My family and I are extremely upset at events that have taken place in the past few months in relation to My Daughter’s facebook page. When we were away on holidays in June, someobdy got into her page (they obviously knew her password) and put some dreadful comments about her on her page, making it look like she put them up herself. It has happened a number of times since and we believe we know who it is but cannot prove it. It happened again yesterday (Sunday 18th September) when at some stage they accessed her page again and put some dreadful upsetting comments such as “I like donkey’s arses”.
They also deleted her best fried as her fried so she can never speak to her on facebook again. This is a dreadful situation as we are talking about 12 year olds here and I really need it to stop. Is there any way I can confirm who accessed her page via an ip address or something – please help as we are totally distraught about this.
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While I feel bad that your daughter is dealing with it, this is a great lesson for her. Never give your password away. Right now it’s just a few negative comments on a Facebook page, not the end of the world. In fact, it probably isn’t any worse that she’s heard on the playground. She needs to put on her thick skin and ignore the stupidity. Personally, I’d close the page. If there is no page to access, there is no problem with slanderous posts… Try contacting Facebook and see if there is anything they can suggest but realistically if she gave her password away, the person posting the slander was acting with her permission…
Can’t you just change her password? Make it something the offender doesn’t and could never know. Then the problem should be corrected; she can send out a general message saying she had a hacker but the problem should be resolved. Threaten her upon pain of death to NEVER give out her password again and look for the friend on her “blocked” list; you should be able to reinstate her. The Facebook help page should be able to assist you on finding the “blocked” list. If that fails, start a new page for her. Remember to FORBID her from giving out her password again. If she does, then maybe she’s not responsible enough for a Facebook account.