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

[john]

I don't think most people are aware of what the OP (or Anna) are trying to say...

Even if you do click on that pencil icon in your profile and uncheck the box that says "Show my friends on my profile"... it doesn't completely solve the problem. Anyone that shares a mutual friend with you will be able to see EVERYONE on your friends list, even if they are not directly a friend of yours. This is how:

When somebody visits your profile there will be a mutual friends list showing... this will be there regardless of if you choose to show your friends or not. The person can then click on the "See all" link. On that screen there will be 3 tabs showing: "Everyone", "Mutual Friends", and "Browse". The person can then simply click on "Everyone" and see (of course) EVERYONE on your friends list. This makes setting your privacy to hide your friends kind of moot, eh?

I encourage people to actually go through these steps and see for themselves before posting solutions that don't actually work. I'm pretty sure there's a way to get around this because I happen to have a friend that has only the "Mutual Friends" tab showing when I go into their "See All". Of course... this person may not have logged on since they changed the privacy settings and may still be under the old set of rules when it "may" have been possible to resolve this. I'm not sure if it ever was or not under the old rules, I just now stumbled upon this dilemma.