Facebook timeline privacy help?

[mrodg1]

I have a question on Facebook post/timeline privacy and none of their help topics (or Google) have shown me quite what I am looking to answer.

 

I change my post privacy as custom when posting things to my timeline. Yesterday, I put a post on my own timeline with an individual or two set as the only ones who could see the post. I did not share the post with the individuals, tag them in the post, or post to their timelines— I posted only to my timeline with the special custom privacy. However, said individuals received a direct notification saying that I shared something with them, when I hadn’t.

 

Is this a feature of Facebook or a bug? It doesn’t seem quite right to send notices of sharing with people when that hasn’t been done, when a post was simply made on your own profile with specific privacy settings so that only a select few would be able to see it when/if they look at your profile.

 

Any help on answering this would be nice, since Facebook help section, Google, and contacting Facebook directly have all cane up empty for me so far. Thanks.

[LogicalDrm]

If you selected them one-by-one, then its same as sharing something to those people. However, if you make lists I think then it works without being seen as sharing.

[mrodg1]

52 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

If you selected them one-by-one, then its same as sharing something to those people. However, if you make lists I think then it works without being seen as sharing.

Thank you for the response.

 

That is annoying that it considers it as sharing it when putting it in your own profile and not blatantly sharing it.

 

It looks like I will have to create specific lists so I can go through and adjust privacy as desired instead of selecting them individually as before.

[LogicalDrm]

28 minutes ago, mrodg1 said:

Thank you for the response.

 

That is annoying that it considers it as sharing it when putting it in your own profile and not blatantly sharing it.

 

It looks like I will have to create specific lists so I can go through and adjust privacy as desired instead of selecting them individually as before.

I wouldn't call it annoying. Its just how FB has always worked. Practically everything you post to your wall is "Sharing".

[mrodg1]

3 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I wouldn't call it annoying. Its just how FB has always worked. Practically everything you post to your wall is "Sharing".

I disagree. If you put it on your own page without tagging or directly sharing it, it shouldn’t spam what friends you chose  to have see it with notifications if it - unless it is directly shared with them, which it wasn’t in this case.