to try and find a facebook page when the account has been deleted?

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is it possible?

long story short - DH's DD has been made to delete her FB because of some massive argument, she's got into trouble at school over it, and DH is very worried. exW has reacted with anger instead. DD won't tell her parents anything about it and is really upset. She's normally so quiet and never usually gets into trouble at home or school.

So, worth trying to take a look? Or should we just hope that it's nothing serious (i.e. just typical preteen melodrama) and forget about it? WWYD?

she is actually too young to have FB anyway - her mum let her - but that's a whole other thread

If the person with whom she had the row with has an open profile you could look to see if it was on both walls.

Otherwise FB never really deletes a profile, it's just stored as inactive so if you were reallllllly devious you could hack in to her email and reactivate it. Have a quick look and then deactivate it again!

Depends how sneaky you're feeling...

You could try googling the cache version but doubtful you find it.

To reactivate it you have to know her email and password. As soon as you put that in, everything comes up as normal.

ooh good grief no, no way could I hack in!
.will have a look on her friend's though - not going to do anything downright devious - I was hoping I might just be able to google it

as Mutz says, the only way is to reactivate it.

I'd look. It's good to be armed.

If you know her password and screen name you just have to sign in using those and it becomes reactivated. However if you do, dont be surprised to find things you wont like. Its often best to leave well alone.

I would say your best way forward is to have a talk to sDD and offer her a shoulder to cry on should she want to talk. I don't know about step mum relationships however i could imagine that your sDD might see you as a bit of a friend type figure if you play you;re cards right, so long as you dont betray her confidences you might find she comes to you with her problems. I could be niave there though

I'm lucky in that I do have that kind of relationship. Hence me not wanting to do anything too invasive IYSWIM. It is only bad luck that I didn't see what went on (ie didn't happen to see it on the news feed)

I haven't spoken to her about it so maybe I will have more luck.