How to escape harassment on facebook

[Anonymous]

If you feel afraid or scare for your safety because of a jerk on facebook I got the tips for you to get rid of them!

Change your name on your facebook

First off if you're name is, for example, Max Smith and let's say this person just keeps making different profiles to harass you with on Max Smith. Change your name I recommended to someone in your family that doesn't have their middle name up on facebook. So if your Dad middle name is Robert change it to Max Robert.

To do this

click on settings

Go to general and click on name You can type in anything for your last name (make sure its sound real and facebook won't go after you for being a fakester)

Then click on username then name from www.fb.com/maxsmith to www.fb.com/MaxRobert

So your name doesn't show up under Max Smith anymore and make sure if do have a nickname on your facebook delete it so your profile doesn't show up under that nickname either.

Change profile and cover picture

Just for safe measure in case the harasser/harasser reverse image your profile picture and find your profile picture again. Or figure out that your new name is you because of your cover picture. Either leave it blank for the picture or use pictures that are not you. But if you really consider they know all your pictures facebook has an option now where you can download them to your computer. So download them to save and delete them off your facebook if you fear your harasser knows all the pictures and can image reverse search for all of them.

Private your facebook

Private everything on your facebook so only your friends can see your facebook. Also, never accept friend requests from people you don't know or from people in real life that aren't nice to you because they can start to harass you on your facebook as well.

The OBVIOUS one: Report and block the harasser

Some harassers would leave you alone others are not very nice and will keep harassing you (usually because they are mentally ill). But they won't rest unless you press real charges on them. These type of people would keep making different types of profiles so they can harass you on your facebook.

So remember always report and block the harasser each time. But do the first steps above first so they lose track of you!

Delete any other info that shows up on your facebook

Like where you work, your school, your relationship status and family members delete all this information so they totally lose track of you. You can always add back this information on your facebook once you feel its safe too.

Delete any posts, pages, comments that these harasser/harassers know about

For example let's say they start harassing you over a facebook page and you have a ton of comments on this page. Delete all these comments on that page and block the page off so they can't find you again through that page anymore.

How to do this:

Go to activity log

Go to each section that you want to go to

Then delete each one that you share with the harasser or harassers or anything that you feel that might led your harasser/hassers back to you

Now these are the current new tips with facebook enjoy your relax days on facebook now without worrying about mean people!

[sovetskii13]

Good stuff. I've never been harassed on Facebook but I still bumped up my privacy settings before searching for my first job. I set my profile to only be found by "Friends of Friends", set most personal content to "Only Me", hid my pictures, and more. But I follow a lot of pages and some groups. Every once in a while I make public posts/comments on them. I think that's okay though.
Gotta be careful online these days.

[myTake Owner]

Oh I learn my lesson I post public on whisper where more than 10 people start to harassing me. I was done the after the last straw when one chick I said I deserve to get my comments deleted when the dingleberry doesn't know I deleted them. I block and report these people but I feel there something mentally wrong with most of them so I took these precautions because I feel they sent someone to harass me or make more accounts just to harass me.

[myTake Owner]

The comment I made wasn't even bad it was an opinion they telling me I am trying to tell smokers what to do when no one where in my comment did I ever said that.

[myTake Owner]

no where*

[BrittBratt2416]

No one should have to do all that online. If a person is ONLY attacking you online (which is still wrong by the way) and your still giving into it.. then you are letting this person win. Stop subjecting yourself to such behavior and click that red x button at the screen. And if they try some stuff with you offline and in public then yeah its time to press real charges.

[myTake Owner]

And stop victim blaming some people are not mentally stable and sometimes you have to do this type of stuff so they leave you the hell alone. If you haven't realize that are ton of creepy, scary psychos online.

[myTake Owner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1v9XGM652E
Like this person for example, the couple didn't know she was doing this and she keeps doing it.

[BrittBratt2416]

I'm not victim blaming, I'm simply just speaking common sense. It's like the movie bully where this teenage girl was being harassed by some girl at her school, for the most part she wouldn't speak a word to the girl at school yet she kept on reading the messages/online posts about her from this girl. Her mother told her time and time again to GET OFF the computer and stop feeding into this girls hate, yet she would not listen to her mother.. she became so obsessed with what this girl was writing about her. If someone's being that much of butt hole online ( and I see it all the time), I'm not gonna give that person the satisfaction in making me unhappy. If I have to give up Facebook or any social media to maintain my happiness and mental health from awful people.. I will do it. When they cross the line and start personally attacking me face to face.. thats when I will get the cops/law involved.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah but at the same time making it hard for them to even find your profile will stop the posts too especially if they can't find it. I now see you not trying to victim blame but nowadays our lives are becoming more and more part of the digital world. This is a place where you can find work or network or someone to get in touch with you for real world opportunities. Also, employers some of them would look at you funny if you tell them you don't have any social media and that does suspicious I know I found a sex offender online once just because I was suspicious that this person didn't have a facebook and I went digging around.

[myTake Owner]

is suspicious*

[myTake Owner]

and the worst part I was 17 when I was talking to sex offender but nothing really bad happen and I did reported their profile on the site I was talking to him on about being a sex offender and having contact with women who have children. Apparently, he sexually assaulted a 12 year old child when he was 18 with a weapon.

[BrittBratt2416]

looking for Work is understandable, but if your're looking for jobs I don't think your personal media profiles matters? I have never come across any type of employer that cares if you have a social media or not.. most have never asked for that when I had a job interview. Lets be truthfully honest here, most people who have a social media these days (unless they are like some big youtube talent, celeb etc.) don't even use what its meant for.. most people now a days barely speak with people online.. even if its people they know personally.

[BrittBratt2416]

I'm happy you reported the guy. He shouldn't be around any kind of devices that have access to the internet anyways..

[myTake Owner]

but apparently, some employers do care and make some people log into their facebooks during interviews doesn't mean you have to thou because that can be considered against facebook terms and services. But employers do go snooping around social media, which is why sometimes they find it weird if you don't have social media or your social media is questionable. Like it be questionable if you constant post pictures online of you drinking or cutting yourself.

[myTake Owner]

But again just even meeting a person could make them be very creepy or aggressive. Like this woman www.womenshealthmag.com/life/online-harassment it took I believe 2 or 3 arrests for the woman that kept harassing her to finally knock off her shit and she not even allow on the internet anymore for her behaviour.

[BrittBratt2416]

Woah stop right there. That is not okay what so ever! If an employer is asking you for your personal social media accounts then its time to get up and walk out. I know that sounds silly because hey you need a job, but you're social media should not dictate if you get a job or not. You're social media has nothing to do with being qualified for a job or not.. what matter is whats on your resume and the skills you have.. not whats on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr account etc. An employer needs to know when the line is being crossed and that right there is crossing a line. What you do on your own personal time should not matter to that employee.. now if people go and post dumb stuff and gets out then that I can understand but your employer shouldn't purposely being looking through your accounts just to find evidence if they should hire you or not. To me thats just not right what so ever.

[myTake Owner]

I know but now employers have a upper hand nowadays its stupid :/

[BrittBratt2416]

Girl I don't know what to tell you, never had to go through that.. the day and employer asks me that is the day I will say "on second thought I don't think I want to work for an employer/company who thinks its okay to be nosy about what I do outside of work. Really ashamed I wasted my time here". That probably won't matter much to a lot employers cause they just see us as numbers and not people.

[myTake Owner]

Actually after I got the job that I was informed that my manager was checking my social media so lol they get you even after you get the job as well.

[Anonymous]

I get harassment even on Instagram from the same toolbag on facebook. but the best part is, if I block him, he asks his other coworkers to screen shot my pics so he can use them, dont really want to block all my coworkers because of one jackass

[myTake Owner]

This is why you should change your username and delete off all the pictures you have on your instragram just in case to make him stop.

[myTake Owner]

and make your instagram private and delete all his coworkers since they keep giving him the screenshots

[Opinion Owner]

its all connected

[myTake Owner]

Then clean up your social media ;)

[NormaTavish]

You could just leave Facebook.

[myTake Owner]

True but facebook is not for harassment either. It was never for that so you not suppose to be on there if your harassing people I'm pretty sure that against their policies when you agree to when you sign up for it.

[NormaTavish]

I'm sure it is against their policy but its just Facebook, if its giving you stress, just do something else, its really not important enough in life to have it cause you problems it's just a website.

[myTake Owner]

who said I was stressed self projection here don't assume how I feel if you not going to bother to ask.

[NormaTavish]

You sound like you're looking for an argument, I was speaking in relevance to the question, I dont even know who the hell you are.. who cares how you feel, I was answering the question.
If you don't want to get opinions on things what the hell are you posting questions/takes for? Its either that or I've hit a nerve in which case my advice stands.

[myTake Owner]

No, I am telling you exactly what someone should have told you a long time ago is that don't assume my feelings and try to project yourself onto me. I never said I am stress from facebook you assume that and also if you didn't want an argument you wouldn't said something stupid like that. Also clearly I hit one of your nerves since now you trying to use "why you even posting if you don't want opinions" line there a difference between what you think and you claiming you know. You trying to claim I am stressed because of facebook when you don't know shit. So maybe don't go around be stupid like that since no one is upset lol can't handle the truth then you can choose to ignore it.

[NormaTavish]

lol, your funny. Its an opinion site, that's how it works. Don't start getting upset if you get opinions you dont like. Or Upset about answers you already know are right but don't want to admit to. You certainly sound troubled and if you're sensitive to answers maybe you shouldn't ask for them.

[myTake Owner]

I am not upset by some troll lol you trolls are fucking lame now you fight over anything I thought trolling was suppose to be funny to everyone? now you guys are pathetic and I'm not going bother to read your shit anymore because clearly you just a troll looking for the attention the attention whore needs.

[NormaTavish]

Like I said, I dont think you understand how opinions work or even if they are directed at you. You can throw as many insults as you like, it doesn't change the fact that because you don't like someone's opinion it's not necessarily wrong. And because you dont like it, doesn't make them a troll. It just exemplifies that you're intolerant off other people's opinions.

[myTake Owner]

Again you clearly need to stfu about knowing me and you also need to find somewhere else to troll because I'm done with your trolling it stupid and pointless because you not proving any point.

[myTake Owner]

and no you are a troll you fail to see how you can't go around to harass people on facebook because that break the terms and agreements you sign up with and yet you coming here assuming I am stress, this and that when you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Also, telling me to not use facebook like excuse me? so clearly your trolling if you not going to bother what I am saying to you or care enough. I told you how many times not to project yourself onto me and yet you keep doing it.

[NormaTavish]

I'm proving that clearly you're not able to take opinions. This would be the wrong site for you in that case.

[myTake Owner]

to understand what*

[myTake Owner]

and you clearly a bitch and I'm done talking to a troll so bye Felicia you should have stop your trolling when I told you to.

[NormaTavish]

I seem to be missing a comment, however you certainly sound like you don't understand how this site works. I hope you get your issues sorted out through.

[myTake Owner]

and you need to fuck you dirtbag and stop trying to troll on here because this is not a site for you to get offended at shit for no reason. Go get a hobby then and no one has to respect your opinion I can easily tell you your opinion is shit if I want to. Guess what is it because you trolling and you just doing this to be a shitty person now fuck off now.

[myTake Owner]

fuck off*

[NormaTavish]

Though :)

[Anonymous]

Nice, thanks