Though there are several
security threats in using social networking sites, still people are amazingly crazy
about it. These days FACEBOOK has become the most demanding site for almost
every age people. By using Facebook privacy policy one can fine-tune the
privacy of the photos, their status updates, and other stuffs. Even you can
block people you don’t wanna be in touch with. Facebook’s privacy policy covers
almost all the little issues of your account that matters to you. Facebook has
its own default privacy settings for its users. But these are not just enough
for every user & one may opt to make changes to it. To make you more secure
here is my tips:
1. Profile editing: Editing the profile of your Facebook
account is the most important thing, where you must know how to manage your
personal information like your date of birth, your address, your contact number
and stuff. These are the things which are needed to be made private. These issues
are essential just to keep yourself away from strangers. So, in your privacy
setting, select “friends” in place of public. This is a kind of primary
precaution. Here you can also make your profile visible to some selected people
& even you can restrict some particular people from viewing your profile
contents.
2. Remove yourself from Facebook & Google search
results: Most of us want keep our personal life secret due to various
reasons. This above mentioned setting is very much useful to them. To make
yourself unavailable in the Facebook search you have to go through the
following path.
Privacy
setting -> How you connect
There are several options available. You
can manage them according to your wish. Some people enjoy when they find
themselves searching in some search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing etc. But
the fact is, sometimes it puts you in some kind of serious problems. So it is
always a better option to make you unavailable in the search engines. This can
be done by removing yourself from the index of the search engines. Do this by
simply deselecting the box of Public search result. The path for this is given
below.
Privacy setting ->Apps &
websites-> Edit setting ->Public search-> Edit setting
3. Avoid the notorious photo tagging: Many times
people get their relationships in some kind of problems just thanks to the photos of Facebook they are tagged in.
Here you may blame their trust on themselves but still this factor is harmful.
Though there are several ways to overcome these factors but the simplest way is
to avoid showing compromising photos to friends. The path is as follows.
Privacy setting ->
custom->only me
Remember, this will block
all people from viewing any images or videos that you’ve been tagged in. Many
Facebook users want their friends to see the photos they’ve been tagged in
though.
4. Protect your personal album&
existing photos: You
should make your existing photos and albums private. You will never want to
share your private photos with all the people, neither even with friends in
some cases. So it’s an essential step to make those things private or available
to only friends. You can even set privacy per album, which is great.
5. Restrict your apps to use your information: It’s
important to understand what of your information applications can access. The
more restrictive you make your profile settings, the less information that’s
available to applications.
6. Make your contact private: Many people use
Facebook for their professional as well as personal use. When someone
start approving friend requests from the people that he doesn’t have strong
relationships with, then it becomes more important to limit the visibility of
contact details immediately.
7. Avoid frustrating posts on your timeline: Sometimes
what happens, after a long time when you come back to your room and check your
Facebook account, hoping that there will be a funny comment on your wall to
cheer you up, or a picture comment telling you how pretty you are or see a
friend request? But what you see is just weird. Another thing what
happens; you just saw a post of your friend showing something exceptional or
may be vulgar and when you tried to hide it just posted on your timeline. Try
to avoid these types of issues.
8. Keep your friends’ list private: Some of us
want to show others that they have huge number of friends or how famous they
are but some just don’t. Those who don’t like to show their friend to others
have a justified reason behind it. Because sometime what happens, one of your
friend just opens your friend list and send friend request to someone
anonymously, it may be your girlfriend’s name. To protect your friend list, the
path is as follows,
Go to find friends -> Manage
friend list -> Edit
9. Instant personalization: This is a service that
lets third-party websites to personalize your experience, which is nice, but it
also allows access to your personal data which is harmful.
It also let you see relevant
information about your friends when you arrive on the partner websites. It is
similar to how News feed surfaces the people and things you care about. Instant
personalization helps you find friends and interesting content on other
websites. They've partnered with a few companies, like Pandora, Bing, Yelp,
Rotten Tomatoes, Clicker, Scribd, Docs &TripAdvisor, to make these sites
more fun and useful the moment you arrive. They impress you by immediately
playing the music you like or displaying friends' reviews or stuff.
10. Enabling “HTTPS” or Secure browsing: Here
you can set up secure browsing or login alerts. Secure browsing browse Facebook
securely when possible. And it sends you a mail when you are logged in from a
new computer or new computer device. When someone hacks into your account or
data no privacy setting in this world can help or protect you. While enabling
https service, you can make thing harder for someone connected to the same
network to hack your password or data. “HTTPS” is useful to online security on
all web services not just Facebook.
These are the important
privacy policies that matters a lot while using Facebook. Keep these factors in
mind while browsing FB and be secure.
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