How Can Somebody Not A Friend On Facebook Read Stuff Ive Posted And Tell Others?

[gordiescotland1]

Hi there I am not a technical expert by any means but a couple of weeks ago I put a post on facebook that I thought a well known large doorstep company were parasites. Well today my agent came to see me as normal to collect money and she said that the boss of the local office had seen this post and she had to warn me of this. I understood that all the posts I had put on facebook were private between me and my friends. I did have an open account. Owing to a political argument between me and my sister we had a row and she unfriended me so last night I deactivated my account thinking I didnt want anything to do with it quite by chance and this agent cant find me now on facebook as she was looking for it. Could somebody have copied my message on to someone else or something. Neither agent or manager are on my friends list I cant understand it but I want nothing to do with facebook. Any ideas how this can have got into the wrong hands I am now freaking.

[CheekyChops]

It depends what you have set your privacy settings to. If anyone commented on your post, their friends will be able to see it as well.

[gordiescotland1]

That makes sense only 1 person commented on their post. Their friends could have known a provident agent and that is how it got back to them I think that is it.

[SlackAlice]

As CheekyChops suggests your privacy settings are important, but you can also alter privacy settings on each post you make.This wouldn't stop anyone re-posting your comments on their own page.

I have no idea why your freaking out about it unless your comment was untrue. I've never been one to make 'comments' unless I was prepared to stand by them.

[bodeker]

I was very wary of going on facebook although there are privacy settings. I accept that anything I say on there could be seen by anyone unless I send a private message, so I adjust my posts accordantly.

[Canary42]

If all you said was you think that they are parasites, I doubt whether they would take any action - the resultant publicity would surely make them a laughing stock since this is quite a widely-held opinion of cold callers.

Just my opinion, not a legal certainty.