So your mum sent a friend request to you on Facebook. Your colleague too. Your customers at work as well, bcs you forgot they existed when you were told to post up a picture on your company's webpage. Now all the regular customers are filling up your request's page. Great. The guy who looks at you with weird face, the one that looks as if he has his own agenda playing in his mind? Your backstabber colleague who finally has shown her belang? That person who seems nice to you but you find out that he reports every single thing that you do to everyone?
But you dont want them to make a big fuss about you not approving them? And then they will think that you are hiding things from them. Or maybe they would think that you posted up statuses talking bad about them. Yada yada yada.
That is just life, some say you should be feeling grateful bcs people realise you still exist. Unfortunately, they are not beneficial to you. So, now, you dont know what to do? You didnt want them to check or basically turn all psycho and suddenly they know every single thing about you?
Here's some simple steps. Let me tell you how I did it.
First and foremost, create a friendlist.
Really now is the most suitable time for you to learn about this, go godek-godek your account now. It is so worth your time. It comes in handy when the situation I described above happens out of sudden. Trust me. Say if you dont like yr classmate checking on your statuses, keep liking ALL of yr photos be it pretty or you being vain, so create a friendlist called AVOID. As the list tells it, when the people you wanna avoid adds you up, you can approve them BUT BEFORE THAT, add them to the list first.
Click Account > Edit Friends > + Create a list button (on middle right top corner)
Secondly, set the privacy as you please.
You want to hide that friend's inappropriate "Weh mana link mamat separuh bogel kau ckp td tu? Bak ah" wallpost bcs you are afraid that yr mum would find out? You dont want that weird guy to check all of yr photos and who knows, might transfer them into his phone? Not so delightful comment for decent friends to read?
To hide wallposts from certain someone,
Click Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings (middle below)
> Go to the "Things others share" section
> Check out the "Can see Wall posts by friends" part
You dont want anyone to post crappy things that develop a sense of insecurities in you? Here,
Click Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings (middle below)
> Go to the "Things others share" section
> Dont click "Enable" button on "Friends can post on my wall" box
Wanna hide certain albums that you think is private and make them go all judgmental on you?
Click Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings (middle below)
> Go to the "Things I share" section
> Click the "Edit privacy settings" for existing photo albums and videos
Third, ALL THE LINES IN RED SHOULD BE FOLLOWED WITH THIS STEP. Make sure you set the AVOID group into all the respective settings Ive said as above.
If you want to hide personal albums from the people in the AVOID group, make sure the AVOID group is listed in the "Hide from" section.
Forth, go back to the Customise Settings section and click the Preview My Profile button on top right corner.
Well just like when you answered yr SPM papers, you double checked all the answers right? To see if your answers answered the questions asked. Same concept here. Double check. For instance, you put Ali in the AVOID list already. So go to "Preview how your Profile appears to a specific person" and type out ALI in the box there and click enter.
Click to view in better pixels.
See how your page looks like to him if he checks out yr page. Satisfied? No? He can still view the post you didnt want him to see? Kindly go back to step 2 and repeat :)
And the rest? Do yourself a favor and check them all out ;)
I am now officially a happy kid. Less drama to cause insecurities in this drama-less life of mine.
All these hustle and bustle are of course, worth every penny of your time. HA HA. Penny, really Lea? But if you think that certain someone is just not worth wasting your time setting all the privacies, just delete them out of your Facebook life and block them. It sounds mean, but that might be the best thing to do.
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