Yesterday was about getting Facebook fan pages, but you need to know how to have your regular Facebook set. This is something that worries some excessively, and others do not even bother setting. Yet with Facebook being one of the more personal forms of social networking it is good to know some basic settings.
Settings:
Go to the far right, if your monitor is not wide screen you may have to use the slider button at the bottom of the page to see Account. Under account you will see Privacy Settings. Select and click.
From here you can set up who sees what on your page. While you can choose recommended, you probably want to customize it. At the bottom of the table choose customize settings. Personally, for the settings of everyone, I make them friends of friends. Their friends of friends suggestions I limit to friends. And the Friends only setting I reduce to certain lists.
Lists will be covered tomorrow.
ON ALL OF THESE, you can choose custom which allows you to select lists or people who can see things or those people or lists who are restricted.
Beneath the table (look at the image above) select Applications and Websites, Edit Your Settings. here you can change your settings on applications and websites on Facebook. First scroll down to Instant personalization, then edit settings. This shows your information on partner sites, while they say no information is shared, for many this is not a preferred situation.
Uncheck the box at the bottom of the new page. The click back to applications. Now the rest of the settings are personal preference. If you want you can turn off public search which will show you on search engines, but people will still be able to find you on Facebook searches. You will want to check each of these, and see what settings they have and then set them according to your needs.
Back to Privacy.
Now scroll back to the top to Basic Directory Information and view settings. Here is where you can change if people can find you on Facebook and change other settings to fit your personal needs. Most of these I have set for Friends of Friends. Everyone can find me because I do have a business.
Then you can click Preview my Profile, this is where you will see things set up under custom. So you can select a name you restricted or a name you granted more access.
Hope this helps!
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MJ Schrader
Tomorrow: Lists
Thursday: Photo Albums
Bonus: Personal Setting VIDEO!!
