Nope!
I only have folk that are nice on mine

Nope! 
I blocked Facebook.  

Lol. Me too.

  

I've used it on Americans who think that "guns don't kill people - people do".

Yes, had to use it on family members

No....not yet

Yes but only once.  So far....

Why?

Hi Jen xx
I don't have any family members on my FB but my two sons had some on theirs. My niece got the hump one day and wrote loads of terrible stuff on both of their pages which was bang out of order as they had done nothing wrong - her problem was, apparently, with me. It was bad especially as neither of my sons bother with FB much. The first they knew of it was when they started getting texts from their friends asking if they had seen what was on their pages. Loads of their friends and colleagues saw this crap. So they cleared it and blocked her.
Then I started getting pms from my sister - not this girls mother but another sister - which quickly turned nasty. I blocked her and all the members of that side of the family so they couldn't contact me anymore. She did try for a while using the accounts of her mates but I just reported them to FB and blocked anyone that had allowed her to use their account.

Yes 

Someone on a music forum that I used to be on copied my statements from there and used it to get me banned 

Sorry for being so nosey veggie, sounds like you did the right thing

First thing I did when I joined Facebook was a pre-emptive block on my mother in law!   Has proved to be a wise decision - my kids have both blocked her as well now.  (& I give it 6 months before Mr Ditty does too) 

Since then...  just one person 

Theres some right stalkers on facebook

 ive blocked a few people both from my private life and just random people who seem to find me. I also blocked the message facility so only friends can send me messages.

I'm with Jen and Scotty on this.

No.....on either my 'forum' one or my 'rl' one......However all of my privacy settings are at the most secure they can be and there are a no. of 'friends requests' on my rl one that I've pretended I haven't seen 

I have a few...   I call em the unlabelled cans...   cos they are like tinned food with no labels..  I dunno who they are...   could be custard, could be tinned spagetti

....Sometimes I do know who they are and sometimes I have half an idea so I ask them........Errr, why would I want people I wasn't/am not friends with to see my pics etc. etc.

I did think of joining once then was put off by some of the stories and trouble making I have heard about that can go on there so decided against it.

I feel using the blocking Facility is the worst thing to do..IE..They cannot see you or what you are doing yet you can still see them, not fair on them....deleting them completely is the way to go..

Marge..   you set it up to make it how you want it...   you only see people who you want to see, and you can even 'hide' them if they do your head in, unfriend them if you are not happy with stuff they are doing, block them if they offend you to the extent where you want to banish them from your existance.

I like it! 

both the people I blocked were not on my facebook friends - so I have nowhere to delete them from.

Unless you mean from Facebook...  in which case I may have a couple of favours to ask you 

Lol Ditty .. unfriend them block them dont accept them as friends etc.. something I would feel bad about doing ,it is definitely not for me

I am more a stalker than stalkee! NOBODY STALKS ME!!!!1

Ref: Ditty
both the people I blocked were not on my facebook friends - so I have nowhere to delete them from

Yep same for me

6 months facebooking & they'll be calling you Ruthless Marge! 

(on a serious note...   its not that bad, all this blocking talk makes it sound very negative)

 sound very negative)

If I am being honest Ditty I know facebook can be a good thing but my grandaughter had a very bad time on there, and listening to what she told me broke my heart it was not nice, she is not on there anymore which I am pleased she made that decision,it did put me off ,I will stick to the forum

Marge tbh I think you'd enjoy some off the games/apps there,as someone else advised set your security settings HIGH so you can be extremely careful who can see your info and who can interact with you.

Lee  my daughter let me use her account to play games I play Farmville Pets Society and a few others on my own I love them,I just dont want to be on Facebook doing a page on my profile and accepting friends or not as the case may be

My mother wants to be friends with me on Facebook and I've been delaying responding   It's not that I don't get along with her coz I do..A LOT...but maybe that's why.  She's not used to the internet and will no doubt post things she really shouldn't on my wall.  Like 'Ella you owe me £50 can I have it before Friday' that sort of thing!  And she'd look through all my pics and ask 'Who's that fella in the pic...why's he in a  pic with you?'  all of which would be totally innocent but she doesn't 'get'  facebook and the likes so I'm still debating with myself.  I feel bad not accepting though

Oh and the games on facebook are great!!  I get addicted to various ones for a few months then move on to the next (Treasure Mania, Scrabble and now Draw My Thing) but they are something to do when you're bored

I understand Marge,do what suits you best and what feels comfortable.

my brother keeps trying to get my Mum to join Facebook...     I have told him if she's joins cos of him then I will have to defriend him.... to break the fb trail..

ahhh..   I'm sorry to hear about your granddaughter Marge...   I know how that one feels, I went through it with my daughter on MySpace, and it tore me up too.   Girls can be nasty pieces of work sometimes xxx

Used to have facebook but found it pointless in the end.  I just had one because it was the in thing at the time and it was handy for storing pictures.  After a year or so, I realised that I put my photos on my hard drive anyway!   And I see my friends and family every day or once a week or so anyway, and my work colleagues most days, and my neighbours every day.  In other words, the people that mattered, I didn't even need to have on facebook.  In fact, I coped without it for my whole life up til 2009!

And I kept getting friend requests from people I didn't want them from.  People who had lost touch with me about 10 years back, who didn't answer my letters and calls at the time, and a couple of old penpals who lost touch 3 or 4 years ago, and so on.  They just tried to add me, with no message asking if it was OK or explaining why they hadn't been arsed with contact for years! 

Then an old colleague ran up to me in the street in October who I hadn't seen for 5 years and asked me if I had facebook, and asked me to add her.  So I did, later that day, and she accepted my request.  And then half an hour later took me off!  I thought there had been some error, so I re-added her, and it said 'friendship request pending,' and then later on that night, the 'add as friend' tab was back.  So she has declined it!  Stupid cow.  Coming up to me asking me to add her, and then not accepting me! 

So anyway, after much deliberation, just before Christmas, I decided to actually DEACTIVATE facebook after about a year and a half of having it.  I don't miss it, and keep in touch with people that matter through email and phone and letter and actually SPEAKING to them in real life!

I was pretty-much forced onto Facebook, because a couple of close friends did practically everything from it. I still kept (and continue to keep) my usage to an absolute minimum. I've never really liked Facebook: not its layout, not its "ethos" and certainly not its security weaknesses.

There's been increased concern about security matters on FB recently, and I found the following very useful:
http://www.sophos.com/security...t-practice/facebook/

Working through it helped me tighten-up my already pretty-tight settings. Its amazing (and actually quite disturbing) how many of the strictest security settings on FB are not advertized, and can only be accessed by fairly obscure routes...

Eugene's Lair

Thanks!

I don't have anything on there worth anyones trouble of hacking into tbh - but I do have it set on the setting of friends only for everything


Zazzz I'll stalk ya if you want - I do get bored pretty quick mind !

That's all very well, but the thing you have to remember with FB is that no matter how secure your settings are, your data could still be compromised if one of your friends' accounts is hacked into.

That's why you have to be very careful about any information you put on your account - even if you don't think it's worth much, a potential thief might still be able to use it for "social engineering".
Never put your correct date of birth on there - not even if it's hidden. It's probably not a good idea naming your home town either...



BTW: there are FB settings that are even stricter than "Friends Only" - it's just that FB don't advertize them...