Facebook is in lot of trouble with its 250 million active users, which on average has 120 contacts each. More than one billion images uploaded every month and over 70 percent of users use the extra features like quizzes and games. Unfortunately, many users do not understand how the privacy features are in Facebook and the very personal information can seep through the incorrect settings, or simply by using a certain application. Check out our list to see if your information is secure or at risk.
Organize friends into lists
To sort your contacts into lists is fundamental to security. You should create lists of various confidence levels, for example, a separate group for family and close friends who you can trust. The rest, like the former work colleagues, acquaintances and acquaintances ex-flick/pojkvänner should be sorted out in groups with lower confidence.
Follow these steps:
Click Friends in the main menu. In the left menu, click Friends during Lists. At the top, you can now Create a new list with any name that only you can see.
Protecting Your Profile
You decide who gets access to your information. Do you have such a number of superficial acquaintances that you do not feel so well combined in a separate list, you can choose to not get to see your profile. The more accurate you are with your friends lists in step 1 is the more useful this feature.
Follow these steps:
Click Preferences, Privacy Preferences and then Profile. Select Customize during Personal information and mark Only friends. Now you can at the bottom indicate the friends lists that do not have access to your profile.
3rd Protect your images
Of course you do not want anyone to have access to all your personal photos. As with your profile, you can choose certain categories of friends can not access your most sensitive images.
Follow these steps:
Click upload your albums from Profile and then Privacy Preferences for the album. Just as in the previous paragraph, you can choose here that some of your list members can not access your photos. This can control the album level. Just be aware that your profile pictures are always available for all your friends.
4th Profile Finding
Sure, it might be tough with all the forgotten schoolmates from primary to fill your inbox with friend requests. The solution is to make himself less accessible by selecting who can find your profile and how much of that will appear.
Follow these steps:
Click Settings, privacy settings and then Search. If you do not want to be searchable for all on Facebook, you can choose for example Friends of instead. Here you can also opt out of certain information from the search results, such as your profile picture.
5th Check your comments
Keep in mind that if you make a post in someone’s log shows it in all your single friends’ news. This feature allows you unfortunately do not govern with the help of friends lists as above, but just turn off altogether. Ask yourself if you want everyone to see your comments to heart his friend or best friend.
Follow these steps:
Click Preferences, Privacy Preferences and then News and log. Highlight of View log messages. If you do not want your items or manager must know that you changed relationship status, you should also check the Changing relationship status at the bottom.
6th Keep track of “wall“
You want all your friends must have opportunities to read the comments addressed to you? You can control access in detail, using your friends lists again. The delicate criticism can completely turn off the comment feature.
Follow these steps:
On the Profile page, click Options during your statusbox. Then click Preferences and choose who can see the comments your friends made. You can also choose if you do not want any comments at all on your updates.
7th Not included in advertisements
Facebook has both internal and display advertising from third parties. The latter is currently not allowed to use pictures of you but it may change in future. Do you think it sounds good? If not, you should change the setting immediately.
Follow these steps:
Click Preferences, Privacy Preferences and then News and log. Tab Facebook ads select Allow Ads on platform sides show my information: None.
Also, if you are a fan of a particular application can be presented in an internal Facebook ad to all your friends regardless of the lists they belong. Do you think it is a bad idea, turn off the feature further down the same page.
8th Protect yourself from friends’ applications
Do you know that the applications installed by your trusted friends have access to large parts of your profile, including images? This means that every time one of your friends is running a quiz, games or any other type of application is your profile basically wide open for application developers. This is a big security risk.
Follow these steps:
Click Preferences, Privacy Preferences and then Applications. Select the tab settings and uncheck any type of information you do not want to end up in unknown hands. A common misconception is that this relates to their own applications which are installed incorrectly. This thus obscure the applications that run in any of your friends are totally beyond your control.
9th Protect yourself against their own applications.
Previous action will not affect what information is available about you on the applications you install yourself. Unfortunately you can not in any way control the information that the application has access to which means that your privacy is very loosely to the developer is unserious.
Run This quizzet developed by the American Civil Liberties Union if you are interested in what information about you and your friends are leaking every time you run an application. Install also like Privacy Mirror as very educational displays all information about you and your friends that applications will be but you have a clue about it.
Follow these steps:
Click Preferences, Application Settings and then View: Accepted. You will get a list of applications that have access to all your data. Uninstall any applications you do not rely 100 percent on.
10th Log out for good
For 100 percent certainty, it is only one thing to do, log off for good. Have you decided to take the step is the deletion of the account as regards, not just temporary deactivation that does not take away anything and can easily be withdrawn at any time.
Facebook does not want you delete your account and therefore hidden feature as best we possibly can. Bad style, we think, and publishes the death link here:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Note that even if you permanently delete your account so it always takes some unspecified time before your data is really lost, at least 14 days because Facebook would like to make you change your mind during that period. You will not be notified when the deletion will be complete or about it becomes fully implemented. As Facebook itself says: “Copies of some materials (photos, notes, etc.) may remain in our servers for technical reasons”.
Source: prylportalen.se
