Facebook and privacy settings
Apr. 26th, 2010 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueI don't know about you, but I have my privacy settings quite high. At least, I thought I did. I read a message on a message board, warning about "what your friends can share about you", so went to take a look at mine.
According to FB's default settings, my friends could share everything (updates, photos, home town, links - the lot) except relationship status and my religion! I've unticked them all and saved it.
To check your own, go into 'privacy settings' (under 'account'), and then into 'applications and websites', and then 'what your friends can share about you'.
Also, check out this article on how to opt out of FB's personalization options - the personalization option is apparently so applications (yours or your friends) can use *all* your data. ::is totally not impressed::
Of course, any new way FB brings in toshare everything they know about you enhance your FB experience is automatically set to "yes!" because of course you want FB to circumvent whatever privacy settings you thought you already had in place. Nice of them, isn't it?
ETA: Verrrry interesting - and annoying. I've unticked all those "what your friends can share about you" boxes three times so far and saved my preferences...but each time I go back, they're ticked again.
According to FB's default settings, my friends could share everything (updates, photos, home town, links - the lot) except relationship status and my religion! I've unticked them all and saved it.
To check your own, go into 'privacy settings' (under 'account'), and then into 'applications and websites', and then 'what your friends can share about you'.
Also, check out this article on how to opt out of FB's personalization options - the personalization option is apparently so applications (yours or your friends) can use *all* your data. ::is totally not impressed::
Of course, any new way FB brings in to
ETA: Verrrry interesting - and annoying. I've unticked all those "what your friends can share about you" boxes three times so far and saved my preferences...but each time I go back, they're ticked again.