How to hide comments on Facebook timeline?

Factual Questions
1

I recently got switched over to the timeline view on FB. I’d like to be able to hide comments I make on other people’s pages from my own timeline, but it doesn’t seem to work.

There’s a little grey circle next to the comment, which, when I hover over it, says “Allowed on Timeline”. Googling suggests that if I click on that circle I will be able to choose “Hide from Timeline”, which would make sense, but in fact the only option when I click on it is “Delete comment”, which removes the comment from the page I posted it on as well as from my timeline.

So, is this possible? If not, who thought displaying my comments to everyone or no-one, with no fine-tuning permissible, would be good for FB’s share price?

2

Try looking at it from your Timeline. Mine has an option to hide that particular comment or All Recent Activity from the Timeline.

3

Hmm I have the opposite problem. I want comments to show, but they don’t. I can see them on “All Activity” with the same grey circle and the same “allowed on timeline”.

4

That’s where I was looking at it. The grey circle is there but the only option is “Delete comment”.

5

I did some searching, and found 2 possible solutions:

This one seems outdated, and I can’t open this page on my computer (but I can open it on my phone…)

Are your comments showing up in the “recent activity” box, or as individual updates, like your status updates?

6

Has more comprehensive instructions. I think I hid my comments before Timeline, as a result now I both can’t see my comments, yet they’re not considered hidden by Timeline.