Here’s the problem with this method - the message will also apeear on your wall (with the chosen visibility) and deleting it on your profile will also delete it on the wall of the peole you shared it with…

It’s a nice idea for a workaround, but the functionality is missing.

wait, i thought deleting the notification on my profile (that “kim gattuso commented on…”) didnt delete the post…?

I think this is a great tool, but I have one beef with it. I tried to make a certain custom setting my “default” setting (so that I wouldn’t have to customize every time I published to that group only, and could easily click on “everyone” for all the other times). But this had an undesired effect: doing so meant that my ENTIRE WALL was not visible to anyone but the “group” that I wanted to be my default. So all of my other friends could see public posts on their feed, but could not get to them on my wall. And only those who were in the group that I used as a default could see my wall at all. So if you default to a certain group … it doesn’t just affect that particular status update; It affects all of your updates, and your entire wall.

Thanks for the great work you do–it’s always so helpful! Besides offering the video, would it be possible to also add a little writeup of the method? Some of us are better “readers” than “watchers”. Just a tip from a long-time college teacher who knows there are different learning styles.

All the best,
MH

I’m pretty sure there weren’t too many people realizing they could do this. The video is certainly appreciated. What a great share.

Tobias, it will post to your wall but only you and the person you tagged privately will see it.

My question is about ‘recent activity’ update. If a friend comments on my status or photo, it appears on their wall under ‘recent activity.’ ie: Jane Smith commented on Andrea’s photo. Do any of the privacy settings make these updates on a friend’s wall invisible to my non-friends? My friend’s comments remain on my photo, but the fact that she made a comment isn’t posted on her page. Did I accidentally set something?

Agreed Jackie. My biggest beef with the changes to the wall privacy. Anyone who you set in privacy settings to not be able to see status updates, will not see your wall AT ALL. Before, they could see the wall, just no status updates. So if I posted a link or photo to it, they could still see that update. There are certain groups of people who I really don’t want to see status updates but now, I have to completely turn the wall off for them.

No one has addressed this issue.

Okay, so what is the difference between doing this and sending the person a PM via facebooks internal email system other than you are posting to the wall of that person?

I screwed something up while I changed settings on my page while I watched this video. I don’t want to see crap, but the crap(cool videos and pics)that I post do not show up on the newsfeed, just my wall. Check it out. Damn. Oh well, just like myspace, nobody gives a shit about the cool shit that I post. lol

wow, u have so many messages!

This suggestion appears to work when you post a video (say a youtube link) to your *specific* friend’s wall but not otherwise.

how can i stop viewing these in my wall?
“Jane Doe” is now friends with “John F” and “Janie B”.

When I select ‘hide’ it only offers to hide my friend! I went to edit applications and that app isn’t visible there.

You still have no control over the privacy of your newsfeed and activity. You can just delete the posting after it is published without your consent. I can see the comments my friends leave on people’s pics, walls, statuses, etc, even if I’m not that person’s friend and their stuff is set to private. I snoop around and get everybody’s business and they can get in mine. This is ridiculous. This is why I left twitter. Now I need to leave Facebook too.

this is a very round-about method of posting to somebody’s wall…it’s too complicated! why not revert to the old privacy settings where i could simply say my wall posts could not be published to news feed, and then post away?

the statement that “wall posts were meant to be public” is perhaps a fact, but not shared by most facebook users…it’s a romantic idea, but in reality social networks get complex, and there is information that facebookers just don’t want to share publicly…… facebook should ADAPT to its users needs, not what it envisioned the wall to be.

I’m glad someone finally show me how to do this. I wish you could select a whole group instead of just individuals.

I would love to be able to make things semi-private like we could before. I just posted on a couple of fan pages, I do NOT need all of my friends seeing my dorky paragraph on Lancaster PA, or my review of an app, showing up in their feeds! And there is nothing I can do about it but delete the posts! Sure, I get that it’s not private, but there is no need for everyone I know to be alerted to every word I type!

I’m sick and tired of Facebook filling my wall with post after post about every photo I “liked” and every status I commented on. I may click the “like” button dozens of times per day, and I sure as hell don’t need that on my wall. It blows my mind that there’s no apparent way to stop this. Am I missing something?

I don’t mind others reading my wallposts and I understand that they are public posts. What I do not understand, however, is how you can turn off everything that you do appearing on Newsfeed? I don’t want everybody to know that I just wrote something on one of my friends’ walls. If they go to their page and stumble upon my wallpost and read it then, that’s fine with me. But I don’t want to ‘encourage’ them to read everything that I post to my friends by having it appear on Newsfeed.

So my question is, how do you make wallposts invisible on Newsfeed (not on other people’s pages, everyone should still be able to see my wallpost, I just don’t want them to be notified of my wallpost in Newsfeed)?

This whole privacy deal that shows every move we make, in the newsfeed..UNLESS we go through the total,”wall post privacy routine”…has suddenly made me an “X FACEBOOK ADDICT”!!! This is depressing and has gotten me too frustrated to even loggon! Deleting my account after finally hooking up with over 300 classmates from over 25 years ago, not to mention the BIG reunion we’ve been planning for Spring 2010..will just have to be a huge lesson learned I guess!!! I hate what’s happened to the best website on the internet…as far as I was concerned! Maybe yall will get it right with a fer more years of practice! Until then…Thanks for the big waste of time and HUGE let down! Goodbye FB friends!

If I just knew how to make wallpost not appear on newsfeed..I’d be fine with who reads what on whoever’s profile page! Being that it everyone’s post to newsfeed, stops me from going through the trouble! Seems that Im not alone because it’s sure been dull in my group of 300!!!!

Some people leave really really long wall posts… how can we do that? It’s a discertation…. i want to type more but always get told I have only 420 digits… how did they do it? aka make it longer..?

i like my privacy and hate that facebook has changed the settings to allow everyone i talk to and comment on statuses to appear in the newsfeed. i’ve had to already tier friends because there are different degrees of closeness with people. people i know (or peripherally know) professionally i may not want to have access to information meant for family or close friends. this is crap that i have to now make a comment and set it to private on my wall. sounds like fb just doesn’t want to spend the money to make the update.

It would be so easy to give us settings for wallposts, settings for message tagging etc. The number one thing I would like is for the “Most Recent” newsfeed to actually be in chronological order, I mean wtf. Also when we add a friend FB should offer individual settings like “Show/Hide status updates from this friend in Newsfeed” or “Show/Hide wallposts from this friend in Newsfeed”. I mean this isnt rocket surgery, hopefully someone eventually gets it right.

Nick - did you notice that once you sent that message to your sister it became your status up above?? It happened to me too, can you comment please.

its funny how ppl make a tutorial on something that is self explanatory by pushing buttons on facebook. i swear ppl are fkin retarded!

I recently terminated some friendships but my old comments and likes remain alive on their wall and photos, as with mine too. I thought that these would delete along with the “friendship” connection. Not a huge deal but would like to clean it all up. Anyone know how???

Can I hide friends’ posts on my FB page but allow them to comment on my posts?

Real issue is that now, with the demise of notifications, also applications post on friend’s walls on our behalf, and since they want permission to publish without explicit consent, we’re not allowed to set privacy on a per-post basis.

While most people would find it annoying to have a popup requester on each and every post from all of their apps, I would be glad if this would be possible in order to set different privacy options for each of them.

This, or the possibility for specific applications to send their friend-generated communication by private messages, instead of wall posts.

how can i set my profile to not private where people that are not my friends can still see everything on my wall? I have changed every to “everyone” but it still dont show my posts and the comments people leave me…

I (MYSELF) HAVE DID SOMETHING WRONG; PLEASE HELP ME GET MY WALL TO WALL AGAIN SO I CAN RESPOND TO MY FRIENDS THREADS. IN THE WRONG STARR PENN.

Is it possible to leave a private comment on a wall-to-wall between two other ppl I know so that only they can see what I said on their “conversation”?

hey
I recently posted a picture on my friend’s wall and to my surprise my other friends who aren’t even our mutual friends started commenting on that picture! Is that not like commenting on a wall post i make on my friend’s wall by my other non mutual friends? How on earth did they get access to that post?? What should be done to avoid such a ‘disaster’???

I too, want to know how to stop the newsfeed of what I do ending up on everyone’s pages! Are there really no controls for this? I belong to several groups/am fans of several commercial sites, and I when I post on their wall I don’t want everyone else seeing it!

when I post on a friends wall it shows up in my newsfeed- does it show up in all my friend’s newsfeeds too?

hi, i am just wondering if when i post something on my wall if it shows up in other peoples news feed or just on my wall and that in order for them to see it they must visit my wall. How does this work really.

For instance I write something on my wall that is from my blog site and add a link to the blog and am just wondering if this is an effective way to promote my blog with friends or is it better to do it some other way like putting a link or my update. Also how come when i put a comment on the news feed, if i add a link or picture then it does not show up as my status, rather appears as a wall posting and the old status remains whereas if i just put a commnet thenn it shows up as my current status.

Thank you

God

I just legally changed my name to god and facebook will not allow it, what can one do in such a situation.

I don’t understand how he typed @friend to pull up friend, nothing happens when I type @friend. Is there any setting we have to turn on to make it work ?

So, I assume there’s now way to block “…is now friends with…” from showing up on other friends walls. I know this is all about networking, but shouldn’t we have an option? There is no option right?

I put my coworkers in a fb friend group and by default I have hidden posts from them. When I post, I can choose to unhide that post from them, which I do. What that means, though, is that like Jackie above, the ENTIRE WALL IS GONE for them. They can see the updates in their news feed but when they go to my profile they don’t see a wall. I’ve enabled the setting to allow friends to post to my wall. By default, they are also able to see wall posts by friends. When I preview my profile as them, there is no wall tab.

Shouldn’t they be able to see my wall but only see the posts I’ve allowed for that group?

When i write a comment on someone ele’s wall, I can see that i have made it on recent activity on my wall, but my friends can’t see that it on my wall. Does that make sense?

So on my wall it will say: Dawn made a comment on Jane’s status etc.
and so on.
I can see this on my list of recent activity on my wall, but when fiends look at my wall they can’t. all they see is recent activity of when i have joined a group or got a new friend and not when i have made a comment.

Why is this as it is infuriating me?

many thanks if you can help.

Dawn

thanks for sharing this information. I’m not sure if that setting you’re talking about still work considering FB kept changing the privacy setting.. i can’t keep up anymore…

Q: i didn’t realized i could do that..let’s say if i already posted something on my friend’s wall & someone else saw the msg & reply it…now i have to answer that person question. is there a way i can click reply & answer it w/out publishing the whole going back & forth on newsfeed?

When I start typing the friends name in my wall my list of friends doesn’t appear so I can’t tag them before i start writing the message. Can anyone help?

Thanks man. This tutorial helped me a lot.

When a friend tags me in a post on their wall, it shows up on mine but does not show to anyone else. Is there a way to make these tagged posts visible ..?

i dont want all ppl will see my wallposts to my bf. so the question is.could everyone see my wallposts i did to my bf in their newsfeed?or the only ones who can see it are the mutual friends?in the newsfeed?

I’m also VERY FRUSTRATED that my friends can’t see my RECENT ACTIVITY except an odd, random one once every couple weeks or so. Does anyone know how to fix this??!!