What can I do about the "trash" Facebook keeps asking if I know?
I have been using Facebook since 2009, and until the last four months, friend recommendations which Facebook suggests (e.g. Do you know so-and-so) have been people I’ve been to High School with or crossed paths with somewhere.
But in the past four months or so, I’ve only been getting friend suggestions of people who are absolute ghetto trash—people with gang tatoos, exposed breasts, sewage-bleached hair, jail videos, gang hand-signs and images which fit the definition of porn (exposed genitalia—including one cocksucking video). Also, most of these are teenagers and I am 52 years old.
This is not a joke or exaggeration. I am really angry that Facebook is soliciting these people as potential friends and have been keeping up the onslaught of this indecent material—much of which are minors.
What can be done about this?
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Contact Facebook directly.
I do not think there is any way to turn those off. I can’t access facebook right now, so I am unable to check. (It’s blocked on school Wi-Fi) I’ll check when I get home
Yes I’m thinking about discontinuing Facebook altogether—and am considering deleting my account to avoid porn involving minors infesting my computer in some way. But why should I HAVE to? I have many friends and websites on Facebook which I DO want to receive material from.
I don’t see anything on my profile page that would make Facebook link me to these persons—except my interest in Raleigh, Tennessee—which is now a bad part of the Memphis metropolitan area (I went to school in what then was Raleigh—and the schools are there).
If you don’t engage with the minors in any way, you should be fine. I’ve gotten friend requests from minors who were naked in their pictures, all I did was ignore it. Nothing legal ever came out of it (Granted I was also a minor when I got these). I don’t think anything can be done if you don’t accept the requests/visit their page. It’s facebook automatically sending them to you, and as long as no one else on your friend list is a minor posting or doing illegal things that could get you in trouble, you should be okay.
I’m not even sure if a friend of yours posting something illegal would get you in trouble, actually. Doesn’t make any sense. I get your concern though, it’s best to be safe than sorry.
Make up a name for where you went to high school and where you are from like:
“From – - Jellystone”
“Went to – - – School of Hard Knocks”.
Facebook is takes cues from your input.
@Yellowdog You can stop using facebook. Period! Simple.
Somebody friends with you goes to those places. It recommends according to what your friends follow.
The first thing you can do is stop thinking of other human beings as “trash.” The second thing you can do is report anything that violates Facebook rules. Other than that, changing the information you give to Facebook or not using the site are all you have left.
I’m glad I don’t have that problem. Why can’t you just ignore them? You have to be careful about what you post. I said something benign about boobs and all of a sudden I had porn ads popping up left and right. I quickly posted several mundane things, like about maps and atlases and stuff. It finally went away.
Check if anyone shows up as mutual friends in that list someone you might have added recently. If it does you should un-friend him / her ASAP.
Contact Facebook and tell them about the problem. There’s no eason to stop using FB if you want to use it; that’s stupid advice. I was getting slutty friend suggestions for a while – not as bad as yours – but then it stopped.
FB also will suggest friends by proximity especially if you have a common friend
Yeah – but it’s true that bizarre suggestions sometimes come up.
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