The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy. Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features.
And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends' activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as they're consuming media. But to Facebook's credit, it has tread into a new level of sharing with some caution. In many ways, its privacy settings are more accessible. A new private activity log, for instance, allows you to review all past activity in one place to easily hide it from your Facebook Timeline, change the privacy setting on individual stories or delete posts altogether.
If you're bothered by some new features, however, it might take a couple of clicks that are less than intuitive to opt out of them. Your Friends See What You Watch, Listen to and Read Through partnerships with more than a dozen companies, Facebook has added TV, movies and music. Facebook Privacy: 3 Fights to Expect When You Get the New Timeline. As an adult, you have responsibilities — an income, maybe a mortgage, possibly children.
That’s great! Congrats. Now is certainly not the time to be throwing caution to the wind — just know that Facebook will be doing that for you. The Facebook Timeline resurfaces information you thought permanently buried, or at least, tucked away in a booze-soaked archive called college or your mid-twenties. Not anymore. SEE ALSO: Is Facebook Trying to Kill Privacy? Just when you thought you’d survived all Facebook-related quarrels, the new timeline is sure to expose more hurt feelings and suspicions. Here are the three people you'll likely butt heads with, and some tips to ensure your post-Timeline privacy remains intact. 1. Deep down in your social graph, those old photos and status updates with ex-boyfriends or girlfriends are hiding.
SEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline: Here’s What It Looks Like [VIDEO] Now each of our profiles will become a “virtual scrapbook.” My advice? 2. 3. Facebook Users Beware: Facebook's New Feature Could Embarrass You. If you didn't watch Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook announcements last week — and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not — you may be in for a surprise.
Aside from the dramatically redesigned Facebook Timeline profile pages, which roll out in the coming weeks (and which I've grown to love), Facebook's new system to auto-share what you do around the web may catch many Facebook addicts off guard. In fact, even those people who know exactly how this new feature works may need to be on guard against sharing some seriously embarrassing updates. For those not in the loop: Facebook is making sharing even easier by automatically sharing what you're doing on Facebook-connected apps. Instead of having to "Like" something to share it, you'll just need to click "Add to Timeline" on any website or app, and that app will have permission to share your activity with your Facebook friends.
What activity, you ask? Can you see the possible issue here? 1. Heck, I even find myself doing it.