Author Topic: FB privacy settings pissing me off  (Read 1921 times)

eljefe3

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FB privacy settings pissing me off
« on: May 30, 2013, 04:54:29 AM »
So in the past my FB privacy settings were set ( so I thought) to only friends can see my profile, non friends see nothing but the silhouette photo which means there is no photo.  Today a friend posted something about privacy settings, so I viewed my profile as a non friend and what did I see, both my profile photo and the header photo. So I poke around looking on how to exlude showing anything to anyone except friends, went through 15 different websites showing old steps to remove images, but now FB has profile image as "public" with no way of changing to "only me" or "friends". I then followed some other steps on how to change settings to "custom" "only me", tick the only me option, then finished editing, only to find settings didn't change one iota.

Looks like my only option is not to have any relevant profile images. 

BTW I looked at all the sites on this search "facebook profile picture hide from public" and none of the advice worked from those sites.

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Re: FB privacy settings pissing me off
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2013, 06:49:28 AM »
I had my FB settings very nicely locked down, then I stopped checking it or using it very much. After months of disuse I posted a photo of something or other. To my dismay it was not sent out to my finely crafted list of intended recipients, but to everyone. I'll probably take another look over the weekend to see what they have done to privacy.

If it weren't for the Pages I administer I would have culled my FB account long ago.

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Re: FB privacy settings pissing me off
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2013, 09:06:19 PM »
and they seem to have started ignoring the 'always comment and post on your page as [company] even when using facebook as [personal name]'. They haven't removed it or unticked it, they're just ignoring it.

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Re: FB privacy settings pissing me off
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2013, 10:16:17 PM »
They've changed something the past few days, in line with their new timeline layout.

It seems that movies I've watched on Netflix are now on my "watched" list (including one's other people in the family have watched).

They're often doing this... making wholesale changes in the way data is gathered/shown, not very reassuring for people who care about their privacy.