Let’s Make Our Facebook Safe

Facebook, i think no one doesn’t know about this sosial networking. In facebook users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. So many thing you can do in facebook. So many people say “you can do everything on facebook”.
Wikipedia said this website currently has more than 400 million active users worldwide. Wow, that was so amazing right. But facebook can pratically have some controversy. Actually, many people in the world complaining about privacy on facebook.
Yeah, i’m one of people complain about privacy. Last week, my facebook has been hacked. I already sent them about complaining but no answer. My friend, Dika has been sent complaining to but until now no reponses from facebook.
Many people talk maybe someone who know me hacked my account. But actually no one know about my email and password that i use. I don’t know how to take my account back, so i give up and make new account.
Now, i want to share about how to keep your privacy safe. Here are the guides how to keep your account safe. I have to collected this from http://allfacebook.com/2009/12/facebook-privacy-new/ .
a. Understand Your Friend Lists
Friend Lists provide organized groupings of your friends on Facebook. For example, you can create a Friend List for your friends that meet for weekly book club meetings. You can filter your view of each list’s stream of activity separately on the home page. Friend Lists are easy to manage and allow you to send messages and invites to these groups of people all at once.
b. Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results
Facebook has made things extremely straight forward. There are now two settings: one for those people who can find you when searching on Facebook, and one for those searching within search engines (which the next section describes).
c. Remove Yourself From Google
Some people enjoy having their information displayed in search engines, as it makes them easy to find. For those that prefer to err on the side of privacy though, it’s often a good idea to remove yourself from the search engines.
d. Avoid The Infamous Photo Tag Mistake
More than just having their relationships damaged, some users get fired as a result of photos they’ve been tagged in. There are a number of ways to work around this problem. One of the ways is described later in this guide, however there is an extremely easy way to avoid having compromising photos show up to friends. So how do you work around this issue without putting your job or relationships at risk? The best way is to take advantage of the friend lists that you previously created (in the first setting) and limit specific people from seeing the images and videos you’ve been tagged in.
e. Protect Your Albums
One of the greatest risks on Facebook is that you get tagged in a compromising photo. However it’s important to consider who you really want to have viewing your photo albums. Given Facebook’s custom privacy settings you are able to get as granular as you’d like with the visibility of each album. Thanks to the new publisher privacy settings, you can even get granular with every photo that you post if you really want to have complete control. What privacy settings you choose for your albums is completely up to you, but if you do want to limit access to your albums, I recommend visiting the photos privacy settings page and limiting the access of each of your albums to “Only Friends” at the least.
f. Avoid The Post-Breakup Facebook Effect
g. Control What Information Applications Can Access
The risk of having applications publish stories without your approval, which we covered in the last Facebook privacy guide, is being eliminated completely. However it’s important to understand what information applications can access. As Facebook writes, when you visit applications, they “may access any information you have made visible to Everyone as well as your publicly available information.” Publicly available information “includes your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages.”
h. Make Contact Information Private
If you post any of your personally identifiable information (phone number, email, or address) on your profile, it makes sense to limit who can see it. There are two ways to limit who can see your contact information. From there you can customize the contact settings as much as you’d like.
i. Avoid Embarrassing Wall Posts
j. Keep Friendships Private
(Andini)