Comments | moonbear7: Controlling who adds me to their friends page

moonbear7

Controlling who adds me to their friends page

Apr 17, 2009 09:34

Does anyone know how to control who can add me as a friend? I had this problem with Friendster that I had random people who aren't the kind of people I'd EVER add as a friend, sending me friend requests.

I don't want these people reading my journal. I don't want them adding me as a friend.

Comments 7

molly_grue April 17 2009, 16:52:31 UTC

I don't think you can control them friending you, but you can ban them from posting in your journal and seeing friends-locked posts.

moonbear7 April 18 2009, 17:10:30 UTC

how do you ban them?

nekoken April 17 2009, 17:05:59 UTC

That's just weird. LJ stalkers. What an odd concept. Lock posts as friends only?

swade2569 April 17 2009, 17:53:50 UTC

I'm getting friended by fake accounts in Russian.

Shortly after they friend me they are usually deleted by LJ. I think they're just farming for random connections or something.

AFAIK, there's no way to stop it.

fake accounts moonbear7 April 18 2009, 17:09:30 UTC

That's exactly what I'm seeing. And based on the 'lovely' lady who is adding me as her friend, I'm confident that we'd never have anything in common that I'd want her reading my journal.

Based on recent experience, I doubt it's even a picture of that person.

crackferret April 18 2009, 07:23:10 UTC

This is why I just friendslock everything, dude. That way, only the people you friend can see anything.

mr_wes April 20 2009, 14:24:29 UTC

Yep, you can't prevent people from viewing your public posts. They only way to do that is to make all your posts friends only. You can ban people and that way they cannot post to your LJ if you have public posting allowed and they will no longer show up on your profile page under people who have friended you (sort of out of sight, out of mind). Here's the page to ban people:
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml