Friday, August 27, 2010
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Public Facebook page

Over the past couple years a lot of people (hundreds) have friended, or tried to friend me on Facebook. The result is that I have a fair number of “friends” I don’t know. I look at some of these names and wonder who these people are…

So I’m addressing that problem by creating a public persona page for my public persona:

Rockford Lhotka

Anyone can Like this page if they want to keep up to date with my professional life – writing, speaking, CSLA .NET, Magenic and so forth.

With this set up, I’ve started the tedious task of going through my Facebook “friends” list and removing anyone who’s name/face I don’t recognize. It turns out that Facebook’s UI is set up to add friends, not to remove or manage your friends list.

If you are one of these people, please don’t take offense – just go Like my Rockford Lhotka public persona page.

Friday, August 27, 2010 12:10:39 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 
Monday, August 30, 2010 8:46:22 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Why not keep only one profile and group friends using Facebook Lists instead? I follow this step and my 500+ Facebook friends are segmented in about 10 to 20 lists. Privacy can even be defined based on lists.
Luciano Evaristo Guerche (Gorše)
Monday, August 30, 2010 8:55:22 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I thought about doing this with lists.

The thing is, I don't want most of my "friends" to see my wall. And yet the one thing I want my professional acquaintances to see is my professional wall posts.

I didn't see a way for selective wall posts to be visible to certain lists - is that possible?
Rockford Lhotka
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