<p>I have a facebook account that I set up initially to monitor my daughter’s account. I have two categories of facebook friends–family and coworkers. I would like to somehow keep these people separate–I don’t necessarily want people I work with getting updates when I “friend” my nephew. My questions are: 1. How make my list of friends viewable only by me? and 2. How can I take myself out of other people’s new feed?</p>
<p>Click on Account, then Privacy settings. It will give you a laundry list of things. Click customize settings. If you don’t want yourself in other peoples news feeds click “posts by me” and you can adjust that. I think all the settings you want can be found in there somewhere.</p>
<p>Simply post only stuff you want both your newphew and coworkers to see.</p>
<p>As Fendergirl says, you can try to manage the privacy settings. The problem is they are complex and Facebook occasionally makes modifications to the settings that are available, and I wouldn’t trust them.</p>
<p>I find having coworkers and friends both on Facebook to be problematic…and no longer friend any coworkers. There’s things that I do at night that my coworkers don’t need to know about (like outside business consulting) that don’t relate to work or my performance at work, and it’s best not to share.</p>
<p>Under privacy settings in account settings there are general settings. At the bottom left side of that page is a customize link. Click there. Each one of those settings will allow you to select what level of friends you want to have access. Within each of those there is another customize link . Click that one and you can include or can exclude specific people or groups of people… I have a family group, a family and close friends group, and then the rest of friends. I only share some things with family, some I include close friends and then only general information goes out to the rest who are mostly business acquaintances. I can select the family or friends and family groups in the last of the customized settings. Good luck they do not make it easy. </p>
<p>While you are in account settings, check to make sure you are in secure browsing. Go to account settings, account security. Click on “change” and see if there is a check mark at secure browsing. If there is not, check it and save your settings. Now https will show up on your url at the top.</p>
<p>If you have not done groups before, you can create groups of friends from your home page, left hand side link. Then you give access to photos and info by group.</p>
<p>I don’t mind being friends with coworkers - but I do keep them in their own group. I have one group for family, one for co-workers, one for college friends and one for friends from home. I love the way I have it sent out… that way if I want to put something like is anyone going to my cousins birthday party this weekend i can just share that with family. or if I want to write something work related like an inside joke I can just share it with coworkers. Or if I want to have some of my friends from home over for a bbq get together I can post something just to them… that way I dont have family members or my mother showing up on my door step. 
But there are certain things i’ll share will all groups… Home sick today… 18 more work days till vacation… etc.</p>
<p>I use LinkedIn for professional contacts and FB for social. I like fendergirl’s idea though. Fendergirl, does it give you separate walls for each group? If not, how do you post to just one set?</p>
<p>fendergirl has the best idea. </p>
<p>+2 for fendergirl :)</p>