A few doubts regarding facebook
By vanny
@vandana7 (100526)
India
December 3, 2015 3:04am CST
1. Suppose we don't want somebody to visit our profile.
Is it possible to block that person whether or not he or she is our friend or not?
2. Is it possible to know if somebody visited our profile?
How would we know that?
Don't worry I am not being stalked or being harassed. lol.
In fact, I am the one who is doing that stalking. It is a girl (now a woman actually), whom I treated as a little sister but things turned sour between our families. So now we have disconnected as families. But I still feel like a sister towards her. I do visit her profile. She has not prevented me. Does that mean she is aware that I am visiting her profile, and understands? If she had any hard feelings for me, she could have blocked me right? If there was such a feature..
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13 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
3 Dec 15
In Settings, under Blocking, you can add a name or an email address for anyone you want to block, whether they are your friend or not. I think that they will still be able to see the most basic information on your profile (name, profile photo) but most of it won't be available to them. I believe that they will still be able to see any posts of yours which are marked 'Public' but you can control the default visibility of your posts so that they are restricted to a certain circle (Friends or Friends and Friends of Friends, for example).
I don't think that there's any way of knowing who just views your profile, though there may be third-party programs which claim to do that. Such programs, however, may seek to do other things with the information you'd have to provide them with and those things may not be desirable.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
3 Dec 15
@vandana7 Yes, I'm pretty sure that there are settings which can prevent messaging. I'm no expert in Facebook settings but I think it's possible. If you block her, she won't be able to message you. As far as I know, she can only know that you visited her profile if you actually did something there - 'liked' or commented on something she posted, for example.
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@vandana7 (100526)
• India
3 Dec 15
@owlwings ..this only proves she has some feelings too. :) I visited her profile today....feeling nostalgic..I was in boarding and she'd just joined the school. Nuns were constantly telling look what your sister did. She did not answer a single question, just copied the question paper ..and submitted it. It is just one of those days..no she has not prevented me from messaging. She too cares..
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
3 Dec 15
Don't you dare block me..oh on FB..ok go right ahead..
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@vandana7 (100526)
• India
3 Dec 15
Nobody means strangers? Or nobody means specific persons? :) She has not used private settings. I can see all her pictures. She is not technologically handicapped for sure. :) So there is a reason those photographs are there, or so I think. May be it is her way to tell me I am doing good.
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@LadyDuck (471969)
• Switzerland
3 Dec 15
Yes, go to the settings and you can block people if you do not want that they look at your profile. Check the Facebook settings, everything is there, you can even see who visited your profile and from which browser (and when) you logged in.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
3 Dec 15
Hey. :)
Yes you can block people whether they are a friend or not. You can block anybody from seeing your profile.
As far as I know, I don't THINK we can tell who has visited our profiles. If there is, I haven't known about this before.
I don't think it matters whether or not she isn't your friend on Facebook anymore. It could mean anything. She doesn't want to be your friend on there. You don't always have to block the person completely to show you really dislike that person but it still isn't good news to not be friends on Facebook.
Stalking or checking up on someone isn't very healthy either. I recommend for your sake that you try to stop it. Or, I mean I don't know the situation but maybe try messaging her to see where you stand. Hope all works out well.
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@vandana7 (100526)
• India
3 Dec 15
I rarely do that. :) I check on her on her birthday to see she is alright. :) And I check on any festivals to see how she celebrated. May be new year, hoping some day there will be some small note in which she will say she misses me, remembers me. So far nothing, and I am kind of giving up hope. Seeing profile ..how can it be blocked? If she has not blocked me, obviously she has some feelings like a sister towards me, right? I did message her but there are no replies.
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
3 Dec 15
@vandana7
I don't really know. It is very hard to answer this to be honest. I don't know her nor what she is thinking. She could be stalking you too who knows.
But if she isn't replying to anything, then that's not a good sign. If she doesn't want to talk, then maybe just respecting her wishes is the best thing you can do so it doesn't't cause any more problems.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
3 Dec 15
@vandana7
It all sounds very sad and frustrating. Very sorry. All the best with everything!
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
3 Dec 15
@vandana7 I think you should message her and see whether she answers you.I do know she did not replay the previous time. Still see how it goes.
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
3 Dec 15
There is a way to block someone there if you did not know but i don't think one can tell you are stalking
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
3 Dec 15
point in it ,id she really not like you then blocked you but not so she still feel for you so why you not try to talk with her?
i want to to see who visit my profile but that feature not available, also want to lock that if someone visit mt profile then they can see my timeline.
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@johnube12 (70)
• Manila, Philippines
3 Dec 15
Actually the hard part there is you're already assuming, How about asking her directly?
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