Facebook Friending and Privacy

Facebook privacy settings stink.

You can follow this person rather than friend them, and also require that everyone who attempts to post to your wall, that all of their stuff has to be approved.

You can't stop them from talking to your friends. Not only doesn't FB work that way, but life doesn't, either.

Thanks
When going to this person's Home page or Timeline, I do NOT see any Follow button.

They don't seem to be consistent (I just checked).

If there is one, then it's on their account, just to the right of the 'add friend' button. This depends on their settings.

If you want people to follow you (just so you can see how this is done) go to Settings>Public Posts>Who Can Follow Me and select 'Public'. The only other selection is 'Friends'.

You can (I believe) friend them and then go to their profile, pull down where it says 'friends' (just above 'message') and pull down, selecting 'acquaintance'.

But again, the privacy settings are terrible. FB doesn't seem to realize people might want to segregate their friends (say, if you have a friend who's also in sales, and you don't want them to bug other people on your friends list - far as I can tell, that can't be done, which is silly. It's a perfectly valid use case).

Ok, I understand and thanks for the advice. I agree -- FB doesn't understand why some people want more control over their privacy in-so-far as who gets to see what. I am only an infrequent user of FB because of issues like this, and also being that infrequent user, I do not understand all of the navigation of the sw.