FabSwingers.com forum: Fab and Facebook

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Has anyone else noticed that people you’ve messaged on here come up on your friends you may know, on Facebook? And I don’t mean texting between phones, just messaging them on their profile.

Very strange.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Has anyone else noticed that people you’ve messaged on here come up on your friends you may know, on Facebook? And I don’t mean texting between phones, just messaging them on their profile.

Very strange."

All the time, which is 1 of the reasons I won't have public face pics

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By *inkynudeMan
over a year ago

London

Wow! I’m glad I deleted my Facebook account. So creepy...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you have fab friends on FB? I’ve only noticed people in whatsapp groups appear ...

I think !!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"which is 1 of the reasons I won't have public face pics"

Or Facebook

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By *lenderfoxMan
over a year ago

Leeds

That's why you should use fab in private browsing, other sites can't track it with cookies then

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By *arshellCouple
over a year ago

Mansfield

And use a different email address...cookies link the 2 sites together...

Mrs was proper stalked by someone even as far as a LinkedIn request...

Removed the email address and no random connections since.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

There’s a few come up on mine, we’ve never met we messaged each other once and now they come up on my friends you may know all the time. It’s not right as now I could know everything about them, where they live, kids, work. If you were a wrongun you could cause some serious personal damage.

We’d like to know what the draconian moderators think about this and what their suggestions to rectify it might be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you swop mobile numbers they come up in suggested friends. Just delete your mobile number from fb & you won’t appear on anyone’s list.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There’s a few come up on mine, we’ve never met we messaged each other once and now they come up on my friends you may know all the time. It’s not right as now I could know everything about them, where they live, kids, work. If you were a wrongun you could cause some serious personal damage.

We’d like to know what the draconian moderators think about this and what their suggestions to rectify it might be."

By the sounds of it, it’s Facebook doing the stalking ! There must be a tech way of not using cookies here ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We’d love to know xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Private browsing and separate email, then nothing links the two.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We use private browsing on the phone and laptop, we’re going to change our email address on here as well.

Second question, do you think we should tell the female that keeps popping up on my Facebook, as she is very kinky and clearly likes to keep her private and public life very separate. Or would that be weird? We’ve never met her but was arranging to meet her to fulfil one of her very kinky submissive outdoor fantasies.

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By *iger.10Man
over a year ago

Llantrisant

"We use private browsing on the phone and laptop, we’re going to change our email address on here as well.

Personally, I think I would only give it a mention if you meet them face to face - it won't come across as weird then as you put it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We use private browsing on the phone and laptop, we’re going to change our email address on here as well.

On the basis you know her i would tell her. I would want to know how easy it was to walk into someones personal life. So she can protect herself.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We use private browsing on the phone and laptop, we’re going to change our email address on here as well.

I would message her on here and say she’s popped up on your FB, she might need to tweak her privacy settings or she may already know she does appear ...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We don’t know her, just messaged once a while ago. So we’re a bit worried that we would look like stalkers, but then again we would want to know if it was the other way round.

I think we will message her xx

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By *odramafunCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire/staffordshire

Really?! Oh dear x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We’ve messaged her. But I’ve realised there’s four other people on suggested friends at the moment that seem to be there for no reason, but I ha e a funny feeling they are all off here.

This could be really terrible, you could really mess peoples lives up, black-mail, bribery would be very easy with the information Facebook shows.

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By *renshiiCouple
over a year ago

Dartford

The use of cookies to track your Internet activity and linking of mobile numbers etc is one of the reasons we use KIK to chat off site. As well as email addresses exclusively for our private fun

. Saves the sex/kink part bleeding into our public/family personas.

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

I tend to find only 3 reasons someone random would pop up on Facebook. They looked at your profile, you have their number and they have it linked to their account or you have mutual friends. Facebook can’t dredge Fab for info. My FB is on lock down just in case though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

No that’s not right mrsmac, I have mine on private, I have never spoken or know these people, the only connection is fab. A couple of them we haven’t even messaged, just looked at their page or pictures. We think this is seriously out of order and could be really abused.

We love to know what the fab moderators think about this. We think it needs seriously looking into more.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Also we have our search engine option set to private yet just been told that we come up on google search. Annoyed doesn’t even begin to explain how fucking angry I am at the moment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have FB but don't go on it much, I'm worried though.

The email I use for this and the one I use for my FB account are different though, so I presume this shouldn't be an issue?

Or am I wrong there?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I don’t know but we’ll be changing our email addresses from now on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't use my main email address or use Fab in normal browsing so don't get any nasty shocks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Has anyone else noticed that people you’ve messaged on here come up on your friends you may know, on Facebook? And I don’t mean texting between phones, just messaging them on their profile.

Very strange."

I haven’t had this happen, yet.

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

"No that’s not right mrsmac, I have mine on private, I have never spoken or know these people, the only connection is fab. A couple of them we haven’t even messaged, just looked at their page or pictures. We think this is seriously out of order and could be really abused.

We love to know what the fab moderators think about this. We think it needs seriously looking into more."

Apologies then I may be incorrect. In all my years on/off Fab and switching between the site and other social media it has yet to happen randomly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've noticed people coming up in my added from phone contacts on Facebook that I don't know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We love to know what the fab moderators think about this. We think it needs seriously looking into more."

It's a Facebook issue not Fab.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We love to know what the fab moderators think about this. We think it needs seriously looking into more."

I’ve had this too, no phone or email on Facebook, no photos common to both sites. A guy who messaged me (didn’t even know my surname and hadn’t seen my face pic, which I only send on request and don’t have on my friends section ) found me on Facebook and sent a friend request.

I messaged admin to ask how that could have happened but no response.

All I could do was lock down Facebook which is a shame as a few old friends have contacted me through there before

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

No response from fab admin. No surprise there then.

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By *iercedyvonneTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow

Install the ghostery plugin to your browser. It isn't just FB, it is a high percentage of all websites.

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By *inks_apeyCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

Always use in private browsing, always use an add blocker to stop persistent cookies, and if you add one 'friend' that's on here to Facebook, and they have friends also on here, highly likely it will show up... Best solution, delete the Facebook account, they are a bunch of money grabbing armpits anyhow.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Install the ghostery plugin to your browser. It isn't just FB, it is a high percentage of all websites."

Can that be done on iPhones?

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By *riendly and hornyMan
over a year ago

Crewe

[Removed by poster at 10/08/18 12:32:55]

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By *riendly and hornyMan
over a year ago

Crewe

I think people can find you using face recognition on Facebook (you can turn this off).

If you've got a face pic of have sent one on fab, they could then use this to try and find you on Facebook

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can go into private settings on fab and tick for no search engines to pick it up that should help cut it down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope, never!

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By *ork10Man
over a year ago

York

It’s never happened to me and I use different email addresses for Facebook and fab

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By *RnMrsFreakCouple
over a year ago

Hull,England

"Has anyone else noticed that people you’ve messaged on here come up on your friends you may know, on Facebook? And I don’t mean texting between phones, just messaging them on their profile.

Very strange."
yep, so many links, we don't have FB, took just 4 days to get banned from it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Has anyone else noticed that people you’ve messaged on here come up on your friends you may know, on Facebook? And I don’t mean texting between phones, just messaging them on their profile.

Very strange."
yes happened to us once misses met a couple and I stayed at home and when she come back she was like there nice and I said Karl and Kelly look it and she was baffled I told her soon as she left they where on my friends you may know list same pics with out the blurred faces very odd

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah I've noticed that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Facebook is so insidious. Did you know that any webpage that has a Facebook like or share button on it is watched by Facebook. I think I'm right in saying the webpage automatically downloads cookies to your machine that watches your browsing habits and sends the info back to Facebook. And you don't even need to be a member. It'll just collate that info on you and store it just in case you later join.

Zuckerberg is the devil

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a guy message me and sent me photos of my children!

He had accessed my Facebook through my phone number, my own fault for not having my security as high as it should of been on Facebook.

I have learnt a valuable lesson. Instantly secured Facebook and I hardly give my phone number out these days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Omg this is so scary and worrying Julie xx I may leave FaB now c

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I had a guy message me and sent me photos of my children!

He had accessed my Facebook through my phone number, my own fault for not having my security as high as it should of been on Facebook.

I have learnt a valuable lesson. Instantly secured Facebook and I hardly give my phone number out these days. "

Starts 07 doesn't it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Omg this is so scary and worrying Julie xx I may leave FaB now c"

I've a much better proposal for you. Leave Facebook. You'll never regret it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope and I wouldn't care.

I'd probably start chatting to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stolen Facebook pics to create an account here perhaps?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Facebook is so insidious. Did you know that any webpage that has a Facebook like or share button on it is watched by Facebook. I think I'm right in saying the webpage automatically downloads cookies to your machine that watches your browsing habits and sends the info back to Facebook. And you don't even need to be a member. It'll just collate that info on you and store it just in case you later join.

Zuckerberg is the devil "

I've read somewhere that Facebook has a profile for everyone even if they're not a member. Not sure if that's the tin foil hat conspiracy theorists or the truth. I'm assuming it's true. *squishes tin foil hat down tighter*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

NEVER

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By *elovetofuck2Couple
over a year ago

cannock

A lady we met few yrs back who was in a couple back then somehow found us on fb and she didnt know our last names. she said this happened in suggested friends even though we have no mutual friends. Luckily she is lovely and we get on well with her but quite scary how they can find you

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By *RnMrsFreakCouple
over a year ago

Hull,England

"Omg this is so scary and worrying Julie xx I may leave FaB now c

I've a much better proposal for you. Leave Facebook. You'll never regret it

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Agreed, we never looked back.

Also, people need to get it into their dumb heads that if you post pictures of your children on any website no matter what or how big it is then you are at risk of them being misused, and no website is more misused than facebook. Over a decade and folk still don't get that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Omg this is so scary and worrying Julie xx I may leave FaB now c

I've a much better proposal for you. Leave Facebook. You'll never regret it

Agreed, we never looked back.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A lady we met few yrs back who was in a couple back then somehow found us on fb and she didnt know our last names. she said this happened in suggested friends even though we have no mutual friends. Luckily she is lovely and we get on well with her but quite scary how they can find you "

Did you swap numbers. If you swap numbers and you link your number to Facebook. Within a few days, the friendfinder system will show this person on your suggested friends feed

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By *ackardMan
over a year ago

North West & beyond

I always look at fab in private/incognito mode on my browser but it is a little concerning that it happens.

Facebook may also pick up other users who where at a location you visited and suggest them as friends so it may be worth disabling your location settings before arriving at a meet.

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