Christmas in Seattle
I was fortunate enough to spend Christmas in Seattle this year, witnessing firsthand the awesome power of rubber snowplow blades! I hadn’t been to Seattle since the summer of 1997 and it was fun to experience it brand new all over again.
Click here to check out the full album.
Many thanks to my great hosts, Beth & Orlando!
Posted by Anittah Patrick on
January 9, 2009
Making the moats out of Facebook privacy settings
Or, how can I limit what certain people see about me on Facebook?
This is the quickie version as apparently my building doesn’t like to turn on the heat on the weekends. Brr.
The first thing you need to do is create buckets, like, “Former Colleagues”, “Blog Readers”, or “Students.”
You can then go into your privacy settings and set global rules, such as, “Status Updates are only visible to friends EXCEPT” (if you want to do exceptions then you have to click on Custom Settings) so-and-so. “So-and-so” can be an individual, or “so-and-so” can be a group. Just start typing the first few letters of so-and-so’s name and you’ll see how it works.
I just uploaded Christmas pictures to Facebook and wanted to limit the people who can review them. After uploading the photos, I clicked on the down arrow to the right of “Everyone” in order to get the drop-down box to appear.
From here, I highlighted “Customize…” so that I could specify which buckets to build privacy-moats around.
I un-clicked the default option, “Everyone on Facebook”, selected Friends-of-Friends (I like this option as it allows my friends to share my albums with their friends, a feature that comes in particularly handy when I attend social functions hosted by someone else), and then started typing in the “Except These People” box.
The names in the “Except These People” area are the names of the buckets I’d already created.
Once happy with the VIP list, I click okay. The AJAX-pop-up-daughter thing will go away and I see something like this:
I then pick the photos for publication (at this point, they have already been uploaded; this is just the “staging process” where I review the photos I’ve uploaded but have not yet published them) and click “Approve Selected Photos.”
Hooray!
P.S. Forgot to mention and it’s not captured accurately above, either, but you want to make sure to review which networks you broadcast to as well. I edited so that my photos were not broadcast to any of my networks.
