Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Aug 10th 2015, 4:30 pm
#16
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Good luck!
ou might also find this useful - on a laptop/pc,go to your own timeline page (not the home/newsfeed, but the your own home page). Above your updates you will see a box that says VIEW ACTIVITY LOG, and next to it a small box with a drop down menu.One option on that menu is VIEW AS......
Click on that and you will find a box appears at the top of your page, into which you can type the name of any one of your friends. You then get the ability to view your page as if you were that friend - so if you have posted things viewable only by a certain list of people, and that friend isn't on the list, you wll see that those posts are no longer visible.
Good way of ensuring that stuff is only viewable by selected people
ou might also find this useful - on a laptop/pc,go to your own timeline page (not the home/newsfeed, but the your own home page). Above your updates you will see a box that says VIEW ACTIVITY LOG, and next to it a small box with a drop down menu.One option on that menu is VIEW AS......
Click on that and you will find a box appears at the top of your page, into which you can type the name of any one of your friends. You then get the ability to view your page as if you were that friend - so if you have posted things viewable only by a certain list of people, and that friend isn't on the list, you wll see that those posts are no longer visible.
Good way of ensuring that stuff is only viewable by selected people
Aug 10th 2015, 5:08 pm
#17
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
I just tried your technique and it worked great! Thanks!
I viewed my timeline as 'public' and it seems all my posts up until about 4 months ago are public, and since then, are only visible to friends. Is there a way to go and modify those old posts to make them not public? The only option that seemed close was 'remove from timeline' which seems too extreme.
UPDATE - I see that I can edit a post; and one of the things I can change is the 'who can see' setting, so maybe that's the one. If I edit a post from, say, 2014, though, will it re-pop up to the top of any pages, due to being edited? I guess I could test that by editing an innocuous post ...
I viewed my timeline as 'public' and it seems all my posts up until about 4 months ago are public, and since then, are only visible to friends. Is there a way to go and modify those old posts to make them not public? The only option that seemed close was 'remove from timeline' which seems too extreme.
UPDATE - I see that I can edit a post; and one of the things I can change is the 'who can see' setting, so maybe that's the one. If I edit a post from, say, 2014, though, will it re-pop up to the top of any pages, due to being edited? I guess I could test that by editing an innocuous post ...
Last edited by Steerpike; Aug 10th 2015 at 5:14 pm.
Aug 10th 2015, 6:19 pm
#18
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Joined: Mar 2008
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
It might or it might not - the algorithms and heuristics for determining exactly what gets displayed and in what order are complicated and constantly changing, and everyone ends up with a slightly different view.
Aug 10th 2015, 11:08 pm
#19
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
I just tried your technique and it worked great! Thanks!
I viewed my timeline as 'public' and it seems all my posts up until about 4 months ago are public, and since then, are only visible to friends. Is there a way to go and modify those old posts to make them not public? The only option that seemed close was 'remove from timeline' which seems too extreme.
UPDATE - I see that I can edit a post; and one of the things I can change is the 'who can see' setting, so maybe that's the one. If I edit a post from, say, 2014, though, will it re-pop up to the top of any pages, due to being edited? I guess I could test that by editing an innocuous post ...
I viewed my timeline as 'public' and it seems all my posts up until about 4 months ago are public, and since then, are only visible to friends. Is there a way to go and modify those old posts to make them not public? The only option that seemed close was 'remove from timeline' which seems too extreme.
UPDATE - I see that I can edit a post; and one of the things I can change is the 'who can see' setting, so maybe that's the one. If I edit a post from, say, 2014, though, will it re-pop up to the top of any pages, due to being edited? I guess I could test that by editing an innocuous post ...
I don't think it'll pop up, especially if all you change is the 'Who can see' setting, I've done it with some of my old stuff and its not bumped them up, but I won't guarantee it.........
Aug 11th 2015, 1:33 am
#20
Turning into a PA gal!
Joined: Feb 2013
Location: State College PA, finally!
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Not just diiferent views for different people, but different views for the same person on different devices. The feed of posts I see differs between my desktop PC & my tablet, which can be very frustrating when I know I have seen a posting, but can't find it.
Aug 11th 2015, 3:04 am
#21
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
Posts: 52,523
Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Which is exactly why I have very little to do with Farcebook, I could never be comfortable with who can see what. I don't believe I have posted more than once or twice in the past couple of years, and probably only a couple of dozen times ever.
Aug 11th 2015, 3:08 am
#22
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Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 975
Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
It's basically a data collection site - I had a profile up as my cat when I was spying on my daughter in high school. I should really get rid of it.
Aug 11th 2015, 3:17 am
#23
Austin. TX.
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 5,932
Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Do you think it will work with college kid studying Comp Sci
I know, I'll turn myself into a good looking, super clever math geek
Aug 11th 2015, 3:20 am
#24
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
ha ha! She knew it was me and a condition of being on FB was she had to friend the cat and not block the cat on anything......
Aug 11th 2015, 4:20 am
#25
He/him
Joined: Dec 2006
Location: WA
Posts: 18,904
Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
I was spying on my nephew, worked great on tracking him down when he would run away. (along with pretending to be the electricity company to get an address on the phone). Anyway, I friended a bunch of his friends to make my fake account look legit. Shocking how many of them just accepted friend requests from someone they did not know. Surprising what they would post too. .......and the things that would stay up for a day or two before they realized how incriminating (actually incriminating) it was. Then there was all the made up crap from my nephew, like he was living a fantasy life.
Aug 11th 2015, 7:59 am
#28
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Asking on an internet forum is a bit like going down to the Saloon Bar at the Saracen's Head and asking for expert advice. "What can you tell me about tax liability for non-domiciled Singaporean citizens working offshore in Utter Slobodistan ?"
Some "expert" will tell you. Be careful what you do with the answer !
Some "expert" will tell you. Be careful what you do with the answer !
Aug 11th 2015, 9:30 am
#30
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Re: Misinformation on ex-pats groups
Me and my kid have bother UK and US passports, which should I use when, when travelling from US to UK and back?
