are not "invited" to the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero. Funny - they weren't invited on that day in 2001, either - they just "showed up" and became our heroes. Please re-post if you think they belong MORE than the politicians who are invited

saw someone (friend of a friend) today with "too smart for colleg" (sic) under "Education"

Advanced facebooking itt. All I know is that when I block someone, I don't see their posts on my wall. I don't even know whether it prevents them from seeing my posts on their wall, and I sure as hell have no idea about the implications of blocking on three party scenarios. Though I'm curious now to find out how blocking really works, facebook doesn't exactly make this clear.

This is true. Teachers at my school did things like hook up with (eventually date) my friend's older college age (at the time) sister and have affairs with students parents, or even have lesbian affairs with each other. Heard similar stories elsewhere. Teachers are dtf.

Could be intentional. But then why not go all out with "2 smart 4 colleg"?

I just had a seizure. Thanks.

Okay...I think I may pull the trigger and rejoin? I always thought FB was stupid and pointless...but now I realize things:

I can stalk people
I can read idiotic, annoying, and narcissistic posts
I could use it for getting laid
I could find fun ways to use FB

I'm going to think it over over lunch...

Well, it was a pretty sweet humblebrag about taking a trip to Italy/Europe.

Edit: Maybe it's not annoying to you guys cuz you don't know her but that's how pretty much every conversation with her goes. We get it; you're rich and better than everybody else.

Assuming you have a custom security setting that specifically names person B as one of the people who will NOT see your posts, but person A does not have any restrictions on person B: The answer to your question is yes, person B will see on person A's wall an announcement that he has posted "xxxx" on your wall. There will be a link to the relevant post, but if person B clicks that link he will see an error message that informs him that the information is either no longer available or he doesn't have permission to view it.

I'm sure that's the information you're looking for. I'm also sure most people ITT will now have a headache.

Yea to be clear I didn't exactly mean "blocked" in the FB sense, never actually used that function with anyone on there and don't know how it works, "Hidden" would have been a better word choice but think you meant that anyways.


But yea basically there's someone who I hid my wall/status updates from for various reasons when I met her and she thinks I dont have that at all but she's a mutual friend with someone who has access to that. Just wondering if that stuff shows up on the friends page, should prove interesting at least if no one knows. The google **** I came up with before I asked on here weren't exactly useful.
Feels like some sort of perverse MCAS question now that I read it, sorry sir, welcome to my life

Yea kinda assumed as much, ty sir. ****. Im still in trouble, but good to know.

Nah, I appreciate your FB expertise, scorpion. I have a simpler question, and lets leave custom security settings out of it. If all I do is block someone by selecting "block all posts from X" or whatever that option is called, is there any way they can find out that I blocked them? If so, how? (Not too worried about it, the people I have blocked are generally morons who wouldn't be able to figure it out, and if they did I wouldn't care all that much anyway, but I'm curious.)

If you are only hiding their posts and not actually blocking them? As in go into your friends list and completely block them then you aren't hidden from them and yes, they can still see your posts on anyone's wall, including yours. When you hide posts, that is all you are doing, hiding their post from your view.

This answers my question, and is the behavior I would expect. So no way for them to know that I did this. Sorry if I butchered the blocked/hidden distinction.

It's quite irritating (to a paranoid security nit like me, at least) to know that the effectiveness of many of Facebook's security settings is dependent on the settings of other users. Another example is the loophole that allows anyone who's sent you a friend request to be granted "friend" security privileges until the request is denied.

Wow, that's horrible! I have nothing especially interesting on my page to begin with, but I would expect if I posted anything for friends only, it wouldn't be visible to anyone who friend requested me. This presumption of friendhood on request is just weird. Maybe now I'll go friend request lots of random hot girls and see what pics they might have posted for their friends. No, I'll wait until the middle of the night when they're unlikely to deny my request until morning.

Make a shortened version of this your first status update.

lol

It's quite exploitable in a sinister sense too though, as someone you've de-friended and completely blocked can simply create a new account and send you a friend request at a stupid time in the middle of the night to stalk your page. Even if you only allow friend requests from friends of friends, they can get round that by getting a single one of your friends to accept them first.

It sounds like I spend too much energy thinking about this, but I did get legit stalked / harassed by a crazy ex a while ago and I now like to keep abreast of any changes in security settings.

New one popping up from some of my fb friends:

A College Professor stood on his chair & said "If GOD really exists then knock me off this chair." Nothing happened,the class was quiet. "See! Now I'll give it a couple more minutes" A Marine Vet stood up, punched him in the face knocking him out & off the chair, then sat back down As the Professor came to he looked at his student & said "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" The vet said "GOD was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say & do stupid stuff like this so HE SENT ME!


Man, I don't even know where to start.

I mean I'm only blocking MY wall/status updates from them. Any post I make on anyone elses wall I assume is fair game not worried bout that. Thing is they think I have no wall or whatever which gets interesting when someone elses feed gives them the hint I actually have one.

Yes, if you have yourself hidden from them then they cannot see your wall but it's fair game if you're having a conversation on another friend's wall that they are friend's with then they will still know you have a wall, they'll just be unable to see your posts. Holy Cow! What a mess! You really do need to use the custom security settings people and frankly, you need to check those custom settings because FB resets them every now and again without you knowing as in glitch so you just need to be vigilant about checking customized settings.

USA! USA!

(Seriously, post that. That kind of person will almost certainly have a terrible sarcasm detector and it should be entertaining to see how they respond.)

I'm not sure how to feel about comments on negative relationship changes. Like right now somebody went from "in a relationship" to "single" on my newsfeed and some other person insta-responded with 'is everything ok?". OTOH, deerrrr, obviously not they just had a breakup. OTOH, it does show you care and stuff, which is I guess nice?

I may have made this post entirely to use the same acronym for two different meanings in a single paragraph.

Or really, especially given what I read about friend request = granted until you say otherwise, just assume whatever you post on facebook is visible to everyone and don't post anything sensitive on there.