Dumb FB Question.

Asked by starbuxaddct (10

) September 6th, 2009

I have scoured many a Google result looking for this answer, and now turn here because I cannot find it anywhere else. I’ve never posted here, so please forgive me if I sound elementary asking a question about Facebook.

Just recently, I was looking through a friend’s profile and noticed that someone was posting and their name is not linked. As in, I cannot click on their name and go to their profile… It’s not a matter of private or shared, you just can’t even click on their name. I do not know the person, just thought it was interesting that I cannot go to their profile.

Is this something that I can turn on? Is it something that you turn on so that only certain people cannot see or is that what happens when you block someone? What is this?

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It’s most likely a part of that person’s privacy settings.

Facade (22937

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I’ve seen people like this, and I think it’s because they make it so no one can search for them at all…so they have to befriend you. But, there comments show up with an unlinked name. I just assume they are private people.

casheroo (18116

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They have their privacy setting set to friends only. Most people have visibility to friends and friends of friends.

PandoraBoxx (18031

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@casheroo – Thank you! You were right, it is in the search privacy settings. I had not seen that link before.

starbuxaddct (10

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@starbuxaddct Welcome to Fluther!

Dog (25152

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@starbuxaddct Welcome to Fluther! Lurve.

filmfann (52487

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Privacy. You can make it to where people can’t do anything at all to interact with you. So it is, as a matter of fact, “a matter of private or shared.” I changed mine to this in an effort to keep my information private and had to change mine back after people couldn’t add me as a friend who I wanted to.

You can also block people or be blocked, but when that happens you can’t see anything that the person that blocked you posted or vice versa.

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