Mar 23, 2011
Random Facebook pages showing up in my feed
The other day, I noticed a few items in my Facebook stream that I hadn't "Liked". I figured it was a glitch of some sort. Then it happened again today. I went and looked at my pages and there 10 or so pages I was subscribed to I'd never seen before and would never subscribe to. For instance, I found myself a fan of Phil Fischer, a Christian musician that just completed The Tea Party Song and is asking his fans for $113K so he can get it played on Christian radio. I emailed him to ask if he knew how I had ended up liking his page, and will update when I hear back. If you check his Facebook page, this seems to have happened to other people as well.
I couldn't find much else online about this happening to other people, except for this post on Facebook support. If this happened to you or you see any other info about it, let me know because I'm curious.
I couldn't find much else online about this happening to other people, except for this post on Facebook support. If this happened to you or you see any other info about it, let me know because I'm curious.
Huh. Strange Facebook items is one thing, but Christian radio payola scams seem newsworthy, too.
I found this link when searching for Facebook likes. I had a bunch of people complaining on my Facebook about not liking me. I called Facebook and they had a glitch where people were not putting in the correct link on payperads. So you like say “Avatar”, but the actual link posts the like somewhere else.
I don’t think it was his fault! Also, since I heard of Phil Fischer before and read your post I was concerned that he is asking people for money. I’ve been to his shows and he never asks for money. I went to his site and saw nothing of the sort. FYI.
I have had at least a half-dozen pages in the past three days showing up on my feed that I had never (and would never) “liked.” I manually removed them, but it’s been a couple every day for the past few days. One was called “Uberhumor,” but I can’t remember the names of the other pages. If you figure anything out, let me know. I’m not buying the incorrect link bull, because that wouldn’t explain why I had to go unlike the page. If it had just posted by accident to the wrong address, I shouldn’t have had to “unlike” them.
I’ve had the same thing happening the last week. Just random pages I never liked start showing up in my timeline.
I’ve also had said problem. The pages being liked are seemingly less-popular, or simply things I’ve never heard of before. I suspect click-jacking, or possibly some sort of new advertising technique. I removed all applications that were not developed by Facebook and amped up my privacy settings. I recommend you take similar actions. Otherwise, nothing suspicious is happening. Perhaps try cleaning out your cache/cookies, as well; tracking cookies are notorious for these sort of things. A good program would be Superantispyware. It’s fast, effective, and there’s a free version.
I’m having the same thing happen to me, too, and it’s getting rather ridiculous (and monotonous) having to go through my list of pages to remove things I’ve never “Liked” in the first place.
Getting this a lot too. I don’t “use” Facebook, I just have a profile. So I know I’ve not liked anything, yet it keeps insisting I have for months and months. Random pages that I’ve never heard of. The most recent was a website that sold dogs/puppies called DogQuest. Now, I searched for something similar a few days ago but I never ended up on that website or their Facebook page. I wonder if Google is sharing search information to Facebook to automatically like pages that may interest us? Seems like a new way for Facebook to make a bit of extra money with personal information.
Found your post while trying to figure out why I was now a fan of Phil Fischer…
a lot of the pages that i suddenly start liking without ever seeing before post a LOT… one WWE page ‘The Unsnuffables’ that I had never seen before 30 minutes ago has been posting constantly – so i know that i didnt see it 30+ minutes ago, and literally all i had done between the time that i didnt like it and did like it was use tumblr for about 20 minutes.
does anyone else having this problem use tumblr? this issue doesnt seem incredibly common yet so it’s happening with an isolated group of people. i’ve run ad/virus scans and they dont find anything, so the only thing i can think of is something on tumblr. a lot of people use sketchy embeds on there so who knows what it could be.
I have this problem too. I thought it may have been something to do with the Facebook Connect or just being always logged into Facebook. If I click “like” on some other website, I usually don’t have to log in or “Connect to Facebook” but I do have to actively click the link. I wondered if some sites had found a way around having someone actively click the “like” button.
I am having this same problem. I don’t know what is going on. Is there a place we can look to see all pages we have liked?
NT- I have tumblr
This happened to me a few weeks ago.. one day a few weeks ago I logged in to find my profile had ‘liked’ about 20 random facebook pages.. realtors in Arizona, graphic designers I’ve never heard of. I figured my account somehow got hacked and changed my password, but curious if this is some scheme to get more ‘likes’ on pages?
One day i found out that apparently, i liked a page “I snort coke”
Phil Fischer is a complete and total scam artist. Beware of EVERYTHING Phil Fischer related.
If you Google around and look for information on this you won’t find much because he threatens to sue anyone who outs him.
The guy is a total creep.
I am also having this problem. I also have tumblr. I log out of facebook every time after I use it, have tried deleting extraneous apps, clearing cache, etc.
Has anybody figured out yet what’s causing this or how to fix it?
It’s something to do with Tumblr, either Tumblr directly or some browser addon or something to do with themes. Not sure what causes it exactly, but a cross site script activates on Tumblr in some cases which affects your Facebook presumably if you’re logged in with a cookie or something. I’ve never had the problem myself but my girlfriend has to delete a bunch of pages on Facebook several times a day because of it.
You can stop the script from affecting you though by installing the NoScript Firefox browser extension, or the NotScripts Chrome extension if you use Chrome. If you use Internet Explorer, get a better browser!
SAME PROBLEM. So obnoxious!
Has anyone had any luck fixing theirs?
Okay, I get you all have a similar problem. How about shutting up unless you can deliver some real advice? Useless