please don't share my personal info - I'm deleting facebook

Hey, so I just wanted to make a quick

video talking about Facebook. So I've,

I've had to delete my Facebook because a

few people on the internet have actually

found my, my real Facebook, which has my

real name, it has my family and my

friends— well, not my real friends on it,

but it has personal information on it.

And you might remember from the livestream

a few days ago, some guy called called

Tipperary. Yes, that guy was saying things

like, I found his LinkedIn— I mean, I

found his Pinterest, and then he found my

Facebook, and he was sharing the link with

other people, and he was like boasting

about it basically. He also sent me a

comment saying, please don't ban me, I'm

your number one fan, and then he tried

linking the Facebook account on

comments, which didn't go through because

it got caught up in the spam filter. So I

banned that guy. It's just kind of

sickening that he would pretend to be a

fan whilst he's trying to tell everyone

about my Facebook. The main thing I don't

like about Facebook, about people finding

my Facebook, is I don't really feel

comfortable with people knowing my full

name. I guess it doesn't, it doesn't

really matter if people knew my full name.

Loads of celebrities or well-known people

have their full names known to public,

and I'm pretty sure it doesn't cause that

much of a problem. But I don't really feel

comfortable with people knowing my last

name or my full name. And the thing is

with Facebook is it won't let me change my

name. It says you've made too many name

changes recently. I had a fake name on

Facebook some time ago, but they forced me

to change it to my real name. And this

is what I don't understand. I've set

everything, all the settings on Facebook,

to private. Everything's on private. I've

even made the setting checked

where it says, do you want your profile to

turn up on search engines? So really, it

shouldn't be searchable. You shouldn't be

able to find it unless you know me or you

know someone who knows me. So I have no

idea how these random people who know me

from YouTube are finding my Facebook

account, and it's kind of creepy. I don't

know how they're doing it. I'm not that

knowledgeable when it comes to tracking

people on the internet. I'm a bit of an

amateur when it comes to that kind of—

those kind of things. But some people are

very good, are very technically—

technical-minded, and they know how these

things work. And even if a profile on

Facebook is set to private, these people

will find a way to find your profile. You

can't trust Facebook security because

Frankly speaking, Facebook security is a

complete joke.

So yeah, I've had to delete my Facebook,

which was a pretty big decision for me

because I have thousands of photos on

Facebook. Photos that I've taken when I

was in Japan, old photos of myself,

friend— photos of friends, and photos of

cats and stuff like that. And I had to

spend a long time saving photos that I

really wanted to keep, and most of those

photos ended up getting deleted because I

just didn't have the patience to save

every single photo. It doesn't really

bother me because I stopped using Facebook

properly a long time ago. I don't even

check Facebook anymore because I don't

have any friends to talk to, and that's

kind of the whole point of Facebook. If

you don't have any friends on it, It feels

kind of pointless to use. I only used it

to message my sister or my mum, which I'm

using a different app now to talk to them.

It was just— I don't know, for such a

large chunk of my life, I felt like

Facebook was very important. Like it was

very important to have lots of friends on

Facebook. Like it was very important to

record your life on Facebook, and it felt

kind of strange just pressing the

deactivate button. I don't know how

deactivated it is. I'm, I'm guessing it

still exists on Facebook's server. I'm not

sure if people can still look it up or

not, but it's— it should

be deactivated. It shouldn't show up

anymore, hopefully. I'm not sure how long

it's going to remain, remain there. I'm

not sure Facebook are going to permanently

delete it ever, or if it's just going to

be on Facebook servers for the rest of

eternity.

Also, that guy who was prank calling my

work, he also made another post on, on the

r/happens Reddit,

basically just writing all of my personal

details: my full name, my age, my parents'

names, their jobs, occupations, my

sister's name, her job, and where we live.

He even had a photo of our house, which I

was kind of freaked out. I thought he

actually came to our house and took a

photo, but it turned out that was a photo

my mum took. He must have pinched it from

Facebook or something. So he has full

access to my mum's photo albums, which is

kind of scary. My mum is also thinking

about deleting her Facebook as well. I

told my dad about it. He wasn't too happy.

My dad's really against social media and

all of this privacy stuff, and he had this

attitude of, I told you so, like, I knew

something like this would happen. People

only have themselves to blame for sharing

so much of their personal life online,

which I guess is true, but it's

also kind of shocking and sickening that,

that some random dude in the world put the

time and effort into looking for my

Facebook and for my, my address and my

personal details just so he can tell

people about it. Oh look, I found Daniel's

address and his full name. I'm so clever.

Everyone look at it now. It's just, it's

really sad and pathetic. I just

can't imagine the type of person who would

do that, who would waste time and energy

to do something like that. For what?

What's the point?

If it's just some kid doing it as like a

prank just to mess with me, that's fine.

But what if it's someone who's completely

nuts, who's crazy, who has the ability of

doing something dangerous? That's what

scares me. You don't know what people are

capable of.

The whole thing is just kind of stressful.

I know I'm to blame because I was an idiot

and I took videos outside showing

where I live, showing my train station

that's near me, showing street signs that

I didn't even realize I was showing until

a few kind people pointed it out to me and

warned me that you can see where you live.

And I guess it's also my fault for

publicizing my life. I guess I don't mind

people knowing about my life, my personal

life, but I don't want I didn't want my

family to get dragged into it. I don't

want them to be affected. I know I attract

a lot of weirdos because my content is

weird. I am a weird person, but I'm not

malicious. I'm not hateful. I don't want

to harm people or, or hurt people.

But there's people out there who, who

really hate me because I'm lazy or because

I don't take life seriously. Or for

whatever reason, there's quite a lot of

people who really hate me and would enjoy

seeing me suffer or be sad or be

depressed or be exposed or have my

personal details revealed.

And it's kind of— yeah, it's upsetting. I

feel angry about it. I feel sad about it.

It worries me. What can they do with this

information? What can I do to protect

myself? Am I worrying too much about it?

So they know my name, they know my

address, so what? Big deal, loads of

people know my name.

But there's things like identity theft

that you have to worry about. There's

things like, what if someone dangerous

comes to my house and tries to do

something? Those kind of things do worry

me. And, um, yeah,

I also have profiles and accounts on

various websites before— a long time

before I actually started doing YouTube.

For example, Pinterest or Bebo.

I can't think of any others. I've left a

trail, an online footprint all

over the place, and most of these accounts

I don't even remember the login details.

I don't even remember that I had them. I

don't remember what kind of photos I have

on them. So anyone who's good at searching

for people on, on the internet, they're

going to be able to find these things.

And these things all link back to things

like my Facebook profile, which has all my

personal details on it.

And I just find it kind of sad that some

people were watching my livestream and

they were willingly sharing that

information, like bragging about it as if

they've accomplished something.

I know most of the people who watch my

channel aren't mean-spirited or hate me,

and there's a lot of supportive, kind

people, but there's also quite a lot of

dicks out there, to be honest.

And I just wanted to say, if you did find

my address or my real name, I just ask you

not to share it or to publicize it. I know

if you, if you want to do that, I don't

have any way of stopping you. You can do

it if you want to, but I really wish you

didn't. And yeah,

I think that was all I wanted to say.