The 10 Facebook Privacy Settings You Need To Know. After many iterations of our ultimate guide to Facebook privacy, we’ve decided to update it with the latest settings as Facebook privacy is still too complicated for many users. We’ve dissected the numerous settings in order to uncover the most important ones. Just as important as always are friend lists, the feature which enables you to segment all of your friends in to groups and then assign privacy settings to each of them.
While it may sound a bit excessive, separating out your Facebook friends into at least a few lists can be extremely valuable. An example setup would be having three friend lists: Friends, Family, and Professional. The three things to know about privacy settings are as follows: You can add each friend to more than one friend groupFriend lists should be used like “tags” as used elsewhere around the webFriend Lists can have specific privacy policies applied to them As we navigate through this quick guide, you’ll see why I recommended using your friend lists.
10 Mind Blowing Facebook Games Statistics. 20 Facebook privacy settings tips. Privacy on Facebook can be complex, but if you're prepared to put in some effort, you can exercise a fine degree of control over who can and can't see your personal information. Facebook privacy settings are constantly developing as new features arrive, so you need to keep on top of things. Here are our top Facebook tips for managing your privacy while still being sociable. 1. Privacy settings You can access Facebook's main privacy settings by logging in and then choosing 'Account | Privacy settings' from the menus in the top-right corner of the page. Most – but not all – of your account settings can be accessed from here. There's a summary of your current privacy levels, along with links to modify them. 2. On the 'Privacy settings' page, there are three quick privacy levels that you can set in a single click.
The 'Everyone' setting is the equivalent of broadcasting all your information as widely as possible and should be avoided. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. A New Suite of Safety Tools. Facebook stops sharing your address and phone number with developers… for now. 18 January '11, 10:54am Follow Facebook took quite a bit of criticism over the weekend after it quietly rolled out a feature that allowed third-party app developers to request your home address and phone number.
Now the company has announced that the feature will be suspended while it makes “changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so”. As we explained over the weekend, the data was only available to apps that specifically requested it with a clear on-screen message that you had to approve. However, the lack of granularity in those permissions meant that it was an ‘all or nothing’ deal.
Facebook starts rolling out facial recognition feature worldwide. Late last year, Facebook started rolling a facial recognition feature across the US. Now, the company has pushed the Tag Suggestions feature to countries outside of the US, but has switched it on by default without telling its users first. When you upload new photos, Facebook uses software similar to that found in many photo editing tools to match your new photos to other photos you're tagged in. Similar photos are grouped together and, whenever possible, Facebook suggests the name(s) your friend(s) in the photos.
In other words, the square that magically finds faces in a photo now suggests names of your Facebook friends to streamline the tagging process, especially with the same friends in multiple uploaded photos. When the new feature was introduced in the US, Facebook pointed out that users could disable it in their Privacy Settings. Facebook shouldn't require you to constantly check your Privacy Settings to see what the company has changed since your last visit to the site.