Heath C. Ice

I need help with my Facebook privacy settings.

I want my default Facebook posts to be viewable by “Only Friends; Except: ExtendedNetwork.”  I have it set up like this to filter those I don’t know well from seeing all of my updates.  There are many updates, however, that I post with the privacy setting changed to “Only Friends” so that everyone can see that particular post.  The posts that I mark as “Only Friends” show up in everyone’s “Top News” and “Most Recent” timelines just fine.  However, when someone from my ExtendedNetwork list tries to view my Wall, they see NO posts at all, not even the ones that were marked so they saw them in their Timelines.

Here is  screenshot of my Facebook privacy settings for the preceding paragraph.

I have also attempted to make a list that is the inverse of the ExtendedNetwork list and the set this as my default.  Therefore, all of my privacy settings that were “Only Friends; Except: ExtendedNetwork” became “CloseNetwork.”  Again, when I wanted to post something for everyone to see, I would change the privacy settings of that particular post to “Only Friends.”  I still had the same issue though, everyone could see posts in their Timelines that I marked as “Only Friends” but only people in the “CloseNetwork” list could see my Wall at all.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on making Facebook do what I wish.  It may be that what I am trying to do is impossible with current privacy options on Facebook.  At any rate, the privacy options I chose did not have the effect I actually wanted.  I know that is a big surprise to everyone about Facebook privacy settings.