I can’t log out of Facebook, but none of the directions I’ve found (on Facebook itself or on the net) seem to work. I don’t have an “account” link to follow, nor do I have a down arrow to find “log out” from. What am I missing?
I suppose it may vary somewhat with different browsers/devices, but on my laptop, there is a small gear-shaped icon in the upper right portion of the page. Clicking it produces a menu with the option to log out.
It brings up a “General Account Settings” page. I can edit name, username, email, passwored, networks and language, but that’s it. No link (or text I can find) for “log,” “sign,” “out” or other mention of “account.”
When I tap that gear from the normal newsfeed page or fom my timeline, I get Create an Ad, Account Settings, Privacy Settings and Log Out
What device/browser are you logging in from?
I have extremely little experience with Facebook (like, maybe a total of 5 hours over the last year), and I find it a very difficult site to navigate in general. I always have a hard time finding a complete list of who my friends are, although I know it’s there if I poke around enough. (Aside from the fact that I only have 3 facebook friends, and I know exactly who they are.)
The issue is, I can’t go to a friend’s page unless I first find a link to that friend somewhere on my page, and I only see links to friends who have posted something recently.
I found that learning how to use facebook, overall, is simply not easily “discoverable”. It doesn’t behave at all like other more-normal web sites.
ETA: As for the OP: Yeah, I always have a hard time finding the Log Out link too. Sometimes I manage to find it, with some effort, and otherwise I just don’t bother logging out.
That isn’t set by facebook – that’s the way your friends have chosen to set up their privacy settings. The default permits anyone to find you, I believe.
I’m on my desktop PC (Win 7, FF 18).
My friends list puts Senegoid’s to shame–I have eleven. I do log in once every five or six months. I went there today to check on something, saw that I was still logged in from last time and am now swearing at it trying to find my way out.
Here is a picture: http://i.imgur.com/o50mcjK.png
I log out every time, otherwise other sites seem to have access to some of my Facebook info.
That’s because it and the rest of the web assumes you want to stay logged in f’rever’n’ever and track/post every activity you do. You have to actively opt out, tell it NO or use back doors to avoid such things.
My particular peeve, among many related to FB, is that a lot of news organizations have gone to it as the only permitted login for comments, and you have to use extreme care not to have each one listed on your FB page. I can’t believe that the majority of FB users want to do the internet equivalent of running around naked on a Jumbotron monitor, but that’s the default mode for most FB-linked services.
Why do you imagine that logging out blocks this access? It just keeps FB from acting quite so overtly as your facilitated communication buddy.
I think that if most people really thought about FB’s invasiveness, pervasiveness and degree of interference with online activities they’d fear it a lot more than the usual cartoon villains.
:smack: javascript! I have NoScript running in the background and Facebook et al are on its ‘untrusted’ list so I don’t have to see the script notice on every site I go to. So I don’t see any of the drop-down menus. I switched to the mobile site, went to the bottom, and there was a log out link.
Do I have to have a Facebook account for that?
So I’ve logged out, I’ve got FB and other locations that show up on their main page in NoScript’s untrusted area, and I just installed the Disconnect add-on. I’m seeing reports of persistent cookies … I put “facebook” in search pane under the general FF show cookies menu. I deleted those; anywhere else?
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. :eek: