Facebook Question

[LuvSulley]

I have a "how does FaceBook" work question. If I'm not on someone's friend list and was able to see their wall yesterday but not today, why did that happen? I'm assuming it's because they went and changed their security preferences. Is that the only reasonable explanation?

 

[MushyMushy]

I have a "how does FaceBook" work question. If I'm not on someone's friend list and was able to see their wall yesterday but not today, why did that happen? I'm assuming it's because they went and changed their security preferences. Is that the only reasonable explanation?

That's probably all it is. Maybe they allowed the public to see their wall, or friend of friends to see their wall and then they changed their security.

 

[bicker]

Yes, most likely. However, it seems to me that user settings data on Facebook is distributed (the data is stored in multiple places, rather than all the data for all users stored in one place). If that is the case, then it is possible that sometimes the necessary data is not available with regard to a specific (other) user at a specific time. The proper assumption (on the part off the software) in that case is the most conservative (locked-down) setting.

You can see this in action, quite often, if you play FarmVille. Sometimes some of your neighbors either vanish or become listed as "Unreg." (and then later come back, as if nothing had happened).

 

[Mimi1965]

When your friend posts somewhere-it appears on your "Live feed" and you can click and see it. I think after a day or so =you cant