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How to Facebook like a Boss
- jeremysmyth 12y agoThe main thesis has a large hole. Let me say that again: Your Facebook Privacy Settings should be *Public* for professional posts and *Friends* for family posts. Then you adjust your Followers settings to allow people to "Follow" your public posts. Your Followers will never see your Friends posts, only your Public posts. What when you don't want your friends (or family, or whomever) to engage with your public posts? Facebook's compartmentalization is not quite as good as G+'s (and Twitter doesn't even try), but for me, and I presume for many people in the article's target audience (after all he's trying to address FB's main complaint and missing the point), the compartmentalization is something that's easier to do by keeping posts segregated by site. It's going to remain that way until sites come up with a way to allow me to post something to public-except-family, public-except-(school, college, football), or something else like that. I won't post professional things in an environment where I welcome unprofessional comments from a drinking buddy in some posts but not all, and make it his responsibility to choose which of my posts he can interact with me in the way drinking buddies do. After all, he's in the "drinking buddy" compartment, so that's how he knows me.