Tips for Facebook Privacy

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Learn about Facebook Privacy

1. Learn the basics

There are three basic Facebook privacy levels:
* Friends
* Friends of Friends
* Everyone

Another option is to create your own custom Friend lists. Use these lists to control who may see your personal information. For example, you could create three Friend lists: Family, Friends, and Work. Then, choose to only share your photos with Friends and Family. This will stop your co-workers from seeing any embarrassing photos of yourself. This is only one using Friend lists to control your Facebook Privacy.

2. How to Control your personal information

Navigate to Settings | Privacy Settings | Profile Information and also Settings | Privacy Settings | Contact Information. Choose who can see your vital personal information.

3. How to Remove your name from search engines

If you don’t want the whole world to be able to search for your Facebook page, then use this tip: Choose Settings | Privacy Settings | Search | Public undefined Search Results and uncheck the Allow box, then you’re safe.

4. How to Block somebody

Sometimes you may have to resort to blocking one of your friends. Click on Settings | Privacy Settings | Block List. Then, either insert their name or their email address in one of the boxes, then voila! They will never bug you again! It’s important in this age of identity theft and crime to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

5. How to Stop receiving Application invitations from specific friends

Do you want have a friend that sends you all types of annoying application invitations? Block those invitations by clicking on Privacy Settings | Applications and Websites | Ignore Applications Invites.

Unhide Facebook friends

6:52 PM RDpopular , 0 Comments


Suppose you are friends on Facebook with this guy that bombs you with status updates on an hourly basis. You decide that you can skip his updates so you decide to hide him from your Facebook news feed. Now you want to unhide him, how to do that?

Here’s what you need to do in order to unhide Facebook friends:

1. On Facebook, navigate to your News Feed profile page.
2. At the bottom of the News Feed page, hit Edit Options.
3. A pop up will come up.
4. Hit the Add to News Feed button next to the person, page or application you would like to
un-hide
5. Hit Close and you’re all set.

How To Remove Facebook Recent Activity

6:36 PM RDpopular , 0 Comments


A few readers contacted me with several questions around how to restrict other people access to their recent activity section on Facebook. Everyone said they are able to remove the different items in their recent activity, but that doesn’t remove the posts from their freinds news feed.

Following the rollout of the new privacy settings, there is no currently an effective way to control how Facebook notifies all your friends about all content you post, new people you are in touch with, groups you joined and pages you became fan of. This has apparently annoyed several Facebookers, who even created several Facebook groups focusing on bringing the old news feed and wall privacy settings back.

As there is no simple solution to hide the recent activity stream, the only viable option will be to customize the privacy settings of all content you post on Facebook (not only status updates but also photos, notes, videos etc’) to exclude people from being notified about your recent activity updates:

* On Facebook, choose Settings | Privacy Settings | Profile Information
* Navigate to the Posts by Me section
* Set its value to Customize. Then select restrict access to your posts as you see fit.

Clearly, this doesn’t provide a solution, but it can be regarded as an intermediate workaround until (hopefully) the recent activity privacy settings will be restored.

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