unfortunately no Mike it could be enemies or those frienimies that once were friends and are no longer, often times they would do things like that simply because they can and they know it would be upsetting. Those people likely would not honor a request to please not do that. Or people that just get off on being A-holes they seem to be abundant. Also some people have been in groups or clubs etc and are no longer part of them, pictures of groups end up and not everyone in the group pic said it was ok to plaster their image every where. In fact I have been in pictures as a by stander and found my pic, had no idea it was there was never asked to be in a picture or to have it posted. Used to they had to ask permission to use your pictures and get signed release forms. Not to mention just being the polite thing to do. the thing about facebook is the opt out feature not opt in which makes if a bit different ballgame.

deb what you want is listed as an app but it does not function as advertised and instead collects data on you and your friends only. as jodi mentioned any app that would ever function that way would definitely have the ability to disable being found out. FB eats up an already insane amount of storage space and i doubt they will ever have the true ability to trace searches as that would require every search be stored and able to be referenced. the amount of space requirred for that is not possible on any free service. it is also my understanding they, FB, have yet to make $$ and do not project profits for yrs yet. no profits=no serious expansion. marygail what you are talking about involves the privacy settings i mentioned above. the photos you are able to see are able to be seen by friends of friends. i am psychotic about my photos, as i take what i think are fabulous pics but i do not trust anyone to have them on their website, like FB. i put up only the ones i don't care about, those of publishing quality are not up :-) not even to just friends lol and i have never posted any of those here ~ liz

Go to Settings, then Name It gives you the option to change it. In the last name field, just change it to Jones. I'm not sure I'm understanding about the (Ann Smith) in parentheses...do you want that to actually show? If so, I'm not sure how to get it to do that, other than add that to the last name field. Maybe someone else will know.

Do what I did, register under a fake name but tell your friends and family who you are and make a fake birthday etc. I used my real first name so they'd know it's me and, even then, my daughter (who knew I was going to do this) asks me if I know Sheila ______ who is asking to be her friend. hahahaha when I reminded her she roared. I get no requests now. The upshot of doing this was I got 23 happy birthday posts on April 1st which is not my birthday. I thought they'd catch my joke with that date. NOT.