Facebook following me – The new false alarm making rounds on Facebook claims that there is a way to see accounts that are secretly following you.
It is good to know that the “following me” claim is NOT true. According to fact-checking site Snopes, the supposed spies are found by going to the “Block Users” section under Settings.
If you’ve been on Facebook over the last couple of days, you’ve probably seen some version of this chain message going around:
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If you go into your ACCOUNT SETTINGS then to BLOCKING (on left side of screen), then in the BLOCKED USERS search bar type in “following me” without the quotes, you might be startled by who is following you. Unfortunately you have to block them 1 at a time, which is annoying. I had 20 in the list and knew none of them. I blocked all of them. You might share or copy/paste if you found this helpful.
They are then revealed when you type in “following me” in the search field.
In actual sense, what users are getting is a list of people with the words “following” and “me” somewhere on their profiles, not a pack of clandestine agents.
Snopes pointed out that a similar false charge was made earlier in the year around January. That time, the “Men in Black” were discovered by typing “Facebook security” in the field.
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Users of the social media site have to navigate these types of hoaxes every few months. Previous scare tactics included a “copyright claim” to prevent losing ownership of posted content and a hacker named “Jayden K. Smith.”
If you do want to limit who really can see your postings, the Facebook Help Center provides information on how to change settings.
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