Some Facebook Privacy Settings Are Lost for Good

In its quest to "simplify and enhance the privacy experience" on Facebook, the company appears to have stripped away key features forever, writes Ryan Tate writes on Gawker. Now, you can't:

• Hide group/page memberships: Thanks, FB, says one user who must decide whether to defriend grandma or let her in on a Queer Graduate Student Union affiliation.

• Hide FB activity on your Wall: People with semi-secret extracurricular activities and those ashamed of the frequency they check the site at work alike are irked.
• Stop strangers from friending you: The tightest you can restrict requests is to friends of friends, which means people you don't know—and people you know but don't like—can send you those pesky missives.
• Hide friends list: Friends of friends can always see your network, which makes one user dealing with a stalker "outraged."

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