Follow
these guidelines to preserve your privacy...
1. Organise Facebook friends in lists
Friend Lists are the foundation of
your Facebook privacy settings. Select Friends from the top menu, and use the
Create link to create friend lists like Co-workers, Family, College Friends,
etc. Your friends can’t see your lists, so you can name them whatever you like.
2. Customise Profile Privacy
Click Settings > Privacy Settings
> Profile. Select which parts of your profile will be seen by whom. If you
choose Customize in the drop down, you can be more specific. This is where the
Friend Lists you created before become really useful.
Also go to the Contact Information
tab and choose how you want your contact information to be shared on the
Internet.
3. Set
Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums
On the Photos tab of your profile
page, click Album Privacy. Here again, you can use your Friend Lists to set the
privacy for each photo album. Note that your profile pictures go into a special
album that is always visible to ALL your friends.
4.
Restrict search visibility
Click Privacy > Search to set
your visibility when someone searches Facebook for people. This is an important
way to safeguard your Facebook privacy.
5.
Control automatic wall posts and news feed updates
Your actions in Facebook such as
comments, likes, appear as highlights on ALL your friends’ home pages. You
cannot use friend lists here, only turn them on or off. Go to Privacy > News
Feed and Wall and make your selections.
6. Set
Facebook wall privacy
Go to your profile page, click
Options > Settings under the status box. Here you can control whether your
friends can post to your Wall, and who can see the posts made by your friends.
7.
Avoid appearing in advertisements
Facebook has two types of
advertisements: third-party and Facebook. Third-party advertisements are
currently not allowed to use your pictures, but there is a setting to disallow
it if it is allowed in the future. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall >
Facebook Ads tab to turn this off.
8.
Protect yourself from friends’ applications
Go to Privacy > Applications, and
click the Settings tab and uncheck all the boxes. These settings control what
information about you is visible to applications installed by your friends.
By default, these are set to
visible. This means that your information is readily available to one of the
million worldwide Facebook application developers, each time any of your
friends takes a quiz, plays a game, or runs any other Facebook app.
These settings control what
applications installed by your friends can see about you, even if you don’t
install the application yourself.
9. Privacy from your applications
There is no way to control what
applications see about you; it is an all-or-nothing affair. The only thing you
can do is to authorize only those applications you require and trust. Go to
Settings > Application Settings from the top menu. Change the drop-down from
Recently Used to Authorized.
Here you can see all the
applications you have authorized to get access to ALL your profile information.
Remove the ones you no longer need. Also check the list of applications Allowed
to Post and Granted Additional Permissions to remove unwanted ones.
10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, don’t just De-Activate your account
You can easily deactivate your
account in Facebook from the Settings page. But deactivation will retain all
your profile information within Facebook, including pictures, friends, etc.
If you
want to permanently delete your Facebook account, click here to submit a
deletion request. Note that:
1. There is an unspecified delay
between submitting your delete request and actual deletion.
2. If you login to Facebook, your
deletion request is automatically cancelled.
3. There doesn’t seem to be any way
to confirm that your request was completed.
4. Even after permanent deletion,
copies of your photos may remain on their servers for technical reasons.
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