7 Comments »As you may already know, Facebook enables users to control what part of their profile friends can see. Through leveraging friend lists and custom privacy settings you can limit access to various portions including pictures, wall posts, personal information, videos of you as well as other sections of your profile. Now Facebook has added a great feature which enables users to preview how their other friends see it.
To view this new feature mouse over “Settings” at the top of Facebook, then click on “Privacy Settings”. Click on “Profile” within the privacy settings page and you will see a box as pictured in the first photo below. Type in one of your friends’ names and it will show you a preview of how they see your profile. This is a great feature for anybody concerned about what certain friends have access to within your profile.
The addition of this feature emphasizes Facebook’s continuing focus on privacy control. While most users probably don’t understand anything beyond your normal profile and limited profile, a decent portion of them may very well leverage Facebook’s granular privacy settings. This is a much welcomed new feature and it’s great to see Facebook continuing to lead the charge when it comes to user privacy settings.
Ok I tried this out.. and I have created my own LIMITED profile, where I put people who I do not want to see my wall or tagged photos of me.
But.. they can! Now the wall doesnt have what anyone has written down, but it did have the comments I made on others photos!! Also all the photos tagged of me could be seen?
very insightful…
However, this is VERY useful. Now I know what people can see across my profile..
This feature has actually been here for several months; it arrived in the very first public beta for the new facebook.
I agree with the comments by JezArnold. It doesnt work properly.
I think the main reason is that the privacy section for your profile mentions wall posts however what you see in the tabbed area marked “wall” is a combination of wall and news feed all merged into one data stream.
You can manage the News Feed and wall elsewhere in the privacy section however that only allows you to manage them by your entire list, not by specific groups of friends or individuals.
Mike Ashworth
Marketing Coach and Consultant
Brighton and Hove, Sussex, UK
hasn't this been there for a while?
I gave them this idea months and months ago when submitting feedback. I wonder if that's where they got it from.
Yeah, this has been available for a while, but still isn't completely functional. Guess that's why its beta…
While this is an okay feature, it doesnt allow you to view privacy of people you don't know, which is more serious than your friends i believe. I'd rather a friend saw my wall accidentally than someone who i dont know.
I put in a bug request to reflect this missing functionality:
http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cg...