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You are right. it just prevents your friends from viewing it on your profile. I discovered that lately also.

andro wrote:

You are right. it just prevents your friends from viewing it on your profile. I discovered that lately also.

it is not quiet right.
your minifeed is not visible only for your friends.
so when you "hide" smth - it becomes invisible for other ppl

mhuggins wrote:

Yeah, I experienced the same thing maybe a month ago.  I used to think deleting from the mini-feed prevented it from appearing in friends' news feeds, but then had someone message me about something I deleted.  I think it would be better if removing an item from the mini-feed also prevented it from appearing in news feeds.

yeah, maybe they need one more button there like:
hide from friends
hide from all

or smth.
your minifeed is also visible for other ppl not just your friends

Also, could someone run a poll:

Did you know that when you delete something from your mini-feed, your friends can still see it in their news feed?

- yes
- no


I bet most people would be surprised that this is the way things work.

Maybe phrase it a little differently to avoid the "of course I knew that!" answers...

When I delete items from my mini-feed, my friends cannot see it in their news feed.
-True
-False


Edit: Thinking back, they would be dying to know the answer!

Last edited by Chris Diraddo (2008-01-29 12:58:08)

I knew. It seems like that's what "Publish" means.

I've been complaining for awhile that we don't have a way to really test our feeds, just for that reason. I knew all of my trials in getting feeds working was showing up on all my friend's feeds. I just figured that all my friend's knew I was the developer, so would kindly ignore my screwups.

sweetsteve wrote:

I knew. It seems like that's what "Publish" means.

"Publish" wouldn't mean anything to a standard user though.

anatolyl wrote:

well you can configure accordingly each part of your profile, info, contact info, your apps, etc

mini-feed isn't included in any of the individual settings though, so I assume it just falls under the general 'profile' banner.  I'm thinking I'm probably OK, and you were just panicking me into thinking Facebook was showing my feed to complete strangers.

Last edited by luke (2008-01-29 13:09:59)

luke wrote:

mini-feed isn't included in any of the individual settings though, so I assume it just falls under the general 'profile' banner.  I'm thinking I'm probably OK, and you were just panicking me into thinking Facebook was showing my feed to complete strangers.

there is a separate section for mini-feed/news feed with explanations

anatolyl wrote:

there is a separate section for mini-feed/news feed with explanations

It seems, though, that that is for selecting what is shown in your feeds, not who can see them.

2600 wrote:

I used this many times on my apps and it never changed my spamminess score

I don't think it affects your spamminess score, as that's just linked to notifications, but  assume (and, quite frankly, hope) Facebook are storing it somewhere and that they will use it to identify apps that spam the news feeds.

As Chris Diraddo noted in the bug report, when you click on the little 'x' you're shown the message (italics are my own):

"Are you sure you want to hide this Mini-Feed story?
Hiding will remove the story from your Mini-Feed and prevent anyone from seeing it."

The part I've put in italics is nothing but a big fat lie (well, it's at least very misleading).

I'm really pretty wound up about this - and I've not even had anything particularly bad that I've wanted to delete from my feed, it's just the whole principle of the thing.