Facebook's new privacy settings are rolling out now: 5 Major Changes They Made and How to Use Them
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- Change the privacy settings for any old posts. Before August 2011, you could not change the visibility of any posts that had already been published. If you accidentally made it too public, all you could do was delete it. Now there are two ways to adjust the visibility of old posts.
- To change the settings for an individual old post, find it on your wall, and hover the cursor on the upper right hand corner until a menu icon pops up. Click on that and change the visibility the same way as you would for a new post.
- To change the settings for all of your old posts, click on "Account" from the upper right hand corner and choose "Privacy Settings". Look for "Limit the audience for past posts" and click on the "Manage Past Post Visibility" link next to it. A dialog will pop up reminding you that this will set the visibility of all of your old posts to friends only. A few things to keep in mind: This is good if all of your old posts are more public than "friends only", such as if they were shared with everyone or with friends of friends, but it may also make private old posts (such as those which you shared with only certain friends) visible to all of your Facebook friends. Also, if you change your mind later, you'll have to individually go back and change each post's privacy settings, which can be unrealistically time-consuming.
- To change the settings for an individual old post, find it on your wall, and hover the cursor on the upper right hand corner until a menu icon pops up. Click on that and change the visibility the same way as you would for a new post.
- Check the visibility of any post that you comment on. If you comment on someone's post and they have set it to be visible to friends of friends or public, that means your comment might show up in all your friends' feeds. This can be disastrous if, for example, your friend posts a public update like "Wow last night was CRAZY" and you make a comment like "Yeah, it was - I can't believe I puked on the dinner table" and then your grandma sees your reply to that comment in her feed. Before August 2011, you had no idea how public a person's update was, but now you can check by hovering the cursor over a little symbol at the end of the date details for an update:
- If it says "Shared with: (Name)'s friends of friends" or if the symbol looks like the Earth, that means all of your friends will be able to see your reply to that post.
- Note that this is not privacyproof. Since people can now change the visibility of a post after they have published it, it's possible (though usually unlikely) that the person whose post you commented on may change its visibility to something more public, making it so that (if they wanted to) any of your friends could look at that post and see your comment therein.
- If it says "Shared with: (Name)'s friends of friends" or if the symbol looks like the Earth, that means all of your friends will be able to see your reply to that post.
- Take control of your tags. The August 2011 update gives you more options to decide who sees posts, photos and videos you've been tagged in. Click on "Account" from the upper right hand corner and choose "Privacy Settings". Look for "How Tags Work" and click on "Edit Settings" next to it.
- Consider turning on profile review. If profile review is on, you must approve tags before they will appear on your profile. Until you do so, the tag will appear as "pending." Remember that not approving the post doesn't mean that you're not tagged—it simply means that the tag will not appear in your profile. (To remove the tag, you must go to the post, picture, or video you've been tagged in and click on "remove tag" next to your name.)
- Profile visibility. This lets you choose who can see posts that you're tagged in. Select an option in the drop down menu, or create your own option by clicking "Custom." If you have friends who tag you in potentially incriminating circumstances, you may wish to restrict this to people on your friends list who you trust not to hold any of the pictures against you.
- Tag suggestions. When your friend uploads a photo that looks like you and this feature is enabled, Facebook will suggest that they tag you. The tag will only appear if your friend approves it. This facial recognition feature has been controversial and was declared illegal to be turned on by default in Germany.[3]
- Friends can check you into places. Leaving this option enabled will allow your friends to tag you with them when they check in to places. You will always be notified when friends check you in with them, and you have the ability to remove the checkin from your profile. If you disable this feature, they will not be able to check you in to begin with.
- Tag Review. Turning on tag review will allow you to review any tags your friends add to your profile before the tags appear. This is for when people look at your photos and videos and want to tag themselves, or other people, in them.
- Check who can see what on your info page. Click the "Info" tab of your profile, and then hit edit in the right corner. Alternatively, click "Edit My Profile" under your name on the home page.
- Beside each piece of information you will see a drop down menu. You can decide which groups of people will see which information by clicking the menu and selecting the desired option. For example, you can set your work place visible to the public, but only allow your friends to see where you went to college.
- Toggle between different sections of your profile by clicking the options on the left hand side of the page.
- Beside each piece of information you will see a drop down menu. You can decide which groups of people will see which information by clicking the menu and selecting the desired option. For example, you can set your work place visible to the public, but only allow your friends to see where you went to college.
- Preview your profile as someone else. Want to check that your privacy settings are keeping Grandma or your boss from seeing stuff you don't want them to see? You can now see your profile through their eyes. Actually, you have been able to do this for a long time, but it was tucked away deep in the privacy settings. As of August 2011, you can view your profile by clicking "View As..." on the upper right hand side of your profile.
Preview your profile as someone else.
- Type the name of the person you want to view your profile as. Hit enter. You will then be able to view your profile exactly as that person views it. Make notes of things you want to change. Check your photo albums, old posts, etc. Click "Back to Profile" when you're done.
- Type the name of the person you want to view your profile as. Hit enter. You will then be able to view your profile exactly as that person views it. Make notes of things you want to change. Check your photo albums, old posts, etc. Click "Back to Profile" when you're done.
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- When posting anything, you can still decide who will be able to see it by clicking the drop down box in the lower right. You have always been able to do this, but as of August 2011 the layout has changed. Before, the options (signified by a lock symbol) were everyone, friends of friends, only friends, and customize. Now you can choose to set the status visible to the public (which means the same as "everyone" in the old layout), only your friends, or a custom set of people.
- To set your status so it's viewable by only a certain set of people, or to friends of friends, click "Custom." Then, choose an option from the drop down menu. To set it visible to one or two people, choose "specific people" and then type the name of the people you would like to grant permission to. To hide the update from one or two people, type their names in the "hide this from" section of the custom settings. You can also type in the name of list in either box; for example, you might make a Facebook friends list called "family" and type it into the "hide this from" box so that all of the family members on your friends list won't see that update.
- To set your status so it's viewable by only a certain set of people, or to friends of friends, click "Custom." Then, choose an option from the drop down menu. To set it visible to one or two people, choose "specific people" and then type the name of the people you would like to grant permission to. To hide the update from one or two people, type their names in the "hide this from" section of the custom settings. You can also type in the name of list in either box; for example, you might make a Facebook friends list called "family" and type it into the "hide this from" box so that all of the family members on your friends list won't see that update.
- Remember, even though you can control what people see on your profile, you can't always control what people see on others' profiles. In other words, whatever you post on someone else's page is viewable based on their privacy settings, not yours. In other words, don't leave dirty comments on other people's walls or pictures unless you're 100% sure they're on top of their privacy settings, or else those comments might come back to haunt you on search engines.
Source : http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Facebook-Privacy-Options
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