For some time now i have been thinking on either writing on this particular post or not because I have been contemplating if my blog readers will be interested, and just few days back a facebook friend inboxed me on this particular issue. His message reads thus:
Hi Samuel, for sometime now I have realised that I appear to be online on facebook chat when am off-line, please have you got a solution to this?
To be candid, the solution is actually simple.
Do you know that when these users appear online on fb chat when they are actually offline there accounts automatically post a spam link to their online friends asking them to click on a particular link.
Am saying this because its something I have experienced countless times when I go online on facebook chat.
Now to fix this problem thereby making you appear online only when you are online and offline when you are offline, you need to disallow some applications access to your facebook account.
To do this, just visit your account settings page and locate apps and website, click on it there you will find the applications you have granted access to your account.
Delete or deactivate the ones you suspect or simply disallow the applications you think are not useful to you and that's all!
Still don't get it? Read http://www.trueinternetworld.com/2012/02/why-do-i-keep-seeing-spam-links-on-my.html
I posted a comprehensive tutorial on how to disallow applications access to your facebook account there.
Hope this helps?
Cheers!
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Hi Samuel, for sometime now I have realised that I appear to be online on facebook chat when am off-line, please have you got a solution to this?
To be candid, the solution is actually simple.
Do you know that when these users appear online on fb chat when they are actually offline there accounts automatically post a spam link to their online friends asking them to click on a particular link.
Am saying this because its something I have experienced countless times when I go online on facebook chat.
Now to fix this problem thereby making you appear online only when you are online and offline when you are offline, you need to disallow some applications access to your facebook account.
To do this, just visit your account settings page and locate apps and website, click on it there you will find the applications you have granted access to your account.
Delete or deactivate the ones you suspect or simply disallow the applications you think are not useful to you and that's all!
Still don't get it? Read http://www.trueinternetworld.com/2012/02/why-do-i-keep-seeing-spam-links-on-my.html
I posted a comprehensive tutorial on how to disallow applications access to your facebook account there.
Hope this helps?
Cheers!
Please do consider sharing this post on your social network using the share icon below.
I deleted almost every app besides a "coinoffer"-app (McDonalds), but I still seem to appear online when i'm offline...
ReplyDeletedelete that also then log out when closing facebook, do you know if the coinoffer automatically post contents to your profile?
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem too. I have uninstalled facebook mobile and facebook for android on my mobile, yet I am shown online on chat ( with that mobile symbol nearby) all the time. What is the problem ? Is there no remedy for this ? Help !!! I have disabled all other apps on facebook also.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure you have disabled all those? perhaps how do you still find yourself to be online on facebook chat?
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