3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now

From The New York Times

In the last few months Face­book has made a num­ber of changes to its user inter­face.  Some folks like the changes and some folks don’t.  That debate does and will continue.

Dur­ing the same period Face­book has also made impor­tant changes to how secure it keeps the infor­ma­tion peo­ple post on the site.  Things like your per­sonal e-mail address, what online groups you belong to, and so on.

In mak­ing those changes to a user’s secu­rity lev­els Face­book has some­times clearly explained what has been changed and what steps you might want to take to make your infor­ma­tion more (or per­haps less) secure.  But it hasn’t always done so.  Nor has it high­lighted other steps a user might want to take to fur­ther secure their infor­ma­tion, what other groups or com­pa­nies might be highly inter­ested in a user’s posted infor­ma­tion, or what oth­ers might do with a user’s information.

Last Decem­ber the New York Times news­pa­per pub­lished an arti­cle high­light­ing three Face­book set­tings every user might want to dou­ble check.  If you did not see that arti­cle you can read it by fol­low­ing this link, The 3 Face­book Set­tings Every User Should Check Now — NYTimes​.com.

Even bet­ter, the last para­graph of the arti­cle has some links which go into more detail about what secu­rity threats a Face­book (or any other social net­work­ing site) user might want to be aware of and what a per­son can do to pro­tect them­selves.  I par­tic­u­larly like and appre­ci­ate the infor­ma­tion avail­able through this link,  http://​dotrights​.org/​w​h​a​t​-​d​o​e​s​-​f​a​c​e​b​o​o​k​s​-​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​-​t​r​a​n​s​i​t​i​o​n​-​m​e​a​n​-​you .