Facebook trickery
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An interesting scenario. Not a problem this time, but it's something I need to get a grip on.
Finished a 1,700 mile work week. Posted a picture of the road that I'm about to head down to go home together with mission accomplished.
The 'like's include a couple of people from my client firm. That's fine. as they are on my friends list, and I therefore know that they can see. A third person from my client has now liked my picture. He is not on my friends list.
The picture will be set to public I imagine. What surprised me is that presumably this has popped up on third chaps feed, even if he is not my friend. He is probably FB friends with his other two colleagues. Not sure I likey.
Finished a 1,700 mile work week. Posted a picture of the road that I'm about to head down to go home together with mission accomplished.
The 'like's include a couple of people from my client firm. That's fine. as they are on my friends list, and I therefore know that they can see. A third person from my client has now liked my picture. He is not on my friends list.
The picture will be set to public I imagine. What surprised me is that presumably this has popped up on third chaps feed, even if he is not my friend. He is probably FB friends with his other two colleagues. Not sure I likey.
it's not trickery, you are just ignorant of the way social media works. Your picture is visible by default to 'friends of friends', which I am sure you can gather is probably quite a large group of people. the ones who are not your friends will see it appear if a mutual friend of yours interacts with it. You can of course post things that are only visible to friends... but you need to change the setting.
The friends of friends thing is the thing that f
ks most people over who get caught out by their employer doing something inadvisable, or bhing about someone behind their back etc. Even if you're not friends with people that might dob you in, can you guarantee that ALL of your friends also aren't? hard to be sure.
The friends of friends thing is the thing that f
ks most people over who get caught out by their employer doing something inadvisable, or bhing about someone behind their back etc. Even if you're not friends with people that might dob you in, can you guarantee that ALL of your friends also aren't? hard to be sure. surveyor said:
Better to not post stuff that will get oneself into trouble....
Much like PH really.
Posting is free.
Repercussions are priced separately.
FB, Linkedin etc. are, in general, designed to share as widely as possible.
When your client colleagues 'liked' your post, it was possible that anyone they interact with would see it.
By the same token, they use algorithms that may also not share with many of your first level contacts.
I have seen this proven and explained on Linkedin a number of times.
'Likes' on the other hand seem to tunnel through to everyone.
If you look at your post, on a mobile device or desktop, you should have a little icon next to it which shows either a globe, or two silhouettes. The globe means it is set to public, the silhouettes mean private.
There also ought to be a little drop down triangle on the right hand side, and you can from that point choose the privacy level for that individual post as well - some people have posts that are both.
but then yes, go into your settings and its quite easy to change it to "Friends only"
There also ought to be a little drop down triangle on the right hand side, and you can from that point choose the privacy level for that individual post as well - some people have posts that are both.
but then yes, go into your settings and its quite easy to change it to "Friends only"
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