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Facebook blocking, can you do this for....

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Eggybreadwithnuts · 21/07/2025 08:24

Someone I dont want to find or see my profile has appeared in my feed. Im guessing they've searched for me. Is the only way to stop them finding me again is to add them to my blocked list?

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Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 21/07/2025 08:25

They may be a friend of a friend. You can block and you can also limit who can see your posts.

Eggybreadwithnuts · 21/07/2025 11:03

No there def not a friend of a friend...so guessing they wpuld have searched for me. Ive blocked but just gone on and again the person has popped up. I will go to my settings and see what my restrictions say. I meed my personal acc for work purposes

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RedNine · 21/07/2025 11:10

When you block make sure you press the 'confirm' button (easy to miss this step).

ElCorazon · 21/07/2025 11:11

You’d be surprised! I know someone who we exchanged phone numbers with for work-related purposes for one occasion. We only know each other’s first name, like Susan or Tom. A couple of weeks later they showed up on my friend suggestion list on FB. I doubt they would have found me based purely on my first name, and I definitely didn’t search for them.

Helianthusinbloom · 21/07/2025 17:25

They can come up in your ‘people you may know’ if they’ve searched you, are a friend of a friend or if you have their phone number saved.
Have a look at your ‘view as’ and make sure no posts are public and they won’t be able to see anything.

Crinkle77 · 21/07/2025 17:27

Do you need Facebook for your own business or are you an employee?

Eggybreadwithnuts · 21/07/2025 19:14

Weird as...
Dont have mutal FB friends
Dont have their phone number
Havent searched for them

Ive blocked them
My posts are set to 'only friends can see posts'

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MargaretThursday · 21/07/2025 20:19

Block, and be ready to block more.

I have someone who for various reasons clearly wants to keep tabs on my (almost non-existent) FB feed.
He uses SM as a passive aggressive weapon to spread lies and rubbish. He judges everyone else by his (very low) standards.

Having removed him and blocked him I had various people I knew were connected with him (but had never appeared on my FB, nor were we in any the same groups nor had contact details) suddenly regularly my 1 & 2 in the suggested people. So I blocked them. So two more appeared. So I blocked them.
Then his wife, followed by partners of 2 of the others.
So I blocked anyone I could think of that he'd be stupid enough to try and manipulate into checking up on me.
He's very manipulative. I suspect something along the lines of "I'm sure she's only accidentally blocked me and she may be putting something of interest to me, so could you just take a quick look and just let me see..."
Yes, I was set to friends only, so they wouldn't have been able to see anything either.
So next thing after blocking was that week I had three attempts at hacking my account - two from where he lives, and one from where he works.

He's not stopped trying in the last year. Only a couple of weeks ago the top friend suggestion was an account that I know he set up intending to use, but never did. It has no friends, no activity. No way it would be in friends' lists.

What I do is regularly go through my suggested people and block any that may have connections to him. So anyone I don't look at and think "I know them from X".

Prat. That's being nice.

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