[fourk]

The issue that I have with it is that it so easily exposes posts from the beginning of time to people I only recently became friends with. When I first signed up for Facebook, it was still in 'college only' mode, and what I posted was with that restriction in mind.

Over the past few years, this has dramatically changed; now I'm friends with coworkers, parents, etc. As my list of friends/target audience changed, the posts I made shifted in nature to stay appropriate to my current list of friends at the time that I posted any piece of content. When Facebook enabled post-specific privacy controls, I made lists and used them religiously for restricting access to content I provided.

However, short of clicking through each and every one of my old posts and changing the access control list or removing the content/untagging myself, how do I prevent the next boss or coworker that I friend on Facebook next week/month/year from easily seeing the dumb shit that I was posting back in 07 when my target audience was other college kids?

What I really wish existed was a privacy setting that allows me to restrict people from viewing content that existed before our Facebook friendship began. If I posted something before I knew you, and before I could account for you being a part of my social stream, it's none of your damn business.

[danmaz74]

Being able to give special restrictions to "past" events (statuses) looks like a very good idea to me.