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Practice safe Facebooking
So you’re looking to reconnect with old friends or just keep up to date with what your current friends and family are up to, so you’ve gone and signed up for Facebook. Awesome!
You’ve just received a message from some random stranger saying “hey, I live in [your town] too, let’s hook up.” Not awesome.
How do you maintain a Facebook page without creepy stalkers and internet weirdos pestering you? Read on.
Lock it down:
Ready? Here we go. Once you are logged in, go to the Account tab in the upper right hand corner. Click on Privacy Settings (as shown to the right).
That will bring you to a page that looks like this:
Under the “Connecting on Facebook” heading, click on View Settings. From this page, you can control who can search for you, as well as who can send you friend requests and messages, see your friends, and so on. Want people to be able to find you? Probably best to set your setting for who can search for you to Everyone from the drop-down tab. I’d go with the same setting for Friend Requests, otherwise you are limiting who can be friends with you. You can always deny a request (they won’t know you denied them).
Don’t want random messages from people you don’t know? Set the “Send you messages” option to Friends Only. There is an additional option for (most) of these, if you really want to lock it down. On the drop down tab, select Customize. You will then get a pop-up box with a drop-down menu entitled “These people.” Select Only Me, and no one other than yourself will be able to see whatever this item is.
This is a good choice for things like your birthday and contact information, which we will talk about next. When you’re all done, click the Back to Privacy button on the upper right.
Now under the “Sharing on Facebook” section, look down under the list for the Customize settings link (see the 2nd photo above for reference). This will then bring you to a screen much like the “Connecting on Facebook” one where you can set who gets to see what you post and share.
I have all of my options, as you can see above, set to Friends Only which is secure enough for me. I don’t mind if someone knows my birthday, or my religious and political views, and so on, as long as they are friends with me. If you prefer to keep this information or any of the other selections such as family or your relationships to yourself, then follow the above steps to set them to Only Me. When you’re done, click the Back to Privacy button in the upper right to save your changes.
A total lockdown, of course, would be to set all of these options to Only Me, but your friends may find this annoying if they at all plan on interacting with you. If you’re just on Facebook because your kid(s) set you up with it so you can follow your family goings on from 3000 miles away (hi, mom!) then you might consider this an option. That’s really up to you — but remember you can change any of these settings at any time.
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