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.
- Also See:Best Facebook Tips/Tricks 2013.
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.
- You can even review all your posts and things you're tagged in using Activity Log.
Activity log contains the record of your every action on Facebook like
pages you liked, posts you were tagged in, your comments, etc. This way
you can also control the sharing of your activity.
- Further, you can even limit the audience for posts. You can decide
whether you want to share past posts with friends of friends or Public?
Who can look me up?
- You can decide that who can look you up using email or contact number. For enabling this, Go to Privacy Settings and Tools and under “who can look me up” change the privacy settings according to your needs.
- Apart from this, you can even disable the Indexing of your profile by search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. For disabling indexing, Go to Privacy Settings and Tools and under “who can look me up” turn the indexing option off. .
5.Facebook Account Security
It’s possible that right now someone is trying hard to break into your
account. However, hacking a Facebook account is almost impossible but
your negligence like poor password, etc. can make it possible. Here are
few suggestions that will definitely make your account much safer than
ever.
Strong Password
Applying a weak password just only because you don’t want to forget it-
is the dumbest excuse. If you’re not using a password that isn’t 8-10
character long, doesn’t include both uppercase and lower case letters
and don’t include a numeric character then believe us your account is
more vulnerable to hacking.
Enable Secure browsing
You can use your Facebook in “
https” mode which will encrypt all
your Facebook activity between Facebook Server and your computer. For
enabling secure browsing, Go to
Account Settings> Security and enable the secure browsing from there.
Enabling Login Notification
Enabling Login Notifications will inform you whenever your account is
accessed from unknown or unrecognized device or location either via
email or by SMS. For enabling login notifications, Go to
Account Settings> Security and enable the secure browsing from there.
- Must Check:How to Protect Your Facebook Account.
6.Blocking
If someone is annoying you or there’s someone from whom you want to hide
on Facebook, you can block him/her. Once you blocked someone, he/she
won’t be able to contact you on Facebook; in fact he/she won’t be able
to even find you on Facebook. For blocking someone, Go to the profile
of that person and click the settings icon just after the message button
(Pic above). Choose the block option and confirm the blocking.
- And if ever you think of unblocking someone, go to Account settings>Blocking and unblock him/her from there (Pic Above).
7.Privacy Shortcuts
Recently Facebook introduced the Privacy shortcut feature on the
Facebook which is indeed a great addition to the Facebook. You can
quickly configure the
Messaging filters, quickly block someone and configure the privacy of your posts right from the news feed page.
8.Applying Privacy to Media files and posts
For configuring privacy of a status before posting, click the Public
button just before Post button and from there you can specify the
privacy of that post (Pic above).
For configuring privacy of a picture, open the picture, click the list
menu button and from there you can specify the privacy of that picture
(Pic above).
For configuring privacy of an album,
Go to Photos> Albums, under the album name, click the list menu button and specify the privacy of that album from the list (Pic above).
Well, that’s all for now, we’ll keep you updated whenever Facebook
adds new privacy features. Anyhow, if we have missed any of privacy
settings, do let us know through comment section below.
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