[KMStraub]

A friend and I just had a discussion about this last night. I can't say I've bothered to do it, but she says she just adjusts her privacy filter so that everyone in her company network can only see her picture and where she lives. I've been nervous to friend anyone I've met through work, but she doesn't seem to stress at all about this issue. Thoughts?

[brd]

If you take the time to group your friends and carefully tend to your privacy settings its not a problem. Facebook is actually highly configurable in this sense, its very easy to maintain multiple networks on it if you really want to.

The reason I don't try to do this is because of Facebook's track record of change privacy settings first, ask questions later. I wouldn't want to have all my carefully filtered information exposed for any period of time, no matter how brief, but there is no way to guarantee this won't happen as long as Facebook places privacy games.

[KMStraub]

Thanks, and interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose the fact that I didn't even know I could do that--and that it's actually quite easy, functionally, as you say--also suggests some marketing issues? I just felt it was weird that I've been hearing so much hullabaloo about the facebook quandary of business contacts learning too much about your personal life and vice versa due to blanket "friending," but yet, it took only 2 seconds for my friend to shut me up, saying, "I don't have that problem, here's why."