Facebook Question

[Paul2023]

Hi all, any tech gurus here ?

Ive recently got back onto Facebook, mainly to chat to family, old colleagues etc.

Ive been uploading lots of photos to albums I’ve created , but I didn’t realise that these were coming up as feeds on my timeline! Quite annoying to me , and probably my friends, who are seeing lots of my photos appear! People are saying, gosh , you’re uploading loads of pictures!

Ive been going to an album and selected the add photo option. I assumed the photo went straight into that, but it also appears on my timeline feed.

So, does anyone know if you can just upload photos without it actually appearing on mine or anyone’s feed? I just want the photos to go straight to my albums. So people can look at my album, photos if they want to.

Hope that makes sense ?! Is this possible?

Another question can you message someone on Facebook without them being a friend ? I think people can set their privacy settings to allow only friends to message them, meaning they won’t receive it if they’re not friends with you.

Yes, you can message them u less they've turned the option off but they may not know it's there as FB can be a bit flaky with notifications about messages from non friends I find

The default setting is to allow messages rather than it needing to be turned on. It's obvious as the option won't be there if they're turned it off

Well I sent the message yesterday to someone and it just says ‘sent at 1705’ rather than ‘read’.
Obviously they may not have been on in the last 24 hours , but it’s hard to tell either way unless I am friends with them.

If they're not on your friends list. They can go into the message but it'll be hidden from you that they've done that unless they reply.

Ok little back story here, I used to take DD who’s 10 to a gymnastics class and she was friends with one of the girls there. She went every week for a few years. The little girl, left gymnastics to go to another class, in another club due to it clashing with something else.

So I know the mum a little bit, just friendly terms, not really personally. I lost a lot of contacts phone numbers recently including the girls mum.

But DD said recently that she’d like to see her friend again for a play date and would I speak her mum. We haven’t seen her for about a year or so.

So yesterday I reached out with a facebook message.I wasn’t on facebook until fairly recently and don’t have her mum as a friend.
So just quick polite message obviously saying who I was and that DD would like to meet up with her DD.

According to my message it wasn’t read , only sent as it still says.So I assumed that maybe , as we’re not friends, maybe she didn’t see the message or her privacy settings didn’t allow it to go through. I don’t know.

So I sent a friend request today, hoping she’d accept and we can arrange our daughters meeting up. The friend request hasn’t been accepted, it just says cancel request on her profile page. Does that mean she’s not accepted it or declined it?

Is it a bit rude of her not even replying to my message , or is it possible she’s not even seen it perhaps?

You don't even know if she a regular facebook user, you're reading way too much into this when you have no idea if she's even seen the friend or message request.

You're coming across as a little intense, is that fair to say?

Messages I get from non-friends go to an “Other” inbox and I don’t get a notification. I check the other inbox maybe 2-3 times a year, so it’s very possible she’s not seen it.

I probably only look at my friend requests every few months too as I wouldn’t expect anyone I meet now to add me on Facebook (they would more likely follow me on instagram or twitter). She might have no idea you’ve been in touch.

Good point Blindeye. And you’re right. It’s just DD has been asking for a few weeks if she can have a play date with the other girl, obviously it depends if I can get in touch with her mum to see if she wants to or not.

As I said I’m quite new to Facebook too, I only joined to keep in touch with family who live all around the country. I don’t generally use it other than communicating with them.

Hi just another question. I’ve messaged a friend on Facebook, yesterday. They replied and I then replied back to them, asking them something. No reply back.
However the message just says sent, almost 24 hours later. Have they seen this message and just not replied to it ?
They have been active on Facebook since I sent the message.
If I ‘bump ‘ the message, will that mean they get two of the same messages ?

They just haven’t clicked on your message, maybe they’re busy and not in a position to reply yet. Don’t bump it, you’ll not come across well.

They haven't opened it yet. They may not open it for days or not at all dude. Nobody owes you a prompt response. You need to chill a bit.