New facebook privacy controls - how to hide your wall and friends list?

[Lindsay]

First off, in order to accurately view your page so that you can see what it would look like to another person you would need to use the option on the privacy settings page where you can enter a persons name and Facebook will then show you what your profile would look like to the person you entered based on the privacy options you have selected at that time. If you try to view your page by just going to your profile page after you have logged out then there is a good chance that what you are still getting the "logged-in" version of your Facebook profile since your internet cache, cookies, website profiles and numerous other things are permanently stored making Facebook think that you night still be logged in when you are not.

To set you privacy options so that "Only Friends" can see your profile page or "Only Certain Friends" can view your profile page or a mixture of the two, all of the privacy options must be set to either "Only Friends" or you must use the "Customize" option where you choose certain friends, the ones you don't choose will be treated as a "non-friend" when it comes to that part of your profile. You do have the option of "Only Me" for some settings and "No One" for a few settings also.

As long as you check each setting carefully and remember that there are numerous different areas to cover:

1) Profile Access
2) Search Access
3) News Feed and Wall Access
4) Application Access
5) Block People

Then you should be set as far as profile privacy.

If you have specific Privacy related questions you should use the Facebook Help section since it is very well written, easy to understand and extremely helpful. I have listed the Facebook Help website address for you:

http://www.facebook.com/help.php

I hope that starts to explain things for you!