WHEN YOU SHARE SOMETHING ONLINE, IT’S NO LONGER TRULY PRIVATE: But you can prevent your actions from being used as an endorsement in ads by going to on.fb.me/1eRTwsE, changing the box in the middle to “No one” and then hitting “Save Changes.” You can’t opt out of Facebook using your information to target ads. So if you don’t want your new girlfriend to see photos of you with your ex, you can change the privacy settings of all of those photos or albums to make them visible only to you. On the flip side, you control the privacy settings of everything you post and can change them at any time. I could do so directly or I could click on “Report/Remove Tag” on the photo and ask Facebook for help. The only way to get rid of it would be to ask the photographer to remove it. But it would still exist on the photographer’s Facebook page, viewable to her friends and all the friends we have in common. I could click on the photo and untag myself and hide it on my profile page if I wanted. I don’t have the power to take that photo down. A tiny globe symbol means the post is public the silhouettes of two people mean it’s for friends only.įor example, somewhere on Facebook, there is a Halloween photo of me dressed as the Grim Reaper. Look for the little icon next to the time the post was made. How can you tell whether someone else’s post is public? It’s not easy, especially if you are scrolling fast on a smartphone. In fact, Facebook recently introduced a tool that lets people search the text of public posts and comments, and it is also sharing its feed of public posts to third parties like news sites and broadcasters. If you post a comment or a like on a public post - say, an article shared by a news organization - it can be viewed by anyone, with your name attached to it. That’s logical, but a lot of people don’t understand the implications. That way, I’m unlikely to post something personal in a hurry and then realize that I shared it publicly. My own rule of thumb is to keep the audience setting at Friends. So if you choose an audience of Public to share your enthusiasm during the Super Bowl on Sunday, make sure to change it back to Friends or something more restrictive before putting up your daughter’s birthday pictures. That’s because whatever audience you choose for a post automatically becomes the audience for all future posts until you change the setting again. While this is powerful, it’s also tricky because Facebook makes it easy to accidentally overshare. You can even include or exclude specific people. If you set it to “only me,” no one but you can see it. The “Friends” setting is what you will probably use most of the time.īut if you set it to “Public,” everyone on the web can see it - something you might want to do if you want to publicize your work or give a shout-out to your favorite TV show. On my Android smartphone, for example, the top of the update box says “To: Friends,” which means all my Facebook friends can see the post. On the desktop version, it’s right next to the “post” button. Facebook has a setting on the status update box that lets you set the audience for each item posted.
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