The following is a small tutorial to help you sift through the privacy settings (in plain English) Of course the screen-shots may change over time (depending when you find this post) but from what I can tell once they are set up Facebook won’t mess with them.

First thing you will need to do is go to the Friends page (top left) and decide what kind of friend groups you want to create. Notice if you haven’t already you should create a Limited Profile Friend group (we’ll assign permissions here in a sec) After you have all of your groups created you will need to go through all of your friends and assign them to 1 or more groups (yes I know this will take some time, but once it’s done you will be much more organized)

After you have set up all of your friend groups. Go to Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Profile Information.

From here choose any Facebook area, such as Basic Information and click Custom in the drop down box. You will see the option to exclude groups and for me that group is titled Limited Profile. One thing I would like to bring attention too is the Posts By Me category. I believe this is a new category with the new Facebook policy and thus it is defaulting to have Everyone see what you post. This means all of the following will be seeing by people that are not your friends (ie search engines, companies, old boyfriends, you get the idea): Default setting for Status Updates, Links, Notes, Photos, and Videos you post. So you will need to go into your privacy settings and set this to My Friends or whatever category you have created to limit access to what you post. By the way this was very seeky of Facebook to do this…bad facebook bad!

After you have set all of your Privacy settings up, check out your home page. You can click on each friend category to see only the status updates from those people you’ve organized in your friend groups.

So with all of this work on The Wood Whisperer, I’ve also managed to start a few of my own projects. Both are audio podcasts, involving 2 of my favorite things; movies and video games. First is The Movielicious with Patrick Beja and Mark “Turpster” Turpin. Really Patrick makes Movielicious happen since Turpster and I just have to watch movies and show up for the call It’s not a serious review show, but we do have a lot of fun when we record. Since Patrick is in France and Turpster is in the UK, we don’t always get to see the movies that are out in the States right at the moment, but we make the best of what we can watch and make fun of each other in the process. Average run time of the show is 1 hour with 2-3 main movies reviews and 3 dvd recommendations and 1 awesome poster from photoshop queen Kichelle.

The second show is called Ladies of Leet and it’s also an audio podcast with myself, RandysMolly and GypsyGirl. The podcast is done every 2 weeks and we discuss whats happening in both consoles and pc gaming news and what games we are playing and our thoughts on those games. We also have a bargain buy section of the podcast were we discuss any great deals we find on and off the web. Average run time of the show is 1 hour and 15 min.

So if you’re interested in either topics please feel free to check out the websites and subscribe to the feed. You might even catch a live recording of The Movielicious if you subscribe to Patrick’s twitter