Having upgraded to the new version, Timeline, with 500+ friends on Facebook, it is no longer difficult to manage your social life. If you are wondering how to hide certain comments from certain friends, family or business associates, you will be surprised about how Facebook has countered privacy issues. They seem to have gotten deep into the mindset of their millions of users to understand and tackle relationships on the web. It’s exactly the way you have your get-togethers: lunch with your friends, formal conferences and family events. The best part is that all this is tactfully done without hurting sentiments of others, which is very important for you because you want to keep all your relationships intact. These six simple procedures will help you maneuver your social life in the way you wish:
1. Users have been given the leverage to control their posts through simple processes from the ‘Home’ tag. Clicking ‘view activity’ will show all. You can then decide what you want deleted by selecting ‘Hide from Timeline.’
2. When you don’t want everyone reading your post, select ‘privacy settings,’ scroll down until you see ‘How you connect. ’ Select ‘who can see your posts by others on your timeline.’ Do read the note that limits the kind of posts that are specific to this tag. On ‘privacy settings’ and select ‘control your default privacy’ and then ‘choose friends’.
3. To prevent someone in your circle from writing on your wall, select the same ‘How you connect. ’ Click on it, select ‘who can post on your timeline. ’ The drop down tag displays the options of ‘friends’ or ‘only you.’ There is also an option to control that can send you messages as well.
4. You can erase your past, by selecting ‘Limit the audience of your past posts.’ This comes with a precautionary note that using this option, those indirectly connected will be able to view it under ‘friends.’ You can even select specific posts by going to that post and selecting the option.
5. Blocking has a whole range of options that makes Facebook users wish they had been available from the start. From Privacy settings, select, ‘manage blocking.’ The pop up window allows blocking or deleting users, apps and event invitations.
6. There is also the option to restrict your uploaded photos. Whether you want entire albums or select photos from being viewed by public and allowing ‘friends’, ‘family’ or ‘only you.’ The same procedure is used for video and mobile uploads.
