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Facebook - Privacy Settings & Safety

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Ground Rules for Using Facebook

Facebook is meant to represent real people and real associations; it's also meant to be safe. Many of the rules of participation on Facebook exist to uphold those two goals. This list is by no means exhaustive—there [more…]

How to Specify Access Settings on Your Business’s Facebook Page

Before you go live with your business’s Facebook Page, you might want to consider limiting the access that certain readers have to your Facebook Page and controlling what actions readers can take when [more…]

How to Limit Who can See Your Facebook Posts

Controlling who can see your posts on Facebook isn’t a one-time thing. Because you are constantly adding new statuses, photos, and content to Facebook, constantly interacting with friends and reaching [more…]

How to Customize Your Privacy Controls on Facebook

Anytime you want to change or check your Facebook privacy settings, you need to go to the Privacy pages. These can be found by clicking the Account menu, the white downward-facing arrow, in the big blue [more…]

How to Control Who Tags You on Facebook

Just as you can tag your Facebook friends, friends can tag you in their photos and posts, depending on your settings. To control who can tag you and who can see those tags, click Edit Settings beside the [more…]

Choosing Who Can See Your Information on Facebook

The About section at the top of your Facebook timeline displays information about where you went to school or your relationship status. You can edit the privacy for this content in the same place you edit [more…]

How to Control Your Facebook App and Website Info

On the Facbook Privacy page, there are settings that let you control how apps, games, and websites interact with your timeline. To reach the Privacy page click the Account menu, the white downward-facing [more…]

How Members Can Keep Facebook Safe

Every member of Facebook can contribute to keeping Facebook a safe, clean place by reporting incidents of spam, harassment, inappropriate content, and fake timelines. No one wants anything bad to happen [more…]

How Facebook Protects Its Members

Facebook’s part in keeping everyone safe requires a lot of manpower and technology power. The manpower involves responding to the reports that you and the rest of Facebook submit, as well as proactively [more…]

How to Block People and Applications on Facebook

If someone does something on Facebook that bothers you, you may choose to block them. To get to your block lists, click Manage Blocking to the right of the Blocked People and Apps section on the Privacy [more…]

Ten Tips for Parents of Teens on Facebook

It’s unreasonable to think you can keep your teen away from Facebook, much less the Internet. So here are some tips to use as a jumping-off place for figuring out how to keep your teen safe on Facebook [more…]

How to Report an Offensive Facebook Group

As a member of the Facebook community, if you stumble upon an offensive Group in your travels, you should report it to Facebook so that the company can take appropriate actions. To report a Group, follow [more…]

Control Your Privacy on Facebook

Facebook privacy settings have been a hot topic since Facebook first began, but the launch of Facebook's Graph Searchmakes understanding and adjusting your settings more imperative than ever. Graph Search [more…]

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