I have a question about FB privacy settings.

There is some1 I am FB friends with. I used to get status updates etc but now, nothing.

At first I thought I was unfriended, and then I thought maybe I was either blocked or on a restricted list.

However, I can still see this person on my list of friends, and I can go her FB page, see pics and status updates that I seen before. But nothing new except when my friend comments on some1 else's status update, and that person has setting set for "public".

I guess my question is, have I been put on a restricted list or some limited access list even if I can see stuff on timeline as before.... just no new stuff.

thanks. I want to know because I think I maybe more friends to her than she is to me.

I'm thinking because Facebook changed its rules, those who have their settings to private usually sometimes don't get what they get when the settings were different. My aunt once complained she couldn't see my page anymore because of it. I had set it to private about two years before though.

prodigalfan said:

No I think I am not being clear. Until last week I was getting ALL updates new pics etc. And then nothing!! I thought something must be wrong be wise it was an abrupt change. I thought I was I unfriended and then I thought blocked. But I can still get to her page and see content posted before this abrupt cease. But with the holiday I can not believe that my friend nor any of her other friends did not post about happy thanksgiving. So that makes me think that there was content posted that I can no longer have access.

Facebook is stupid lol

prodigalfan said:

No I think I am not being clear. Until last week I was getting ALL updates new pics etc. And then nothing!! I thought something must be wrong be wise it was an abrupt change. I thought I was I unfriended and then I thought blocked. But I can still get to her page and see content posted before this abrupt cease. But with the holiday I can not believe that my friend nor any of her other friends did not post about happy thanksgiving. So that makes me think that there was content posted that I can no longer have access.

pretty much the same thing has been happening to me since about September of last year, gradually I was hearing less and less from people, until my newsfeed was made up of the same 10 people all the time (and NEVER ANY of the other 100 or so )

Check the settings on this particular friend anyway, FB is always fucking things up when they change things. If she had blocked you, you wouldn't be able to see her page, so obviously she is still your friend, but the show in newsfeed setting might be unchecked?

I don't know if this is just my imagination...but it seems like people whose pages I visit and comment on are the ones who show up on my feed.

PurpleJedi said:

I don't know if this is just my imagination...but it seems like people whose pages I visit and comment on are the ones who show up on my feed.

That's exactly how it is as far as I know. The people you interact with are the ones who show up for you, the others not and you can only see the stuff they post when you visit their FB page.

prodigalfan said:

I guess my question is, have I been put on a restricted list or some limited access list even if I can see stuff on timeline as before.... just no new stuff.

Yes.

Amazing things can be done with FB's privacy settings when you really get in there and tweak them. There are several "friends" on my list that experience my wall in the same way you're describing what you see (...and DON'T see) on your friends wall, as a direct result to how I have configured my privacy settings for specific individuals.

Moreover, if they wanted, your friend could also go back and make invisible to you even the things you used to be able to see, which you say you still currently have access to. FB offers many ways to restrict access to your content, short of actually unfriending someone.

Many people have overlooked how FB has tightened up their privacy settings, and has made them much more personal and customizable (which is wonderful when, for whatever reason, you feel compelled to accept someone as a FB friend, but don't want them all up in your business).

prodigalfan said:

But with the holiday I can not believe that my friend nor any of her other friends did not post about happy thanksgiving. So that makes me think that there was content posted that I can no longer have access.

I would say that is a significant observation.

I don't go on facebook much...

...Mrs Steadwood is still waiting for me to confirm that I'm married to her

Steadwood said:

I don't go on facebook much...

...Mrs Steadwood is still waiting for me to confirm that I'm married to her

I would guess that the friend put you on a certain list, maybe inadvertently. I don't know why they make their privacy settings so confusing and hard to manage.

For example, I just put my sisters, brother and mom into my "family" group. Then, if I post something only they would care about, like some old family photo or something, I make sure that "family" is selected in the post. That way, this photo or whatever is not going to my other friends that could care less about it. I think that it now always stay on family too. I would have to change it for my next post to go to all my friends if I wanted it to. Maybe that's what your friend did.

Facebook's privacy -> the more it changes, the more irritating it becomes

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