I am a Facebook oxymoron.
Despite being friends with relatively few people on Facebook, anyone, friend or not, can read or comment on my wall. I allow the global Facebook community to find me, read my personal profile updates and comment when inspired; but I disable my profile from being indexed by search engines.
Responding to queries how I hide my profile from search engines and how people who are not friends can write on my wall, this video explains:
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“I would rather keep my profile specific to close friends and family members” – Same as me Ari, my Facebook pages are public, but I am hidden to all those who I don’t personally know
A Facebook Page by definition can only be public. Groups can be private, but that’s a different structure.
February 28, 2011 at 5:21 PM
I chuckled when I read this, but only because I had been wondering last week if it was possible to do this. Now I think I’m going to be implementing it. Either that, or I’ve been debating taking down my personal FB page ever since that post about Facebook being conducive to voyeurism and being a bad friend.
Made me think.
Which were you thinking of doing, and why?
March 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM
I’ve been thinking of both, actually. Well, debating between the two: hiding my Facebook profile from search engines, weeding out a few people on my friends list who are not technically a part of my life, and limiting friends only to see my wall, or just removing my personal profile altogether.
Even before reading the post about Facebook voyeurism, I’d been feeling isolated and as if it was an excuse to stay caught up in life and not reach out to others. It culminated on my birthday in January when I didn’t receive a single card or phone call as usual, but got a lot of posts to my Facebook wall. It was a lonely day.
I actually got rid of my FB account months ago. I found I wasn’t using it in a very positive manner. I was “stalking” on girls I had crushes on, “stalking” guys I secretly wanted to fail, and just wasting time reading other ppl’s profiles. I wasn’t using it to connect with someone on more than a superficial level. It was just a waste of time.
Why delete your account and not change your ways?
Ari,
Like you, I prefer to keep my Facebook limited to good friends and family. As such, I’m vigilant about checking and updating my security settings on FB on a periodic basis — and regularly providing posts on my page on how my Facebook buddies can do the same. This is one article I’ll be posting on my Wall!
Thanks for the share. It’s also important to keep in mind because FB privacy settings are frequently updated (usually without your knowing about them), it’s key to be vigilant.
In fact, my Facebook profile is dead – I mean once a month I visit it just to look if it is still there. So I don’t look at it seriously as so far I haven’t used it for my promotion or for promoting my business.
Time to close it.
Before you close anything, determine if other people will care first.
People are closing their profile while I’m going to open a Facebook account for me. Not to mislead it I have a profile but without any information, picture and my personal details.
I don’t want to close it after filling as I have nothing to hide and after reading some wise bloggers who admit the importance of FB (I do believe they know what they are writing and saying about), I gonna promote myself via FB as well.
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