by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 15 December 2009 @ 13:54 UCT
WEAVERVILLE, NC - This article discusses social networking on Facebook and how one can go about reclaiming his/her privacy on such networking sites.
Unfacebook Yourself:
Sometimes, social networking is just a bit too social. If you’re feeling vulnerable on Facebook, the web’s biggest social hangout, you can easily take control over who can see your information.
Facebook gives you quite a bit of say over who in your circle sees what. If you don’t want to share any information anymore, the site also lets you remove yourself completely. Learn how to take back your privacy.
Go Completely Private:
Facebook’s default privacy settings are in the middle of the road. They make everything you do on the site visible to your friends, as well as the networks you belong to. That means, by default, your Facebook profile is not open to the entire world. Networks are cities, companies or universities, each of which could still be many thousands of people. So, the default privacy is fairly closed, but you can make yourself even more private.
Load Facebook’s privacy settings and click on Profile. You will then see a list of categories, such as profile or photos, each with a dropdown box to control who will see items in that category.
Your choices:
- Everyone (choose this option only if you want to be completely public)
- My Networks and Friends (the default)
- People at main network and Friends
- Friends of Friends
- Customize
If you choose the final option, Customize, you can select the only friends setting, which is the most restrictive setting. In this case, members of your networks who are not your friends will not be able to see your profile. If you want to make some networks able to view your profile (say, your university or company), but others not (your entire city, for example), you can change the All of My Networks setting to Some of My Networks. You’ll then get the chance to select the networks for inclusion.
For even more fine-tuned control of your Facebook privacy, read on to restrict individuals or apply settings to a custom group of friends. (more…)
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