# Facebook is making posts in my name?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-making-posts-in-my-name/639788>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-making-posts-in-my-name/639788 "2012-11-03T19:59:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-making-posts-in-my-name/639788/1 "2012-11-03T19:59:52Z")

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Facebook is making posts in my name. Or, someone is. How can I stop it?  
I did my usual Facebook scan today and I saw some horribly, horribly, glurgey pic posted next to my name. Gad! The shame. I don’t even post regular stuff on FB anymore. I just check it to see if old acquaintances have made themselves known. And to see this tripe, next to my icon and under my name…  
I clicked on ‘delete this post’…naturally, I don’t know what page I was sent to, but it took me to some other page, and offending post wasn’t there. I clicked on some other offending post, and it took me to another of my pages…offending link was still there!  
Is there a Customer Service or something for FB? I don’t see how anyone could have hacked my account, and I’m wondering if FB is doing this sort of thing to others to pad the count.

Thanks,  
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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-making-posts-in-my-name/639788/2 "2012-11-03T20:02:57Z")

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On your account? An advertising app maybe installed itself without you realising, go into account settings\>apps and delete any that look fishy.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-is-making-posts-in-my-name/639788/3 "2012-11-03T20:06:34Z")

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Thank you very much!