If you look for me, I’m Doug Blair in Ottawa.
I’m connected to some of you good people, but what can my non-friends see, or not see?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Oh, and if you want to friend me, feel free. 
So, non-friends: what am I presenting to the world?
Facebook has a feature that lets you view your profile as it appears to various audiences like friends or their friends or the general public.
I didn’t look you up, but in general terms, it can be possible to learn quite a lot from a frequent poster on FB:
Birthday is an obvious one and that is essential for identity theft.
Street address can often be deduced from photographs.
Photograph is useful for making false ID’s
Many people will announce to the world that they are off on holiday and therefore their house will be empty.
There may be a lot more detail - hobbies, interests, education (which college) etc. I am sure there is more, but that gives you an idea.
Edit - They can also see who your friends are.
I found two Doug Blairs in Ottawa. I went with the guy whose profile pic I can see. You have friendly eyes. From your picture, I would say you are easy going and approachable. In your past life you were a lama; you only became human in March of this year. You like the great outdoors: the only pictures of yours I can see are of landscapes. I reverse image searched your picture of the lake, to see if I could easily find where that is. Google tells me it is the sky, which is not helpful.
You’re a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which seems to check out with the profile you have here. Unless the other Doug Blair is also a Leaffan, which is possible.
You also like Julian Lennon and Paul McCartney. What did John ever do to you? Poor John.
You also like a page called Vocal Progressives. But then you like something Russian? Dodgy. Maybe you’re a spy. I had my doubts right from the start: who is a lama for a year? And why don’t you like John Lennon? You also like a page called “FBI, and on Thursdays we’re Teddybear Doctors” - your spy game is not subtle! You are also a member of a group called “DO YOU REMEMBER… PLACES THAT NO LONGER EXIST IN SARNIA” - Sarnia is where you are supposedly originally from. But this seems like yet more evidence of your secret life as a Russian lama spy for Paul McCartney. Places that no longer exist? Could be a Russian fake news scam, gaslighting the population to sow discord?
I can’t see any friends, very fishy. No friends because you are a lama? Because this is fake profile? Or are you a nice guy who lost his friends over a heated Lennon/McCartney dispute? Or maybe… maybe I can’t see your friends because of your settings?
/jokes
That’s more or less what I see. A few profile and cover pictures and your likes. Not much info. Friendly looking Leaf fan, likes the outdoors, possibly liberal, may have listened to the Beatles, originally from Sarnia.
And now you know…
They can’t learn my birthday for two reasons:
I would guess that that’s the case. You can guess some of his probable friends list, and some other information by reading the likes and comments on the posts. For instance, we can guess that maybe he went to Lambton College, because a probable friend commented that he hasn’t changed since college, and reveals “Lambton College” in his educational background.
All very informative and educational.
Yes. That’s me.
Thanks.
I can’t seem to get that to work. At least on my Android phone.
OK. I figured out how to view my profile as an outsider.
Well, that’s weird.
Gracer is correct about some weird Russian group that I apparently like. But I have no idea what it is or how to get rid of it. Same thing for a US based group. What the hell did I click on?
I just had my secret security clearance updated. I don’t need these affiliations!
Interesting. You deny Russian affiliations but don’t deny being a llama. What’s the Canadian Intelligence planning to do with their llama agents?
You should be able to click the button that says “Liked” underneath it and choose “unlike”.
It’s possible you liked something that appeared innocuous, but later changed its identity to something else. Like farming is abundant, as a well-liked page on Facebook is worth quite a lot.
It seems to be a disability activist group. Is that the sort of thing you might have Liked if you saw some of their stuff in English? (and some of their posts are English language ones)
The thing is, I only see those groups on my public profile, and I can’t edit them from there.
When I go to my actual profile I don’t even see them.
How strange is that?
I believe I may be contacting Facebook over this anomaly.
I got to mine and unliked a couple. It’s probably something you “liked”, not a “group” you “joined”.
Click on your name, then “About”, then scroll down to the box that says “likes”. You may have to click “See All”.
Interesting. I could not find you in the iPad app - but it showed me other Doug Blairs from my cities and schools.
Using a browser, I saw:
3 cover photos
6 profile photos
Friends - none shared
Sports - Maple Leafs
Music - Julian Lennon, Paul McCartney
Groups - 3 - Do you remember…Sarnia, Ottawa Valley, Science Humor
Lived - Ottawa, Sarnia
Timeline - Cover & Profile photo changes and a few comments from 3 female jfriends
So all this information is set on visible to the public?
Takes one to know one. Reported.
reported