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Facebook Stalker - How can they see posts?

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Braeburns · 24/09/2018 11:36

My DH has a colleague (who thankfully is not going to be in his team much longer) who is apparently facebook stalking him - but we can't figure out how.

Last week she commented that he was a "mystery" as she'd tried to find him online and couldn't. Then today she said "I've got you" and asked how an activity he'd done on the weekend went. She explained her son is friends with a mutual friend of ours on Facebook.

However both our profiles are locked down to friends only. We hadn't tagged our friend (who wasn't with us on the weekend) and he hadn't commented on the pictures we posted.

We've both blocked her now - as she's clearly a bit odd but we can't figure out how she could have seen our photos.

She could have just made a good guess but then why reference Facebook and her son's friend?

Any ideas?

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SpikyCactus · 24/09/2018 11:39

She could have looked at the friend’s phone if he was hanging out with her son? She sounds weird and I’d report to HR as her behaviour is inappropriate.

TheHulksPurplePanties · 24/09/2018 11:40

How secure is his password?

CryingMessFFS · 24/09/2018 11:42

Could she possibly have found him on another platform, say instagram or something? Would any pictures or posts of him be on someone else’s account?

Braeburns · 24/09/2018 12:02

Friend is currently in a different town so she couldn't have looked at his phone.

DH is not on instagram or other platforms. Haven't seen anyone post any pictures of him (we were with my family and they only do FB).

His password is secure (and I suspect if she'd hacked it she'd reference more stuff).

I'm starting to suspect she's figured out what he was up to another way (he may have mentioned to another colleague or accidentally let slip last week that he was off to do specific sport) but is referencing Facebook to freak him out.

He won't go to HR at this point... but will be interesting to see if she references being blocked tomorrow.

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ratspeaker · 24/09/2018 12:32

If any of his posts are "public" she'd easily seethem
Or more likely , if set to"friend of friends" she would be able to see if her son has a mutual friend.

Check if he is automatically tagged in pictures. You should be able to set it so approval and s needed before going onto timeline

RaspberryFlump · 24/09/2018 12:54

Another thing to do is go onto “settings” - do this by going to top right hand corner downward facing ^ - click on “settings”, then go down to third block listed as “privacy” click onto “blocked” (to see people previously blocked - I know you haven’t blocked her, but bear with me!) you’ll then see a box where you can type in ‘Following me’ this will show if anyone is following you without actually being a Facebook friend! you can now block her if you need to.

SilverHairedCat · 24/09/2018 12:55

Are your photos open to be seen by friends of friends?

Notacluewhatthisis · 24/09/2018 13:16

I blocked someone and she used a friend of a friend's to keep looking at my profile.

Is it possible she knows someone who he is friends with on fb that will let her look at his page?

NonaGrey · 24/09/2018 13:19

Personally I’d contact your other friend, explain the situation and see if he was prepared to block her.

Braeburns · 24/09/2018 20:18

Privacy settings are locked down already - only our friends can see pics (not friends of friends). Only thing that wasn't for my DH was ability to contact him which he's restricted but wouldn't have allowed access to photos. We've both blocked her now anyway... will wait and see what comment she makes next next.

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Braeburns · 24/09/2018 20:19

Will try and figure out the son's name and block him too.

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PattiStanger · 24/09/2018 20:25

Any of your friends can screenshot your posts and pass them on to anyone else or tell anyone what you've posted

tectonicplates · 24/09/2018 20:40

Is your DP on the Facebook page/group of the activity that he does? There could be photos on there that are public.

ShirleyPhallus · 24/09/2018 20:41

Is your husband Jeremy Northam?

Belletower · 24/09/2018 20:50

shirley Grin

Braeburns · 25/09/2018 09:14

Nope not in a group and DH is not Jeremy. She didn't comment today about being blocked so will see if anything further happens.

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