While enjoying the Facebook with our family and friends, we often forget the privacy concerns associated with the shared stuff. The stuff we shared represents a lot about us and is always vulnerable over the Internet, be it a personal photograph or our personal details. And since Facebook is becoming more public every other day, keeping our info on Facebook is getting harder. Facebook is continuously improving the privacy features which are capable of making your presence on Facebook almost anonymous, but most of us don’t know much about these features.
So, we’ve created this comprehensive up-to-date guide which would definitely make your presence more secure on Facebook. This guide will significantly strengthen the privacy of content-sharing and would ensure that your Facebook stuff is shared only among the trusted people.
1.Hiding Contact Info:
Sharing your contact info with unknowns can put you in trouble. Contact info is specified by user himself and basically it includes your email, your address, contact number, etc. If you’ve specified contact info on your timeline, you can control its privacy.
For hiding your contact info, go to your timeline and look for “About me” option under your profile picture. In next page, look for “Contact info” column and click “edit”. A pop up containing all your contact info will be opened and at the end of each detail you’ll find a drop down list denoted by icon as circled above in the picture. From there you can specify to whom with you want to share this info, three options are available- Public, friends, none. Once done, press the “save” button at the end of the popped window.
2.Timeline and Tagging
Guidelines below will help you to manage your timeline and tagging feature of Facebook.
Tagging
Tagging is one of the most intelligent features of Facebook and one of the most annoying too. Why annoying? It is annoying because sometimes your friends tag you in a picture which you don’t want to share with your friends and sometime they tag you in a picture which is not concerned to you in any way. So to control that Facebook has a privacy option Timeline review which let you to review the Tagged posts before posting it on your Wall.
For enabling Timeline review privacy option, Go to Account settings> Timeline and Tagging. There you’ll find an option- “How can I manage tags people add and tagging suggestions?” Enable the review option from there as shown in the picture above.
Timeline
Further, you can also make your timeline more private. There are privacy options that allow you to hide your timeline’s posts from anyone and moreover you can also control the “Right to post on your wall”. For enabling these privacy features, Go to Account settings> Timeline and Tagging and change the settings according to your need. (See pic above)3.Message Filtering
Sometimes you receive unexpected messages from unknowns. These unknown messages messed up your inbox and for keeping these unexpected messages away, Facebook recently added Message Filtering option. If you will enable this option, all messages from unknowns were dropped in “others” box.
For enabling this option Go to Messages>Others>Edit Preferences. A pop up will be opened and choose the one from given options- either basic or strict. Basic filtering will work as usual whereas strict filtering will keep away unknown messages from your Inbox.
4.Who can search you and see your stuff?
Your Facebook stuff including timeline is public by default. But Facebook provides you some powerful privacy settings with which you can hide yourself completely on Facebook. For managing privacy settings, Go to Privacy Settings and Tools. In that section, you’ll find two privacy settings:
Who can see my stuff?
- Using this option, you can manage privacy settings like- Who can see your future posts? You can set it to public, friends, only you or even to custom.
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