Facebook Privacy Basics
About 13 million Facebook users are missing out on important fact of changing their security setting to protect their personal information.*
How to protect your personal information on Facebook?
- See your profile as other see it.
At this point you can notice which information is publicly available and decide what do you want to hire or remove from public access. - Keep in mind what are you sharing and who you want to see this information. You can change privacy settings while writing the post. Make sure to be selective — customization is your best choice. You can find the list of things you should not post on Facebook and 6 social media habits that can cost you a job.
To make changes go to Privacy Shortcuts >> Privacy Settings & Tools >> “Who can see my stuff?”.
2. Do you trust your apps? Despite that, you can undermine your security by installing apps and logging in with your Facebook profile and only 37% of users changed the privacy settings related to the apps they installed on their phone.
Currently, if we take a look at my profile, 75 app installed are using my Facebook information. It might be limited to using my name and location, however, most of them have access to the list of friends, personal info and wall posts.
