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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...
@#($*&@ !! nevermind, they suddenly are showing up for me too! i think the Facebook "preview" is flawed, i just tested again and nothing is viewable to non-friends for me---SM, try doing the same. Hold on, i'll do it for ya actually...
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Yes your pages are still showing (as well as circle of moms, mobsters, etc Boxes), did you try editing the Group app settings yet?
Also i would go under App settings under Privacy as well and uncheck everything there too. Something's gotta work to get that off your profile!!!

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I think until this all gets settled, i'm changing my Search Results under Settings-->Privacy --> Search to "ONLY FRIENDS"
(and with no indexing of course). this is wearing me out. and for the time being i don't need anyone to find me.

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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...

Well, it's definately a cluster-eff right now. I made a new status and set it to 'everyone' can see it, then logged out and into a fakebook, and couldn't see it. Isn't that what "everyone" usually means?


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I was able to see a couple new things just now on someone's Facebook. It gave me a link to a public Facebook group and I got a couple pics out of it. Guess that was prob the best I could hope for...

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UPDATE on Thursday, Dec. 10: In response to your feedback, we've improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications. Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.

We've also posted a third tutorial about the new privacy controls here. This video explains how to use the privacy control in the Publisher, the box where you publish status content such as updates, photos, videos and links.

From Facebook Blog

Now if they could only fix all the other privacy problems!


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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...

I wonder what happens if you click the Skip For Now button ... does your profile remain with all your old settings, and keep hiding everything? Or does it just automatically update to the default settings you see when you click the other button?

Although annoying, wonder if you could just click the skip button indefinately (or at least for however long) to keep you profile as private as it was before this change. Wink


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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...
i clicked "skip for now" and then when i went into my Privacy Settings saw a few things that were amiss. it still changes what is viewable to others--Profile Pic, Gender & location, Friends List, Pages, Boxes, Music (possibly other tabs)...you have manually change those if you don't want that stuff visible.
Hey peeps, See my new thread "Facebook is Losing Friends" for more information.

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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...

Ahh, so that's a good thing to note. Sounds like if you click Skip it automatically sets the setting to the new defaults.


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Re: Facebooks New Privacy Settings Might Be Exposing ...

I find facebook to be very confusing. Why can't they be like myspace where you click one button for private and one for public? I'm guessing this is why I can see my daughters friends. I wish I could see her pictures but I can't. Doesn't facebook have privacy laws for minors under 18? Does anyone know as a parent if I contact facebook if they would give me her password?

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