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Alanon member and online tech


Can someone explain to me how to access the drafts saved of posts I write. Several times I have spent (or wasted) a large amount of time writing a post or message only to have it disappear because of something I've done in my clumsiness with my keyboard or the PM  and whiteboard areas. There's a little message that my draft is being saved at the bottom as I'm typing but I have no idea how to access a saved draft. I also struggle with FB. People have mentioned they have blocked posts from people they had "friended" but I don't want to be that harsh with someone who has a mental illness and frankly cant handle even small kinds of rejection. I struggle with FB and other online forums where I have in my "untechness" compromised my identity and managed to get things on my FB home I don't want there. If anyone understands all this stuff, would you be willing to help out a fellow alanon with technology challenges on social media? Thanks in advance.



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Hugs .. I know it's frustrating .. if you hit the back key accidently .. I don't know if you are typing on a laptop or a desktop .. I have done some wack a doo stuff on my laptop based upon how I place my hands. The only way I can get the old post back is IF it has saved on the draft .. usually it will pop back up when I hit <Start A New Topic> and it's there already. If you are having issues more than once a week you may want to consider typing it out on a word document and you can copy and paste to the site. I have had to do that for a few things. When I'm trying to type things to my atty or something like that I prefer not having to retype it all.

I don't know what to tell you about FB .. I have "friends" on FB and what I do instead of unfriending someone is I just block access to what they can see. There is a feature in the privacy button area. All of this is done easier if you are on a laptop or desk top vs being on smart phone. The app is different that way. There is an option called "restrict access". They will still show on your friends list .. if they go to your FB page then they can't see anything unless you make it public in that case everyone can see it. I would have to be able to see your FB page in order to see what you are talking about as far as what you want to remove and so on. I'm a visual person.

These are just some suggestions .. I don't see it as rejecting people .. I see it more that what I share on FB is not really their business and I'm not looking to "hurt" someone's feelings .. I also shouldn't have censor what I say because I don't want someone seeing what I post. I figure it's nicer than just unfriending them.

Hugs S :)

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Thanks SerenityRus I'll check out the privacy button. I'm on a laptop and have tried to change access but just don't understand how to control who sees what about me. I really messed up by using my writing pseudonym as my identity so now "everybody knows your name," so to speak:)

I am close to just giving up posting on FB. I'm just not savvy enough to protect myself, I guess.



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I don't know if this will help in terms of the whole FB deal ..

If you look at the side bar and you see your name and there is a little lock there .. click once on it. It will bring up a privacy selection. It is privacy short cuts .. what I did was explore those options.

You can see how other people see your profile. You can restrict or block who can see what. You should be able to and additional things.

If you just click the little down arrow on the first selection it will show you how your posts are going out .. you can just select <friends> that will keep things from going public. You can then see how other people see your profile and make selections from there.

The second selection is who can contact me .. you can shut it down so no one can contact you OR you can open it to being contacted by others. I do a basic filtering and everyone can contact me for a friend contact. That leaves it up to me if I accept them or not.

The last one is the blocking.

The link that says more options .. you click on that that is where you can control ads and so on .. you just need to take a look and decide what you want to do .. like I said I have it fairly locked down .. other people can reach out to me however my posts don't go to friends of friends that kind of thing.

That is the short cut version.

I hope that helps .. for me just messing around and figuring out what I want to do and what I don't helps. Hugs :)



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I have unclicked a few people off of showing up on my news feed so that I do not have to see it without rejecting them. You can go to their page hover your arrow over their name and options will show up.

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