Comments on: Protecting your Facebook privacy

By: Alain Saffel - Edmonton SEO guy

Alain Saffel - Edmonton SEO guy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:37:07 +0000

Not sure. I had extensively customized my privacy as well, but that one was checked. When my wife logged in (I got the screenshots from her login because I forgot to get them) her settings on “posts I create” were also set to everyone.

I certainly think they could be much more clear.

By: she

she — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:20:06 +0000

Oddly enough, when I logged into FB this am, perhaps a few hours before you sent your Tweet re: FB’s Privacy screen, ALL of my options were set to “Old Settings” including the “posts I create” option. My pre-existing settings were either “friends” or “only me” so perhaps all my customization of access made an impact?

By: Alain Saffel - Edmonton SEO guy

Alain Saffel - Edmonton SEO guy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:53:37 +0000

Good points Jill. I tend to keep my Facebook fairly locked down too, which is why I wasn’t happy with the way Facebook tried to change my settings on me. Facebook, for me, is mostly for family & friends.

I think that any potential employers should also be careful trying to draw conclusions about people based on social media profiles. How do you know if someone is being sarcastic, joking or serious? Sometimes it’s hard to tell, even if you know the person you’re talking to.

The assumption potential employers may also operate on is that a picture of a person from 10 years back at a college party represents what that person is like today. We all know that people change, but it seems some employers may not think so. (They just may not be worth working for if that’s their attitude. I’m sure they have other issues too.)

By: Jill Scheyk

Jill Scheyk — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:33:47 +0000

This is really interesting to me, because my Facebook profile is perhaps the only place on the web where I am in complete lockdown. I think everyone needs one place on the web that they can share with friends and family, and that’s it. I don’t need outside people poking around in my profile trying to draw conclusions about me based on communication not meant for them. It’s all about audiences! My Facebook self is separate from the rest of me.

It’s an interesting concept – my Twitter persona is not a persona, it’s me. But at the same time my Facebook profile is me too. And yet I only share one with the world. It’s a balance. Personally, I never feel false on my “public” things – my blog, Twitter – but I’m also not in a hurry to show the general public silly pictures of me. It’s an image thing everyone needs to consider.