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One thing I've found irritating about the facebook privacy system is that it seems to apply differently to Zuckerberg's own profile. It isn't possible for me to
by amvp 16y ago
One thing I've found irritating about the facebook privacy system is that it seems to apply differently to Zuckerberg's own profile. It isn't possible for me to see a list of https://www.facebook.com/zucks https://www.facebook.com/zucks friends, for example. But I can't prevent people outside my network viewing my own friends list.
Am I missing something obvious?
If it's a privacy setting that's useful to him, it's a feature he should expose to the rest of us too!
- d2viant 16y agoThat link isn't for Mark Zuckerberg's profile.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoYou can change that in your privacy settings.
- jeffmould 16y agoYes, actually anyone can hide their friends list from anyone. If you go to your profile and click on the little pen icon next to your friends list on the left side, there is option change visibility settings. On another note, FB actually has some pretty advanced privacy settings, there are two problems. First, the settings are not obvious and intuitive to all users. Second, it really takes some time and effort on the users part to get the settings just right. One way to do this is to put your friends into what FB calls "Lists". For example, I have several different lists, one for friends I really trust, one for work colleagues, one for relatives. Once you have all your friends separated into lists you can change your privacy settings and many other options based on those various lists. So for example, my relatives can see certain photo albums that my work colleagues can't see, and I have college friends who can see albums that my relatives and work colleagues can't see. You can also limit what they can post on your wall (if anything), what info they can see about you, and many other options. FB's biggest problem is that they assume everything should be open to everyone and then make it extremely difficult to back off those settings.
- ajg1977 16y agoIndeed - if you care about privacy to any degree, and your facebook friends are a combination of family/friends/colleagues, then lists are essential. I can't help but feel Facebook could negate a lot of these issues by giving every user these three groups by default and basing their default privacy settings around them.