Recently it was announced that 7 in 10 Americans are concerned whether their privacy is ensured as they use Facebook. Although Mark Zuckerberg thinks that these concerns are quite exaggerated, there are plenty of others who think differently. Thus, users of Facebook recently nominated for the Big Brother Awards for privacy grossest violators of the past year. What many people do not realize is that they are largely itself affected with what data is shared when using Facebook. The following tips will help you be in more control over privacy setups in Facebook.
# 1 Decide what you share
Account> Privacy Settings> Share on Facebook> Settings
First you need to decide what personal information you want to share. Default settings are set to "Recommended". This also means that your status, photos, news and biography is shared with everyone. If you don't want to, then I recommend these settings to adjust. You can at any point share what you want to share with whom.
# 2 Decide what you want to share through your friends
Account> Privacy Settings> Applications and websites> Information accessible through your friends
What many Facebook users do not realize is that you through your many friends can share information, publicly. It does not matter how sharp your settings are, if you do not have friends that can input your data via shared third parties through their applications, websites and games. This can be avoided by specifying what information you share with your friends. By default, almost all info is shared with friends. I strongly suggest you to check what you want to share with your friends and change the necessary things.
# 3 Remove unnecessary applications
Account> Privacy Settings> Applications and websites> The applications that you use
As you get to tip 2 you may have read a lot of information from you and your friends through shared applications you've ever installed. For example, an application from Coca Cola is given permission if you click the "Allow" button. Thus, after installation they can access your data, have access to news and messages and they can create events and react to events on behalf of users. Many users carelessly press the blue button without thinking about what this permission means. As long as you do not remove applications or manually adjust the permissions, they will remain valid and the applications have access to personal data and therefore possibly that of your friends. So go after what applications you use and remove all applications that you no longer use or you do not recognize. You'll be amazed how many applications a user installs along the way. Time for a big clean up and remember, in the future which applications you want to give access to your data.
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