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Can People See Your News Feed?

According to 2011 Facebook data, the average user has 130 friends and follows 80 community pages, groups and events. Your News Feed in Facebook serves as your default or home page in the social network. It provides a live list of the posts and activities of your Facebook Friends and the pages you have chosen to follow, but no one else can see your personal News Feed.

  1. Basics

    • The News Feed is at the core of the Facebook experience, because it's the tool that allows you to follow the moods, thoughts and activities of your friends online, helping you maintain the connections that drive your social network. It also highlights the ways that individuals' Facebook experiences will vary, as you choose which accounts to follow and therefore which accounts will appear in your News Feed. This ensures that each News Feed is as unique as a fingerprint, dependent on the specific mixture of friends and interests of every user.

    The Wall

    • The Facebook Wall differs from the News Feed because other people can see it. In fact, the Wall depends on that visibility, because of its role as the communications hub of your Facebook account, where you post messages for your friends to read and your friends subsequently comment on those messages. Your friends also can post their own messages on your Wall, sparking a new online conversation. Fifteen percent of Facebook users update their status on an average day and 22 percent comment on a fellow user's post or status, according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study of American social networking use.

    Privacy Settings

    • Editing your privacy settings on Facebook determines who can view posts on your Wall. For instance, you can dictate that only a portion of the users you have accepted as formal Facebook Friends can view a particular Wall post, while excluding others. With your News Feed, there is no need for privacy settings, because no one can see it but you.

    Control

    • You have significant control over the specific content you see in your News Feed, according to Facebook's 2011 policies. For instance, you can choose which friends' posts you want to appear in your feed. If you have a friend whose too-frequent posts occupy a prominent place in your feed, you can stop seeing that friend's posts in your News Feed. Facebook also lets you choose whether you want to see posts in chronological order versus highlighted posts, which are friends' posts or status changes that attract a particularly large amount of attention in the form of comments and "Like" tags from other Facebook users.

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