Rethinking your relationship with Facebook and looking for ways to protect your privacy while still using the platform?
Start by checking your privacy options.
Here are 8 Facebook privacy options you should change now.
Disable Off-Facebook Tracking
Facebook having data on what you do on its platform is no surprise.
After all, that’s how the company makes money, by showing you targeted ads.
But what you might not know is that Facebook also collects data on your activity away from its site.
If you’re not comfortable with Facebook having this data, it does allow you to disable it.
To clear your Off-Facebook activity history, selectClear Historyon the Off-Facebook Activity page.
you’re free to also adjust your ad preferences tostop seeing specific ads on Facebook.
Your options arePublic,Friends,Only Me, or aCustom setting.
To do this, go toSettings & Privacy>options>Posts>Who can see your future posts.
To do this, tap onLimit who can see past postsinstead.
you might choose how much of this information is available to the various audience groups on Facebook.
But now, chances are you don’t want Facebook having this information.
Thankfully, Facebook allows you to turn this setting off.
Control Who Can Look You Up Using Your Contact Details
Facebook is (or used to be?)
the place for reconnecting with long-lost friends and acquaintances.
You could find people by scanning your contacts, searching their names, or even their email addresses.
To change this setting, go toSettings & Privacy>tweaks>How people find and contact you.
When you’re tagged in something, it’s shared with your friends by default.
But you could change this setting so that you have to approve any tags before they’re published.
To do this, go toSettings & Privacy>configs>Profile and tagging.
But this isn’t necessarily the most secure way to browse the web.
Especially if you’re concerned about giving Facebook too much data.
To do this, go toSettings & Privacy>tweaks>Media.
Scroll and check theLinks open externallybox.
You might be surprised at what you find.
you’ve got the option to do this by going to your profile and scrolling through your posts.
If you see anything that you’re not comfortable with, you candelete the post from Facebook.
To do this, go to your profile and hit thethree dots buttonand selectManage posts.
In the post manager, you could filter your posts by different periods.
you’ve got the option to also choose to view only Public posts.
Boosting Your Privacy on Facebook
You may never achieve perfect privacy on Facebook.
But by taking a few simple steps, you could make your account more private and secure.
Review the eight prefs above and see which ones you might change to better protect your information.
This will give you a good idea of the kind of information Facebook has on you.
