A Question about Facebook Privacy

Obviously, I can't ask this on fb, so I'm hoping it's ok to ask here.

I have a family member who apparently shares a lot of my fb posts with someone who isn't a friend of mine and has no business knowing some of the things I've written.  I don't want to block/delete the family member, but it seems as if I simply can't let her know everything that's going on in my life.

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to keep her from reading specific posts?  If so, please walk me thru it, because fb confuses me.

I have my friends in groups. IE: Family, Coworkers, Close friends and so forth.

When I make a post, there's a little arrow that I select and it lets me post which group can see my post.

maybe this is an option?

Click on the little arrow beside "Home" on the FB page, then click on Privacy Settings. Then click on Timeline and Tagging, change everything to "Friends". That should take care of the problem. 

If not, you can block the person even though you're not friends with them. It's in the same Privacy Settings, just down at the bottom of the list. 

Is she sharing it with just the one person?  Then I think you can block that person.  You can make groups too so some people dont see everything.  I just dont know for sure if that will stop her from being able to see what your family member shares.  You could also use the groups to limit what your family member sees I guess. 

I feel ya on the sharing thing.  For a while I'd share with my MIL all of the pics I took of DD and things to my kodak site for backup...and she'd share the WORST ones on her Facebook page.  Or ones that were kind of personal ya know?  Not something I minded her seeing; but not something for the world to see.  I just stoped sharing them with her so I didn't have to say anything.

I don't know that either of these solutions is really an option, unless I somehow put the big-mouthed family member in her own little group.  I really don't care much who reads my posts, but I'm really bothered that this person is telling non-friends things that aren't any of their business.  I've already blocked the person who's getting the 2nd hand news, so I know she's getting it from this particular family member.  I don't want to block the family member, so I'm not really sure how to handle this.

I'm assuming you can't block a post from just one person, unless, as I said, you put them in their own little group.

You can block a person from one post, I do it all the time with people from work, lol. 

When you go to post the status there's a little thing at the bottom of where you type, right beside where it says Post. Click on that and change it to custom, then just type in the name of the person that you don't want to see your status in the part that says "Hide From". 

Nerdrock, thank you, thank you, thank you!  I'm going to give that a try!

nerdrock said:

You can block a person from one post, I do it all the time with people from work, lol. 

When you go to post the status there's a little thing at the bottom of where you type, right beside where it says Post. Click on that and change it to custom, then just type in the name of the person that you don't want to see your status in the part that says "Hide From". 

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That's what I was going to say. I use that feature sometimes, it comes in handy when you don't want certain people to see pictures or posts. 

I don't FB :lol3: but totally understand your being miffed by this, Libby. My SIL does FB all day long and I think I heard her complaining about this recently, the same thing about one of her "friends" sharing her posts with another "non friend". I do think there is a way to delete certain people from certain posts like Nerdrock said. That is what my SIL does now. Sure hope that works for you!

I just don't post anything I don't want the world to see. That being said, I use groups and recently have started using Google+- Love it!
 

I haven't had a chance to try the "hide from" option yet, but I'm definitely going to give it a shot.

If you want to make it permanent for the person to not be able to see what you post, you can set it up so they think you just don't spend much time on facebook. 

after you log in, go to the top right-hand side where it has in a row: find friends, home, and an arrow 

select the down arrow

go to privacy settings

go to blocked people and apps 

then manage blocking

the first option is add friends to restricted list

click on Edit List (in blue)

add person to list

Assuming you don't have everything public, this will keep them from seeing what you post.

If you have everything set to public, you need to change that!

Thanks so much, Swampwitch (whose "real" name I wish I knew ) .  Nothing I post is for public viewing.   For the most part I really don't care who reads what I post.  It's just that my nephew's fiance thinks my dd (who is not my fb friend) needs to know everything I write.  If I wanted dd to know what I was writing she would, obviously, be a fb friend.  I just need to limit what the fiance sees.  I did a small test yesterday, and there was no 'like' or comment from the fiance (who lives on fb) so I'm assuming I blocked her from that particular post.  Yay!

Thanks for the advice everyone; it was a big help!