Privacy Settings - AllFacebook

Privacy Settings - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 REPORT: Teens Still Use Facebook (And Can Master Privacy Settings)

Yes, teenagers use Facebook. And although whether or not they’ll be using Facebook in a few years remains to be seen, the site does have a considerable presence among high-school students. The Pew Research Center recently examined how teens use social media, finding that they don’t like drama and having their parents connected to them, but they stay on Facebook because it plays a key part in the social experience. However, Facebook’s youngest users tend to have no problem configuring privacy settings.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/pew-2013-teens-facebook_b118023#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pew-2013-teens-facebook_b118023 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118023 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:58:26 +0000 People Aren’t Stealing Your Facebook Photos: A Lesson In Privacy A new rumor has been sweeping Facebook — that people are stealing photos of users’ children and posting them to a page called “Infancy.” The status that I saw — which had been shared 600 times back then and more than 3,500 times at the time of writing — claimed that “loads of local kids” were shown, including the author’s own, and demanded the removal of the page. But here’s the deal: The page was automatically generated by Facebook, like this one about rock climbing or this one about food. In fact, above the photographs, it even said, “photos of my friends and infancy.”

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/people-arent-stealing-your-facebook-photos-a-lesson-in-privacy_b117857#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/people-arent-stealing-your-facebook-photos-a-lesson-in-privacy_b117857 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117857 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:41:22 +0000 Facebook Pushes Online Safety For LGBT Community

Facebook continues to look out for its users who are part of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community, using a post on its Facebook Safety page to promote “What LGBT Communities Should Know About Online Safety,” a tip sheet from the LGBT Technology Partnership, Stop Think Connect, and the National Cyber Security Alliance.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/what-lgbt-communities-should-know-about-online-safety_b117656#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/what-lgbt-communities-should-know-about-online-safety_b117656 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117656 Thu, 16 May 2013 13:53:55 +0000 Child Safety Groups Take Aim At Instagram

Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram is under fire from advocates for children’s safety, with more than 4,500 signatures having been collected on a petition on Change.org that calls for Instagram to make the default settings private for users aged 13 through 17, and not geotag- and geolocation-enabled.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/child-safety-groups-instagram_b117560#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/child-safety-groups-instagram_b117560 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117560 Wed, 15 May 2013 16:46:38 +0000 10 Facebook Mistakes For Graduates To Avoid

McAfee Internet Security Expert Robert Siciliano shared his list of 10 mistakes graduates should avoid on social networks in a post on McAfee blog, pointing out that the security company’s Love, Relationships, and Technology study found that 13.7 percent of respondents aged 18 through 24 knew someone who lost their job due to images or messaged that were publicly posted.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/10-facebook-mistakes-for-graduates-to-avoid_b116705#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/10-facebook-mistakes-for-graduates-to-avoid_b116705 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116705 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:14:02 +0000 INFOGRAPHIC: How Facebook’s Graph Search Affects Your Privacy As Graph Search starts to roll out to more users (it’s still in limited beta, with no date set for global rollout), people may be worried about how it affects their privacy. Marketo recently published an infographic, showing how users can update their profile information to ensure that nothing is compromised within Graph Search.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/infographic-facebook-graph-search-marketo_b116592#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/infographic-facebook-graph-search-marketo_b116592 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116592 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:29:36 +0000 INFOGRAPHIC: The History Of Facebook’s Privacy Changes Privacy changes usually draw the ire of Facebook users, and it’s something that the site is hoping to change through better education and clearer directions. According to a recent infographic from Webpage FX, 61 percent of people surveyed said they didn’t trust Facebook, and 13 million people have said that they have never set or known about their privacy settings.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/infographic-the-history-of-facebooks-privacy-changes_b116292#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/infographic-the-history-of-facebooks-privacy-changes_b116292 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116292 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:26:41 +0000 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Admits That Privacy Changes Have Been Confusing

One of the chief complaints among Facebook users is that the changes to privacy controls have been far too confusing, with little effort in educating the users. Facebook’s No. 2 official — Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg — agrees. She admitted during a launch party in London for her book, Lean In, that one of the key mistakes the company has made was not explaining privacy controls better.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/sandberg-privacy-london-event_b115684#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/sandberg-privacy-london-event_b115684 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115684 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:23:00 +0000 Facebook Testing Separate Screens For Different Mobile App Permission Requests When Facebook announced last December that it would roll out new privacy options for users, the social network also said it would change the permissions process for applications, requiring them to break down information they were seeking access to in multiple screens, rather than bunching all of the information together in one permissions screen. Now different renditions of this are being tested.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/separate-screens-mobile-app-permission-requests_b115132#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/separate-screens-mobile-app-permission-requests_b115132 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115132 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:49:26 +0000 Facebook Confirms Addition Of Emoticons, Actions To Status Updates Facebook officially confirmed that it will roll out the addition of emoticons and actions in status updates, which many users already have access to, saying that U.S. users will get the new feature “in the coming weeks.”

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/confirms-emoticons-actions-status-updates_b114974#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/confirms-emoticons-actions-status-updates_b114974 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114974 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:26:59 +0000 HOW TO: Control What Facebook Apps Post On Your Behalf Odds are, if you’ve connected with an application on Facebook, you’ve seen the familiar warning that it can post to your Timeline and on friends’ News Feeds on your behalf. There’s a way you can go back and fix this through the activity log, so the app’s activity can only be seen by you. You can also remove the app if you don’t want it to have access to your profile anymore.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/how-to-control-facebook-apps-posts_b114049#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/how-to-control-facebook-apps-posts_b114049 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114049 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:35:53 +0000 HOW TO: Control Who Sees Your Facebook Posts The default sharing option for new Facebook users is set to public, meaning that anyone can see posts, even if they don’t have Facebook accounts. There are a few simple ways that Facebook users can change that, to make sure that only their friends (or a select group of their friends) can see posts. Additionally, users can select friends to not see posts.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/how-to-control-who-sees-your-facebook-posts_b113665#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/how-to-control-who-sees-your-facebook-posts_b113665 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113665 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:56:39 +0000 Facebook Pushes Privacy Education For Updated News Feed Users Many users feel that Facebook isn’t doing enough with regard to educating them on their privacy settings. It appears that the social network is trying to do more in this field, as users who have the redesigned News Feed were prompted to review their privacy settings recently.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-updated-news-feed-privacy_b113330#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-updated-news-feed-privacy_b113330 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113330 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:06:51 +0000 STUDY: Confusing Facebook Privacy Settings Lead To More Public Information

Even though Facebook’s privacy settings change often, a study by Carnegie Mellon University shows that more users are becoming better at keeping sensitive information off the social network. According to a study of more than 5,000 Facebook profiles, fewer users are making public information such as date of birth and political affiliation. However, confusion over Facebook’s privacy settings has led to an increase in posting of interests such as favorite movies, books, and music — as well as sharing to applications and advertisers.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/carnegie-mellon-facebook-privacy-study_b112298#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/carnegie-mellon-facebook-privacy-study_b112298 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112298 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:51:35 +0000 How To Disable Facebook’s Tag Suggest

Facebook last week quietly reintroduced its tag suggest feature, which uses facial-recognition technology to assist users in tagging their friends in photos. So, what can users do in order to avoid being tagged in photos that they do not wish to be tagged in?

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/how-to-disable-tag-suggest_b109975#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/how-to-disable-tag-suggest_b109975 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109975 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:03:22 +0000