How do I make a limited profile on the New Facebook?
They changed it all around, I had to re-educate myself on how to do it. It used to be so easy, there was just a Limited Profile you could add people to. Now it’s far more complicated.
Ok, you go to friends tab from your profile. On the left you will see FRIENDS LISTS, and below that a button for MAKE A NEW LIST. GO ahead and make a new list, I called mine PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST.
Now that your list is created, you can add people to it. Select the new list (PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST). That will highlight the list on the left and then in the middle it should show you a box that says “ADD TO LIST” and to the right of that “SELECT MULTIPLE FRIENDS”. If you choose the “select multiple friends” option, the grid comes up and you can sleect all of the people you regret adding to your facebook in the first place. Go ahead and select all the rejects you don’t trust and then choose “SAVE LIST”
Easy right? Not at fucking all, but whatever. Now that that’s done, we can set the privacy settings.
On the top header bar for FaceBook on the right hand side you should see “SETTINGS”. It should be just next to “HOME”, “LOGOUT” and the search box. If you put your mouse over “SETTINGS” you should see a drop down. Select “PRIVACY SETTINGS” and you should be taken to the privacy settings page.
Select “PROFILE” from the privacy settings page, it should be the top option. Each option has a drop down where you can select who can see each aspect of your profile. You can limit the whole profile to be seen by:
- Networks and Friends
- Friends of Friends
- Only Friends
- Customize.
It’s a little tricky in this section, as you don’t have the same controls over each item. Profile and Basic info will only allow you to choose from the list above. Personal Info however will let you exclude a particular friends list. Just below personal settings, you will see a link labeled “EDIT CUSTOM SETTINGS”. If you click that a dialog box titled WHO CAN SEE THIS? comes up. At the bottom of that box you are looking for EXCEPT THESE PEOPLE. Start typing the name of your list (PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST) into that box. When it finds your list select it and then hit OKAY. You’ll see the list below with a red negative sign next to it. You may have to select ONLY FRIENDS for this one to show up.
Here is how mine is set-up:
Profile: friends of friends
Basic Info: Friends of Friends
Personal Info: Only Friends
excluding PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST
Status Updates: Only Friends
Photos Tagged of You: Only Friends
excluding PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST
Videos Tagged of You: Only Friends
excluding PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST
Friends: Friends of Friends
excluding: PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST
Wall: Friends of Friends
excluding: PEOPLE I DON’T FUCKING TRUST
Education: Friends of Friends
Work info: Friends of Friends
You will also notice a link below PHOTS TAGGED OF YOU to edit your photo albums privacy. Same thing here. On a gallery by gallery basis you can select customize and exclude any list you want. Depending on the gallery, lock them down. I recommend leaving your profile pictures open to everyone.
You now have set-up a “limited profile list” and have limited what your friends and people you don’t trust can and can not see. Now when you add new friends, you can select which list to add them to rght from where you add them as a friend. So you can avoid adding them and then hiding your dirty secrets from them after the fact.
So now we go back to the main privacy settings page…
The rest of the options here are fairly self explanatory. The SEARCH option will allow you to limit which parts of your profile are visible in a search and who can search for you. News Feed and Wall will let you limit what notifications your friends see on their friend feeds. So if you don’t want someone to see when you change your relationship status, you uncheck that box. Same goes for applications, though you probably don’t care as much about that because the applications are largely juvenile and a waste of time.
