If I share something on Facebook with my close friends list, can they share it to others? I'd like to share family photos with only my close friends, but I'm wondering — can they in turn repost or share my posts publicly?
Facebook – If I share something on Facebook with the close friends list, can they share it to others
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As of 10/11/13:
- Click on your name in top right corner
- Click “Friends” at the top
- Click the pencil image to “Manage”
- Click “Edit Privacy”
- Modify “Friend List” section by selecting from the drop down menu
If you have timeline (which I assume you have):
- Go to your profile
- Click on your friends list
- Click on Edit
- In the popup, click on the icon from the right—in this case the globe, but you might have a different icon, like friends
- Select Only me (or whatever other option you want)
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- Go to your profile and click Edit in the top right corner
- From the menu in the left column, click Friends and Relationships
- Go to the Friends section and use the audience selector on the right side to control who can see your friends
To some extent, yes. When writing a post, if you click on the gear icon, you can set custom privacy settings for the post, to include/exclude specific lists and networks.
However, Facebook's About page for the Subscribe Button states:
Subscribers can see only the things you share publicly. They can also choose how many and what types of these public updates they get.
So you may not be able to explicitly include your Subscribers in this list. (I don't have Subscribers set up; you'll have to try it.)
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Best Answer
Not through facebook directly.
The idea of the "Custom" setting is so you can hide what you're posting from certain people, which is what you want and are doing. Because of that, facebook won't allow your friends on that custom list to share it with others because you have asked it not to by setting that post so that only certain people can see it.
Therefore if facebook allowed your friends to share it, they would be violating their privacy settings and not doing as you'e asked. Basically, if you set a post to custom because you don't want a certain person to see it, and then facebook allows that post to be shared, it could then be shared by one of your friends with the very person you didn't want to see the post in the first place. do you follow me? It's a bit confusing, I know.
That said, they could "Download Photo" and then upload it to their own album and re-share it - and this is in many ways much worse, because you would have no idea it was re-shared.