# Talk to me about Facebook **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-facebook/723220 "2015-06-23T05:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-facebook/723220/61 "2015-07-06T18:07:52Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > I have, on two occasions, seen comments a friend has made on the page of someone I don’t know FB, which confused and surprised the heck out of me. I have not seen it in a very long time, and it is possible that my friends were commenting on people with “public figure” pages that are open to all. However, the posts were not “recommended” or “your friend John likes this:” type of items in my news feed. Privacy can be set on a post by post basis. If the post your friend commented on was set to be viewable by public it could show up on your newsfeed. It would depend on both the friend’s and the friend of a friend’s privacy settings. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-facebook/723220/62 "2015-07-06T20:19:00Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Privacy can be set on a post by post basis. If the post your friend commented on was set to be viewable by public it could show up on your newsfeed. It would depend on both the friend’s and the friend of a friend’s privacy settings. Ah, that might explain it. Thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-facebook/723220.md?page=3)