Facebook….for Business or Pleasure?

I love Facebook, let’s get that out of the way right now. There are a lot of Social Media sites that I am involved in and receive benefit from, but Facebook is my current favorite. Of course, with the active users coming in at 175 million and growing at the rate of over 260,000 a day, I am obviously not alone.

I admit that when I started using Facebook it was purely for personal connections, friends and family. However, I have seen the light now, and have opened it up to my professional connections as well. Most Facebooker’s are not aware that you can actually place your “Friends” into lists and decide what in your profile they get to see. If you have been thinking that you don’t want your professional contacts to have access to the pictures you post or what is written on your wall, a solution has arrived.

With a few clicks you can set up lists, and determine what the people in those lists are able to view on your page. Here is how…

First, go into your friends tab and click on the “Make a List” tab in the left hand column. Choose the name of your list. Make it simple by creating three lists; friends, family, and professional.

Once you create a list, you can go through your current friend list and select people to include in the list. From now on out though, you place Friends in the lists as soon as you send or accept an invite to become a Friend.

 

Next, you will need to go into the privacy settings to customize what people can see. Go to the settings tab at the top of your screen and click on privacy settings. Then click on Profile. You can now set the parameters for your lists.

For instance, if you don’t want anyone from your “Professional” list seeing your pictures. Go to the Photos Tagged of You drop down menu and click customize. On the bottom of the pop up window you will see an Except These People , choose whichever lists you would like to prohibit from seeing your tagged pictures. I think everyone should place some level of security on tagged photos of themselves, because these are pictures other people may have posted and tagged you in. Their discretion may not be in line with yours.

If you would like to prevent people from seeing the pictures in your photo album, just click on the Edit Photo Album Privacy Settings and then determine who sees each album.

Don’t let fears of what others might see on your profile prevent you from growing your network if that is your desire. Remember, the control is in your hands.

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