Facebook's Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know. Facebook has begun rolling out its new privacy settings to all of its 350 million users.
If you haven't seen it already, you will soon have to go through a wizard that will guide you through the process of confirming your privacy settings. The new settings are supposed to make it easier and simpler to control your information, but the changes are drawing a mix of criticism and praise from privacy watchdogs such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU), and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). null The new privacy controls include some great changes, and some not-so-great changes, but here are five privacy issues you should know about as these settings roll out across Facebook.
Search Settings When I checked my search settings this morning, the option to index my profile by public search engines had been turned on. Keeping Your Facebook Updates Private. So it seems as if Facebook is trying to encourage everyone to open up a little, and just share… Ah, bless… I suppose it is getting near to Christmas, after all… So if you don’t want the world and Google to know everything you’re posting about on Facebook, and you are quite happy with privacy settings as they currently are, thank you very much, here’s what I (think) you need to do… Continue to the next step and change the settings from Everyone: to Old Settings: When you hover over the Old Settings radio button, a tooltip should pop up telling you what your current settings are.
If anything looks odd, make a note of it so that you can change the setting later. If you think you’d like to make things available to Everyone, bear in mind these important things to remember: Information you choose to share with Everyone is available to everyone on the internet. And when you install an application: To save the settings, click to do exactly what it says on the button: Like this: Like Loading... How to hide your Facebook friends list. Facebook last Wednesday announced new privacy settings that give users some additional control over what information they share, while taking away the ability to hide a few pieces of information from the general public.
One particular piece of publicly available information--users' friends lists--caused a bit of an uproar from a number of sectors, including business people who don't necessarily want to expose their professional networks to the public and their competitors. It is also a concern to some parents who might not want their kids--or a list of their kids' friends--to be widely available.
Facebook quickly backtracked . A day later, the company announced on its blog that users can now uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on their profile so that your friend list won't appear on your publicly viewable profile. Unfortunately, they weren't very clear on exactly how you make the change. 1. 2. 3. Un-Facebook Yourself. From Wired How-To Wiki Sometimes, social networking is just a bit too social.
If you're feeling vulnerable on Facebook, the web's biggest social hangout, you can easily take control over who can see your information. Facebook gives you quite a bit of say over who in your circle sees what. If you don't want to share any information anymore, the site also lets you remove yourself completely. Read on to learn how to take back your privacy. This article is part of a wiki. Go Completely Private Facebook's default privacy settings are in the middle of the road. Load Facebook's privacy settings and click on Profile. Your choices: Everyone (choose this option only if you want to be completely public) My Networks and Friends (the default) People at main network and Friends Friends of Friends Customize If you choose the final option, Customize, you can select the only friends setting, which is the most restrictive setting. Restrict Some Contacts Facebook's profile privacy page No judgement here.