FB question

hav2run · February 2011

Has anyone figured out a way to keep your activity on FB from showing up on your wall? For instance, if you "like"a post or post a reply to someone? It always shows on my wall....then I go delete them all because I know that anyone who sees it on your wall can go look at your friend's wall. It is weird, so I delete everything to protect my friends from having people they don't know looking at their posts. Thoughts?

sistrkate · February 2011

I don't think there is any way to keep wall postings, comments, etc., from showing up in your news feed. You can suppress the ones from applications, but not from simple wall messages.

But, I also think FB has changed the way that feature works. Now if I click on a notification that someone wrote on someone else's wall, all I can see is the comment and the comment thread. I can't click through to their wall unless the person's wall is also a friend of mine. Does that make sense?

hav2run · February 2011

It does. But I really don't think my coworkers need to see what I post on my TB friends walls. I delete all the posts to my wall to protect the privacy there. I like to keep my worlds separate. Is there an easy way to do that, or is FB such an AW that every stinking thing you post is up there for everyone no matter what you do?

sistrkate · February 2011

hav2run:
is FB such an AW that every stinking thing you post is up there for everyone no matter what you do?

This. Exactly this. It's the whole point of FB, I think. I don't think you can do a darn thing about it. You might be able to do something with custom privacy settings, but I haven't played with that enough.

warriormomerin · February 2011

I always thought that you could only read another person's response to a post if you were friends with both people. So unless your work friends are also friends with your TB friends they don't see the response that's on your wall. Does that make sense? It may have changed recently. I've never thought to check.

warriormomerin · February 2011

OK. I just went to sistrkate's FB wall and I can only see responses she made to posts by any of our mutual friends or for people (like Free Ryan Widmer) who leave their privacy settings open for anyone to see.

So, I think you're safe unless Katie only responds to posts by our mutual friends.

Moesten · February 2011

Hhhmmm...IDK. I just went and checked a few friends' posts on non-friend's walls and I can see the whole thread. Maybe it has to do with the privacy settings of the receiving person's account or of the posting friend's account?

Jessica&Brett · February 2011

You used to be able to go into your privacy settings and see how any given person views your wall. If you can still do that, you should be able to see what your coworkers can see

warriormomerin · February 2011

I believe it's up to the person receiving the post to set their privacy setting to "Friends Only" instead of "Friends of Friends." I could be wrong though.

Meg41208 · February 2011

I've noticed the same thing and I think it depends on the privacy settings of the person whose wall you are posting on. Sometimes things I post (or comment on photos) show up in (for example) DH's news feed when he's not friends with the person whose wall I've posted on. It's fine that he knows what I'm doing but who knows who else on my friends list is getting my posts to other people's walls in their feeds... My privacy settings are locked down tight - so it has to be the other person's settings.

Ttimes3 · February 2011

I guess I've never been concerned enough to think about it before.

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