Key Security Settings Every Facebook User Should Know!

Facebook arguably contains many privacy settings many users are unaware about when they are posting various things to their sites.  PC world does an excellent way of covering many of these settings make sure users are adequately taking advantage of these settings.

One of the few options users may be unaware of is the information your friends can share about you. When your friends use applications for games are various others, the apps can request information about their friends that could include you. Information could very well include your whole facebook profile. To avoid this you can go to your privacy settings and select apps and edit the boxes that are your friends are accessible to

Social Ads are often displayed to the right of your facebook page; they often affiliate your friends with “liking” a particular ad so that you will be more drawn to “like” it as well. Some ads have been known to automatically associate users with an ad just because their friend liked it. To ensure that this doesn’t happen to you, you must edit this feature in your privacy settings.

Forgetting to sign-out of facebook from a office or at home somewhere is a mistake that I too make.  Facebook offers a feature that allows you to sign out remotely. By signing up for this remote service, Facebook will send you text messages, and or, emails telling you when someone that you were unaware of has logged your facebook in elsewhere, maybe.

Facebook accounts can be searched on Google. By allowing this feature, people will be able to access your account from a 2^nd party. In order to undo this action you will need to go to your facebook privacy settings and edit the public search option. This is something that I was unaware of and will be readily taking this into account.

Introduction: Privacy

Privacy is one of those many topics that come to mind to many Internet users whether it is signing up for a social media page or giving out personal information when making a purchase online. For me, I believe privacy among many social media sites are taken for granted, which can often lead to humiliation, or even cyber bullying. I believe as Internet users we should take a certain value into our privacy and create restrictions for ourselves, to help prevent certain fiascos from happening. Many can and will argue that the Internet did kill privacy. In my opinion, I believe it did. Many felt that by providing the internet with such private information they are being” friendly” on facebook or twitter, or “trying” to meet new friends.  This can be both true and false, yes you are meet new friends but are these strangers really your “friends” or are they out there to find ways to humiliate or even possibly cause harm to you? These are questions that I ask myself before joining social networks. I also tend to have extreme regard to who I allow to have access to my pages, which can see my pictures, wall post, and most importantly whom I allow to be my “ friend”.