facebook privacy

3 Ways to Control Who Sees Your Facebook Posts

It’s the moment every Facebook user dreads: Getting a friend request from your boss or a client or your mother-in-law. You can’t deny the request, because … well, it’s your boss or client or mother-in-law. But at the same time, you don’t want someone who can get you in trouble at work or on the home front looking through your party photos or updates.

All is not lost, however! Just because you use Facebook doesn't mean you need to surrender your privacy – the social networking site gives you all the tools you need to keep prying eyes out. With just a few simple clicks, you can keep snoops out of any or all posts you make without going through the social hassle of denying a friend request (or worse yet, later unfriending).

Block access

The easiest way to deal with a snoop is to limit their access to your profile, posts, and albums. Doing so takes only a minute.

First, click the cogwheel in the top right hand corner of the page. Choose “Privacy Settings” in the menu that opens up. This opens up a new page where you can manage who sees your past posts and who can see your future ones. Find the section that says “Who can see your future posts?” and click the “edit” link.

From here, you can click the audience selector button and then “custom” from the menu that appears. This brings up a new box where you can use the “Don’t share this with” option to keep your boss in the dark for as long as you want. Just type their name into the box. Click the “save changes” button when you’re done, and this setting will become your new default for all future posts.

Hiding an individual post

Okay, so maybe the person isn’t nosy enough that you need to block access completely – you’d just prefer him or her to not see one specific post about playing hooky, for instance. No problem. Just click the button immediately to the left of the blue “Post” button when typing a status update. Just like using the Privacy Settings page, you can choose to block individual people from seeing the post using the “custom” option. Think of it as giving your boss a brief social timeout.

Limiting access to types of posts

Sometimes it's not your posts that are the problem, it's what your friends are posting. To limit the person's access to what others post on your timeline, got to the Privacy Settings page and select Timeline and Tagging. There you can choose "Who can see what others post on your timeline." You can also limit "Who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline."

Any one of these methods can help you control what any Facebook friend can see or not see. Know that you can always undo any of these blocks at any time as well. And remember, when in doubt about posting something sensitive on Facebook, the best policy is not to do so.

Is your Face-Book/Pogo running slow?

  Here's how to fix that.

First You want to clear the java cache on your computer. This is in your control panel. If you don't see the java in the control panel, you need to download from  http://www.java.com/en/ . make sure it is the one for your system, 32 bit or 64 bit, and for your browser, IE: Firefox, internet explorer, chrome. etc.



Select the control panel from your start menu. This is what mine looks like in Win 7

Next you will right click on java and from that menu, select open. It will give you this pop up.

Click on settings. This will give you the following menu.

you can either select how much to store on your PC or you can choose not to store any temp files by unmarking the "keep temporary files on my computer".

With that done, we will proceed to the browser cache. Different browsers do it different ways. I will show you  Firefox, chrome and IE.

I'll start with Firefox.

click the arrow on the top left. It will open the following menu.

You will want to go to the add-ons and under that, the options. A smaller menu will open to the right, again choose options and you will get the following pop-up window.

First use the advance tab on the top(#1), then the network tab under that (#2). once there you should see the above menu. you want to clear now (#3) and finally ok to close it out (#4).

If you use chrome this is how to clear your cache.

Click on the "menu" icon on the upper right (#1). Go down to tools and click that(#2). and on the new menu to the right, click clear browsing data (#3). It will open a new window tab.

and automatically open a separate cache window.  This is what I recommend to clear out. Unless you
want to redo stored passwords, look for your favorite sites all over again, etc. Click clear browsing data. When it's done it will close out and leave you with your settings page. Unless you are having other settings problems close the tab out . All done.page.

IE is next.
Upper right, click on tools (#1) and go down to internet options(#2), then click.

You will get a pop-up window. Choose the delete option in the browsing history.

You will get another pop-up window like below. Look closely at what you want to clear. Be careful of which items are to be cleared. Otherwise you might have to look for favorites etc all over again.

Hope this has been of some help.

The requests in FaceBook apps need to be cleared out fairly often. Even though I answer all of my requests, they do not clear in here. I let it go for 2 weeks and had well over 1500 requests not cleared off this list.

Go to your requests.

note there are over 100 in mine. and you may also show other apps requests in here, you want to clear them too.

Ignore all. This does NOT delete them, it just clears them from your messages, there by freeing memory for the game. click the requests again and repeat until they are all gone.

Now you should be able to play. (At least that's what playdom says.)