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I use the same tri-level distinction- Facebook for people I know and talk to regularly. Linked-In for People I know through Work. Twitter for everyone. I also

by e1ven 17y ago

I use the same tri-level distinction- Facebook for people I know and talk to regularly. Linked-In for People I know through Work. Twitter for everyone. I also use twitter as my base-level feed; It inserts into Linked In and Facebook, so people don't need to pay attention to all of them; The public things trickle up. I believe that Facebook would prefer that we solve this problem by using friend-lists. With lists, you can say "Push this update only to members of my family", or "Only show this to my D&D Buddies" While I've experimented with that a bit, too many things are too granular, where they are only showed to all-friends, or nothing. For now, having the firewall of separate services serves me well.

iaskwhy 17y ago
I've been trying this for a while and intend to write a nice post about tweaking friends' lists on Facebook. In summary, I created two lists: 1. One for people who "can see everything" (that's the name of the list actually) and that's where I keep my closest friends. They have access to everything I share. 2. Another for people who "can't see anything" (again, that's its name) and that's where I keep people who I can't avoid adding as friends but I don't want them to see anything I share, think big company's partners who wouldn't like me to reject them. Everyone else is not on a list and they can see my profile and photos but won't see my status updates. There's people from school days whom I have no connection besides that and don't deserve to keep them updated on my life but I still want to keep their contact.