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See How Others See You (on Facebook At Least)

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 (No comments yet)

So as I'm learning how to use this goofy site that everyone seems so attached to, I'm also learning some of the neat tricks you can use to protect yourself. Today's victory was the "See how a friend sees your profile".

If you go to Settings > Privacy > Profile, you'll see a list of all your privacy settings and who can see what on your page. But up at the very top, you see a function that lets you enter the name of one of your friends to see your page as if you were them.

There it is!
There it is!

This is very helpful if you want to be selective about who sees what particularly if you take my recommendation to group your friends. You might want to be sure that your Obligation Friends can't see what your real friends can see.

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