Here's how to hide your Facebook Friends list

Found this interesting post on cnet news. I know it is not in good taste to simply copy and paste but this information is valuable. I am also sure that users will fin this an intereting bit of Information. It is also well written, simple and clear and offers a step by step guide. To read the original article please click on the link above. With all the controversy following their release of the new privacy policies. Users would like to be more aware of how and why they would like to share what and where. 

1. Click on Profile on the blue bar a the top of the screen:

2. Scroll down to the beginning of your Friends list and click on the pencil to the right of the word Friends:

3. Uncheck the box that says "Show Friend list to everyone":

You can't hide your friends from your friends and applications
Unchecking that box will hide your friends list when a non-Facebook friend views your public profile, but it will not hide your Facebook friends list from your friends when they look at your profile. Also, this information will be available to applications and application developers.

In addition, this procedure does not hide other publicly available information including your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks you belong to, and pages you're a fan of.

Double-check your privacy settings
Most Facebook users have by now gone through the mandatory privacy settings wizard, but you can revisit your settings at any time by hovering over settings in the tool bar on the top of the screen and selecting privacy settings. If you don't do this, a fair amount of your information might be available to the public including the names of your kids and other family members (with links to their Facebook accounts), your relationship status, and where you work.

To find out how your Facebook profile looks to the public, click on Profile Information in privacy settings and then on Preview My Profile...on the upper right section of that page.

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Judges cannot add lawyers as Facebook friends in Florida

Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be friends no Social Networking sites. This according to "The Legal Professional Blog". Lawyers cannot accept or add lawyers as friends on Facebook. As it creates a sort of conflict of interest when it turns out that the same lawyers representing clients apprear the very same Judges.

Stephen Gillers a legal expert from New York said that this went too far as Lawyers and Judges are friends in real life.

"Judges do not “drop out of society when they become judges,” he said. “The people who were their friends before they went on the bench remained their friends, and many of them were lawyers.”

Some lawyers on the other hand think that this could be a good idea and help to avoid any misgivings that would possibly arise.

Lawyers can nonetheless take heart as they can add themselves as Fans of judges.

Found on mediapostnews

"At the same time, some judges have been accused of crossing an ethical line on Facebook. In June, North Carolina judge B. Carlton Terry Jr. was reprimanded for friending an attorney who was appearing in an ongoing child custody case in front of Terry. And in October, a judge in Staten Island, N.Y. was transfered out of the borough for his Facebook use, including his alleged requests that lawyers become his friend.

The Legal profession blog also said


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As to the "friend" issue:

The Committee believes that listing lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” on a judge's social networking page reasonably conveys to others the impression that these lawyer “friends” are in a special position to influence the judge.

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