A few slides that provide a quick overview on Facebook privacy settngs

1. A Brief Guide to Facebook
Privacy
(June 2013)
Larry Magid
Co-director
ConnectSafely.org

2. Inline Privacy Settings
• You can control the audience for each post, each time you post
• Click on the icon (globe means it’s public) below each post to change
the audience

3. Audience Choices
• Public – Everyone
• Friends – People you have friended
• Friends of Friends: Your extended network of people your
friends are friends with
• Acquaintances – “Friends you don’t need to stay in close
touch with.”
• Close Friends: People you interact with a lot
• Custom: You get to chose who to include or exclude

4. Privacy Settings and Tools
• Facebook has a couple of settings that are “permanent” (until you
change them)
• Who can see my stuff
• Who can look me up
• You can access them from the settings menu

5. Tagging
• Anyone can tag you in a photo or a post
• Once tagged, that photo or post can be found by searching for you
• Tagged images of you can also show up on your Timeline
• You can remove a tag of yourself from Activity log or from your
Timeline
You can tag
yourself or others

6. To Remove a Tag
• From Your Activity Log
• Click on the post or picture
• Click Options below the picture
• Select Report/Remove tag
• From your Timeline
• Click on pencil to select “edit/remove”
• Select Report/Remove

7. Using the Activity Log to Find and
Remove Content
• You can use the Activity Log to see photos you're tagged in and posts that
may appear in News Feed, search and other places on Facebook
• Use "Shared with" and "On timeline" filters to review who can still see
things you may have hidden from your time line that could show up in news
feed, search and other places.
• You can remove something you don’t like by clicking on the pencil icon and
selecting Delete.
• You can report abusive posts from others by Report/Remove Tag

8. A Lot Can Be Found With Graph Search
• Graph Search is a powerful search tool that can help people find
people places and things including photos you’ve been tagged in
• If someone is part of the audience of a post, they can find it using
graph search
• Anything posted to “public” can be found by anyone
• Anything posted to friends can be found by your friends
• If you don’t want it found, don’t post it or limit the audience
• Content hidden from your Timeline may still be found via search

9. Timeline Vs. News Feed Vs. Search
• Your Timline is “you central” – the place where people can see what
you post, what’s posted about you and what (including pictures)
you’re tagged in
• But it’s not the only place people can find content about you. It can
also be found:
• In News Feed (those posts that show up on people’s home pages)
• Via search
• On other people’s TImelines

10. Hiding vs. Deleting
• There are ways to hide content from your
Timeline but it might still surface elsewhere
• In News feed
• In Search
• On someone else’s Timeline
• If you really want it gone, you must delete it, not
just hide it

11. Larry Magid
larry@connectsafely.org
Thank You!