If you’re interested in social media at all, then you’re probably aware of all the recent discussions around the privacy issues.
Last week, in part 1 of Facebook privacy, we covered a new privacy setting: Login Notifications.
If you’re not 100% sure about all of the different privacy settings Facebook offers, here’s a little explanation of what you might want to consider.
On the Account option, click “privacy settings.”
Personal Information and Posts, Contact Information and Friends, Tags and Connections: These privacy options allow you to customize each item on your profile. You can have your bio, religious views and posts viewable by everyone, no one or only to specific networks. You can even block certain people from being able to see individual items. If you don’t want all of your tagged photos viewable by everyone, then under “Friends, Tags and Connections” choose the “photos and videos of me” and select “only me” as the viewer. This allows only you to see photos that are tagged of you.
Search: These settings control who and how people can search for you on Facebook. Un-checking the “allow” box on the Public Search Results option disables users from using public search engines to search for your profile.
Applications and Websites: The settings under this topic are important because you are authorizing or un-authorizing different applications to use your information for other purposes than those which you might have intended.
You can control what information is sharable by your friends. You can also block certain applications or block certain friends from being able to invite you to participate in applications. Do you ever get annoyed by constantly being asked to participate in Farmville or Mafia Wars? You can ignore application invites.
The “Instant Personalization Pilot Program” allows partners (Microsoft docs.com, Pandora and Yelp) to use your personal information to “personalize” your experience on their websites. Advertisers also pull information from your profile to customize the ads that appear in your profile.
Photo By: Ethan Bloch
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