Comments on: How to: Group privacy settings on Facebook via the friends list tutorial

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By: ajoop irup

ajoop irup — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:28:37 +0000

hi,

i hate the new fb settings – i dont want my friends to see my friends list – can someone please guide me on how i can do that…i just cant seem to find the options since the new fb settings were launched

thanks

By: drfaulken

drfaulken — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:02:52 +0000

Hi Lish — as of the latest Facebook privacy settings change I don’t know how much of this guide is still applicable.

I couldn’t tell from your post what you were trying to do. If you provide some more details I’ll do my best to help.

By: lish

lish — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:26:27 +0000

hi.. mine doesn’t work as i expected it to.. i tried it and she can’t see my wall just because i changed the privacy setting “posts by me” and excluded her.

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:55:50 +0000

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By: mario

mario — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:23:06 +0000

The Friends list privacy thing is great. However, is it possible to keep activity from one group of friends from being seen by another group of friends on another list? For example, I want tagged photos of me that are tagged by friends of one list to only be seen by the friends on that list, while other tagged photos of me from friends in another list will only be seen by friends on that list. Can this be done?

By: drfaulken

drfaulken — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:11:43 +0000

Hi Karen,

I am sorry you are having problems.

It does work. Sort of. People can’t see my Wall posts, but can see pictures I post VIA MY WALL. Here is my page, logged in as me:

and here is the view from a friend put in the “Work” group, which cannot see my Wall posts:

Now … as you can see, this person clearly cannot see my most current Wall post (or a lot of my posts, actually) so yes it does work.

What you can also see is a picture I posted, via my wall, from 09/12/2009. That’s … totally stupid on Facebook’s part. If I were to add the same photo via the “Photos” link they wouldn’t see it.

It’s a weird mixed security model, but there you have it. Yes it does work, but not as completely as we’d expect.

Also not surprising the Facebook help information is inaccurate. Sad :(

By: karen

karen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:06:51 +0000

hi, this would be great, IF IT ACTUALLY WORKED.

unfortunately, you can set up privacy settings so people can’t see what’s on your wall, but they can still see what’s on your wall. yes, that sentence doesn’t make sense…that’s my point.

whether you use a friends list or a limited profile or whatever you choose to call it, it does NOT keep someone from viewing your wall posts.

i’ve followed the directions to the letter on this (and other) site(s) and it doesn’t work. if you use facebook’s ’see as a friend sees your profile’ mode, you’ll still see your wall posts. if you have a trusted friend check (i’ve used my husband’s account as a guinea pig, blocking him from various wall posts or photos) you’ll see the same posts.

verbatim from facebook’s help section:

My privacy settings restrict somebody from seeing my Wall posts, but the Wall still displays when I view my account as that person.
When you restrict someone from seeing your Wall posts, they will still be able to see posts that you make, comments on those posts, and Recent Activity stories that appear on your Wall.

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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:04:01 +0000

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