<p>I post here in the hopes of finding some answers regarding pornographic images being sent to me via personal messages on my facebook account.
It has been happening to ne for the last few weeks and it is growing old…always the same message ( Hello ) with varying degrees of naked young women.
I am a 48 yr old woman with no interest in either viewing these images or chatting with whoever the %^$# is repeatedly sending this nonsense to me</p>
<p>As far as I can see with the " Help, reporting or security settings ", there is little more that I can do but : Report and block the senders…I have done all of this , yet I continually have messages…UGH !!
I use facebook to connect with old friends and family members that live far away. This is truly ruining things for me and it seems like FB offers no help in this area.</p>
<p>I do not run apps at all , so for the life of me, can’t figure out why anyone would make an effort to try to communicate with an old lady like me
I am frustrated and would appreciate any advice from those who have either experience, or know how to navigate FB better than me</p>
<p>Try going in to your “account” in the upper left …and pick “customize settings” see if you can tighten up your privacy controls as much as you can, picking “friends only” for everything.</p>
<p>I think you can change the settings so that only friends can message you (you may have to go into the custom settings). I don’t see how anything can get past that. I checked my settings by creating a throwaway account. I then went to my real profile and saw how a non friend would see my information. A bit overboard perhaps, but I want to keep things private.</p>
<p>Again, this may be custom settings, but make it so only friends can see things, not friends of friends.</p>
<p>One of my friends is having the same problem. I believe she’s getting them in emails, not messages, but I’m not sure. I’ll let you know if she finds a solution.</p>
<p>My dog started getting those “Hello :)” porn messages in the last few weeks. Since I am the only one who ever logs on to his account, I know he has not done anything to “deserve” it ;). I thought it was because he is a young “male” and had interested in “random play” stated as his relationship status. Reporting these messages as sexually explicit/inappropriate did not prevent the new ones from coming…
I did tighten his privacy a bit, and there had been no porn spam in the last few days.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten 2 of them in the past couple of weeks, also. I report them as spam and then block the sender. My privacy settings are pretty tight but I guess I need to block incoming messages from other than friends,too. Thanks for the reminder!</p>
<p>I had no idea this was possible! Is this a new problem? This sounds like something facebook needs to fix. Call CNN or better yet, Fox news–they’d love to exploit this one. I’m being serious. A bit of bad publicity and I’ll bet facebook fixes it right up. If this were happening to me, I’d be very annoyed to say the least. So, spread the word.</p>
<p>This is a virus that has been around awhile. It attacks someone on facebook and causes their account to send these messages to their friends. It is not the sender sending these things, and they are horrified that it’s happening to them.</p>
<p>One of my friends got this and I knew when I saw the message (before clicking on the link) that it wasn’t from her and ignored it. A day later she posted a status that told everyone what was going on. She didn’t even know it was happening until someone told her.</p>
<p>They need to remove the virus… not sure how. And you need to not open messages from these people until this is fixed.</p>
<p>He’s an obedience school dropout (spends too much time on Facebook instead of practicing his sitting and staying…), not really a college material…</p>
<p>I think I may have found a solution , though the jury is still out. I reset my security settings and one of the options is to only allow private messages to come thru from people I know or are friends with. kind of frustrating , because it does limit the potential of old friends attempting to reconnect and include a pm along with request…let’s face it , not all of us have include our maiden names.</p>
<p>The graphic photos are coming thru my messages , and there is no way to see without opening the message icon who is sending it. I am pleased to say that so far none of my friends in cyber-space feel the need to display their private parts when they want to catch up
I have seen the wall posts from some people that are sort of red flags that scream ,don’t click on me…
What upsets me is , my 80 yr old mother has jumped on the bandwagon and joined FB. She is having a blast seeing all of the pictures of family near and far.
We even have a group of people from our old neighborhood, with many pictures that are nostalgic. I cringe to think of what her response would be if she gets such an attack on her account</p>
) with varying degrees of naked young women.