<p>I haven’t investigated the groupings but heard about it this week on the radio. Will have to read the article above. I think I’d like them. I’ve been getting this hodgepodge of requests and I’d love a category for “People who aren’t crazy but I don’t know that I want them knowing all my business.”</p>
<p>MOWC: How do you block feed from certain people? I’ve been looking and can’t find the right ‘button.’</p>
<p>Edit your privacy settings. Click on the button that looks like a lock.</p>
<p>Hmm, I have every one groups, geography &/or family, but I have no idea how I might post to one group and not another.</p>
<p>Baby- I understand your issue, not so much that the family on facebook cannot see stuff, but that the family on facebook may innocently say something I don’t particularly want shared with my in laws. Sometimes I actually go in and block wall posts for a couple of weeks to the group of people who talk with my in laws, just to make sure I control the flow of info. PITA.</p>
<p>I do generally post things that are not too date specific and keep the photos pretty generic. I email specifics to the people who should see them.</p>
<p>I’m another one who avoids FB. Of course, that hasn’t stopped some people from trying to reach me through my kid’s accounts, which I really don’t like. As others have said, my life is complicated enough. I don’t need to add managing an electronic social life into the mix. I just don’t want to be that accessible to others.</p>
<p>I got a FB account when my kids joined. I told them that if they want to post something that they don’t want their mom to see then they shouldn’t post it at all.</p>
<p>I have about 15 FB friends and most of them are hidden. I’m not interested in political rants or what they are cooking for dinner (every night!) or how their grandchildren light up their lives (every day!). I un-friended a particularly obnoxious political poster and he didn’t even know that I had done it.</p>
<p>Mostly I just ignore friend requests, but if it’s someone I want to connect with I’ll accept and send a personal message. No one has ever asked me why I didn’t accept. That does seem weird to me.</p>
<p>I am hoping that this is just a phase. There IS such a thing as too much information!</p>
<p>Blocking feed is easier than going to the privacy settings. When a post pops up on your news feed, move your cursor over to the right and stay level with their name. You will see an X. Click on the X and it will give you a couple of options, one of which is “Hide Anne” or whatever If you “Hide” them, they are still your friend but you are not subjected to hearing about their trip to the dentist, how much they hate Obama etc.</p>
<p>Is there a way to hide all Facebook games? Because really, I do not care if my friends find a Lonely Horse who wants to join their Farmville farm or get an award for harvesting pumpkins.</p>
<p>Naturally, yes. The same way MOWC describes above. It give you the option to hid the person or the game. You just hide the games as they pop up. There may be another way to do it, but I know this way works.</p>
<p>Naturally - I just snorted my drink thru my nose. Which, I apologize might also be TMI.</p>
<p>I have been using groups on facebook for some time now… I have a work group, a family group, a friends group, etc. When you ‘post’ something to your wall, you have to click where it has the privacy settings for that post - you can show it to everyone, noone, or certain people. if you go into certain people, you pick your group… and bam there it is!</p>
<p>Thanks, fender, I never even thought about posting something just to one group! I supposed because I got into the habit of being less rather than more revealing</p>
<p>I originally got Facebook for just close friends and family. Then when all these high school classmates started friending me I decided to put all my privacy settings to “just me” so I have no wall or public pictures and my comments don’t appear in anybody’s feed. My profile just directs people to send me a private message if they want to get in touch, since that ability is all I really want from FB.</p>
<p>Somemom, it just makes it a lot easier for me. I also have another group made up of good friends from all of my groups. That way if I want to put up something i want all my close friends to see, i do it that way. If i put up something work related, i do it to the work group because I don’t think everyone else cares, etc. It seems to work nicely.</p>
<p>fender, where would the post show it’s privacy settings? I just looked at some old FB status posts and don’t see a place where it is on the wall to choose privacy? I see remove on the right and like/comment below.</p>
<p>Where should I (and all other FB naifs) look for wall post privacy?</p>
<p>Hold on let me bring up Fbook…</p>
<p>When you are about to post something to your wall, there is a share button that you click to publish it… Correct? To the left of that you have what looks like a padlock. Click on that, and then click Customize. You should get an option of who you want to make it visable to. If you click specific people, You can type specific names in the box that comes up, or you can type the name of the group in there… Ie, if you have a group called work, you can type in work and it will be viewable to them. It should start to pop up for you once you start the first couple letters, facebook is smart… So in my case once i get to wo… it comes up with Work for me.</p>
<p>Anything that you have posted in the past should have that little padlock on it, where you can adjust the privacy settings the same way.</p>
<p>Did that work for you?</p>
<p>Aha, I was looking for it on already existing posts, looks like you need to specify at the time of posting</p>
<p>I was recently “unfriended” by someone I didn’t really want to be friends with in the first place (a family member’s ex). Yeah!</p>
<p>Back to the question of an unwanted friend request. My suggestion is that if the person asks why, you can say: “I have trouble making this stuff work right. I’ll check on it.” Repeat as often as they bother to keep asking.</p>
<p>Somemom, you can do it on posts you did already. Just look for the small padlock on them next to the date and time that was posted… then you do the same steps I mentioned above.</p>