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  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I started with a public profile but then two people made it necessary to make it private. One was a male who replied to a request for a low cal snack and proceeded to dissect my food intake and make lots of unnecessary unsolicited suggestions criticisms. One was a FR I replied yes to for a female and she went nutsbonkers on me starting on day one culminating with accusations of how I was treating my other FL friends too nicely as compared to her.

    So, now I keep my profile "private" if you can call it that with the sheer number of people on my FL combined with my open door policy on shenanigans and TMI.
  • MissFuchsia
    MissFuchsia Posts: 523 Member
    I've kept mine private for a while now. I wish I felt comfortable leaving it open. At least then people could see my 'send message with FR' note but there's too many pervs on here. I like to choose which pervs see can my pictures :). (not that my pictures are that interesting anyway)
  • ncqueenbee
    ncqueenbee Posts: 147 Member
    If a topic of similar nature has already been posted before, I'm not aware of it. Which is why I've posted it. This is for all you guys (mostly ladies I see) with private profiles. Now before you all jump at me and cut my head off, let me first say I'm not judging at all. This is just me being curious, a very normal human trait.

    So, why do y'all keep your profiles private? Just a straight to the point question motivated purely by curiosity. Nothing more, nothing less!
    I joined this site to use as a fitness tool, nothing more. Therefore my personal infotmation is nobody's business but my own.
  • ThatSoundsHard
    ThatSoundsHard Posts: 475 Member
    My profile was open but I had this one person on my friends list that I'm (now) convinced was trolling me. Every/any time my food was over (usually by 50-200 cals) they would post really strange comments about how I'm building up my fat stores and I'm not going to be able to lose weight etc.. I thought It was really strange and annoying so just set it to private.

    I'm pretty sure it's open again though.
  • maiaroman18
    maiaroman18 Posts: 460 Member
    I like being mysterious.
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    If a topic of similar nature has already been posted before, I'm not aware of it. Which is why I've posted it. This is for all you guys (mostly ladies I see) with private profiles. Now before you all jump at me and cut my head off, let me first say I'm not judging at all. This is just me being curious, a very normal human trait.

    So, why do y'all keep your profiles private? Just a straight to the point question motivated purely by curiosity. Nothing more, nothing less!

    Most of them don't want others to see their personal motivations, life stories that they put in it etc. Also, many of the active folks on MFP get creeped up and often annoyed too. This keeps that away.

    If you have a private profile, the others cannot see your pictures besides the main one. They cannot see who your friends are or the threads you've made. So its a bit of a security. Many girls keep their more revealing pics hidden from non-friends this way and keeps the creepers at bay.

    I think its good. The only bad thing about it is folks cannot see messages such "Please add a message to the Friend Request" or "I'm not adding anymore friends" etc.
    Good answer...some very valid points. Profile creeping is often joked about but I imagine like the rest of the internet there are some real CREEPS out there.

    Yup, I know a few creepers

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    Ha!!
  • LuHox
    LuHox Posts: 136
    I like being mysterious.

    And, if my impressions are correct, wearing sweet stilettos.
  • elektradarling
    elektradarling Posts: 85 Member
    If a topic of similar nature has already been posted before, I'm not aware of it. Which is why I've posted it. This is for all you guys (mostly ladies I see) with private profiles. Now before you all jump at me and cut my head off, let me first say I'm not judging at all. This is just me being curious, a very normal human trait.

    So, why do y'all keep your profiles private? Just a straight to the point question motivated purely by curiosity. Nothing more, nothing less!

    I realize that everyone on MFP a mostly strangers to each other, and everyone adding friends tend not to know each other in real life, my profile isn't private, but if you think about it, the bigger picture, any public profile on the internet is available to everyone in the world.

    There are lots of trolls/nuisance makers who join this website just to annoy people. I think you are making yourself open to things like that and also if you are posting photos of your actual self, it wouldn't take too much searching to maybe then find your fb or tumblr etc.

    And some might just want to get on with logging on their own :)
  • LuHox
    LuHox Posts: 136
    My profile was open but I had this one person on my friends list that I'm (now) convinced was trolling me. Every/any time my food was over (usually by 50-200 cals) they would post really strange comments about how I'm building up my fat stores and I'm not going to be able to lose weight etc.. I thought It was really strange and annoying so just set it to private.

    I'm pretty sure it's open again though.

    Ummmm yeaaahhh... rude!
  • janessanessa
    janessanessa Posts: 299 Member
    I like a bit of anonymity.

    Plus, my eating is all over the place and I've seen plenty of judgement around here so would rather not have that open for public viewing.

    I agree with this statement, I would prefer not to be judged for my diary, but for my successes in consistency and dedication. baby steps....
  • d9123
    d9123 Posts: 531 Member
    AM i private or public brahs?
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    roflol 2 many pervs out there i only want the special pervs to see my page hahahahaha

    this.
  • twinketta
    twinketta Posts: 2,130 Member
    If any of you put your user name into google and you have at some point put a pic on the internet it is there for all to see.

    Even if you use the same profile name on another website.

    Just out of interest I tried it with 5 random users that have replied to this post and you were all there on google images/pics

    Maybe some people want to keep their pics/profile private?
  • 122ish
    122ish Posts: 339 Member
    Is mine set to private I couldn't figure it out. I know I keep my diary closed because I just feel comfortable with it that way but my pictures r not a big deal
  • ThatSoundsHard
    ThatSoundsHard Posts: 475 Member
    My profile was open but I had this one person on my friends list that I'm (now) convinced was trolling me. Every/any time my food was over (usually by 50-200 cals) they would post really strange comments about how I'm building up my fat stores and I'm not going to be able to lose weight etc.. I thought It was really strange and annoying so just set it to private.

    I'm pretty sure it's open again though.

    Ummmm yeaaahhh... rude!


    Lol I was mostly just super confused. They even did that thing that people do where they say things like 'in my opinion' in an effort to not sound like a *kitten*.
  • LuHox
    LuHox Posts: 136
    My profile was open but I had this one person on my friends list that I'm (now) convinced was trolling me. Every/any time my food was over (usually by 50-200 cals) they would post really strange comments about how I'm building up my fat stores and I'm not going to be able to lose weight etc.. I thought It was really strange and annoying so just set it to private.

    I'm pretty sure it's open again though.

    Ummmm yeaaahhh... rude!


    Lol I was mostly just super confused. They even did that thing that people do where they say things like 'in my opinion' in an effort to not sound like a *kitten*.

    I had an MFP friend or two like that when I had my diary open to friends. I don't add people to be the food diary police. :))
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Most can handle the AMAZING inside, so I am just trying to protect people.

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