Digital Egg Timer #311: Keep my facebook friends separate!

This Digital Egg Timer is a quick shot of Practical Help for Your Digital life. Pam Willenz shows you how to keep your facebook friends separate. Printable tip sheets are linked below for our members.

This is the Digital Minute that’s embedded in our show, ‘Hidden’ Facebook Tips – PHYDL #2. In this series, Your Tech Coach gives you practical and helpful tips, hints and advice on how to get the most out of the consumer technology you already own. Geek-free help for everyone on the most common problems we all have using our computers, tablets, smartphones, smart appliances, digital devices, online services, social networking and more. Let Your Tech Coach help you get your technology working for you, not the other way around!

For a handy printable tip sheet, please click this link: facebook_friends_separate.pdf (Adobe PDF, get free reader here)

We’re all getting more and more concerned about privacy, and that even extends to Facebook. Kind of funny, since Facebook is all about sharing, right? But there are times when we don’t want our friends to see everything, and Digital Egg Timer #311 is about hiding your friends list in Facebook.

Facebook and Privacy 

•  Hide your friend’s list in Facebook. You don’t want your friends to see all of your other friends.
• Great for people who have different groups of friends and don’t want those groups to know about all your friends from a different group (i.e. work vs. personal vs. family friends)
• Helps keep your friends’ privacy
• If two of your friends are also friends with each other, they will be visible as your friends in your timeline.

How to set up your Facebook Account to make your friend’s list private

1. On your Facebook page, go to your timeline by clicking on your name in the top right corner of the screen
2. On your timeline, click on your friend’s link (this is right below your photo). You should see all your friends listed in thumbnails
3. Click on the Edit button on the top of the page. You should see a pop-up menu that says, “Who can see your full friend’s list on your timeline?”
4. Move to right and hover over the globe. It will show the visibility status of your friend’s list. Now you can choose who can see your friend’s list.
5. Go back to your timeline by clicking on your name to test how your timeline looks to others. Go to the “activity log” on the right. Click on “view as”. Type in a friend’s name to see what your profile looks like to your friend.