Facebook security question

How do you set your account to only show your friends and mutual friends? This is in regards if someone who is not already a friend, clicks on my name or is searching for me via my name or email? I've tried everything!

Thanks!

Are you referring to how someone can find you?

That's under Facebook search results and you can go from there

Go to settings, under that should be 'Privacy settings' from there you click on search and sort it out from there.  play around with it a bit and you'll figure it out.

I've tried a million different things, but when I 'preview my profile' it still shows 'info' tab with the 'pages' I've added (like things I'm a fan of). When I do the search privacy setting it allows you to control WHO sees your profile in a search, but not WHAT they see. I know some people even have theirs set to only showing mutual friends, not their whole friend list and I honest to god can not figure it out!!!

Have you tried:

Privacy Settings
 -Profile Information

This allows you to set who sees your profile.

Also

Privacy Settings
 -Search

allows you to control who sees what when they search for your name.

It's in privacy setting under search or profile info. I did this not long ago but today when I signed in they updated the privacy setting so something may have changed. 

I've tried a million different things, but when I 'preview my profile' it still shows 'info' tab with the 'pages' I've added (like things I'm a fan of). When I do the search privacy setting it allows you to control WHO sees your profile in a search, but not WHAT they see. I know some people even have theirs set to only showing mutual friends, not their whole friend list and I honest to god can not figure it out!!!

I wonder if it shows you all that stuff when you preview your profile, but it might not show someone else searching for you? I don't know - just a thought. 

Have you tried:

Privacy Settings
 -Profile Information

This allows you to set who sees your profile.

Yes, and I've set everything to 'friends only'

Privacy Settings
 -Search

allows you to control who sees what when they search for your name.

It doesn't control who sees what. It says that it controls who sees my search result on FB. I have that set as 'everyone' because I don't care if anyone can see my result. I just want to change what that result is. I tried changing it to other options and it didn't change what the search profile looked like anyways.

There's is also a tick box for public search results. I have un-ticked the box which says 'Allow indexing' because I don't want my profile to come up on search engines.

As far as I can tell I made everything available to 'only friends' and I can't see why this info tab is still showing up. 

I wonder if it shows you all that stuff when you preview your profile, but it might not show someone else searching for you? I don't know - just a thought. 

When you preview your profile it says this is how most people on FB see your page, so I'm assuming anyone searching for me who isn't a friend. Then you can search with a friend's name to see how that person would see your page.

Okay, I see what you mean.  I have mine set to everybody too.  When I look at my preview, it shows:

Photo (you can set it so no one can see that, though)
Basic information - under which only my network (college alum) is shown

That's it.  Does yours show more?

Weird. Mine shows my picture with my friends underneath. Then it shows the 'info' tab with all 38 of my pages (i.e. UK-Yankee, The Wire, Barack Obama, etc). It doesn't show any of my basic information.

I just read this in an article  :

PAI changes
Facebook is also changing what it deems to be publicly available information (PAI), with almost no recourse for the user to control this — a change that does not sit well with the EFF. Information under the PAI umbrella includes your profile picture, friends list (Facebook says the view friends link has been removed from search results), fan pages, gender, geographic region and networks (school, work, etc.). There is almost no recourse to protect any of this information.

To illustrate how important this setting could be, the EFF points out that you may belong to a fan page that supports or condemns gay marriage. Since this is such a controversial issue, that may be a position you are not willing to share with co-workers, fellow church members, or other Facebook friends.

Also saw this on the Facebook blog:

With these changes, a limited set of basic information that helps your friends find you will be made publicly available. This information is name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, friend list, and Pages. The overwhelming majority of people who use Facebook already make most or all of this information available to everyone. We've found that most people who do limit access just want to avoid being found in searches or prevent contact from strangers. For this reason, we'll be preserving the settings that allow you to exclude yourself from search results on Facebook and public search engines. You'll also be able to limit who can send you messages and friend requests to only friends and friends of friends.

Well that sucks!    I'm curious if someone who previously had strict security settings has seen a change with their profile.

Maybe I just haven't had the changes come through yet on my profile.  

Yes, it looks like that's part of their changes.  I've just finished reading:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly

This is described under the header: The Ugly: Information That You Used to Control Is Now Treated as "Publicly Available," and You Can't Opt Out of The "Sharing" of Your Information with Facebook Apps

Looking even closer at the new Facebook privacy changes, things get downright ugly when it comes to controlling who gets to see personal information such as your list of friends. Under the new regime, Facebook treats that information — along with your name, profile picture, current city, gender, networks, and the pages that you are a "fan" of — as "publicly available information" or "PAI." Before, users were allowed to restrict access to much of that information. Now, however, those privacy options have been eliminated. For example, although you used to have the ability to prevent everyone but your friends from seeing your friends list, that old privacy setting — shown below — has now been removed completely from the privacy settings page.