Facebook's New Privacy Feature Lets You 'Hide' Stories From Your Wall

Facebook has rolled out a new profile management tool that lets you hide certain stories from your wall's list of recent activities.

Previously, you had to delete stories one by one from a your wall. But now, you can apply Facebook's "Hide All" filter to block types of stories, be they wall posts, friend requests, Questions, comments, changes to your profile, and more.

Enabling this feature is as easy as deleting a post. When you click a story's delete button, a drop-down menu appears and asks if you would like to remove only that story or hide all similar stories from your Recent Activities.

If you click "Hide All," a confirmation box appears with a link to your story management dashboard, where you can view the types of stories you've hidden already and can relax your own restrictions, if you wish.

If, for example, you comment on lots of photos, you can now block from your wall all stories about your photo comments. You'll still be able to post viewable comments on friends' photos, and your existing comments won't disappear.

This is setting applies only to personal accounts. Writes Inside Facebook, "Only users can take advantage of this options -- Pages only have the ability to remove individual Recent Activity stories, not hide them in the future."

Tell us what you think about this new feature (via the Quick Poll) and view screenshots from Facebook. The "Hide All" tool is currently live, so you can try it our for yourself on your Facebook profile.

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Comments

[anthonytaurus]

06:23 AM on 05/08/2011

oooooooooo sounds like a great tool for the cheater. now i don't need 2 facebook pages anymore LOL

[Myn Wang]

01:49 PM on 05/07/2011

Another dangerous new app www.LocationAlerter.com - sends you an email message notifying you when your friends change locations. Seems like a great way for thieves to know when you're not home - some major privacy issues here - beware!

[Andreas Wilson Johnson]

09:31 PM on 05/06/2011

This isn't news, fb been had this, least my page has.

[casssax]

07:16 PM on 05/06/2011

what exactly is a 'story'. I've never posted a 'story' on facebook. What are they talking about?

[kintarius]

09:50 AM on 05/06/2011

Privates are awesome.

[joelaf]

05:37 AM on 05/06/2011

My biggest FB complaint is users who post on my wall instead of sending me a message. I had to explain to a relative that by posting her phone number on my wall she gave it to anyone who has friended me.

[Jack Daniels Esq]

04:07 AM on 05/06/2011

It has to be populated by pedophiles, stalkers and zit mushers - in no particular order

[teksquisite]

10:32 PM on 05/05/2011

I hide stories all the time - I only see "hide this post" with no other options and no access to a dashboard. How did you get a dashboard??? Do you have a special Zuckerberg account?

[laddieluv]

10:16 PM on 05/05/2011

Dislike FB with a passion.

[onlyahumanshell]

07:17 PM on 05/05/2011

Already in use!

[nishioka]

08:09 PM on 05/05/2011

Same here... glad they made this change. Should have been that way to begin with, but at least Facebook is getting closer to meeting everyone in the middle with regards to how much information they want out in the open vs. how much control users want over their own profile and activities.