I have a few suggestions this week of a few steps you may want to take to make your Facebook account a little more secure. Just think if someone took over your Facebook account which has been known to happen to people in recent times. To your friends, it may appear that you have starting posting very inappropriate comments and/or pictures on your account.
First, I will be giving these settings as they are on a computer. Yes, you may also get to these settings from a tablet or phone. However, it is my belief that it is much easier to make settings and entries from a larger screen, the choice is yours. Also, note that some of these settings may be slightly different on different devices.
Go ahead and open up Facebook in your browser of choice. In the upper right corner look for the lock with three lines next to it. When you hover over it you will see "Privacy Shortcuts." Click it. There are basically three settings you can work with under "Privacy Checkup."
First, Posts. Here you should choose who you want to be able to view your posts. You can easily choose between the Public, your Friends (you have friended in FB) and Only yourself. Why you would choose only you could see your posts I have no idea, but it is available. Next, are Apps. If you have ever used FB to log into a game it will be listed here. So, if you stopped playing a particular game or no longer wanted to be associated with it you can again choose who can see your scores. I set it for just me or the "Only Me" option.
The next option is for your Profile which is very important. Here you can decide who to allow to see very personal things. First your phone number may be listed here if you gave it to FB when you set up the account. If you did add your number here you can choose who can see it. Again, that is either the public, your friends on FB or yourself…yeah go figure on that last one. As with all of the choices you can customize it to allow separate groups to see your information, not just the general three choices. Other items in your Profile area are Email, Birthday and Hometown and who gets to see them.
Last you can click either Finish Up which is self-explanatory or My About Page. Clicking on the My About Page link will show you what people can see from your Profile in Facebook. You can make other adjustments from there if you see changes that need to be edited.
More next week and have a very Merry Christmas!
