Are you sure? The ones I got were all from my profile; music, TV, and movies that I’d listed.
And by doing this I somehow erased all my interests. Neato.
Y’know Facebook, if I wanted to join a group about every movie, tv show, author or toilet cleaning product I like, I’d frigging join it myself. Really, don’t need to be handcuffed into it. Now I’m on the ‘friends only’ share plan, application blockers, and whatever else I can do to limit updates from others to new pictures of the niecephews.
Crowbar, thanks for the Diaspora info.
Account → Privacy Settings → Profile Information and Posts → “Preview my Profile…”
Shows you how your profile looks to the outside world. You can also enter in a friend’s name there to see how they see your profile (if you’ve chosen selective blocking or anything like that).
Duh me. Yeah, that’s where it was. It was so long ago, I’d forgotten that I did that. Never mind!
It seems to me that if you managed a web site and actually cared about your user’s privacy, you would have all privacy settings on one page with easy directions on how to configure the settings. The sleight of hand approach used by FB indicates their intent is not honest nor really interested in your privacy.
Nothing is really private on Facebook. It’s fine as a tool for keeping in touch with people but keep that in mind.
This. I used to work at Subway. If you think, for one second, that I want to be “linked” to a Subway page, you’re nuts.