Controlling Facebook Privacy
Facebook has functionality to create friend-lists (groups of friends). Nice thing is, you can use these lists to block certain people from viewing specific parts of your profile.
Start out by creating a bunch of lists:
A few examples are (for every part you would like to control):
- No-Basic-Info
- No-Personal-Info
- No-Photos
- No-See-Friends
- No-Updates
- No-Videos
- No-Wall
If you like, you can go ahead and add people to these groups. Unfortunately, a list has to contain at least 1-person before you can use it.
Next, go to your privacy settings, then click on profile:
Customise one of the options, for example, click on the drop-down associated with Wall-posts:
Now add the list you created to hide wall-posts to the "except these people" section - in this case, "no-wall"
This is an organised way of keeping track of friend-permissions without resorting to deleting people. If you find that you would like to hide your photos from someone, you simply add the person to the friend-list "no-photos".
You could also create a limited profile for your account and by default, add all friends to it. Next, essentially work in reverse by only allowing certain lists of friends to view your profile.
Firefox 3.1 adds Private Browsing
Firefox 3.1 will come with a Private Browsing feature that can be activated through the Tools menu.
Not sure how useful this function really is - all it does is not store traces of your browsing-history on your machine. It doesn't keep you anonymous from websites or your ISP, and is definitely not meant to protect you from spyware that try to intercept your traffic.
This can also be activated on startup by going to about:config, and toggling:
browser.privatebrowsing.autostart