Facebook's Latest Shenanigans

Krlilies
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:06:15 +0000

From my understanding FB basically means what it said, i.e. even if you hide posts (yours or a friend’s) from your profile’s timeline, the post or story can still show up in your friends’ (or friends of friends depending on your privacy setting) newsfeeds or timeline.

**You have to delete the post not just hide it. **You can delete it from your timeline or activity log.

Now if for example your ex-bf tagged a photo of you hugging him. The photo shows up on your timeline. You hide it from your timeline. The “story” may still appear in someone’s newsfeed or timeline. You have to ask your ex to untag you OR you have to change your timeline and tagging settings OR there’s a bunch of things you can do to remain friends with him but he has limited access to your FB profile.

If you’re tagged in a link your friend posted and you don’t like it, do not just hide it from the timeline. Instead, click the remove tag option.

As for the other gobbledygook, from my interpretation, it just means that since you have a FB profile you are plugged into the matrix. So, FB will gather general info such as your gender, age, location, likes and display sponsors ads customized for you.