Facebook followers?? Is this a security issue??

This is creepy. Go to your Facebook account settings, then blocking, then block users, and type in "following me" without the quotes into the text box then hit the "add to block" button. You will find 15-20 or more people
FOLLOWING YOU that you do not know! I just blocked about 17 accounts from random Middle Eastern and Asian countries that were following me, who I do not know. You have to block them one at a time. Check your followers and tell your friends and family to check theirs as well. Feel free to share this or copy/paste. This is not a joke. How many foreign "followers" did you have?

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Like many things on Facebook, it’s totally false. Yes, if you input “following me” into the search bar you’d otherwise use to block people, a string of seemingly random people will come up. But unlike what the perpetrators of this hoax may want you to think, these accounts don’t belong to some secret network of spies — nor are they part of a grand conspiracy on the part of Facebook. Rather, they’re just the unfortunate victims of a misused search function.

Here’s why: When you search “following me,” Facebook doesn’t show you who is actually following you. (If you actually want to see that list, you have to click on the Followers section under your Friends List.) Searching this term on your Block page pulls up a list of users whose names and general information match the terms following and me as closely as possible. And though you see the names of all of the corresponding users, what you don’t see is all of the hidden and private information Facebook derives its matches from — like nicknames, “About Me” descriptions, and employment information. And that’s what the list is actually being generated from.

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Jetboogieman said:

Ok I checked this out and started blocking people lol.

It's a hoax, I'll explain because you had me convinced there for a second.

The ?Following Me? List on Facebook Is a Hoax

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Praxas said:

I did the same thing to check. It lists users that have "similar" names to "following you" when you enter it into the textbox and then says that it doesn't necessarily mean they are following you. Definitely a search feature problem.

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