5 Vital Privacy Settings to Consider Thoroughly in Facebook: Options to Set or Reset
as Needed
Introduction
If Facebook is one of the social networking sites you want to build a basic and
small Catholic social network, then here are a few suggestions and tips to help
you build that network with permanence and stability. These suggestions and tips
relate to the Privacy Settings of your account at Facebook. When Facebook's
membership grew to approximately 350 million as of December 2009, the site has
formalized well the privacy settings needed by many of its members. The suggestions
and tips listed below can lessen the security risks of your account with Facebook.com.
Privacy Settings
As you log in to your account, move your cursor to the Settings tab.
There is a drop down menu that will appear. Move your cursor to the
Privacy Settings option, click on it, and a page will be presented with
five important links:
- 1. Profile Information
- 2. Contact Information
- 3. Applications and Websites
- 4. Search
- 5. Block List
1. Profile Information
The Profile Information page controls who can see your profile, and
who can post to your wall. Under this Profile Information setting,
you have 5 options which you can set: "Everyone", "Friends and Networks",
"Friends of Friends", "Only Friends", and "Customize". Since your goal is
to build a small Catholic social network, then one suggestion is
to set your Religious and Political Views to "Friends of Friends".
Or, if you used the Catholic schools you attended or graduated from
as "Networks", then you can also use the setting "Friends and
Networks". Try not to use the "Everyone" setting, because this
can solicit "friend requests" from people you do not know who are
selling a product or service in Facebook.
2. Contact Information
The Contact Information page controls who can contact you on Facebook,
and who can see your contact information and email. In this page, there are
three settings (among many others) which are important, especially if you have
a small Catholic web site or blog you registered with your account in Facebook.
These settings are:
- Website
- Add me as a friend
- Send me a message
Website
Depending on your privacy preferences, you can set your website to
"Everyone" or "Friends of Friends". Although your website will get
more advertising if you place "Everyone" as an option, it can pose
as a security risk to your site, as those who know about hacking may
do harm to your small Catholic web site. A safer option would be
"Friends of Friends" or "Friends and Networks". This network is one
wherein you can advertise your site safely and with less security
risks.
Add me as a friend/Send me a message
For these two settings, a good option would be "Friends of Friends".
With the "Friends of Friends" option, you can check how many mutual
friends you have in common with those who send you an "Add me as
a friend" message. The more friends you have in common, the easier
it would be to decide to include another link in your social
network.
3. Applications and Websites
In the Applications and Websites page, you can control what
information is made available to Facebook-enhanced applications
and websites. This privacy setting refers to the third-party
applications that are used in Facebook - games and applications
like Farmville, Farmtown, Fishville, etc. In this Applications
and Websites page, there is a link to a page where you can
control "what your friends can share about you through
applications and websites". If your friend uses a Facebook-enhanced
application that you do not use, you can control the following
information the application can access. The following are the
information details that you can control in the use
of Facebook-enhanced applications:
- Personal info (activities, interests, etc.)
- Status updates
- Online presence
- Website
- Family and relationship
- Education and work
- My videos
- My links
- My notes
- My photos
- Photos and videos of me
- About me
- My birthday
- My hometown
- My religious and political views
Just check on the box if you want any of the information
above shared through applications and websites. If you do
not want this information shared through Facebook-enhanced
applications, just leave the boxes blank.
4. Search
The Search page controls who can see your search result on
Facebook, and in the search engines. As you are presented with
this page, Facebook opens a dialog with this announcement:
"Worried about search engines? Your
information is safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about
Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true.
Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to
search for your name and see a link to your Facebook profile. They will
still only see a basic set of information."
In this Search page, there are basically two options which you can
set: Facebook Search Results (who can see your search result on Facebook)
and Public Search Results. For best security and privacy, it would be good
to set Facebook Search Results to "Friends of Friends", and leave the box
(which says "allow") unchecked next to Public Search Results option.
5. Block List
The Block List page controls who can interact with you on
Facebook. This page can be handy for those whose networks are
large, and contain many settings for "Everyone". For basic and small
Catholic social networks, this may not be necessary as you can always
choose your friends. We only need to remind ourselves that,
"prevention is better than cure".
Summary and conclusion
You can reset the options you have set when situations arise that call
for a different type of setting. If for instance you have decided to slow
down the growth of your network, then you can reset your privacy settings
to "Only Friends". What is important is that you monitor well, diligently,
and carefully your Facebook privacy settings account, so that you can
build a social network that will produce a Web environment that is
progressive, profitable, and productive. But most of all, you can
join the Church's mission on the Net to produce a culture of respect,
dialogue, friendship, and peace.
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