First Trick - Hide people from your stream: This is especially nice when you use your personal facebook page as your author page and you have a lot of people you don't really know in your stream. Really simple to do.
- Move your mouse over the upper right hand side of any status and an X and a text box with the word "Remove" will appear.
- Click on the X and you will be given the following choices:
- Choose one and Poof! the status is gone.
You can also use this strategy to hide all those games your friends play. If you do these steps on a game status, one of the options will be "Remove al posts from blah blah blah". Blah blah blah is the game, such as Farmville.
NOTE: If you have a fan page, it's not a "Remove" X that shows up, but a Settings wheel and you only have the choice to remove the post or hide the post, not hide all by a person. You can also view your hidden posts at any time by clicking on that option under "Wall" on the left side of your fan page.
Second Trick - Post status updates that can be viewed by only certain people: If you have something you'd like to post, but you only want your writer friends to see it, for example, use this option.
- Type your status update.
- Click the lock on the bottom right of your status box.
- Choose "Customize".
- From here you can hide from specific people or lists of people or make visible to specific people or lists of people.
NOTE: If you do this on a fan page, you only have the choice to customize location. This could be helpful if you were going to a city for a book signing and want to let everyone in that area know but keep it from everyone else.
Hopefully these status tricks make your Facebook life a lot easier.
And now for something completely different: Join me tomorrow for a brand new series called Savvy Sensations. This series will highlight other bloggers who are out there building a following. I think it will be very beneficial.
So do you use the Facebook tips suggested here? Did you already know about them? Do you think they're useful? Let me know, I love to hear from you!
3 comments:
These are great tips to know, Laura, for when you need to have a business and not just a personal presence online. And congratulations on the new Savvy Sensation series! No wonder I subscribe to your blog, so I won't miss a post.
I had no idea about the second one. It's one of the reasons why people are flocking to Google +. Good to know!
Omigod, thank you for telling me how to block those dang games. I thought I was doomed to live in Farmville forever.
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