Facebook Question---Is there anyway to block people from seeing your friends list?

That’s probably a ridiculous question. I got pressured from a close friend to join Facebook——which I just resisted for ages. I finally caved. I am a relatively private person. Okay…I’m very private. Fluther is the only place I really post and I like the fact that it is a very nice community…I think of Fluther as a community not an overdeveloped suburb with random drive-by shootings.

I am friends with the people I want to be friends with——that is, I am in contact with most people that I want to be in contact with at this point in my life. I have trouble making time for people I really love…so the idea of contacting Trudy Schmooty or Rock Tendonitis from Junior High is not appealing to me. I figured, “Hey, my name is common enough…they will never find me, anyway. And if they do, and I don’t accept their friend thing-y, they might just think it isn’t me…whew.”

Well, not really…if they can see my friends, it won’t take rocket science to figure out that it is, indeed, yours truly. In which case, it’s high school all over again…“I friended her…and she never responded….what a snob.” Uh, no…it’s just that I now have moved on with my life…which is why I headed as far away as possible from Porcupine Gulch as soon as I graduated. When I go home, it’s as if time stops——people cannot believe that perhaps you might, just might, be a totally different human being than the former Queen of the Pork Belly Ball.

I probably sound awful to people who live by Facebook…but is there any way to block everyone in cyberspace from seeing who your handful of real and living and walking and talking good friends are?

P.S. I’m vegetarian and would never eat pork much less their bellies…and yes, the names of people and places have been changed to protect the innocent or absurd.