Facebook Smileys and Emoticons

[Privacy Tips] Facebook is the 2nd best popular website in the world. The largest social networking website with a user base of more than 900 million. Facebook is surely enjoyable and addictive. Everyone above 13 can join this website to start socializing and making friends, connecting with them. However, the enjoying is good in every aspect if keep few things in mind. How you content on Facebook is being shared. Is it friends only or friends of friend or public. In most cases, what I see the content remains public. If it is set to public everyone can see your updates, the photos you uploaded and every news what you are sharing on your wall.

Top 5 Facebook Privacy settings

To Avoid such things, here are top 5 Facebook privacy Tips that you should immediately apply to your account -

Limit Sharing to Friends Only - This is one of the important thing. What ever you share on your wall, in other folders, You should limit the sharing to your friends only. This way only your friends see and no body else.

Go to Privacy Settings.
Now Click on Friends option.
You can also select Custom if you want only selected list of people to see your posts.

2. Limit Friends to Share Your Information - There are few applications requests that you can see in your account from Facebook friends. These random apps can access you basic info, your email id, your work and education history AND your friends as well. So if someone send you a request and you accept it, then you are sharing everything that is very important to you. To stop such activities, Follow this:-

Go to Privacy setting in your account.
Click on Apps,Games and Websites.
Now Select what you want to share.

Facebook Privacy

3. Turn Off Facial Recognition Feature - It simply means Facebook suggest your name if any photos that your friends upload and you are present in them. They can tag you in those photos. I suggest to turn off this feature. Photos are uploaded by friends on daily basis. Do you want to be tagged in every one of those? I don't think so. Secondly once you are tagged, you will get a lot of notifications which is really disturbing.

4. Limit the Audience for the Past Post - Do you want that everybody sees what happened in your past. If someone visits your wall and he scrolls down to check upon you. He will see everything from present to what you did in the past. No body wants to see if something bad happened and you don't want to share. To stop such things follow the steps:-

Go to Your Privacy settings.
You can see the option Limit the Audience for Past Post.
Click on Manage Past Post Visibility.
Click on Limit Old Posts.

5. The Subscriber button - If you have activated you subscriber button, everyone in the world can subscribe you. It simply means if you share anything related to your personal life, everyone who subscribed including your friend, they can read it on their wall and can comment on it.Comment is only optional. Do you want your Profile to be a Market Place? No...Then Turn off the subscriber button unless you are promoting your business on Facebook.

I hope these privacy settings will help you to be more secure on Facebook. Everything what you share is under limit so that you can keep Facebooking.

If you like the post, Share it with your friends.