How To Control The Visibility Of Facebook Wall Posts

-Publisher Privacy Icon- Since Facebook redesigned their privacy settings, many users have become confused with the difference between wall posts, tagging, commenting and how to control the visibility. I regularly receive emails asking about making wall posts private among other things, so I figured it would be a good idea to clarify the difference between wall posts (on friends walls), restricted updates, and comments. This brief guide will explain the difference between each and some of the best practices for posting updates.

Wall Posts Were Meant To Be Public

Wall posts, a feature which originally evolved from the MySpace and Friendster “Testimonials” area on profile pages, are a form of public message. When you visit a user’s profile, you can leave them a note which they will see as well as all of their friends. Any mutual friends that you have will also receive a news feed story which notifies them of the wall post. There is no way to make wall posts that you make on your friends’ profiles private, because they are meant to be public. If you want to make the message private, there are two alternatives: send a message or post a private update to your wall and tag your friend.

Posting Private Updates

While most people understand how to post messages on walls, many users still have not figured out how to control the visibility of those posts. In the video below I highlight the difference between profile wall posts (which currently have no privacy settings) and those posts which you make from your own profile publisher. The idea is that you can publish content which will have limited visibility and that your friends won’t be able to see. Also the news feed story generated by your wall post will not be visible to others. Watch the video below to learn how to make private posts through Facebook’s tagging feature.

Conclusion

Unfortunately you can’t control the visibility of generic wall posts on your friends’ profiles right now, however the purpose of wall posts was originally to make them public. If you have something that you want to keep private, you can use the publisher privacy settings as highlighted in the video or you can send a private message directly to your friend’s inbox. If you want a complete overview of managing your Facebook privacy, you can check out our new Facebook privacy guide.

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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.

Comment by Tobias Schwarz — January 7, 2010 @ 6:03 am

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

Comment by Facebook User — January 7, 2010 @ 7:11 am

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.

Comment by Jackie Doss — January 7, 2010 @ 7:21 am

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,

Comment by Miriam Herrera — January 7, 2010 @ 7:25 am

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

Comment by Dayngr — January 7, 2010 @ 7:55 am

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

Comment by Dayngr — January 7, 2010 @ 7:56 am

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?

Comment by Andrea — January 7, 2010 @ 7:58 am

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.

Comment by xtec — January 7, 2010 @ 9:21 am

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?

Comment by Facebook User — January 7, 2010 @ 9:47 am

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

Comment by Jim Bourland — January 7, 2010 @ 10:20 pm

wow, u have so many messages!

Comment by fooyah — January 8, 2010 @ 2:36 am

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

Comment by h1u1k1 — January 8, 2010 @ 9:53 am

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.

Comment by Facebook User — January 9, 2010 @ 6:08 am

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.

Comment by upset FB user — January 9, 2010 @ 9:21 pm

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.

Comment by anastasia — January 10, 2010 @ 10:11 am

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

Comment by Carl Webb — January 16, 2010 @ 7:11 pm

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!

Comment by Facebook User — January 19, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

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?

Comment by Facebook User — January 21, 2010 @ 1:59 pm

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)?

Comment by ADS — January 23, 2010 @ 3:15 am

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!

Comment by DT — January 29, 2010 @ 10:23 am

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!!!!

Comment by DT — January 29, 2010 @ 10:38 am

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..?

Comment by Fiona — February 1, 2010 @ 8:38 pm

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.

Comment by Christine — February 6, 2010 @ 4:12 am

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.

Comment by Jason — February 15, 2010 @ 1:38 pm

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.

Comment by Julie — February 28, 2010 @ 4:12 pm

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

Comment by ken — March 7, 2010 @ 1:29 pm

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???

Comment by Diana — March 14, 2010 @ 8:52 pm

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

Comment by Matt Rowe — March 15, 2010 @ 6:42 pm

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.

Comment by Facebook User — March 28, 2010 @ 1:19 am

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…

Comment by jessica — March 31, 2010 @ 4:11 pm

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.

Comment by STARR PENN — April 8, 2010 @ 8:00 am

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"?

Comment by peter — April 19, 2010 @ 1:42 pm

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'???

Comment by need help — April 22, 2010 @ 10:12 am

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!

Comment by stop the newsfeed! — April 23, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

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

Comment by Lori — May 6, 2010 @ 8:24 am

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

Comment by God — May 11, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

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

Comment by God — May 11, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

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 ?

Comment by nomad — May 14, 2010 @ 8:06 am

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?

Comment by facebookusr1 — May 14, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

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?

Comment by Jules — June 4, 2010 @ 7:43 am

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

Comment by Dawn — June 17, 2010 @ 9:07 am

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?

Comment by LD — June 17, 2010 @ 10:25 am

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?

Comment by need help! — June 17, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

Thanks man. This tutorial helped me a lot.

Comment by KS — June 18, 2010 @ 9:52 am

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 ..?

Comment by Cameron Starling — June 28, 2010 @ 10:44 am

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?

Comment by hailie — July 18, 2010 @ 6:58 am

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??!!

Comment by anelisa — July 23, 2010 @ 11:15 am

I have a dummy facebook page which I keep as an experiment to verify who can see what I post depending upon various privacy settings. My primary page privacy settings are set to block everything I post everywhere from this dummy. My issue is, when I log into my dummy page, there's my post to "John Smith's" page which is SUPPOSED to be blocked from dummy's page… and IS NOT! Privacy settings do not work as we're made to believe.

Comment by joseph — July 31, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

I thought the ''Can see Wall posts by friends'' option under PRIVACY SETTINGS would stop MY friends' friends from reading my comments…? because 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. Is there ANY way to change this?

Comment by James — August 3, 2010 @ 1:38 am

No problem with it showing up on my wall but don't post it in the newsfeeds – that can get annoying!!! You should be able set things up so you don't show up in newsfeeds at all – your friends will see it on your wall if they want to check up on what you are up to – there is a difference between posting and broadcasting…

Comment by Evan — August 9, 2010 @ 11:34 pm

can you hide who you are now friends with? Like if I add someone, is there a way to hide who I'm now friends with from all of my friends? by not showing up on their wall.

Comment by j — August 23, 2010 @ 8:31 am

I don't want people to know who's wall I've posted on. Yet this info always appears on my wall automatically. The only option is to remove this info MANUALLY from my wall. There used to be a setting that allowed users not to have this info automatically posted but it no longer seems to be there.

CAN ANYBODY HELP?

Comment by A — September 7, 2010 @ 9:29 pm

"Wall posts are meant to be public?" Uh, excuse me but that pretty much defeats the purpose of having a separate wall for profile posts and one for published posts. If I want to carry on a conversation with one of my friends without involving the whole of Facebook creation then that's what the personal wall should be for. Granted only a fool would post something they want to keep secret but talking via the personal walls is like sitting at a table having a quiet conversaion instead of forcing everybody to endure your chatter with stuff that isn't their business anyway.

Comment by Artemis — September 13, 2010 @ 8:24 pm

On some of my friends walls, when I make a wall comment , it does not show up on my wall that I made the comment. (i.e., Sarah commented on so-and-so's link.)

Conversely, for these same friends, when they comment on my wall, it is not recorded as a status update on theirs, that they commented on my wall.

I am considering that for some reason, these persons don't want it known that, A. they are posting to my wall, or B. for others to see on my wall that I have posted on theirs. Would they have had to configure these things?

Comment by Sarah — October 14, 2010 @ 1:35 pm

Can you change an existing one to be public (or vice versa)?

Comment by MPG — October 29, 2010 @ 10:12 pm

I am wondering how you can stop people that 'like' the same page as you from seeing your wall posts?

Comment by Biljana — November 17, 2010 @ 7:40 am

i can not see pictur or not on my face book pless help mi

Comment by ali — November 21, 2010 @ 4:14 pm

Is there any way to block comments made by my friends on THEIR friend's wall posts, when their friend is not my friend? If the thread originator is not my friend, I can't comment on the thread, so I would rather not see it at all. Just more clutter on my news feed. Any way to block these without blocking my friend entirely? I don't want to block threads originated by people directly friended to me, but seeing their posts PLUS all the comments they made on posts of people I don't know is just too much.

Comment by C.B. — November 25, 2010 @ 12:44 am

For an example, someone posts on my wall. & we have a conversation, how do I hide where it says " write a comment "? Although they can still comment on the wall post.

Comment by Lichna Makedonka — December 11, 2010 @ 1:24 am

I see your point about posts on friends walls being public. However, it is very strange to have them republished out of context on one's own wall. This means that even people who don't know my friend will see what I posted to his/her wall, without the context of the original post or the ensuing conversation. It is a very odd new feature on facebook and very intrusive. I will really limit my use of facebook from now on because of this new feature.

Comment by Caroline — December 14, 2010 @ 2:45 pm

No, it doesn't. It only deletes the post that tells the entire world about it. It won't delete the original comment. But that's a lot of clicking.

It used to be that you could comment on someone's wall, the notification would be made on your wall, and that was that. If an "outside" friend saw it, but the other person's wall was private, they wouldn't be able to read the comment. Now they can, because it shows up in your feed. This has to be one of the stupidest features I've seen yet, because I don't necessarily want my comment showing up to everyone, simply because we may not be mutual friends.

Comment by Guest — December 20, 2010 @ 2:23 pm

I agree. There is no privacy here and that is a very bad thing. I don't want everyone seeing everything I post;

Comment by margaret — December 22, 2010 @ 4:07 am

how do i know if it;s approved or not, I want the privacy that FB says it has. Who knows what is private to me?

Comment by Margaret — December 22, 2010 @ 4:10 am

Anyone know how I can make my FB privacy settings to where posts made on my wall by CERTAIN (not all) people can ONLY be seen by me?? All I'm finding is the option to allow or not allow EVERYONE to post on my wall. Not seeing how I can customize those settings… Let me know if you have any info on this, please. Thanks! Ashalilly@gmail.com

Comment by Ashley — December 28, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

I "Like" this !

Comment by Hazmat — December 31, 2010 @ 7:23 pm

how do i hide from my friends on facebook the comments and the likes that i made on photographs?

Comment by ChrisPeloponisian — January 4, 2011 @ 5:25 pm

It doesn't show up to anybody who doesn't have access to read that person's wall anyway. So if I post comment on "Jamie's" wall and "Billy" isn't friends with Jamie, Billy won't see the notification that was placed on MY wall that I commented on Jamie's wall. Does that make sense?

Comment by FSGinger — January 14, 2011 @ 10:04 am

how can I block others from seeing my comments on my profile wall posts and still allow ME to see them in my profile only. Like wise, how can I block others from seeing an individuals comment on my profile without blocking all comments seen by others, but visable by myself.

Comment by lynn — January 25, 2011 @ 8:00 am

how do i make it so when i comment on someones page/photo/etc on my wall it wont say "Amber commented on ______ "
i know i can go to my profile and manually delete it after i wrote it. but i know there is a way to set it so it dosen't even say it on my wall what i wrote on someone elses wall, i just cant figure it out.
help?/

Comment by amber — January 31, 2011 @ 9:21 pm

I cannot remove post that I mad on my newsfeed. Lost my X where I am sup to remove them. Waht has to be done?? Not only thatI cannot post a comment under what a freind wrote. Comment box is cut in half with white. FB someone screwed up when you chage everything. Why didn't you keep what worked if no one can help and does not know what to do. What happened to the GEEKS???

Comment by Elaine — February 1, 2011 @ 12:16 am

My issue is that when I post on a friend's wall EVERYONE can see it.. not just "mutual friends." It is absurd to me to think that all over my friend's news feed are posts that I have made on other people's walls.. people they do not know!! Come on facebook.

Comment by WhitWhit319 — February 2, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

I cannot see the wallpost of my friends commenting on other friends and non friends status,photos etc…….how can i see or enable it??………my friends can see my comments to others……pls help

Comment by rakhi — February 5, 2011 @ 1:38 am

WOW!! O.K I guess I am very confused to what the BIG deal is?!? Last time I checked, Facebook was 100% Free to it's users!! I don't ever comment on message boards, but after reading one complaint after another, I felt like maybe a few people could use a healthy dose of "shut the hell up"!! EVEN if facebook changed their settings every other day & there really wasn't ANY POSSIBLE way, to send a private wall post to someone, I'm prettty sure, facebook provides users with a "message" link. At most, it may require a tiny little extra click of your mouse to generate a message, but atleast, you won't lose sleep, fearing someone other than your intended recepient may get a hold of it!! I just don't understand how anyone can not only complain, but Actually, get mad about something they don't pay a dime for!! Suggestions are one thing & I'm sure FB welcomes them & even uses some, to improve their site. **** CONTINUED BELOW*******

Comment by Shelly — February 5, 2011 @ 4:59 am

PART 2 OF2 If I was the owner of FB or ANY service that was provided to the public, free of charge, I would surf these message boards & find a way to delete every single one of those "ENTITLED" "GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING" "THE WORLD IS HERE TO SERVE ME" spoiled little brats, I came across..FB has helped me reconnect with people I would otherwise, NEVER heard from again!! I moved a lot growing up, so there's no way, I would EVER have the time or patience it would take to search! So ya, I can't help but be puzzled how anyone could be ANYTHING, but grateful, for such a cool networking luxury!

Comment by Shelly — February 5, 2011 @ 5:01 am

Please tell how come messages I have posted on wall are not showing on my laptop nor on my daughters, but are showing on son-in-laws computer? Confused.com……

Comment by Daphne — February 5, 2011 @ 12:13 pm

does anyone know how to hide my facebook comments when people write on my wall like we could on the old fb?

Comment by wmb — February 7, 2011 @ 4:00 am

I "like"'d a friend's photo and it was posted to all my friends' news feeds but not to mine and not to my wall. I didn't even know it was doing that until another friend commented on the photo (the 2 friends do not know each other). This is going to make me STOP commenting, posting, liking anything my friends post. Don't think that's what FB had in mind…..

Comment by Beverley — February 8, 2011 @ 8:36 pm

How do I mage my new page wall show most recent posts instead of top news??

Comment by vicki halpin — February 13, 2011 @ 8:13 am

I have recently joined facebook and am finding that my posts on a page I 'like' are visible to me and my Facebook friends, but not to anyone else; and I am not sure if the page-owner can see them. How can I change this?

Comment by Satya — February 19, 2011 @ 5:49 pm

If I happen to comment on my friend's status about our night out at the bar, I don't want the whole story to show up in my grandma's news feed. This is such crap. I'm about to deactivate my Facebook because stuff gets started over things like this. I suppose before commenting on any of my friends' statuses, I should ask if their wall is only viewable by friends or everyone.

Comment by Mary J — February 19, 2011 @ 8:58 pm

Same thing happened to me. Luckily it wasn't something questionable.

If a friend of mine posts a photo of themselves in a drunken stupor and I say something like, "Wow you were wasted. Can't believe you drank all of that," the comment will show up in my grandma's news feed. This is absolutely absurd and something should be done about this.

Comment by Mary J — February 19, 2011 @ 9:04 pm

How do i make my wall the primary page…currently its info???

Comment by Dipal — February 21, 2011 @ 10:14 pm

If you post on a friend's wall, will a message appear in other friends' newsfeeds, even if they aren't mutual friends with those whose wall is being posted upon?

Comment by Will — February 28, 2011 @ 2:14 am

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Hi… notifications for my friends status appears on my wall accept one…how can i see her status updates on my wall?

Comment by bia — March 6, 2011 @ 9:43 am

I see some comments on friends wall from "facebook user"… any idea how to set that?

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My husband's newsfeed has endless "this friend commented on their own photo" or this friend liked non-friend's photo. What total dribble! Thankfully my newsfeed doesn't do this or I would scream.

Does it depend on what the non-friend's privacy settings are?

Comment by claud — March 23, 2011 @ 12:51 am

hiya guys. woul like to ask if someone knows how to change friends visibility. i changed it few months ago (so noone can see my friend list) and i want to change it back…but its just not possible. ??

Comment by gabi — March 27, 2011 @ 7:41 am

i guess i was searching for "how to personalize facebook wall " so that i can show stuff to only those to whom i want. if you can add anything to it , i will be obliqued

Comment by buzzparas — March 28, 2011 @ 12:22 am

I agree, makes me not want to post anything anymore.

Comment by Juls — March 30, 2011 @ 8:10 am

THIS IS so poor that I can't believe a Harvard guy actually owns this company.
IF someone posts ON MY WALL and that someone is NOT the person cited then one would think that I COULD delete that wall post that is on MY WALL and not even posted by the person it is attributable to. SO how come this is not an easy thing to delete and how come when I come to a cite such as this there are no instructions that clearly post how to delete it if at all possible.
I don't particularly care when my wall is plugged with a QUEstion regarding how many people are interested in my masculinity or whether I am mentally unstable or whether I'm enuretic or whatever.

SIMPLY PUT: HOW DO I DELETE A WALL POSTING ON MY WALL THAT I DID NOT ENTER AND THE PERSON IT IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO DID NOT EITHER?

Comment by EJ LEVY — April 8, 2011 @ 1:53 am

I don't care if the site administrator posts this or not. I do care about the answer to my question. YOu can send the email to me which you have as I've gotten them from you in the past. THANKS>
EJ

Comment by EJ LEVY — April 8, 2011 @ 1:54 am

Can the person tell in any way that they are the only ones that can see the post?

Comment by Mark — April 8, 2011 @ 10:11 am

Question,

My girlfriend thinks I deleted notifications of posted I've placed on others walls. (Even though I know there profile is wide open.) I tried to tell her it depends on the other persons privacy settings.
Can someone explain to me this: Under Recent activity, can you see post on your friends wall for someone that isn't your friend?

Thanks.

Comment by Albert De'morcerf — April 14, 2011 @ 10:24 am

I don't know what to do, I was trying out customizing updates & I thought what it was, was that when you customized your status all it did was not appear on the updates to those certain people, I didn't know that it completely wasn't visible to your friends that you blocked & I want to undo it, is there a way to change it or once you publish it you can never change the setting to that one post? Pleae help!!!!! :O

Comment by HoneyBee — April 14, 2011 @ 11:41 pm

I posted something on someone's page and it is visible to everyone (I believe), however, comments that I later made to the same post don't seem to be visible to everyone whether or not they're friends. What is going on?

Comment by Mari — April 30, 2011 @ 10:53 am

Thanks. FB changes EVERYDAY it seems…

Comment by Dave — April 30, 2011 @ 2:26 pm

somebody has posted on my wall in my abscence I have deleted tat, but i want to know that can it be readed by someone

Comment by abhishek — May 8, 2011 @ 5:47 am

My ex partner and associates have being causing me a hell of a lot of trouble, despite my settings being friends only and blocking him he is still getting access to my wall/photos and comments. I have informed the police about the matter as day to day he is also getting his friends to hang around my local haunts snooping for information and anything to try and use against me. I've been in a messy custody battle and this is getting on my nerves. can anyone help?

Comment by Raychelle — May 8, 2011 @ 2:22 pm

so one person was posting waaaaaaaayyyyy too much so i blocked me from seeing her posts now that she has gotten a job she has chilled, how do i unblock her so she shows up on my wall again

Comment by raul santiago — May 10, 2011 @ 10:01 pm

HOW IN THE HECK DO YOU DELETE A POSTING ON YOUR WALL THAT LOOKS LIKE SPAM BUT HAS NO DELETE X

Comment by WILLIAM VAN ZANT — May 14, 2011 @ 10:06 pm

I'M TRYING TO GET THE EXACT OPPOSITE, A LACK OF PRIVACY. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING INCLUDING SETTING MY PRIVACY TO "EVERYONE" ON EVERYTHING. I USED TO BE ABLE TO COMMENT ON MY FRIENDS' STATUSES, AND MUTUAL FRIENDS WOULD BE ABLE TO READ MY COMMENTS, AND COMMENT ON THEM AS WELL, AND WE COULD HAVE CONVERSATION THAT WAY. FOR WHATEVER REASON, EVERY TIME I POST ON MY FRIENDS WALL, IT IS COMPLETELY INVISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC, ONLY MUTUAL FRIENDS AND MY FRIEND CAN SEE IT. AND WHENEVER I COMMENT ON A FRIENDS' STATUS, IT IS COMPLETELY INVISIBLE TO MUTUAL FRIENDS. HOW DO I GET ALL OF MY COMMENTS TO SHOW BACK UP??????

Comment by JETP — May 16, 2011 @ 5:25 pm

How should I make my "Likes" activity visible on my wall which I have previously hidden??

Comment by Rehana — May 19, 2011 @ 11:43 pm

it shows me the option to pick "every one" but it wont let me click it it only gives me the others and just friends of friends and so on so what the freak!!! help me!!!

Comment by What the freak — May 27, 2011 @ 12:56 pm

All I want to know is How come my friends can see on their news feed comments that I have made to random people's links and photos on Groups that they aren't even a part of? yet I dont see it on my news feed.. Why would they need to see what i been saying to complete strangers? Im never commenting on a group again becos it gets posted to all my friends news feeds its totally stupid.
I want to make it so NONE of comments i make on other peoples links,photos,videos etc gets put on my friends news feed.

Comment by Dave — May 29, 2011 @ 8:58 pm

What I want to know though is if I post a stutus update and say only viewable to my friends. But what I cant seem to find out here is if people comment on my post will their friends be able to see their comment? For instance I dont want a particular friends parents to see a post of mine. But if they comment on my wall post will their parents see her comment on my wall post?

Comment by Joshua — June 1, 2011 @ 10:26 am

I have a question… If your friend replies to the private message, is their response visible?

Comment by Sky — June 6, 2011 @ 9:13 am

Is there a way to prevent comments from Friends of Friends from appearing on my Wall? I'm sure these people are very nice folks, but I don't know them & probably never will.

I think every privacy setting I have is set to friends only.

Comment by Kurt — June 27, 2011 @ 2:39 am

how do I change a wall post from friends only to everyone? the lock icon keeps saying friends only

Comment by miss — June 27, 2011 @ 6:30 am

Okay,
I do not want to see "friends of friends" comments on my wall of my "friends" postings. Can I get rid of this stuff?

Comment by jbean — July 11, 2011 @ 10:11 pm

You are able to control who are able to see specific aspects of your Wall about the Privacy Configurations page. Within the "Discussing on Facebook" section, choose our four simple privacy options: Everybody, Buddies of Buddies, Buddies Only, or Suggested. For additional detailed options, click "Personalize configurations."

Comment by lpnschools123 — July 21, 2011 @ 1:53 am

I just want my own posts to show up when I see the News Feed, so I can no how obnoxious I might be to others. This is such a narcisistic exercise. Like to see how often I post, compared to others, but I can only see my own stuff on my own profile. Is this a bug?

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Comment by interest only refin — August 12, 2011 @ 1:07 pm

Basically publish a hyperlink or photo into it, they might still observe that update. You will find certain groups of people that I truly don't wish to see status updates however, I must completely turn the wall off on their behalf.
Regards
brain teasers for adults

Comment by brain teasers for ad — August 15, 2011 @ 12:48 am

Does anyone know if there is a setting i can have where people can't see my wall, but they can see my current posts on their news feed?

Comment by Nancy — August 28, 2011 @ 2:57 pm

Can you please tell me how to close the wall to non-friends ? Thank you !
I can not find this function on the new private setting. Please help !!!

Comment by Dolly — August 29, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

How can i make the posts that friends post on MY WALL, "public"??

Comment by Rebecca — August 30, 2011 @ 9:21 pm

How about THIS Facebook??? If my wall was MEANT to be public, why the hell wasn't it up until now? You people absolutely suck. You make changes every few months to "improve the quality" of facebook, and you end up making things more complicated for users. Ti malakes pou eisaste. Gaidouria.

Comment by Morgaine — September 2, 2011 @ 9:39 pm

My problem is that people that I allow to see my posts & statuses can't like or comment on them…how can I change that?… I want to allow them to like & comment… Thank u

Comment by Samia Farid — September 3, 2011 @ 7:09 am

You are finished if your friend posts your top secret on your wall. So allow "Only me" to post on your wall & let whole world see it.

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Comment by sleep apnea causes — September 11, 2011 @ 4:52 pm

same here, is there any way to contol this??

Comment by megan — September 20, 2011 @ 8:50 am

what's on your mind on my wall won't appear. And I used to like the old post statues. How to get it back

Comment by Pat — September 21, 2011 @ 9:34 am

I have a friend on facebook, who I am trying to figure out if they are in relations with someone who I am not friends with and whos wall is hidden to me when I visit their page. I can see a few posts from the hidden person to my friend, however is it possible that their are posts I cannot see?

Comment by Guest5555 — September 29, 2011 @ 6:34 pm

Does anyone know how to you can block your friends from posting links fron youtube videos onto my wall. there are far too many. Is there somewhere in my settings to disable this. PLEASE HELP
Thanks
Stony

Comment by Stony — October 5, 2011 @ 7:04 am

im still confuse,what im mad about is people who aren on my friends list can see my wall and posts,how do i make it private??

Comment by ryan — October 15, 2011 @ 10:44 pm

I sometimes see people with walls where friends can't post but all their updates or application posts are there. How do you do that?

Comment by Shelby — October 25, 2011 @ 11:13 am

Amen to that. Should be private

Comment by Stef — October 29, 2011 @ 8:06 pm

Hello. Can someone assist me on this? My friends cannot see when I post a comment to someones wall or picture. They can only see when I post or comment on my wall. Can someone help me ot here? Thanks

Comment by Donald — November 19, 2011 @ 1:28 pm

I have the same problem as Donald. When I comment on someone's post, no one else can see it. I've gone to view as and have chosen several friends "view". All that shows are the posts I made on my wall. When I go to other friends page, I can see that they commented or posted to someone. I had this problem a few months ago, thought I'd fixed it (but don't remember what I did). FB says I have nothing hidden. My setting is for 'friends' to be able to see these.

Comment by Anita — November 24, 2011 @ 10:42 am

Donald – I have the same quesion and re-posted it. Was advised it would have to be reviewed for content and never heard anything further and do not see my re-post!

Comment by Anita — November 27, 2011 @ 5:02 pm

nice info man

Comment by Rainforest — November 30, 2011 @ 2:30 am

How do I unblock seeing posts by a friend!!!! Please!!!
I have blocked "see posts" by mistake with a friend.

Comment by Russell Driver — December 3, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

People there is no way to privatize wall posts on facebook. they post all your comments and "likes". I closed my facebook account because of to many privacy issues which facebook is deliberately implementing.
Facebook is worse than myspace, but Hmmm, I wonder why they don't get the same negative press. Could it have anything to do with Goldman & Steinburger & the rest of those guys want to prop up this stupidity to justify a $10 Billion IPO?

Comment by No To Facebook — December 5, 2011 @ 7:23 pm

Comment by Tyler Smith — December 5, 2011 @ 7:24 pm

There is no way to make wall posts that you make on your friends’ profiles private, because they are meant to be public. If you want to make the message private, there are two alternatives: send a message or post a private update to your wall and tag your friend.

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Comment by Artikelmarketing — December 6, 2011 @ 12:35 pm

it is ver easy to use privacy settings in any FB account.

Comment by The Discover Card — December 6, 2011 @ 1:19 pm

PLEASE HELP!!!! MY PAGE IS ONLY SHOWING RECENT ACTIVITY AND IF I WANT TO SEE MORE I HAVE TO KEEP CLICKING OLDER POST!!! WHEN MY FRIENDS GO TO MY WALL THEY CAN ONLY SEE WHAT HAS BEEN POSTED THAT DAY AND NOT ANY OTHER DAY!!!! HOW DO I CHANGE THAT !!!!

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Comment by scrabble cheat — December 23, 2011 @ 5:28 am

i just want to know how i can block my wall from ppl that are not my friends…when someone wants to add me as friend, they can see all my recent activity on my wall and i dont want that…can anyone help me with that?

Comment by maryann — December 23, 2011 @ 11:54 am

If I can't see all your recent activity on your wall…I will not add you as a friend .. as it makes it impossible to see if we have anything in common…

Comment by Morris Goodchild — December 24, 2011 @ 10:28 am

Can somone accept you as a friend, however, everything you post on their wall is not seen by their other friends?

Comment by JoneRoparte — December 26, 2011 @ 8:43 am

I get tired of seeing some of my friend's posting of their Farmville sucess or status. I really dont care if they win something on Farmville or not, can I block from my view all their games sucess reports?

Comment by richard — December 26, 2011 @ 5:38 pm

When you send them a PM it is private, when you send them a wall post everyone can see!

Comment by Weezy Quotes — January 11, 2012 @ 4:58 pm

My Facebook notices of who posted on my wall, or sent me something; pops up right over where I'm playing a game over & over again, & I'm always clicking them & getting redirected away from my games! Is there a way to get these notices to pop up say on the right side of my internet windows desktop screen that shows so that I can more easily not keep clicking them all of the time????

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