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Facebook Enables Privacy/Vanity Check with Profile Preview
September 8th, 2008
Facebook has always done a good job of making it easy to know how your profile appears to other users on the site. However, Facebook’s increasingly granular and powerful (but complex) privacy settings have made it harder to remember exactly who can see what - important details to remember when interviewing for a new job or trading messages with a new acquaintance.
Now, with Facebook’s new Profile Preview feature, users can see how they appear to anyone on their friends list. By going to Profile Settings and choosing Privacy, users can enter the name of any friend and look at themselves (on Facebook) through their friends’ eyes. Profile Preview should lead to more awareness of Facebook’s privacy settings, which can be customized down to the friend or friend list level.
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September 9th, 2008 at 12:42 am
This feature has actually been there since the very first public beta of the new facebook.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
[...] Inside Facebook noticed that Facebook launched a new feature to help users keep a handle on their complex privacy settings: Profile Preview. Via an option on the profile privacy settings page users can now get a view of how any of their friends see their profile. That’s helpful because you can instantly check which settings you’ve applied to which of your friends — did you remember to make sure your boss can’t see those party photos? What else can your boss see? [...]