Facebook Friend or Foe?

August 15, 2010 Glyna Humm Social Networking Tips 71

How many friends do you have on FB? How many groups, pages, events, and causes do you “LIKE”? Do you know every one of these people personally, or do you on occasion, accept someone blindly just because they asked? Everyday I get requests from people, and even animals that I don’t know. Usually I go ahead and accept them after I have looked at their information and try to make sure they are “above board”.

Well, let me tell you, it can come back to bite you quickly with all the junk that starts coming your way day, after day, after day. You now have to take your precious time weeding through all of the spammers with their “can’t miss’ opportunities, events and products you just have to get your hands on.

At first, I tried to be “politically correct” and send these spammers a note and ask them to kindly take me off their lists. But guess what – no one answered! I know you are probably surprised! Haha So, I decided to take this problem into my own hands and investigate Facebook to find another solution.

Great news! I found out how get rid of these people and groups and want to share it with you in this video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLrEhcOmXs[/youtube]

I hope you found this helpful and I would love to know if you tried it for yourself, so please leave me your comments. Please feel free to share this with all your social medial friends!


Wishing You Success,



70 Comments

  2. Glyna – thank you so much for your facebook “friend or foe” tips – I have grown weary deleting all the messages received from spammers – will start “removing from group” immediately !

    Be Blessed – Bob White

  3. So that’s how you blocked me. I need to check out the Events also. I get hundreds of invites to these and most are requiring travel to some other city. Beats me why somebody would think I would leave my couch to visit some MLM opportunity. Just a small rant my lady. later gator.

  4. Glyna,
    I can always count on you to share some very good info that I can use! I’ve had this happen too often lately & have had to remove some because of it.

    I’m so glad you really didn’t “get rid of me!” LOL

    Have a great one Val 🙂

  5. Thanks for the tip Glyna. I’m still trying to get comfortable with all the bells and whistles at FaceBook. Unfortunately, that sometimes means getting a bunch of pitching from a few people that just don’t get it. Well, now I can pitch them…. right out of my inbox!! Thanks!

  6. Glyna – great post! I actually had to remove some groups the other day for the same reason – they were just driving me nuts with info that wasn’t relevant to me. I am glad you didn’t rid yourself of the SGPP page! haha Thanks for another valuable video post and I always love to see you in my Inbox!

    Have a great day my friend!

    Summer

  8. Fabulous Glyna! Often there are little tips make a huge impact in our lives and if you continue to supply them to us we’ll keep coming back for more. Before you know it, you’ll be our next tip guru! Hmmmm….we’ll need to come up with a good title for you. All these great videos ought to be put on one page of Glyna’s tipping jar with a donation button if they were helpful to people. Okay so that is the best I can do so late at night but it’s a start .See what other creative ideas you can come up with!

    Abundant Blessings,
    Kellie

  9. I love all the ideas you provide on your site. You can also just block the person’s comments without removing them as a friend (then they get your stuff but you don’t get there’s) – you might add that as another training at some point.

  10. Hey Glyna, Great info and tips. I actually was just trying to figure out where to even find the groups I’m a part of and now I know LOL! Was able to remove myself from a few. Found your post helpful and I’m sure many others will too! Thanks for sharing.

    ~Kara

  12. Glyna ,

    I know what you mean about all the invites, spam , and auto message after message from the Facebook Spam Bots or Spammers 🙂 Good job on the video, i know i have some cleaning up to do on mine to free my box from the people i truly want to connect with. Enjoy your Weekend!

  13. Glyna…great advice. I didn’t know you could do this and I very much appreciate knowing it. I have a whole host of friend requests that I just haven’t gotten to. It gives me a bit of pause before accepting them. Thanks a ton!

  16. Yes – I know what you mean Bruce. I know a lot of people that don’t accept friends unless there is a message attached to it. I’m not sure I am going to go that far but I might check them out a little more.

  29. Glyna,

    Little tips matter like building blocks for a house! Thanks so much. I usually block the people and remove myself from the groups. You can click report/block on the person’s profile and just select block without reporting them. 😉

    God Bless,
    Curt B aka CBiz

  31. Hi Glyna,

    Although I was already familiar with how to “rid” yourself of spammers you’d friended, I appreciate that you showed how to do this step-by-step on your video. This is for sure one of the topics that I hear most from my true friends about…that they’ve befriended someone & not sure how to unfriend them…lol! I appreciate you sharing 🙂

    Christine

  32. Hi Glyna, thanks for that valuable input. Do you know whether the person knows you have removed them or not? Sometimes it would be politically more beneficial for them not to know but rather they go than I continue to be “bugged”! It is most annoying and crazy that people don’t understand that real business is built via real relationships.

    keep up the great content.
    regards,
    Clare

  35. Glyna,

    Thanks for the video. It’s funny that I have been on Facebook for a while now and never knew those buttons to remove were right there. I used to go to my “edit friends” button.

    I think anyone on Facebook has experienced the spammers. I get the “hit and run” instant messagers that will IM me and throw out a quick link that I “need” to check out. I also get those that just say “hi” on IM but never respond back when you answer them in hopes you’ll go to their profile. Silly spammers!

    Great to connect and I look forward to more of your posts!

    In Success,
    Howie Perks

  36. Hi Glyna,

    Great post and video. There are a few people on my list I will delete. I have done this in the past and it felt good. It is all about choices. Some of the information I receive I am grateful and yes some is not.

    Have a great week!

    Faith

  37. Hi Glyna

    Great information. I got two of these types of messages last week on FB that were clearly the UNwanted kind! I think the auto adders and frenzy to increase quantity instead of quality has made for the necessity of this caution!

    Cheers
    Laura Morris

  39. Glyna, Great tips! These spammers are constantly bugging me! I appreciate you sharing this information. Now I can go into my Facebook account and get rid of these spammers once and for all. Thanks again! ~Joseph McDevitt

  45. Hey Glyna -thank you for taking the time to do this step-by-step on your video.

    I think it’s a shame that so many people know so little about relationship building and the real benefits and power of Social Networking that the only way they understand how to use it is to SPAM!!!!

    I look forward to more of your quick FB tips

  47. Hi Glyna!

    Oh My Goodness, I have had to spend hours going through and deleting groups!! I joined far too many and literally got an ibox full of rubbish every day and ended up missing important message from friends & family.

    The one thing that still clogs things up a bit is that I get so many event invites, which is fine, I’m sure a lot of them have value but I really don’t like how someone can invite you to an event and then inbox me about it… I think it’s enough that I see their event in my invites section! Can’t find a way to stop that unfortunately but definitely removing the groups helped tons!

    Wishing you a fabulous weekend.

    Emma 🙂

  51. Glynna,
    What a helpful post! As for the events issue, it might pay to remove the person who is sending the event notices, by clicking on their name in the invitation and then following your suggestions above…. 🙂

    Anything that helps us regain some of our time is always a great tip!

    Thanks so much for sharing this great video….
    Robin

  52. Thanks so much for the tip Glyna. I need to clean up my Facebook friends and did not know how to do it.

    On a side note, your page seems to load very slowly. Of course I may have just caught your server napping but there is a plugin to speed up your site that you may want to look at W3 Total Cache. I use it for my site and it works great.

    Michael

  53. Thanks for taking the time to investigate on this issue and sharing with us,i have never personally experienced spamming yet but if somehow they start doing their dirty work on my profile, i will know how to clean them thanks to you.

    To your unlimited success,
    ~Kebabope Morapedi

  57. Haha – yes isn’t that true Gary? There is not enough time in the day! I keep getting up earlier and earlier – pretty soon I will be staying up all night:) Thanks

  59. Hey Glyna

    This is a great video with two awesome tips that every facebook user should know about! I use to have a lot of spammers so I turned off my wall so people couldn’t post to it, but I missed my friends dropping by so now I just remove people who have no etiquette 🙂
    cheers
    Nat

  60. Glyna,
    Great tip! Facebook can be confusing and I have had to do the same, but, this tip is SO much easier! Dah! LOL! I recently got hacked into so you really have to be care ful. Thanks for the info I appreciate it!

  61. Yes – you have to be so careful with all of this stuff – don’t you Lesly. It is definitely not fun to deal with hackers! I’ve been there – I feel for you:)

  67. Hi Glyna,

    Thank you for sharing your video tips. I use Facebook and I hate when I encountered some annoying spammers. Thanks for the your tips. It will help me a lot. 🙂

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