{"id":851,"date":"2009-10-16T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/managing-your-facebook-experience\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:17:52","slug":"managing-your-facebook-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/managing-your-facebook-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Your Facebook Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

More and more, people are beginning to realize the benefit of using Facebook as a networking tool beyond just family and friends.\u00a0 Today, so many genealogists are hopping on the Facebook bandwagon to connect with other genealogists.\u00a0 But at the same time, people also want to use Facebook to be, well, social with family and friends.\u00a0 So how can you effectively utilize Facebook for both personal and networking purposes?\u00a0 The answer is quite simple:\u00a0 filters.<\/p>\n

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When Facebook redesigned the look and feel of the site in March 2009, more user-control over various elements came with it.\u00a0 The ability to granularly decide who sees what was finally possible.<\/p>\n

So how can you take advantage of this?\u00a0 To start, you must first have your friends arranged into lists.\u00a0 Then, to control the content those lists see, you need to change the privacy setting for each Facebook application.\u00a0 Likewise, you can filter whose statuses you see on your main page.<\/p>\n

Friend Lists<\/strong><\/h6>\n

I have six different lists as follows:\u00a0 Following, Friends, Family, Professional, Genealogy, and Writing.\u00a0 Three of these categorize my friends by type, while two are reserved for friends that share special interests; the \u201cFollowing\u201d list I will explain later.\u00a0 You might start out with three (friends, family, and genealogy) as you can always add more lists later.\u00a0 Also note that a person can appear in multiple lists.<\/p>\n

To create a Friend List:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Click on the Friends<\/em> button in the left-hand navigation menu.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the Create New List<\/em> button.<\/li>\n
  3. Enter a name for the list.<\/li>\n
  4. Choose the friends to include in that list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0 When adding a friend or accepting a request, place them in the appropriate lists at that time.<\/p>\n

    Application Privacy Settings<\/strong><\/h6>\n

    Privacy settings for applications differ from that of your overall account.\u00a0 Essentially, you can dictate per application who can see what.\u00a0 For example, let\u2019s say you use Notes to share personal information that perhaps you wouldn\u2019t want your genealogy contacts to see.\u00a0 In this case, you would set the Notes settings to allow only those from the friends and family lists to view your notes.<\/p>\n

    To change application settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Go to the Account <\/em>drop-down menu at the top of the page (right-hand side).<\/li>\n
    2. Choose Application Settings<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    3. Choose Edit Settings<\/em> for the application you wish to change the setting for.<\/li>\n
    4. Under the Profile<\/em> tab, change Privacy <\/em>to the appropriate setting (e.g. Everyone, Only Friends, etc.).\u00a0 You can choose Customize<\/em> if you want to exclude certain people or friend list(s).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Filter Who You See<\/strong><\/h6>\n

      When you have a lot of Facebook friends, it can be cumbersome to keep up on everything.\u00a0 This is where the friend lists become even more invaluable.<\/p>\n

      As I mentioned earlier, I have a list called Following<\/em>.\u00a0 In that list, I place the people that I really want to keep track of.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mixture of family, friends, and genealogy contacts.\u00a0 Instead of the default News Feed<\/em>, I choose Friends<\/em> from the left-hand navigation menu, then choose the list Following<\/em>.\u00a0 I can check out the statuses of other friends by clicking on another list in the menu.<\/p>\n

      Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0 You can also filter out certain applications.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t want to see who\u2019s Superpokin\u2019 who, hover over the top-right corner of the status and chose the appropriate action from the Hide<\/em> menu that appears.<\/p>\n

      There you have it.\u00a0 A way to keep your personal and networking life separate on Facebook and to see only what you want to see when you want to see it.<\/p>\n

      Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 This post was updated on 23 April 2010 due to interface changes FB made a few months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      More and more, people are beginning to realize the benefit of using Facebook as a networking tool beyond just family and friends.\u00a0 Today, so many genealogists are hopping on the Facebook bandwagon to connect with other genealogists.\u00a0 But at the same time, people also want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","tag-tools-tech-social-networking","cat-27-id","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-dJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}