<p>Anyone know how to outsmart some of the new privacy features? </p>
<p>You used to be able to prevent certain people on your list from commenting on photos or posts. It’s a lot harder to do this, unless you block them entirely.</p>
<p>You can set them on restricted, but how do you prevent say, a crazy relative from posting on your kid’s friends photos? This has reached crisis level in my house with one particularly obnoxious relative not understanding that it’s not cool to make weird comments on my D’s facebook page.</p>
<p>gosh–I do not even do facebook and a relative emailed me a pic of a mutual relative who went skydiving naked–the relative had put it on Facebook, of course.</p>
<p>The new settings are very frustrating. I used to have it set so my mother could see and comment on my photos, but not see or comment on my wall posts. This seemed like a reasonable compromise. Now it seems that I have to choose between giving her access to everything or nothing.</p>
<p>hmmm… this might explain something I recently noticed. My clever son allowed me to be his facebook friend, but did not allow me to see anything on his facebook page - no wall access, no photos. Recently I was able to see his wall and photos. Haven’t mentioned anything to him about the change.</p>
<p>loydholman , you could do it before, too. Just copy and paste. I did it when collecting family photos for my Mom’s digital photo frame. Everyone puts them on Facebook now and no one prints them for her. Of course I asked first. :)</p>
<p>You might be able to do something with group settings. I know I can see and comment on DD’s wall post but there are some pictures I cannot see at all. She has my generation in a restricted viewing group. I also assume I cannot see if anyone tags her in photos since I have not seen any. I have seen some when S2 was tagged. There is a setting that allows “Friends of Friends” to see things. It is a default setting. Set it to Friends Only perhaps.</p>
<p>I haven’t tried playing with the new groups controls and privacy contrls for posts and photos, but they sure have made it complicated. For example:</p>
<p>How do I control who sees posts and photos that I’m tagged in on my profile (timeline)?</p>
<p>To choose who can see your tagged posts and photos after they appear on your profile (timeline), use the Profile (Timeline) Visibility privacy setting. 1. Click the account menu at the top right of any Facebook page and choose Privacy Settings.
2.Under the How Tags Work section, choose Edit Settings.
3.Click to edit your Maximum Profile Visibility (or Maximum Timeline Visibility) setting.
4.Choose an audience from the dropdown menu. The audience you choose will be able to see posts you’re tagged in on your profile (timeline).
Before they appear on your profile (timeline), you can approve or reject posts and photos that you’re tagged in by turning on Profile (Timeline) Review (Timeline Review).</p>
<p>You used to be able to create a list, like a limited profile list, and you could click a button that let you “VIEW my Profile as” and you could then plug in the name of someone limited and verify that they were seeing only what you wanted them to see.</p>
<p>I don’t know where that is now, but if anyone can find it, you can create the limited profile and check that out.</p>
<p>Sshhhhhhhhh…do not tell my kids that I can see their wallposts now. Of course, their very infrequent posts are really not very interesting, but I can’t mention that or they will know I snooped!</p>
<p>You can limit who sees your wall posts if when you send it out you do it to a limited group.</p>
<p>However, as the other posters here will tell you, previous settings for limiting access to photos and being able to comment has been changed. </p>
<p>If a kid is tagged in Joan’s profile and a news feed comes through to Annie about her niece Bree’s page, well should Annie be able to post a comment on Joan’s page? She isn’t friends with Joan, is she? This is the issue. </p>
<p>It’s not as locked down as it used to be.</p>
<p>I don’t have the new timeline. Perhaps when that comes onto my profile I will be able to change some of these features.</p>
<p>Let’s say you have a kid who just put a picture on their profile. Their friend sees it and comments. It comes up as a status feed. Some other kid who has stalker-ish tendencies now sees the picture which wasn’t really meant to be shared with the entire facebook community. They then comment. Doesn’t that seem to be going against the idea of limiting your access to friends? Every few months FB changes their privacy and it’s pretty hard to keep up. </p>
<p>Sometimes the new changes actually seem to be reverting backwards and are less private than the last one. It’s easy to say don’t post, but if I set up a profile and think I am only sharing my information with friends, you can’t say that I was clueless if now suddenly people who aren’t my friends now have access to my profile, whether it’s advertisers or acquaintances of my aunt Sally. </p>
<p>I have a friend who has a brand new baby. She won’t go anywhere near FB. She is a public figure and is worried that someone in the family will post a picture and it will get out to who knows who. I don’t think her fear is unfounded.</p>
<p>This isn’t an accident. It’s facebook’s business model; they don’t want your info to be private. They know very well that many of their users either don’t bother, or can’t figure out how, to keep up with the frequent changes.</p>