Ron Schenone

Are You A Facebook Paranoid Freak? Give Whitewalling A Try

Posted by on Nov 11, 2010 | 9 Comments

For those Facebook users who are super cautious and want to control what others put up on their wall, there is what is being called ‘Whitewalling’. The process is fairly simple to use. When you are done playing with your Facebook account, you deactivate the account upon exiting Facebook. This action will clean the account of all postings and only allow posting on your wall when you activate the account once again.

One article describes on how to Whitewall your account:

At first, like social media researcher Danah Boyd  points out, these Facebook habits might seem a bit over-the-top and perhaps unnecessary. And yet, they can make sense in certain high-pressure contexts. High school or ultra-sneaky work environments might be the kind of places where your Facebook activity can cost you a lot of peace of mind.

Notice that, while you or I might think that spending five minutes setting your privacy settings correctly might solve the hassle of having to deactivate your account when you log out, in reality these are two actions that accomplish different things. Mikalah and others like her want their friends to post stuff on their wall or tag them in a photo, but they don’t want them doing it when they’re not there to make sure it’s okay. Most importantly, someone like Mikalah doesn’t want any friends of friends digging up her profile when she’s not “around.” Deactivating her page literally erases her from Facebook.

So what do you think? Is it really worth the time to deactivate and reactivate your account each time you use Facebook? I think this is an unnecessary step and that the same privacy can be obtained by limiting who can access your wall in the first place.

Comments welcome.

Source – All Facebook

  • leftystrat

    Why not just fail to use Facebook totally?
    Poof – no issues, no privacy drain.

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  • Dick

    I agree with leftystrat. Don’t use Facebook – POOF! Problem solved. Here are some more for your delight.
    TSA Groping – Don’t Fly
    Cable Bills – Cut the cable, TV poisons your mind anyway.
    Cell phone confusion – Get a prepaid and keep it to $50 a month.
    High entertainment/restaurant costs – Stay home and cook.
    High gas prices – Drive less, combine trips

    Any other woes I might solve? I was put here to help.
    hehe

    • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

      Hi Dick,
      Gee. That just about solves all of our problems. :-)
      Have a great weekend.

  • Dick

    Your welcome! It’s a “Gift” you know.
    Have a very nice weekend. And don’t spend money.

  • Rowdyward

    I have to feed the horses and hitch up the buggy now so I can go out later.

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  • http://www.fakebook.com mala

    “. Mikalah and others like her want their friends to post stuff on their wall or tag them in a photo, but they don’t want them doing it when they’re not there to make sure it’s okay. ”

    WOW.. I would hate to be a ‘friend’ of mikalah… i swear some people need to get a grip…if you are that controlling and para then why have you even got friends?. im the only person i know that doesn’t use facebook and it’s gonna stay that way forever. people ask me have you got a fb, whats the name on there etc

    i swear why the…. would i want to have little updates like somebody i barely know inviting me to a mafia level.. if i see one more person with the text below

    `Im selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best

    acting like there gods gift- im going to have a breakdown… who the f do they think they are…?? they don’t seem to realise that there’s 499 million cardboard cutouts just like themselves…

    don’t get me wrong im not some hippy who thinks we should switch off tv’s and get back to the stone age or thinks everybody should wear hemp trousers and listen to folk music, i love the internet apart from social networks…of course people interested in the same sort of stuff pic, look at my pics with my duck pout, look at me world i got 800 friends and i know about 14 personally, why not get out and actually have a laugh in the real world without showing off and trying to prove yourself…lifes too short for all that.. why try and validate yourself to strangers, like OMG i was super drunk last night i drank like, over 10 beers, wow..if you where so hardcore you would do it daily and wouldn’t need to brag because your rep would precede u

    one of my housemates split up with her gf and then 1st thing she did is come knock on my door, log onto her fb and change her relationship status friends list all that stuff…really? yes can you believe that.

    thats madness imo pure insanity…….then she spent the next 1 hour trying to cyber stalk her on fb and logging on the chat window (her gf is upstairs with a laptop all on fb too while this is going on)….i mean they both have phones and functional voiceboxes… jesus what the hell is wrong with the world then 1st thing she did after her gf came down and spoke with her and they made up was change the status back….can you believe that lol…As if that’s the first priority…

    i give up i swear

  • http://bidbass.com Jp Munoz

    I tried whitewalling to remove the spam in my own post. There are so many spammer in facebook nowaday, some even tried to hack my account.

    I want privacy, so I use whitewalling.

    This article is very informative. Thanks for the post.