Many people think about how to block a person on Facebook. This procedure is completed in a few clicks. This article will talk about how to work with the “black list” on Facebook.
What is a “black list”
To prevent a social network user from writing messages on Facebook, you can use an option called “black list”. If you are wondering how to unblock a person on Facebook or put him on ignore, you cannot do without the mentioned function.
This is an option that allows you to block access to your profile to other people. All blocked people will be listed here. If desired, you can use the “black list” to unblock a person.
If you decide to ignore the user, he will not be able to:
- view the page of the friend who blocked him;
- tag a blocker in photos, publications and communities;
- invite your former interlocutor to groups and events;
- add a blocker as a friend;
- conduct correspondence with the person who has blocked the profile.
Important: blocking a user on Facebook does not guarantee complete exclusion of communication. Visitors to the social network can interact with each other in various applications.
Where to look for "blacklist"
Where is the blacklist on Facebook? To find the corresponding menu item, follow these steps:
Here will be " blacklist».
Blocking from a computer
To add an account to the blacklist, follow these steps:
The actions taken will send the page of the selected “inhabitant” to “ignore”. This technique is suitable for working with computers or mobile browsers.
Blocking on mobile devices
You can carry out the above procedure on your phone. To do this, download and install the official application for mobile devices from Facebook.
After this, follow these steps:
Ready! The person has been added to "ignore". Now he will not be able to communicate with you.
Unlocking from a mobile device
Adding users to the list of ignored ones can be done with mobile phones. To do this, use the official social network application for phones.
Are you wondering how to unblock a friend on Facebook with mobile device? Then follow the suggested instructions:
Important: to remove a person from the “black list” from your computer, go to the appropriate menu item, find the desired user and click on the “Unblock” option on the right side of the timeline.
How to find out about blocking
How do you know if you have been blocked on Facebook? To do this, follow these steps:
- Open Facebook and try to write a friend's name in the search bar. If this fails, you can suspect adding to “ignore”.
- Go to Messages and look at the general chat. When adding a person to the blacklist, the user's name will be highlighted in black. You won't be able to go to a user's page from a chat.
- Try to report the other person's profile from the Messages section. If the system reports that transaction processing is prohibited, you are added to the number of ignored ones.
You can directly ask your friend about blocking. This technique is not popular. Usually, virtual friends with whom you are in trouble are added to “ignore” real life no contact.
Conclusion
Blocking and unblocking users on the social network Facebook are operations that all users may encounter. Now you know what the “black list” is, where to find it and how to use it.
By adding a person to “ignore”, you can “pull” him out of there at any time. Similar operations can be carried out an infinite number of times.
Facebook blacklist(the names “Emergency” and “Blacklist” are also found) - extremely useful feature, without which using the social network would not be as enjoyable. After all, with its help it will be possible to limit communication with unwanted people. A striking example: a spammer is always sending you messages offering to buy something; why not block it, saving your own time and good mood. This article will discuss the main nuances of using the function in the realities of the social network Facebook.
Option #1: Blocking
It is advisable for all people who “hang out” on social media. networks, know how to block a person on Facebook. Let's consider this action for both the mobile application and the website in order to be “fully armed.” In both cases, you need to open the page of the user with whom you want to restrict communication. Now in the web version you need to click on the icon just to the right of the button "Message" and select the last item.A in mobile application- tap on "More", and then on "Block".
Option No. 2: Exception from emergency situations
It is quite possible that you will change your mind or make peace with an old acquaintance. Fortunately, on Facebook you can unblock a person without any problems. The most convenient way to do this is from the general Blacklist. It opens as follows.
On Facebook, behind almost every wave of mass indignation or delight are specialists who received an order. And these specialists fight with other specialists. Battles can be fought between financial-industrial-political groups, and between the owners of two competing cafes. We are just watching in surprise at the next “shit”, which appeared from nowhere and completely unexpectedly went out.
Here is a well-known blogger or Facebooker of the second or third tier writing an angry message about the poor service of one of the postal companies. The message is picked up by the people and shared wherever possible. At the same time, few people, except the recipients, analyze bot accounts that participate in reposts on their public pages and in groups.
In the end, the message turns into news of some Internet media. Some of them graze on social networks because they often have a shortage of information, especially on weekends.
Ordinary people read about yet another mess of “their” mailer and go to a competitor. The author of the post almost always achieves his declared demands (for example, compensation for losses). The victim of this black PR and the cumulative effect of a series (one is never enough) of such attacks may feel a decrease in their income. And the customer, having laid out several hundred dollars per episode, receives an increase in clientele. After a couple of similar attacks, the victim hires specialists and prepares a “response”.
Whose hands are they doing?
After the scandals that erupted in the United States over the influence of Russian Facebook trolls on the American presidential election, Facebook is increasingly struggling with all kinds of bots and trolls. And the cultivation of bot farms on Facebook has never stopped. Every SMM office (SMM stands for Social Media Marketing, or Marketing social networks: this is the name given to specialists or organizations that specialize in promoting messages on social networks) it is its own.
The Facebook administration has introduced a new way to identify suspicious accounts - uploading a portrait photo. The social network asks the person to show another photo of themselves for comparison, but rarely do any of the bots have any for their fake accounts. This makes it quite difficult to manage many accounts at the same time. We have to come up with new methods.
At the same time, over the past few years, intensive work has been carried out to improve methods for banning an opponent. And if earlier even a lazy person could remove an inconvenient photo by simply following the instructions on the “complain” item, now this is an adult business that requires professional skills and tools. For example, your own “old” advertising account and, accordingly, Facebook accounts with history.
In addition, it is necessary to know what FB moderators react to more strongly and to what less - and such knowledge can only be obtained empirically. In addition, you need to CONSTANTLY experiment with these options and update your knowledge.
They banned many from different camps - Leshchenko, Filatov, Malukha, Montyan, Tregubov, Petrov, etc. It has become a common practice for top Facebookers to have a backup account on which they can hang out until the main one is released from the Internet prison profile.
It must be said that, on the one hand, it is much easier and cheaper to attack than to defend, and on the other, every day users are growing more and more “thick skin” and trusting messages on social networks less and less. And now what they previously took for granted no longer works. But if it worked, then in order to level out one conditionally negative material, the person who cleans the PR image of his client will have to create at least four equivalent, but already positive (or false negative) products about him.
A fragment of the cover of The Economist. The inscription “Social media is a threat to democracy”
Black market services
There is a wide range of jobs for black SS men, who usually work in business as specialists in anti-crisis PR, competitive intelligence or SERM (Search Engine Reputation Management, or activities to clean up the customer’s online reputation at the intersection of SMM, PR, SEO).
By field of activity, these services can be divided into work on the traditional Internet and activities only on social networks.
The goal is one: to put it simply, to make the opponent suffer - either by losing money, development prospects or clientele; or by reading lies/inconvenient truths about yourself, or simply not letting it work. If the campaign is full-fledged and long, then we can talk about thousands of dollars.
In social networks, one-time services that do not cross virtual boundaries are cheap. This is the creation and seeding of photoshops (caricature collages) or texts - from $200 per package (price without agent commission); distributing hyperlinks to jeans and chernukha – from $300 per package.
Troll attack on opponent’s resources – $1/comment; working with top Facebookers to convey some information to the general public - between $50 and $100 per text with your theses (the intermediary receives an agent commission of 10-25% of the amount); cleaning up inconvenient content by blocking posts, photos or even entire profiles, etc. – price is negotiable. In the latter case, payment is usually made upon delivery: we give you a list of what was done with screenshots, and you give us money transfers.
More expensive – services “at subscription fee": for example, regular troll attacks on specific characters in our public life; “horrifying” profiles of individuals who had the misfortune of being top managers of your client’s enemy; working in the comments under your client’s posts against trolls (this is no longer an attack, but a defense); a massive decrease in Reviews ratings on the Facebook page of your business - when trolls put “one” on the ratings of a business page on Facebook.
Next in price are combined SMM and non-SMM services. Here we are talking about both influence on social networks and outside them on the Internet, in particular, the influence on search results Google. Here you can create anonymous black websites (for example, “Dubovoy”, “Ukrainian Krivda”, “Oberig Slosser”), and inflate indicators (fake likes, shares, comments using services like SMMlaba) to raise negative materials in the search engine list Google for this or that request. The illustration with Dubov shows that half of the top 4 search results are rubbish.
An example of how, through the efforts of specialists called SEO, Google displays on the first page of its search engine a site created with the aim of discrediting a person
Promotions that are combined with some offline actions are even more expensive. And here the Internet is just one link in the campaign. A striking and fairly recent example is the provocation of the chairman of the Civil Prosecutor’s Office, Vitaly Shabunin, to a fight.
Ideologists of the online guerrilla
Usually people (both PR people and designers) don’t do such things for a long time - no more than three years. Moral fatigue from daily dirt takes its toll.
The entire production link looks like this. The customer's authorized representative contacts a reliable contractor. Technologists like Dmitry Raimov (he talked about his past at lectures), or TV producer Vladimir Petrov, or PR man Sergei Didkovsky, or technologist Sergei Gaidai, and the like are brought in. Together the parties develop a campaign strategy and algorithm.
An advance payment is given – usually an envelope with dollars – and work begins under the sensitive supervision of a humanities technology guru. The contractor forms in normal mode a working group of writers, designers, text message writers and content promotion specialists. The first ones create texts based on their abstracts, the second ones create “visuals”, the third ones prepare it all for the Web, and the fourth ones agree on placing orders on the necessary platforms, starting with any media and ending with groups on Odnoklassniki. Prices range from fifty dollars per news in a small online publication to tens of thousands of dollars on television.
The content is agreed upon, the scripts are written, and the sites are paid for - and the machine starts: in dozens of groups, public pages and under the messages of respected public opinion leaders, trollers begin their round dance, whose task is to stop any resistance on the part of the victims of the attack. All actions are carefully documented and transferred to the customer.
Ukraine is a large village. Therefore, everyone knows each other, and, therefore, knows who did something for how much. Of course, during elections the demand for such specialists increases significantly several times. According to my observations, there are about three dozen black PR teams. Some have their own specialization. Over my ten years of work experience in this area, I have worked with at least half a dozen such informal teams. I also heard about work of the same number or saw their results.
In theory, there are unwritten rules: do not work directly against fellow technologists, only against the object of the order. And do not work against your state. However, the extent to which they themselves adhere to these principles cannot be assessed. An order may come from Russia to discredit or promote some Ukrainian politician through an intermediary.
Customers are also very different. And although the market is not as divided as lobbying in the United States in the 1990s, when the firm was either Republican or Democratic (now many are bipartisan), a certain division still exists.
It’s not often that former regionals and supposedly pro-Ukrainian candidates have the same candidacy for technologists. However, often the same team can simultaneously work on different sides of the conflict, and even so that in the end everything is successfully documented and everyone is happy with everything. This happens at the subcontract level, when, for example, there is an urgent need to hire some troller guides.
If we do not touch upon politics and one-time business conflicts, then black technologies are actively used in the banking, development and agricultural markets, that is, where there is high level competition. Also, local elites often start wars among themselves. A separate category in this area consists of those who work for the Kremlin - in fact, the Russian Olgino, Ukrainian Medvedchukovites, and often former regionals.
What will happen in 2018? They will start using Twitter much more actively, but they will forget OK and reduce their work on VK even more. Viber and Telegram will continue their active development, the first as grassroots communication social groups, the second - as thematic channels for every taste. Budgets for black technology tend to rise, especially when the next election is around the corner.
The title of the world's main social network rightfully belongs to Facebook: in 2017, the total number of accounts on this platform exceeded 2 billion. On Facebook you can find old friends or make new ones, tell the world about your hobbies, achievements, build a business or find a job.
But, as is usually the case, any social network eventually turns into a breeding ground for spammers, hooligans and other unpleasant individuals. Unfortunately, Facebook was no exception.
Not all conflicts can be resolved peacefully, and communication on the Internet, unfortunately, does not always bring only positive emotions. Experts recognize that cyberbullying (bullying or insults on social networks, in emails, in SMS messages), blackmail and threats on the Internet are as destructive to the psyche as negative behavior. That's why Facebook offers users a set of tools with which they can limit contact with unpleasant people. These include the “block” and “unfriend” functions.
How to use them correctly? Should you block every stranger who PMs you or tags you in their posts? Should you hide your feed from relatives and any friends? Before answering these questions, you need to understand the difference between the “block” and “unfriend” functions.
What does it mean to block on Facebook?
When you block a user, they lose the ability to send you private messages, tag you in posts, view your feed, and receive notifications about updates to your page. In other words, almost all your activities on Facebook will become invisible to him.
Blocking also means that the user will be removed from the list, and activity on his page will not be displayed in the news feed.
However, some types of interaction remain available. If you and the blocked person are members, then both of you will be able to see each other's activity within the group. There is also a chance that he will try to contact you through another account.
You can block anyone on Facebook, except his wife Priscilla Chan. The official explanation is that when many users try to perform the same action at the same time, it causes an error.
The accounts of Zuckerberg and his wife are overloaded with requests, so when you try to block them, a notification appears “this profile cannot now be blocked.”
How to block someone on Facebook
This can be done in two ways:
- from your personal page;
- on the page of the person who needs to be added to the blacklist (that is, blocked).
First way
You will need:
Rice. 2. Search for a person to blacklist 
Rice. 3. Are you sure you want to block the person? By the way, when you block a person, he does not receive a notification about it.
Second way to block a person
It is not always possible to find a person in the way suggested above. Then it follows
By clicking the “Remove from friends” button, you confirm that you do not want to see this user in your friends list, but you also do not intend to completely limit communication with him.
He will be able to send you private messages, view your profile and find you through the search bar, if this does not conflict with yours.
Rice. 5. Unfriend Which option should I choose?
If communication with a person on Facebook begins to cause negative emotions, you can block him or simply unfriend him. Each situation requires an individual solution, so the choice is yours. Only you can decide how.
Cases of fraud, blackmail or bullying should be dealt with immediately, and there is nothing wrong with banning someone who believes that anything is allowed on the Internet. Even if it is your colleague, relative or just an acquaintance who in reality behaves very friendly.
If you don't think some people should see your posts, you can limit viewing in the " Quick Settings confidentiality."
In addition, Facebook allows you to set individual privacy settings for individual posts. For example, there is an “Unfollow” option: the person remains your friend, but his updates no longer appear in your feed.
To do this, opposite the next friend’s publication that appeared in your feed
- click on the three dot menu ( … ), which is highlighted by number 1 in Fig. 6;
- then click the “Cancel subscription to updates” button (2 in Fig. 6):
Rice. 6 (click on the picture to enlarge). Unsubscribe from a specific person's updates This is an ideal option if you are annoyed by a user’s posts, but you don’t want to completely limit communication with him yet.
All options are reversible. You can always open your blacklist and remove people you previously blocked from it to restore communication. You can always send a new friend request to someone you unfriended (unless, of course, the person was so offended that they banned you).
On Facebook, behind almost every wave of mass indignation or delight are specialists who received an order. And these specialists fight with other specialists. Battles can be fought between financial-industrial-political groups, and between the owners of two competing cafes. We are just watching in surprise at the next “shit”, which appeared from nowhere and completely unexpectedly went out.
Here is a well-known blogger or Facebooker of the second or third tier writing an angry message about the poor service of one of the postal companies. The message is picked up by the people and shared wherever possible. At the same time, few people, except the recipients, analyze bot accounts that participate in reposts on their public pages and in groups.
In the end, the message turns into news of some Internet media. Some of them graze on social networks because they often have a shortage of information, especially on weekends.
Ordinary people read about yet another mess of “their” mailer and go to a competitor. The author of the post almost always achieves his declared demands (for example, compensation for losses). The victim of this black PR and the cumulative effect of a series (one is never enough) of such attacks may feel a decrease in their income. And the customer, having laid out several hundred dollars per episode, receives an increase in clientele. After a couple of similar attacks, the victim hires specialists and prepares a “response”.
Whose hands are they doing?
After the scandals that erupted in the United States over the influence of Russian Facebook trolls on the American presidential election, Facebook is increasingly struggling with all kinds of bots and trolls. And the cultivation of bot farms on Facebook has never stopped. Each SMM office (SMM stands for Social Media Marketing, or Social Network Marketing: this is the name given to specialists or organizations specializing in promoting messages in social networks) has its own.
The Facebook administration has introduced a new way to identify suspicious accounts - uploading a portrait photo. The social network asks the person to show another photo of themselves for comparison, but rarely do any of the bots have any for their fake accounts. This makes it quite difficult to manage many accounts at the same time. We have to come up with new methods.
At the same time, over the past few years, work has been intensively carried out to improve methods for banning an opponent. And if earlier even a lazy person could remove an inconvenient photo by simply following the instructions under the “complain” item, now this is already an adult business that requires professional skills and tools. For example, your own “old” advertising account and, accordingly, Facebook accounts with history.
In addition, it is necessary to know what FB moderators react to more strongly and to what less - and such knowledge can only be obtained empirically. In addition, you need to CONSTANTLY experiment with these options and update your knowledge.
They banned many from different camps - Leshchenko, Filatov, Malukha, Montyan, Tregubov, Petrov, etc. It has become a common practice for top Facebookers to have a backup account on which they can hang out until the main one is released from the Internet prison profile.
It must be said that, on the one hand, it is much easier and cheaper to attack than to defend, and on the other, every day users are growing more and more “thick skin” and trusting messages on social networks less and less. And now what they previously took for granted no longer works. But if it worked, then in order to level out one conditionally negative material, the person who cleans the PR image of his client will have to create at least four equivalent, but already positive (or false negative) products about him.
A fragment of the cover of The Economist. The inscription "Social media is a threat to democracy"
Black market services
There is a wide range of jobs for black SS men, who usually work in business as specialists in anti-crisis PR, competitive intelligence or SERM (Search Engine Reputation Management, or activities to clean up the customer’s online reputation at the intersection of SMM, PR, SEO).
By field of activity, these services can be divided into work on the traditional Internet and activities only on social networks.
The goal is one: to put it simply, to make the opponent suffer - either by losing money, development prospects or clientele; or by reading lies/inconvenient truths about yourself, or simply not letting it work. If the campaign is full-fledged and long, then we can talk about thousands of dollars.
In social networks, one-time services that do not cross virtual boundaries are cheap. This is the creation and seeding of photoshops (caricature collages) or texts - from $200 per package (price without agent commission); distribution of hyperlinks to jeans and chernukha - from $300 per package.
Troll attack on opponent's resources - $1/comment; working with top Facebookers to convey some information to the general public - between $50 and $100 per text with your theses (the intermediary receives an agent commission of 10-25% of the amount); cleaning up inconvenient content by blocking posts, photos or even entire profiles, etc. - price is negotiable. In the latter case, payment is usually made upon the fact: we give you a list of what was done with screenshots, you give us money transfers.
More expensive are services “for a subscription fee”: for example, regular troll attacks on specific characters in our public life; “horrifying” profiles of individuals who had the misfortune of being top managers of your client’s enemy; working in the comments under your client’s posts against trolls (this is no longer an attack, but a defense); a massive decrease in Reviews ratings on the Facebook page of your business - when trolls put a “one” on the ratings of a business page on Facebook.
Next in price are combined SMM and non-SMM services. Here we are talking about both influence on social networks and outside of them on the Internet, in particular, the influence on Google search results. Here you can create anonymous black websites (for example, "Dubovoy", "Ukrainian Krivda", "Oberig Slosser"), and inflate indicators (fake likes, shares, comments using services like SMMlaba) to raise negative materials in the search engine list Google for this or that request. The illustration with Dubov shows that half of the top 4 search results are rubbish.
An example of how, through the efforts of specialists called SEO, Google displays on the first page of its search engine a site created with the aim of discrediting a person
Promotions that are combined with some offline actions are even more expensive. And here the Internet is only one link in the campaign. A striking and fairly recent example is the provocation of the chairman of the Civil Prosecutor’s Office, Vitaly Shabunin, to a fight.
Ideologists of the online guerrilla
Usually people (both PR people and designers) don’t do such things for a long time - no more than three years. Moral fatigue from daily dirt takes its toll.
The entire production link looks like this. The customer's authorized representative contacts a reliable contractor. Technologists like Dmitry Raimov (he talked about his past at lectures), or TV producer Vladimir Petrov, or PR man Sergei Didkovsky, or technologist Sergei Gaidai, and the like are brought in. Together the parties develop a campaign strategy and algorithm.
An advance is handed over - usually an envelope with dollars - and work begins under the sensitive supervision of a humanities technology guru. The contractor regularly forms a working group of writers, designers, text message writers and content promotion specialists. The first ones create texts according to the theses, the second ones create “visuals”, the third ones prepare it all for the Network, and the fourth ones agree on placing orders on the necessary platforms, starting with any media and ending with groups in Odnoklassniki. Prices range from fifty dollars per news in a small online publication to tens of thousands of dollars on television.
The content is agreed upon, the scripts are written, and the platforms are paid for - and the machine starts: in dozens of groups, public pages and under the messages of respected public opinion leaders, trollers begin their round dance, whose task is to stop any resistance on the part of the victims of the attack. All actions are carefully documented and transferred to the customer.
Ukraine is a big village. Therefore, everyone knows each other, and, therefore, knows who did something for how much. Of course, during elections the demand for such specialists increases significantly several times. According to my observations, there are about three dozen black PR teams. Some have their own specialization. Over my ten years of work experience in this area, I have worked with at least half a dozen such informal teams. I also heard about work of the same number or saw their results.
In theory, there are unwritten rules: do not work directly against fellow technologists, only against the object of the order. And do not work against your state. However, the extent to which they themselves adhere to these principles cannot be assessed. An order may come from Russia to discredit or promote some Ukrainian politician through an intermediary.
Customers are also very different. And although the market is not as divided as lobbying in the United States in the 1990s, when the firm was either Republican or Democratic (now many are bipartisan), a certain division still exists.
