:: 4 Simple Tips To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook ::

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Facebook is a social networking website that was originally designed for college students, but is now open to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can create and customize their own profiles with photos, video, and information about themselves. Each facebook also has a wall, where friends can post comments and allows each user to set privacy settings, which by default are pretty strict. For example when you added x certain person as a friend, the person will not be able to view your profile. That is why a person that use facebook need to take some action to protect their privacy. Here, there are a few tips that you can use to protect your privacy in facebook.

Watch who is accessing your account.If somebody succeed in hacking your facebook account, then your privacy will have been completely not save. So you need to protecting your account with a strong password will help to reduce the chances of it happening.

Limit the information in your profile. Facebook enables you to create and share a very detailed profile that includes everything from your birthday, address, telephone and cell numbers and etc, where in other word, information that may help somebody steal your identity. The best methods is to enter only information that people will need to be able to find and connect with you and to use the privacy settings to restrict what you share.

Making lists to restrict access. Another way Facebook has previously given users control over who sees your information is the creation of friend lists. You can create lists and restricts access to your page to people on a given list. It can be done by click on the Friends menu at the top of your home page

Watch what your post. Don’t easily share any post or information about others or about yourself in chat rooms or wall in facebook because other people can see it. They can use that privacy information to misuse it and affect your privacy. So, beware about your words while chatting or posting anything in Facebook because it can be seen by others.

P/s: Actually, there are a lot of tips that you can use, but I only list the basic things that you should done first. Please always be ware about your personal information and take a preventive action needed to protect it. Watch out ya!!