How to set up who sees what on facebook

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 5:20 pm

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Establishing Facebook Privacy

How to set up who sees what on Facebook

Facebook is a place to relax with your friends and be yourself, to mix old friends with new friends and to have fun. But Facebook restricts you to only one profile with all your friends lumped in together.

Most people enjoy the social networking of Facebook and like to explore their friends profiles and the photos and videos that they may upload. You may not mind sharing a family photo with a few close friends but may prefer to not have the same photo available to kids at school if you are a teacher, to managers at work who may not approve or to complete strangers who can save a copy of the photo to their computer and use it as they please.

It is important if you are using your personal Facebook profile to network into the larger Facebook community to set up rules for "who sees what" on Facebook. These are called privacy settings and although it may take a little time to set up the friend groups, it's worth doing as soon as possible before your community of friends grows too large to manage.

It can be awkward if a work colleague or a complete stranger wants to friend you on Facebook. It could be unprofessional to refuse, but you'd prefer not to have your personal friends and family open to them, or to expose your personal friends to everyone you agree to friend, especially if they are marketers looking for prospects.

It is highly likely if you use Facebook for business as well as pleasure that you'll want to set up a Facebook page. You can set up "who sees what" on Facebook pages as well and establish further privacy rules. This excellent Facebook tutorial video will show you how to group your friends into networks and then to use the privacy settings to allow each of the groups to only see the specific areas of your Facebook space that you want them to.