How To Block Someone From Your Facebook Page and Delete Their Comments
How To Block Someone From Your Facebook Page and Delete Their Comments
For the life of me, I canNOT understand why people are intentionally mean. Is it that their lives are so incredibly miserable they want to make everybody else’s lives as miserable as theirs? The misery loves company theory?
Do they resent everyone else’s success or happiness because both of those things are lacking from their own lives?
What Do These Comments Look Like?
You’ve probably seen or have personally experienced these trolls, right? Say, for instance that someone posted a video on their Facebook page that you loved watching, or they wrote a status update on their Facebook page that you were interested in. It made you feel good, or made you laugh, or made you think.
Since you enjoyed it, you were curious if others enjoyed it as much as you did. So you start reading the comments. You laugh as people share their similar stories. You consider the suggestions they contribute. Like you, others are reminded of their own experiences as they read the subject matter. And then….BOOM, you come across some hateful or smart-ass comment that has little to do with the content. Often it’s a personal attack, on the person who wrote the post on their own Facebook page.
Who Are These People and Why Do They Do It?
They make a rude comment, then sit back and watch the shit show that ensues. Unfortunately these child bullies have grown into adult bullies. Sad that they feel so inadequate in life.
They may read the first line (if that), of your post, misinterpret it (or just not understand it), read none of the comments, and then jump right in blindly telling you why they didn’t like what you wrote…but you don’t remember ever asking them.
These are the worst ones. They can intelligently strip you down to nothing. Once they’ve finished puking all over what you wrote, they’ll usually move on to their opinion of you…your appearance, your interests, your friends, and whatever else pissed them off when they landed on your page. They love seeing their name in print.
So What Do You Do If This Happens To You?
DON’T FEED THEM.
Don’t respond. Don’t challenge them, don’t try to scold them, or reason with them. You will only fuel their fire and end up getting your own panties in a twist. You delete them. You delete their comments, then you block them. This happened to me on my blog. I tried taking the high road and left their comment there because of that whole freedom of speech thing, but then I asked myself why? If they were friends of mine, maybe I’d allow their opinion if it were valid. But trash talk for self-serving purposes? Nope. Not on my page. DELETE. DELETE. DELETE. BLOCK.
How Do You Delete a Comment on Your Facebook Page?
ON YOUR COMPUTER:
See the three dots beside the comment? (circled in red). Click it. It will open a box with the options to Edit the comment or Delete it.
Click Delete. Easy as that.
ON YOUR PHONE:
iPhone:
Tap the comment. It will give you the options to Edit, Copy or Delete.
Click Delete
Android:
Long-press the comment.
Click Delete.
How Do You Block Someone?
2. Click on the three dots on their cover photo (to the right of the message button). It will give you a drop down menu with several options. The last option is Block.
3. Select Block.
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