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This may sound silly but I'm on Facebook and I have a person that wants to friend me. I would like to friend her but there are two people that I'm friends with that I don't want her to know and to see their posts to me. Is there a way I can add her but she won't see their posts? Thanks

Sounds like a high school problem.

I don't think so. What you can do is communicate with her through Private messeges of FB, but you will have to tell her why probably.

What I have found with Facebook is what may be true today may not be true tomorrow. You cannot trust them to keep your posts private even if you change your settings. It's best not to post anything on there that you don't want the world to see.

This person never got over her high school insecurities and we are in our 60's go figure, I'll just email her instead of Facebook and not friend her. Thanks.

Unless the 3 people in question are also friends with each other, and you, they won't see each other's status updates and posts to your wall, however, if any friend posts to your status update, all you friends can see everyone's posts. Your setting must be set to "friends only". Having said.....I wouldn't trust it, if it's truly a problem.

Actually there are 3 settings for the person you want to friend. If you do friend her, mark her an acquaintance, then when you post mark your post to "friends but not acquaintances". On Facebook NEVER post to public.

Whomever said it is a high school thing, yup. I have a crazy dance teacher stalker I never met and do not know.Facebook refuses to take down a page she has created bashing my business. There are some real nut jobs on there so be careful.

DO NOT post ANYTHING that you do not want the world to know. Nothing is truly secure on the Internet......I don't care what anyone believes....might be secure for the moment, but not tomorrow.

I had an acquaintance from high school locate me. She sent me a friend request and she kept pestering me about coming to visit and staying with me here. I barely knew her. Ended up defriending her. She still could contact me via e-mail through facebook. I ended up blocking her. It was a long ordeal. Now I only friend those who I know VERY well regardless if I knew them from high school.

Why, facebook. It only causes trouble.

If you are all writing things that you're afraid the others may see, you should not be writing them. Just creates hard feelings and not worth it.

Along with this...it always amazes me what people post on FB (and TOTV)....personal information such as phone #'s and e-mail addresses etc. You can PM folks if you need to contact them. I never, never post anything on FB that I don't want the "world" to know!

I have to disagree. I find it a wonderful tool to keep up with people who you are interested in, but seldom see. Recently went to a funeral and saw several facebook friends who I don't regularly see, and I knew much of what was going on in their lives and vice versa. I am obviously not a privacy freak (see my avatar - that's my wife and I, and my screen name - that's my name!) so the anonymity issue does not concern me.

I have found Facebook to be a great way to keep up with loved ones far away. Just like this forum, it is all how you use it.

I completely agree Pammy, I love FB. I have reconnected with people who I thought I had lost and love checking out my friends pictures especially of their kids. Now that we are in FL I find it a very special way to keep in touch with all my dear friends in MA. I have also gotten to know more about my nephews and niece which to me is priceless.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Trough Facebook I have been able to reconnect with old friends that I had lost touch with over the years. We recently, through Facebook, found relatives that we thought had died in the holocaust, but had made their way to Israel after WWII.

That is how I feel, I'm a member but I use it rarely. One night I got an extremely belligerent and threatening note from someone I didn't know. I'm sure he meant it for someone else, but it just made me aware there are a lot of nasty people out there. I don't trust Facebook as fas as privacy settings go.

I originally joined Facebook at request of my then principal of the high school I worked at. There was a bullying problem, I was an ELA/tech teacher. I asked my Honors English class what "Spacebook" was, the word my principal used. I was cautioned if administration at the higher level knew I could be fired, there was a clause in our contracts against social media. I know people who have lost their jobs in ed over Facebook inappropriate postings.

After a few snickers two volunteered to help me after school set up a profile. I had to use my dance studio (then closed for 20 years) as a "page", Facebook was new, very few classifications like they have now. I needed to see how pages, groups, and posts worked so I could help the guidance department with the bullying issues.

For me I reconnected with many wonderful former dance students who helped convince me to come "home" and visit, which I did. I keep in touch with friends from an area of Boston where I lived as a child. We all went to the same Catholic elementary school together for 9 years, K-grade 8. We held a reunion in May. We thought only 50 would show up, 300 did.

For me, it is a way to view others. My former students I see what wonderful parents they have become and watch the growing pains of parenthood (first day of preschool and kindergarten was big this week).

The dance teacher stalker is a lost soul. She wants the new business model I designed. She doesn't understand I have two areas of focus MA and FL. I have no intention of holding events in PA. It is a retirement business, but the model is new and my grand nephew thinks it could be worth millions, ah to be young again.

It is a good way to reconnect if you want to. If you don't ignore it. As one whose focus is to improve dance teaching, I try to get the young teachers to realize our business has changed, and to see what parents see. It is an enrichment activity, short term. Parents want scrapbook moments for their children, not a lifetime commitment.

If you have questions about Internet safety or Facebook, PM me. I'll try to answer.

I get all of the grand kids pics on face book in the moment....If you do not want someone to read post on your threads...don't friend them...they go to any time line and read posts that are public...and for all you know they may already have them as friends. It's too middle school for me..to exclude because somebody doesn't like somebody

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I agree, BUT don't forget it was started by a college student and some of what goes on there is still very middle and high school concepts.

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