Facebook-related, sorry

[pasturesgreen]

So, I get this is very trivial, but I'd appreciate some advice.

A friend of mine has started some time ago to share literally all my Facebook posts and updates: profile pictures, status updates, each and every photo I post...

In the interest of not drip feeding, said person is a RL long time friend who had a crush on me for some time after we first met, if it might be relevant.

I'm not a massive Facebook user, have only got a limited number of "friends" (around 80) and have strict privacy settings. My friend sharing my posts mean his 800+ circle of fb friends get to see my updates, which is starting to grate a bit and I'm not comfortable with.

I do understand that whenever you post something online you sort of relinquish your rights to it, iyswim, but I also rather liked the idea of my posts only being visible to my limited circle of friends.

Would I be unreasonable to ask my friend to please stop sharing everything on my wall or should I just suck it up and put it down to different perspectives on fb etiquette?

Thanks for reading this far!

Are you sure they know how to use Facebook? Could they think that a share is similar to a like for example and not realise it's a bit odd?

There is an option to hide stuff from certain someone's each time you post. Use it.

Use the customise button for who you share your statuses with.

You can select Customise - then Share with friends the in the except box put this persons name.

It will automatically default that all you post wont be visable to them in future.

Its easy to add them in to see a certain post if you decide you want them to see something.

I use customise all the time!

If he is that obsessed, should you be seeing him in real life so often?

'Why have you deleted me from facebook'
'Because i found it creepy when you shared everything i do.'
'Oh'.

Click on the tab marked "Friends" on his profile, then you can add him to your "restricted" list. Then he doesn't need to see everything you post, as you can share it with Friends, except those on your Restricted list.

Is there a way you can stop people sharing your posts?

Why would his 800 friends be interested in what you are posting? very strange!

Do you think he just doesn't know the difference between "like" and "share"?!

LadyStark & Molly, no I'm sure he definitely gets the difference as he usually likes as well.

Anyway, I've asked him to please stop doing it and I've just seen he has removed my most recently shared post from his wall, so that's something, I suppose

If your privacy settings state that only your friends can see your posts, he can share all he likes. It will still only be visible to the original audience.

^^ Yep, it'll just come up as "Attachment unavailable" in anyone else's newsfeed if he shares your posts and you've set your privacy level to friends only.