Edit Privacy Settings AFTER I Post To My Wall

[rav3nsfan]

I completely understand how to share my posts within my circles. My problem is as follows:

How do you change who a post is shared out to AFTER it's posted.

This is my major issue with Facebook. If I post a picture to my wall only to a circle, can I never go back and make it public?

 

[chud]

You can go back and edit the post to change who/which circles you share with, but it doesn't look like you can edit it to make it full blown public after you post it.

I even tried it on a post where nobody commented thinking maybe it was a privacy feature but that didn't work either.

 

[rav3nsfan]

Yeah, I think I you probably hit the "Share" button at the bottom of the post and saw the options to share it within your circles. This will actually create a second post entirely, saying that you shared a post you made. If friends or family commented on the first post, it would not carry over to the shared post because it's a completely different post you made.

It hurts my head, but it doesn't look like you can just straight up modify the privacy settings of the post once you make it. You can delete it or re-post it again.

 

[gabbott]

You can go back and edit the post to change who/which circles you share with, but it doesn't look like you can edit it to make it full blown public after you post it.

I even tried it on a post where nobody commented thinking maybe it was a privacy feature but that didn't work either.

How did you edit a post to change what circles it was shared with? I ran into just this issue today. Created a post and shared it with a specific circle and wanted to then allow another circle to see the post as well. I could not find any options under editing the post to add the additional circle. I ended up just sharing the post to the other circle, but this method just ends up creating 2 posts so comments per circle are segregated.

 

[chud]

Yeah it does do the segregated thing no matter how I do it.

Weak.

i sent feedback about it.

 

[rav3nsfan]

I sent feedback on this as well.

Feedback:
"This is one of my major issues with Facebook. Once you make a post, there is no way to go back and edit who you shared it to.Your only option is to re-post or re-share it again with the modified permissions. In this example my first post was shared to no one except myself by mistake. The only way I can share this with my friends now, or make it public, is to share it back out to everyone. This creates a duplicate post on my Stream and looks ugly. Please give us the option to change who a post is shared to AFTER it's been posted. Thank you! "

Really, my major issue with this goes deeper than it looking ugly. One of the reasons I dislike Facebook is... if I make a post of me drunk with my friends, maybe at the time I thought it was a good idea to make it a public post. But then a week later I decide that maybe new employers could be looking at this (they all do) and think down on it, so maybe I should limit this to just my friends. You have no choice but to delete the post entirely. It shouldn't be that way. What was a good sharing choice a week, a month, or a year ago might not be the best sharing choice for you today. You shouldn't be stuck with that choice or have to delete the post entirely. Here's to hoping Google takes care of this one.

 

[chud]

The problem I can see with adding more people to the post after the fact and not bumping the post is those people are less likely to see it. If you originally post it at Noon then edit it at 6pm, it will most likely be buried on their Stream.

Notifications could take care of that but those can be turned off. If Google can figure a way to only bump the post on the Streams of those that are newly added, that would be perfect.

 

[rav3nsfan]

I'd be fine with a check box. You might not want to bump the posts where you added restrictions instead of adding additional circles.

"Do you wish to bump this post?" [_]

 

[googol]

This is the problem with retroactively changing the circles you have shared with. Say, you shared something with your friends and they happen to post some comments, lewd or otherwise, that they might find embarrassing if revealed publicly. Now, if you change the setting and make it public, you are violating the trust and privacy expectations of those that commented on the post. Your friends didn't comment thinking that this might be made public sometime. I think G+ has it right that you can't change or add circles to a post.

What might be a good idea though is to be able to downgrade the sharing level (say from public to only a circle). But, I don't think you should be able to make public a post that was initially private.

 

[gabbott]

This is the problem with retroactively changing the circles you have shared with. Say, you shared something with your friends and they happen to post some comments, lewd or otherwise, that they might find embarrassing if revealed publicly. Now, if you change the setting and make it public, you are violating the trust and privacy expectations of those that commented on the post. Your friends didn't comment thinking that this might be made public sometime. I think G+ has it right that you can't change or add circles to a post.

What might be a good idea though is to be able to downgrade the sharing level (say from public to only a circle). But, I don't think you should be able to make public a post that was initially private.

After thinking about this some more, I'm tending to agree with you and how this works now. Although, say a 15-30 minute window to add another circle wouldn't be a bad idea, if you bang out a rather long post on the phone, it would be much easier to make the quick edit than delete and redo the whole post. If it's something like a few hours or a day later and you want to add another circle, then reshare is probably the better idea in those cases.

 

[chud]

After thinking about this some more, I'm tending to agree with you and how this works now. Although, say a 15-30 minute window to add another circle wouldn't be a bad idea, if you bang out a rather long post on the phone, it would be much easier to make the quick edit than delete and redo the whole post. If it's something like a few hours or a day later and you want to add another circle, then reshare is probably the better idea in those cases.

I'm also starting to agree.

The edit to make public should definitely not be an option. I'm on the fence about the rest still.

 

[gabbott]

Found this posted by some of the Google staff and relates to this topic:

https://plus.google.com/108159551615224338529/posts/dkauhMfVKZZ

1) The next time you share something, you'll see a dialog explaining how to edit or delete your post, or disable comments or reshares.

2) When you try to share a limited post, you'll see a friendly reminder to be thoughtful about who you're sharing with.

3) You can't share limited posts publicly. (You can still share limited posts with other individuals and circles.)

And just to reiterate: as the author you always have the option of disabling reshares entirely on a given post. Just click the triangle menu at the top right of your post, and select "Disable reshare."