So many people complain about how Facebook doesn’t respect the privacy of its users, but that isn’t really true. They give you the option to separate and parse who sees your data by the individual users. And whether to let search engines pull your data and what advertisers you want to see.
So I happen to have some very strong beliefes and ideas that are in direct opposition to many of my family members and to some of my friends. I also don’t want to share pictuers and the happenings of my daily life with all of the people I am friends with on facebook (since I don’t know what their settings are and who on their page are going to see the pictures if they comment on them) so to keep my life sane and to make sure it doesn’t appear that I’m posting on Facebook all day while I’m at work I have seperated all of my friends in to specific list.
Here is how my Facebook is set up.
- In my privacy settings –> under Control your default privacy I have chosen Custom.
- Once you have chosen Custom a pop up box appears that says Make this visible to these people or lists
- I have chosen in the drop down box specific people
- or lists…Real Friends/Mom Friends
Here are the list that I have dived up my friend/family between and why I have chosen each and what everyone can see.
List:
- Family- This list is mostly for my husband’s family. I love them dearly but we generally don’t see eye to eye on many issues and things I want to post to my friends and other like minded individuals on Facebook. I don’t want to cause argument or fights between myself and my family so I g
enerally only allow these people view post about my kids and general life. Nothing even possibly controversial. - Mom Friends- Usually this is a default list for me. These are moms that I either know in real life or moms I am very close to in online life.
- Real Friends- Also a default list for me. Real friends are people who I trust and I have a real relationship with these people. They genrealy agree with me in the religious area as well as politically or at least will have a respectable adult discussion about these items.
- Limited Profile- These are people that I should probably delete from Facebook. They can’t comment on my page or see my wall. They can see limited photos and generally a very limited view of my profile. Mostly people I know from middle/high school.
- Work- Pretty explanatory, my friends from work but I don’t let them view any post I make during work hours.
So go ahead and give it a try think about, what would you Facebook look like if you could post anything you want to without starting a fight or receiving judgement from your In Laws or those crazy Republican friends you might have. Make some list, or use the ones Facebook gives you and set up your privacy so only the ones you want to can see your profile, then post something really questionable and see what happens. Its awesome!
Each year we like to do a handmade usually painted gift from the kids for all of the family. When Xander was one we did these cool glass ornaments with his hand prints on them. This year we got a great deal on canvases at JoAnn Ect and we did paintings.
