Facebook Privacy Tips: 9 Settings To Check Now

Whether it's tweaking your location sharing settings or killing the access of third-party apps to your profile, we can't advise taking a regular look at your Facebook privacy settings enough. Every time we dive into our settings we find yet another thing that Zuckerberg and co. have opened up, so we've put gathered 9 essential settings you should tweak to stop the flow of your data out onto the open Web or among your friends.

While Facebook's efforts to centralize privacy controls have made controlling your data easier, we've included quick navigation paths to help you access the important security and privacy tools that are still littered across the site.

 

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Privacy settings > Connecting on Facebook Facebook requires that some information--specifically, your name, profile picture, gender, and networks--be visible to all Facebook members. But there is also a good deal of information, such as your friend list and current city, that you can show to some users and hide from others. Via 'Connecting on Facebook,' you can tweak the settings that control who can see your basic contact information and also adjust who can find you on Facebook, send you messages and browse your likes, hometown and education history.

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Privacy settings > Connecting on Facebook
Facebook requires that some information--specifically, your name, profile picture, gender, and networks--be visible to all Facebook members. But there is also a good deal of information, such as your friend list and current city, that you can show to some users and hide from others.

Via 'Connecting on Facebook,' you can tweak the settings that control who can see your basic contact information and also adjust who can find you on Facebook, send you messages and browse your likes, hometown and education history.

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[Amanda Morrissette]

05:06 PM on 05/03/2011

It's amazing how much they want and need our information! I just went through and adjusted some of my settings on Facebook. This is especially useful for Facebookers seeing as how privacy is something everyone is trying to impose on. This article is very simple and to the point and can save a lot of possible privacy issue that may be possible.

[Jan Stevens]

04:29 PM on 04/19/2011

This is a pretty basic statement, but if you put private information on a site like Facebook and expect that it's not going to be seen... you're probably wrong!

[fozzi58]

11:49 AM on 04/19/2011

Oh the irony of me posting this to FaceBook. Hopefully I earn myself an FB vacation....

[hdflvplayer]

08:43 AM on 04/19/2011

Privacy Tips - Excellent one, really useful for Facebook fans!

[garywarner01]

08:17 AM on 04/19/2011

This is a good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best blogger I ever saw. Thanks for posting this informative post.

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[StrawHat]

07:15 AM on 04/19/2011

Or you can do what I did: delete everything and shut it down. I closed my account at the end of 2009. Bliss.

[hellifknow]

05:44 PM on 04/19/2011

AGREED

[philprism]

06:42 AM on 04/19/2011

Make sure your profile always contains INACCURATE information - DOB, Location, preferences.

Your friends know who you are, the advertising and intelligence gathering agencies who want to exploit your personal data without your permission use robots to hunt for data, so give them as much misleading rubbish as you can.

If everyone does this it will make their efforts a waste of time and we will all be safer.

[stellaannfred]

10:00 AM on 04/20/2011

Especially your DOB.

[Willamsmark]

06:10 AM on 04/19/2011

Hi, nice instructions I got thanks.

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[European1919]

05:25 AM on 04/19/2011

Check wehterh you have a fadebook account.
If so, delete any information, photo album, anything you ever uploaded.
Search the site for how to close your account.
Close your account.

Sleep well in the secure knowledge that fadebook cannot sell your personal or other data on to anbybody else. Not even the CIA or NSA.
Wake up the next day and communicate with your friends and colleagues face-to-face, via email or the phone. Or even write them a letter ;-)

[LittleRedHenSez]

08:07 AM on 04/19/2011

You can close your account but all the info is still out there. All you have to do to reopen it is sign in again. My daughter created my account and I'm none too happy about it.

[European1919]

08:12 AM on 04/19/2011

If you do not log in again within the next two weeks your account is closed and the data deleted. Should that not be the case take them to court.

[Shanon Smith]

09:03 AM on 04/19/2011

Or just don't post anything you dont' want known, it works pretty well for me.

[wilray]

05:06 AM on 04/19/2011

When I use Facebook, I always use the privacy curtain and the cone of silence.

[purenergy]

04:54 AM on 04/19/2011

I don't understand how people can get so worked up over this crap. I have fb account and I love it. I use a pseudonym and I do not post information about myself that I don't already share with the world. Be smart. Use it, don't let it use you.

As a member of a big Italian family that has scattered all over the county from Alaska to Georgia, I use it to keep in touch with loved ones that I would other wise speak to a couple times a year. I get to see pictures and videos of their lives and share vicariously in the joys and pains that they experience everyday. For me, it allow a sense of connectedness with a family that I love so dearly.

[pjbyrd63]

09:10 PM on 04/19/2011

I agree. I also have family all over the country and Facebook allows me to see the new baby pictures, keep up with friends and see their children. I also make sure certain information is accessible to close friends and family only.

Privacy tools are there for a reason, use them!

[mk real]

03:20 AM on 04/19/2011

test

[Andreas Wilson Johnson]

02:43 AM on 04/19/2011

I know all of fb settings these are obvious.

[BurtonDesque]

02:28 AM on 04/19/2011

Don't put any information online that you wouldn't want the whole world knowing in the first place.

[delta7777]

02:11 AM on 04/19/2011

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["What other Facebook privacy tips do you have?"]

totally avoid participation in Facebook.
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