Facebook "who's Following Me?" Red Herring

[ichkeria]

There's a silly thing doing the rounds on Facebook claiming that if you go into your account settings > block > and type "following me" in the search box, you will get a list of random users who are secretly following you. Several friends of mine have wasted ages going through each name individually blocking them.
So just in case anyone has seen this and is worried or is tempted to wade through a list of supposed "Facebook" stalkers, it's a waste of time!

[Jackdaw33]

The only silly thing is Facebook itself.

[Buenchico]

A relevant link (from over 4 months ago, so you'd have thought that people would have sussed it by now):
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/facebook-following-me-myth-scaring-13657902

[ichkeria]

I told my cousin to try "watching me" instead: she found 66 people (all with weirdy foreign Islamic state looking names, of course) : God knows what she thought these people were doing but she started blocking them (you have to do it one by one) - until I told her to stop.
And she is an intelligent person. But it is very easy to be fooled by these things.

[Zacs-Master]

Privacy settings are available to all Facecloth users.

[ichkeria]

I guess the Birmingham mail isn't widely read in Dublin :-)

[Ellipsis]

https://www.snopes.com/facebook-paying-spies/

[Buenchico]

>>> I guess the Birmingham mail isn't widely read in Dublin

I understand that some news does reach the Emerald Isle occasionally though ;-)
http://www.irishsun.com/news/254808407/facebook-hoax-spreads-information-about-blocking-function

[woofgang]

Its been going around for years.

[Old_Geezer]

That's quite amusing, but cruel. But so long as they are only sending it to scary people...