Sometimes when I try to follow a Facebook link that has been deleted or had its privacy settings altered, I get bounced to a page that has nothing to do with what I wanted to look at. It is always this guy’s profile. I have no idea who he is, and he is not friends with anyone who I am friends with. It seems like his profile is some kind of default that Facebook sends people to when a link fails. What’s going on? When I click his name I just get this link:
He seems like an affable fellow to me. Since it’s never happened to me I have to take your word that it happens to you consistently. My WAG is that either it’s a bug in Facebook’s software, or it defaults to this guy on purpose. Perhaps they picked a particular ID that happened to belong to this guy as the default page for certain kinds of errors? I agree it’s strange, but they have to send you somewhere.
I think it is as per my edit. On Facebook you get a URL of the form facebook . com / your.name.XX, but there are also “vanity URLs”.
If you go to Facebook, you get Alexander’s page. Or at least, I do. Is that the case for other people?
So it seems that he has bagged /comment as a vanity URL, which means that when a FB URL with “/comment/” in it gets munged, it goes to his page somehow. Maybe.
Yes, looks like “comment” is his Facebook name. If I replace “comment” in the URL above with my Facebook name, it goes to my profile. I’m not surprised it causes some strangeness.
