Do you have a Facebook privacy checker account?

[Sadaiyappan]

I have about 55 people on my facebook right now. But I have a privacy checker account which is on my Facebook friend list which I use to check other people's privacy settings. So I have two Facebook accounts.

 

[HAL9000]

Good idea! I have a second facebook account too, but for other reasons.

 

[Alone]

What the fuck?

 

[Fenixgoon]

what the fuck?

iawtp...

 

[Anubis]

no and this is the first ive ever heard anyone mention it

 

[DrPizza]

What's a privacy checker account?

Or rather, just how do you use it?

 

[M0RPH]

He's worried that someone he's stalking may have blocked some of their profile/pics/etc from him with privacy settings. So he logs in his other account and checks their profile to see if there's anything there he can't see with his main account.

 

[DrPizza]

He's worried that someone he's stalking may have blocked some of their profile/pics/etc from him with privacy settings. So he logs in his other account and checks their profile to see if there's anything there he can't see with his main account.

That doesn't sound right. I don't think there are privacy settings where "complete stranger" can see things that a friend can't see. The only way what you're saying would work is if he convinced every person on his friends list to also have his alternate account as a friend.

 

[alfa147x]

No, facebook has the feature built in.

 

[Imp]

Good idea! I have a second facebook account too, but for other reasons.

Yes. I do as well... Even after I closed my real one.

 

[M0RPH]

That doesn't sound right. I don't think there are privacy settings where "complete stranger" can see things that a friend can't see. The only way what you're saying would work is if he convinced every person on his friends list to also have his alternate account as a friend.

The default privacy setting on Facebook is 'friends of friends' and most people don't change that. That's why this works.

 

[airdata]

so... you friend yourself w\ your second account... and this helps how? I'm confused why it would matter at all.

I have most of my stuff set to friends only.

 

[coxmaster]

No, facebook has the feature built in.

This..

There is a spot in the privacy settings where you can see your profile from any of your friends' points of view

 

[dennilfloss]

He's worried that someone he's stalking may have blocked some of their profile/pics/etc from him with privacy settings. So he logs in his other account and checks their profile to see if there's anything there he can't see with his main account.

That strikes me as stalkerish. :hmm:

 

[Ghiddy]

What is Facebook? My coworkers keep talking about it too.

 

[moks78]

What is Facebook? My coworkers keep talking about it too.

:biggrin:

 

[Newbian]

That strikes me as stalkerish. :hmm:

That's bad if it's coming from denni.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

This..

There is a spot in the privacy settings where you can see your profile from any of your friends' points of view

Yeah but I'm talking about other people's facebook and what my other friends can see. But now they have way more privacy options and you can show specific people specific things so I might as well delete my privacy checker account...

 

[gaidensensei]

You are a bit eccentric, man.

If you're that overly concerned, just make one account for RL friends and another for all the people you don't really know.

 

[TridenT]

You are a bit eccentric, man.

If you're that overly concerned, just make one account for RL friends and another for all the people you don't really know.

Or learn to use lists on Facebook.

I've used lists so that way I can add people but having me added does nothing for them except increase their friends number by one. (They can't see my photos, my wall, my statuses, my online status, etc etc etc)

 

[moshquerade]

What is Facebook? My coworkers keep talking about it too.