{"id":9112,"date":"2017-09-06T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/news-2885\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:10:14","slug":"news-2885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/news-2885\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook worries: I didn\u2019t post that"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:00:12 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is my assumption that most Facebook users don\u2019t look at their own profile often. With your own profile, I mean the timeline that shows up when you click your own name or avatar in the Facebook menu.<\/p>\n

\"profile<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because we think<\/em> we know exactly what is posted there, so why bother to look at it? After all, isn\u2019t that supposed to be all the stuff that we posted ourselves?<\/p>\n

The feeling of disorientation you get when you find something you are sure you didn’t<\/em> post will be even worse if you notice that supposed messages have been sent from your Facebook Messenger account<\/a> that you know you never sent. All in all, there might be some discrepancies between what you did and what actually shows up and that\u2019s what this blog post is all about.<\/p>\n

How do posts end up on your timeline that you didn’t post?<\/h3>\n

There are three main reasons that might be of some concern:<\/p>\n

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  1. Someone or something else has access to your Facebook account<\/li>\n
  2. A Facebook app has the authorization to post on your timeline<\/li>\n
  3. An active script or browser extension can post on your behalf<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In all these cases, there is no immediate reason to worry as long as you know about it and trust the person, app, script, or extension that has access or authorization.<\/p>\n

    Authorized apps<\/h3>\n

    We have seen it the past and I bet there are still active apps being spread among Facebook users by pretending to be spectacular videos. You may remember the \u201cMan found inside Shark\u201d and similar sensational posts, which try to trick you into downloading malware or installing a malicious app.<\/p>\n

    To check whether an app has the ability to post on your timeline, click on Settings:<\/p>\n

    \"Facebook<\/p>\n

    On the left-hand side, click on Apps and select any app that doesn’t look familiar or trustworthy. You can see whether they can post on your timeline by looking at their permissions. If they have the authorization to post on your timeline, it will look like this:<\/p>\n

    \"post<\/p>\n

    Delete apps you don\u2019t trust or no longer use by clicking on the X<\/em> that shows up when you hover over an app with your mouse pointer in the Apps menu.<\/p>\n

    \"remove<\/p>\n

    Scripts posting on your behalf<\/h3>\n

    It is possible there is an active script (or program) that uses your credentials when you have Facebook opened in your browser. The script does not need to log in, but simply makes use of the fact that you already did log in. It doesn’t matter whether you did that actively or whether you relied on a cookie set in an earlier session.<\/p>\n

    These scripts can be hiding in your browser cache or in the shortcut that you use to open Facebook. You can find localized and browser-specific help on clearing your cache on this Facebook Help page<\/a> for several browsers. You can circumvent using your shortcuts if you suspect they have been altered by typing facebook.com<\/em> in your browsers address bar. Once you are sure the shortcuts have been altered, you can find methods on\u00a0how to clean your browser shortcuts<\/a> on our forums.<\/p>\n

    Browser extensions could be responsible for this similar behavior. They can be removed following these procedures:<\/p>\n