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I looked at the privacy settings and thought I was setting them as high as I could, but I got my DD to look at it from her account (we're not friends) and she could see the birthday and I think everything that was appearing on my page from my SIL's posts on her page.
I looked at the privacy settings and thought I was setting them as high as I could, but I got my DD to look at it from her account (we're not friends) and she could see the birthday and I think everything that was appearing on my page from my SIL's posts on her page.
FB does NOT make it easy to make your birthday private. Here's how you do it. I copied Facebook's instrutctions but added steps they left out:
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Go to your profile and click Update Info on your cover photo
Scroll down to the About section (in the left margin).
Click Contact and Basic Info (in the center panel)
Scroll down and click Edit next to Birth Date or Birth Year (you'll need to hover over the info you want to edit for the Edit option to appear)
Look at the dropdown menu to the right of your birthdate to see the 2 little "Friends" icons - one by the month/day, one by the year.
Click on each of the 2 "Friends" icons and choose the "Only Me" option.
Click Save Changes
You can change who can see your birthday by adjusting the audience. There are 2 audience selectors next to your birthday: one for the day and month and one for the year. Friends won't get a notification about your upcoming birthday if you don't share the day and month with them.
I not only made my birthday private, I used a fake date because birthdates are key to identity theft and I don't even want Facebook admin to be able to see mine.
If you want to put a fake date, you can do so by following the directions above and on Step 4, you'll also be able to change the date/year.
If a non-government website requires me to enter a birthdate, I always use January 1, 1950 because it's within a couple of years of my real birthday and it's easy to remember.
According to FB, I am 102 yrs old. You can put in WHATEVER date you want as your Birthday...LOL
Love it!
You know those reward/membership card places that give you a free meal or somesuch on your birthday? Some, like my favorite steak house, require a DL/ID to sign up while others don't. So I put my real birthday when required and the fake 01-01-50 when not. I get a bevy of free meal offers twice a year, I don't have to try to use them all up at the same time!
If a non-government website requires me to enter a birthdate, I always use January 1, 1950 because it's within a couple of years of my real birthday and it's easy to remember.
Don't know how many FB friends I have on my "real" account. Probably 100 or so. Family, friends and acquaintances. While I don't reach out to many people, I'll accept requests that are sent to me if I have known the person. (I still chuckle when I get friend request from people who thought I was invisible in high school!) I do have a couple of groups that I belong to that center around cruising - get good tips and insight from them on future travels, just like a number of other message boards.
I have a separate FB account under an assumed name that I use to play games. I used to play a lot, and now just hang on to a few. But most FB games require you to have hundreds if not thousands of "friends" to play effectively, plus make numerous posts on your page that I wanted to spare my family and friends from. So thus the separate account, where I think I have roughly 3,000 "friends". There are actually a small handful that I've gotten to know pretty well, and would consider casual friends. But most are just a click on a page for me.
I liken that last group to AOL, where I used to play trivia games with a core group of people for years. Many of us ultimately met on several occasions for vacation, and one of whom is still a very close friend today.
Deleted my FB account several years ago, (what a huge pain that was!). Main reason is that Farmville became a massive time-sink.
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