Facebook - privacy basics: Everything you need to know

Sep 17, 2020

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In a popular network as Facebook, it is important that you also keep in mind all the privacy. We will tell you all the basics that you should know to protect your own data.

Facebook privacy: What others can see. Perhaps the most important settings relate to the information you share may unknowingly with the Public. Every Status Update, photo, Video, or other content that you share, you can set who can see this content. The appropriate selection window, you can see right next to the "Post"Button.

You can change this setting for each Post at a later date. The corresponding Icon you see under your name, usually to the right of the time stamp. Also on the menu of the Postings you can change the setting.

You should be particularly careful here in "public" Posts. These are marked with a small Globe and can even be used by people who have no Facebook Account. Inter only users who have an account can interact, however.

There are certain preset groups such as "friends" or "Public", but they can be used for Posts also users and only certain people select. Conversely, you can also exclude people explicitly.

If you use this Option often, you should consider your friends in groups and to share content with these groups. A further practical tip we will show you how you Facebook-lists properly use can.

Caution is advised for Posts on public pages or the pages of friends - so generally speaking, the pages they don't control themselves. Here, your Posts are often publicly available, depending on the settings of the page's owner.

Similarly, it is also, if you leave a "Like". Any Person can see this Post, your "Like".

This also works Vice-versa on your page with comments and "Like"information from others. Any user who can see your Post, you can also read the comments below.

To quickly check which of your activities are, where and how visible, you can click in your profile, just click "activity log". Here you can see all of your activity and who can see it. In addition, you can edit with the pencil Icon immediately - for example, directly remove. Facebook Privacy Basics Facebook Privacy: A Protected Profile Information Also your personal data can protect it so that only your friends can read more about it. You can set up your profile and use that a foreign Person sees a maximum of your name.

If you edit your profile, you will see for almost any indication of a setting menu for data protection. Here is a lot of, in principle, to the public, what you may want to share only with friends.

You provide this information, depending on your taste, for example, on "friends," "friends of friends" or "Only me" to set, what they spread as far.

To check how a profile for a specific Person from your friends list, or any other Person looks like, open your profile. Click here next to the Button "activity log" on the three dots and select "View from the point of view of..."

Initial will then be displayed in your public profile. With a click on "From the point of view of a certain Person" at the top of the screen, you can also choose special persons from your circle of friends.

Especially popular are the privacy settings on the friends list. To do this, open your list and click on the pencil icon in the top right. Here you can edit the privacy.

One of your friends should have his list of non-private set up, they will be here, but Vice versa. FB-privacy: profile-info Facebook Privacy: Photo-Markers A particularly sensitive issue Photo tags are. Also in photos you can set which group can see these images.

Mark, however, a Person can also see this Person and their friends the image. You want to exclude these friends of friends, you need to open the photo settings and in the individual's privacy to "friends of those tagged" box.

If you want to, conversely, have more control over the Posts in which they are marked, open the settings and select "timeline and tagging".

Here, you can enable, among other things, that you want to review tags from friends before they appear on your timeline.

You can also deactivate, your friends can see Posts after they have been marked.

You can also remove tags in photos of friends is also easy. To do this, open the photo and select "options", or possibly the three points. Here, click remove "mark" and the Problem is solved.

The photo, however, there is more. Should you not want to see it even without a mark in the Internet, write to the owner directly or you can report the image. FB privacy: photo-markers Facebook privacy: people block Sometimes a Block is the only effective method to be a pushy Person to get rid of. When you Block a possibly existing friendship will be terminated.

You can then no longer be contacted by message and to see no more comments from the Person.

Your profile will be blocked completely for that Person. They can be marked or added as a friend.

Public comments from you but they can still be read. Also comments in the common groups, or on the side of common friends are still visible. You don't see any answers.

To block a Person, click on their profile on the three dots and select "Block".

Alternatively, you can also open the Facebook settings and on "Block" leave. In addition to users, you can block here, event invitations, and applications. Both are less relevant for data protection, but nevertheless very useful. FB privacy: block users If you Facebook, despite all the notes is uncertain, we can tell you next how to make your Facebook account deactivate or delete

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