Your guide to dealing with Facebook’s ever changing privacy policies.–PC Pitstop.
Facebook Privacy Survival Guide
by Dan O’Halloran for Techlicious
Privacy concerns and privacy controls on Facebook are ever changing. When you post a picture of your kids at a family gathering, which one of your Facebook friends can share it? What private information are those Facebook game apps collecting on you for “third-party uses”? How can you limit who sees certain posts? Every action you take on Facebook has privacy and sharing implications that need to be considered before you upload that next selfie.
Fortunately, thanks to vocal demands for transparency from both Facebook users and government regulators around the world, Facebook has been making the process of managing your privacy easier. Below is our step-by-step guide to taking full control of your Facebook privacy settings.
The basic privacy options
Recently, Facebook introduced a more user-friendly guide through its vital privacy settings. By clicking the padlock symbol in the upper right of any Facebook page that you are logged into, you will get a dropdown window presenting you with walkthroughs of your current settings as they pertain to “Your Posts”, “Your Apps” and “Your Profile”.
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