Facebook Privacy Update – View Your Profile as Someone Else

ImageFacebook take your privacy very seriously! At least this is the message they wish to get across with a series of ‘tips’ boxes appearing today upon logging into Facebook.

Privacy Change

The biggest change is allowing users to view their profile from the perspective of any of your Facebook friends.

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This does go some way to clarifying the effect of the various privacy filter options. Tweak your settings and check how your profile looks to certain friends.

Something Missing

 

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What it lacks is the ability to view your profile as a user you don’t know, a friend of a friend Imagefor example. I’d also be interested as a user in how much of my information a brand page that I follow can see. These options would be useful.

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