yabo,
Please don't take this post personally. I thought it might be helpful to others reading this to say a few things about what you experienced here, and maybe you can get some more value from it. It is a very good example of what happens if you take a "piecemeal approach" to the advice in our topic. Or, maybe you will want to chop off my head?
I'm sorry to inform you that your are only the 10th person out of the many thousands here to have any one of his friends sent any Face book link.
Why did this happen, you or others may ask?
Simple answer is this. You chose it for yourself.
You read the advice, and decided yourself not to follow it. It's your life, and you can do what you want with it, but I wanted to point out to others reading this just exactly WHY you were the 10th.
Bit by bit of the advice you followed, not ALL of it from the very beginning.
And only after the scammer made another move that you got worried about did you ask again what to do next or performed one step, or were you worried at all? I seriously wonder about this. It looks like you were "experimenting" with the scammer to me. But I guess you can do that if you want to, if you want to take yet another risk. Maybe you just don't care if your friends see a link, and we have had some that said they did not care at all. And that's ok with us if you don't care about it.
By your own actions, you gave the scammer hope of collecting money and ample opportunity to gather as many friends' links as he could, your other online profiles, and other information to threaten you again. Eventually, he uploaded to YouTube and sent links to your friends, because you let him do it. Heck, you might as well have dared him to do it.
Now maybe you need to ask yourself why you followed this path and not the steps as they were written, and risk exactly what the scammer does not want to do, but that you seemed to dare him to?
I'm concerned that your gambling, risk-taking, thrill-seeking behavior as seems to be shown here will eventually lead you into another scam online, maybe not a blackmail scam/sextortion but some other online scam. Is this the problem?
Maybe it is not that, but online addiction that makes you so reluctant to temporarily shut down your profiles until the scammer leaves? Others who have had their friends get links seemed to have that problem, just could not live without their FB and other accounts for two weeks.
Maybe it's just because you were reluctant to tell others that a scammer was on your ass, which most people probably have experienced, at least heard about?
Maybe just shutting them all down and having to say a scammer was trying to hack you or something was just something you had trouble doing?
In any event, I hope all is done now, and you keep your head down long enough for him to give up now.