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 |  موضوع: How to Check for Privacy Settings on Facebook الثلاثاء أغسطس 23, 2011 2:26 pm | |
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Our
society is very complex and is prone to all kinds of insecure
activities especially in Internet technologies. Facebook is one such
networking site, which is prone to many dangers. This article will guide
you to protect your Facebook account by checking your privacy settings.
Facebook
is a very popular social network, and privacy issues among the users is
one of the biggest concerns cropping up in the social network media.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, when asked about privacy on
Facebook, said that, "A lot of companies would be trapped by the
conventions and their legacies of what they've built, doing a privacy
change - doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of
thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really
important thing, to always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do
if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be
the social norms now and we just went for it".
Firstly, you must
understand that, even though a lot of safety measures are taken by the
networking service, to keep up privacy of the users, we should also take
the necessary steps to protect our Facebook account. Now, I will guide
you through the primary steps to keep your Facebook account secured. For
that, you must first have a Facebook account. So, let's start.
Choose your Privacy Settings
Before we start, type your email ID and password on the Facebook
home page and then click on the login button. Now you will enter into
your profile page of Facebook.
On your profile page, click on Accounts tab and then click Privacy settings from the drop down menu.
You will be directed to a page, where you can easily control, how you want to share and what you want people to see.
The four options where you can choose from are: Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends only, Recommended.
Everyone means that you don’t have any privacy and anyone can see your details and access your page.
Friends of Friends is an option in which the friends of your friends
will be able to access some of your details, but not all of them.
In the option, Friends only, friends on your friend list only can access your details.
In the Recommended option, Facebook gives you a mixture of all three options.
For the beginners, it's better to choose Friends only option for safety reasons.
Click on Friends only option, and then click on Apply settings to save the changes.
You could also customize your privacy by clicking on Customize Settings.
In this window, you can easily change any category, and to
customize, click on the right button, Edit Settings, to open a drop down
menu, where you can choose between Everyone, Friends of Friends,
Friends only or customize for specific people.
The category is divided into three sub categories: Things I share, Things others share and Contact information.
Scroll down this window for more options to configure or customize.
On the same window, there is an option on the top right, Preview My Profile.
When you click on this option, you can preview how your profile will look, when someone visits your page.
Seclusion from Facebook Search Results and Search Engine Results
Privacy from Facebook Search Results
To
enable this, click on the Privacy settings from the drop down menu of
the 'Accounts tab'. Click on View settings, near Connecting on Facebook.
Select Friends only from the category, Search for you on Facebook.
After doing this, only friends and family can find you in Facebook
search results.
Privacy from Search Engines
Facebook receives a
huge traffic through search engines. To block your profile from being
indexed by the search engines, you need to follow these steps. In
Privacy settings option, click on Edit your settings, for editing the
applications and websites. Now, disable the Public search button, by
clicking on Edit settings on the right end of the category, Public
search.
Block Images and Videos that you are Tagged in
Few
of us don't want other people to view the images and videos that they
are tagged in. To avoid this, click on Privacy settings and then click
on Customize settings, on the directed page. In this window, go to the
category Photos and videos you're tagged in, and edit the settings and
customize it to Only Me and save the settings.
Other Tips to Maintain Privacy on Facebook
Disable the box, Show my friends on my profile, on your profile page.
Disable the box, Friends can post on my Wall , by clicking on Customize settings, to avoid embarrassing wall posts.
Keep your contact information private, by editing the settings to
Friends only, in the contact information category, by clicking on
Customize settings, on the Privacy settings window.
You can also
use a tool called 'ReclaimPrivacy', which can help you to secure your
privacy in Facebook. This tool, analyzes you Facebook account and
indicates the zones of insecurity. Also, block people on Facebook, whom
you don't want to connect with. In spite of all these measures, Mark
Zuckerberg asserts that, "the age of privacy is over". There may be some
pleasure hackers and intruders who would poke into your Facebook
account and trouble you. So, we are surely taking the risk of using the
social networking site. So, I advice you to use your account
constructively and maintain privacy in all spheres | |
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