Comments on: Facebook’s Achilles Heel (sorry, Facebook friends) http://blog.djwesley.com/2009/06/26/facebooks-achilles-heel-sorry-facebook-friends/ DJ Wesley's musings on music in general, and dance music in particular. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Rob http://blog.djwesley.com/2009/06/26/facebooks-achilles-heel-sorry-facebook-friends/#comment-843 Rob Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:31:06 +0000 http://blog.djwesley.com/?p=346#comment-843 I guess you may not have dug into it too deeply, but FB has some rather advanced privacy controls. For instance, I make groups out of my friends... Family, Coworkers, Friendly Coworkers, School, etc. and I limit who can see what based on these groups. I also have a group for those people that I feel bad not friending, but don't want them to see crap about me, and that group has rights to just about nothing. As far as those people know, I rarely, if never, use Facebook. Go to Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Profile .. then pick a dropdown, choose Custom, and add a group. I guess you may not have dug into it too deeply, but FB has some rather advanced privacy controls. For instance, I make groups out of my friends… Family, Coworkers, Friendly Coworkers, School, etc. and I limit who can see what based on these groups. I also have a group for those people that I feel bad not friending, but don’t want them to see crap about me, and that group has rights to just about nothing. As far as those people know, I rarely, if never, use Facebook.

Go to Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Profile .. then pick a dropdown, choose Custom, and add a group.

]]> By: Cory http://blog.djwesley.com/2009/06/26/facebooks-achilles-heel-sorry-facebook-friends/#comment-842 Cory Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:32:05 +0000 http://blog.djwesley.com/?p=346#comment-842 I agree completely, Wes. I set up a Facebook page with the intention of using it to keep in contact with my nephew, neices, sisters, and old friends - a decidedly un-music related mix of people. Almost immediately of course, the music industry folks started sending friend requests (I'd normally be thrilled about that!), which I've usually turned down unless I know the person REALLY well. So I created a fan page for PC on Facebook in addition to my personal page, and try to funnel people to that, with mixed results. Ultimately, I've found that Facebook does not work well as a promotional vehicle for music. Ironically the functionality of MySpace works far better in that regard, but people seem to have burned out on MySpace. I agree completely, Wes. I set up a Facebook page with the intention of using it to keep in contact with my nephew, neices, sisters, and old friends – a decidedly un-music related mix of people. Almost immediately of course, the music industry folks started sending friend requests (I’d normally be thrilled about that!), which I’ve usually turned down unless I know the person REALLY well. So I created a fan page for PC on Facebook in addition to my personal page, and try to funnel people to that, with mixed results.

Ultimately, I’ve found that Facebook does not work well as a promotional vehicle for music. Ironically the functionality of MySpace works far better in that regard, but people seem to have burned out on MySpace.

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