So you’re listening to some old school Ice Cube’s Death Certificate and you hear a verse that brings back memories that you just have to share so you post it to Facebook. A few friends hop on with the standard “oh I remember that” and others add in another verse or two to show that they get it. This is a standard on Facebook along with random YouTUBE cut n pastes and the white noise of baby pictures, updates on what was for dinner and that one guy who deems it important to tell you that he is on the way to work. Facebook is pretty much a useless connection device used more so for ego stroking and “announcing” than for actual communication.

Then there are the armchair politicians and dogmatic religious types who post their “Obama sucks” and “lordy lordy I needs ma bible” posts about 20 times a day. For me not being of this group, I care not to hear any of it. Sometimes I ask myself why these individuals are even on my friends list. Yet removing them leads to hard feelings since Facebook loves to show that “do you know Greg” item in the upper right which practically rats you out to the person kicked.

Having had this dilemma recently, I found by ways of a “Facebook Master”, a good way to keep people on my friends-list blind to the antics I pull with my real open-minded friends. The snobs will know you are there, but it will look as if you barely if ever post.

Here are the instructions:

1. Go to “account” to the right of the search bar
2. Use the drop down menu to click on “edit friends”
3. On the left, click on “all connections”
4. Click on “create new list” at the top of the friends list
5. Put the name of the list in the blank box
6. Use CTRL click to select all the people you would like to exclude from your personal thoughts
7. Once you have your list created and the people added to it,
8. Go to “account” to the right of the search bar
9. Use the drop down menu and click “privacy settings”
10. Click “customize settings” at the bottom

From here you may change who sees what by list. For example, under “posts by me” you can choose “custom edit” and put the name of your list in “hide this from”. Once you do this, the list of people will never see posts by you, etc.

Happy Facebooking and don’t forget to fan the Hall to get your daily dosage of article love.

Written by Greg Dragon on Friday, July 23, 2010 

Filed under People are Strange
Tagged with dilemma, facebook, friends