Worried about privacy on Facebook? Here are some tips
August 12, 2011 by admin
Filed under Choosing Lingerie
From photos of slinging back shot after shot at a local bar or lounging on the beach after calling in sick, learning how to properly apply privacy options on Facebook is essential to keeping your friends, your job and your security.
Lately, there has been news that Facebook obtained the private phone contacts of some users. Facebook says some users simply installed the Facebook app onto their smartphones and agreed to sync their phone-contacts with the social-media site.
It’s easy to delete those numbers; just go to the Phonebook Contacts page. In the right-hand column, Facebook describes how to remove your mobile contacts. Click on the linked words “this page” and on the next page, hit the Remove button.
To delete your phone number, click on Profile in the upper-right corner of your FB homepage and then click on the grey Edit Profile button in the upper-right corner. In the left-hand column, click on Contact Information. Under Phones, you’ll see any numbers you’ve registered. Remove any numbers you see there and click on Save Changes.
Still worried about your privacy on Facebook? Here are some general tips.
Connecting on Facebook
In the first section of Facebook’s privacy page you can control who can search for you, who can send you friend requests and who can send you messages.
There are options that allow others to see who your friends are and all your personal information, such as where you work, your education, activities and where you live.
To keep such personal information under wraps you have options. They include sharing with everyone on Facebook, anyone in your networks, just your friends and anyone in your networks, friends of your friends or your friends only.
Sharing on Facebook
In this section you can control who can see what you share on the site — everything from your status, photos and posts, your favourite quotes and your birthday.
Again, you have options: everyone, friends of friends, friends only, recommended or custom.
To change these, press the “Customize Settings” link to refine your choices.
To ensure that your photos and videos are at your desired privacy level, scroll to the bottom to “edit privacy settings for existing photo albums and videos.” This is where you can make sure those photos you posted two years ago are at the same level of privacy as the ones you posted last week.
Apps, games and websites
This is where you can control which applications and games you use. Next to the list of “apps you use” hit the “edit settings” button where you can remove an application by clicking the “X.”
This section also deals with information which is accessible through your friends. This includes things such as your bio, photos, videos, links and current location. Again, you can pick and choose which you wish to share.
Most Facebook users will want to uncheck all those boxes so your friend’s applications can’t access your information.
Finally, you can disable public search, which means your profile won’t come up in search engines such as Google.
Block Lists
The block feature lets you not only block a person, but applications and event invites from specific users.
Also, the “Preview my profile” button allows you to see what your profile looks like to everyone else.
