Many times We find content on the Internet about the different dangers we submit to when using social networksand many choose not to be present in them to avoid them.
Experts believe that, in order to avoid the dangers that threaten us, we must reduce the content we publish. But today, we will tell you that they exist other measures to .
The privacy policies allow us to configure our accountsso that they filter all published information. In this article we will explain the steps you must follow to improve the privacy of our profiles.
Why is it important to set Facebook privacy settings?
Since social networks started, these have notably increased the level of insecurity in our lives. But, on many occasions, such a thing is the result of our own carelessness, not only because of the amount of information we provide, but also because of the bad privacy settings we have. With the correct configuration we can prevent third parties from snooping in our accounts or obtain information from it without our permission.
The best example that we can obtain so that you understand what we are talking about is the privacy violation that occurred on Facebook with Cambridge Analytica, where it used the information of profiles not configured without the consent of users, situation that harmed Facebook because Mark Zuckerberg never spoke out against this act. The process consisted of steal information from profiles when people accessed pages on Facebook or any other site.
Where Cambridge Analytica used that information for his personal purposes. The idea of this story is that Cambridge Analytica managed to obtain information thanks to the fact that users did not set up their accounts. Social networks including , count on privacy policieswhere they are included in it freedom in configuration of it, limiting the content that our external parties see, without reducing what we publish.
What are the main risks to my privacy on Facebook?
The privacy risks are always presenteven in our comments on the blogs, however its seriousness is not recognized because it does not have so much fame and audience What Facebook, where any weakness becomes a scandal. The greatest danger of our privacy, mostly is given by the and the amount of information we provide. However, at control what they can or cannot see of our profilewe must not reduce the information we leave.
The most relevant risks that we can find in this famous social network are the following:
- privacy violation
- bullying situations
- Blackmail, bribes or threats
- Identity theft
- Others more…
Facebook can provide information, from our relatives, friends, and even the place where we work or study, details that thinking with a criminal mind, are perfect data to destroy a person’s life.
Learn step by step how to configure Facebook privacy from scratch
Security and privacy comes first, and for that reason we leave you step by step so that you learn to configure facebook privacy from scratch.
We recommend that you read carefully and review each of our steps, so as to avoid confusion:
- Before everything we must log in at our . Then we click on “Plus” which is distinguished by the arrow pointing downwards. A list of options will be displayed and we will only select where it says “Setting”.
- It will load a window where we will find a list of options.
Each one allows us to perform or activate some functions, such as:
profile privacy
the option of privacy has two sectionsone that allows us configure our activity and another that gives us the power to change the way they can find us and how they should contact us. In the first section, it has several options that we can configure to our liking. The main one is to determine who can see our posts.
Normally it is configured so that our publications are available for public access, but by clicking on “Edit” we will have the possibility to change this option. After clicking on “Edit“We look where it says”Public”, will display a list of options where we can decide if we want it to be only our friends, with exceptions, or a more personalized option, those who have access to our publications.
if we wish get a record of all the tags that have been made to our profilewe must click on “Use activity log” and it will load us with a list of all the posts where our contacts have mentioned us. Also, we can limit who can have access to our previous publications, limiting who of our friends or contacts can search among the posts that have been loaded later. Although, if we have tagged people, these will continue to have access to them.
For configure this optionwe must click on “Limit the audience of previous posts”then it will display a description of the option, and we click on the action again.
Instantly it will ask us again if we want the action to be carried out and we must click on “Limit the audience of previous posts” and the configuration change will be done.
Second section: How can they find us?
In the second section, we can configure the following options:
- Who can send us friend requests: The original configuration allows anyone to do it, but by clicking on “Edit” we can choose between “All” or the “Friends of friends”.
- People who can see the friends list: In general, everyone who accesses our profile can see our friends list. Although this can be configurable, clicking on “Edit” and choosing that only our friends or with a more personalized filter, can have access.
- Who can find us with the mail: if someone enters the registration mail in Facebook You can find our profile, but we can limit the results, preventing the general public from finding us in this way.
- You can find us by entering the phone number: As when entering the email, just entering the phone number can get our profile, but this can be changed by limiting only the friends of our friends, for these results.
- Finally we can choose if we want search engines to link to our profile in their resultsor we do not want it to appear in the . The option is simply to choose between yes or no, to change the configuration.
facial recognition
To go to the facial recognition option or sectionwe must click on the option with the Name, which is found in the list of options on the left side menu.
The facial recognition option is used so that Facebook run a recognition algorithm, to tell us when our friends have published photos or videos where we appear. To change whether or not we want to activate this function, we must click on “Edit”, then it will allow us to change the configuration accepting or denying facial recognition.
Biography and tagging
In this section we can apply configuration to our Biography, delimiting who can or cannot see or publish in it, as well as in the label and in the review. In total, there would be nine options available for privacy settings.
The first option we have question “Who can post on your timeline?” and clicking on it or on “Edit“We can decide if we want to deprive only us of having that option or all our friends.
Continuing with the configuration of our biography we can click on “Edit” in the option “Who can see what others post on your timeline?” and change from the original option (“Friends“) a “Just me” or to a more personalized decision. Normally when we publish on Facebook, all our friends and not can share it, however we can click on “Allow other people to share your posts to their stories?” Y “Deactivate” the option, preventing sharing our content.
If we want a stricter profile, we simply have to insert the words that we do not want to be public in our profile, they can be addresses, telephone number or other. To do this we select where it says “Hide comments that contain specific words” and then upload a file containing a list of them, or manually add them one by one.
Regarding the label section, we can change the option of “Who can see the tagged content?” Y “Who do we want to add to have access to the tags?” clicking on “Edit” we will change the option in a personalized way. On the part of the last options we only have to “Activate or desactivate” if we want to take control of what we are tagged and published before it is public. If we click onTo see how” We will enter the profile as an external.
public posts
In Public Posts, we can manage who can follow us, comments, notifications, profile information, comment rating, username and see if our account is linked with Twitter.
To decide who can follow us or not, we only have to select the drop-down list and change from “Friends” to “Public” in general, although for more privacy it is recommended that we only allow our friends to follow us. The comments of publications and notifications of the same, are two different options that we can adjust in a similar way. Just by clicking on “Edit“We can decide if we want them to be ours”Friends”.
Also they “Friends of friends” or maybe the “Public” who can comment and interact with our content. There is content on our profile, such as cover photos, videos, featured photos and others that should not be commented on by strangers, since we must prevent demeaning or insulting comments, so selecting the option “Public profile information” and changing from “Public” a “FriendsWe may limit this permission.
In the option of “Feedback Rating“, we will can “Activate or desactivate“Featured comments, whose function is to show first the most relevant opinions published in our content. Mainly it is recommended to disable this function. Regarding the option of “Username” and “Twitter” do not help much to the privacy of our profile. However, it is urged to never place our full username, but rather our first and last name.
locks
In locks, We can manage people with restricted access, user blocks, messages, application invitations and pages. The first option allows us manage the restriction to some of our contacts. Just by selecting the user,…
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