Thursday, November 5, 2015
Make your Facebook account more private
With Facebook content – your Likes and comments being channelled into feed apps and read by more and more people each day, getting your privacy settings right is absolutely crucial. Otherwise you might find that you are broadcasting everything you’re doing on Facebook, from videos you’ve Liked to levels you’ve completed on games that have access to your account, to not just your friends but even people who have found your page by googling you.
The good news is that it’s really easy to sort things out so that only your friends know what you’re up to, or even to restrict things further by limiting certain parts of your Facebook content to specific circles of friends, colleagues and other people you’re connected with. You can access these same settings through Facebook on your Mac or iPad, but for now, grab your iPhone and read on through the next nine simple steps we’ve put together for you to get some peace of mind.
Limit future access
Tap More and scroll to Privacy Shortcuts. Tap the first drop-down, then ‘Who can see my future posts?’ for your options. Change Public to Friends, Only Me or a particular group.
Censor yourself
Tap the next option under ‘Who can see my stuff?’ for Activity Log. Here you can unlike posts, hide them from your timeline and delete comments. You can filter this view, too.
Filter your messages
The next option is for filtering messages. If you don’t want to be contacted by people you’re not already friends with, tap Strict Filtering. You can also limit friend requests.
Go off the radar
Scroll down the Privacy page to change your look-up details – make sure you restrict the email and phone number options. Remove yourself from search engines, if you like.
Delete app data
Back on the Settings page, scroll down to Apps. Here you can see all the apps you’ve given permission to access your data. Tap apps to remove their access and all activity data.
Review new posts
Tap Timeline and Tagging, below Privacy on the Settings page, to control who can put things on your timeline. Enable the second option to review things before they are added.
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