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In today’s environment of ever-changing terms of service and privacy problems online
in social networking, it’s very important to always stay up to date with the most recent
settings on your own account. Today we’ll take a look at the most important settings
in Faebook. We’ll start on the privacy settings screen.
The privacy setting screen is the most important place to start. Facebook recommends a collection
of settings for you automatically. If you haven’t been back to the site since renovations,
you’re currently operating on this particular setting. You can adjust to prescribed settings
and you can also customize to your liking. Above this main section of the page is a smaller
link to view settings. This will take to you to the most elementary list of settings which
you can customize your settings in whichever way you like. This gives you a very personalized
control over your sharing online. The privacy page also shows links to several
important pages. If you select the link under apps and websites, you can turn off applications,
game and websites or if you use them you can control what information users can access
from the third party applications. This page also shows you how to learn more about instant
personalization which is an add-on which takes you and your friends’ activities on other
websites and broadcasts them across the webs for you.
I suggest turning off both applications and games and also instant personalization.
The last selection is public search. If you do not opt out of this feature your information
can be accessible through common search engines like Bing or Google.
Back on the privacy home page, you can also add and modify block lists which block certain
individuals from viewing your information online.
Lastly you can always find the link here to learning more about sharing on Facebook from
the organization itself. You should also navigate to account settings
where you can find account security. Under account security you can turn on https
browsing, secure browsing. Request log in notifications from unidentified devices and
review recent activity from the account. If you account has been compromised this page
will show you the existing log-ins and allow you to remove activity from particular devices.
The account security page also has a password section it’s advisable to change your password
periodically you can also access privacy settings as well from this screen and you can also
download your entire information from Facebook’s servers as well as deactivate your account.