Your Private Facebook Friends List Isn't Actually That Private

There appear to be some things on Facebook you just can't hide.

The social network allows you to set the visibility of your friends list, so if you want to keep that list private, you can do so by setting the list visibility to "Only Me." The problem is that other users can still see some of your friends even if they can't access the full list, and while Facebook explains some of this on the privacy setting screen, the "Only Me" setting doesn't actually limit your friends list to only you.

For starters, you can see if you have mutual friends with another user even if that user's friends list is set to private. That means that you are able to see a sampling of that user's connections even if they've changed the privacy setting to "Only Me." Read more...