10 Things Facebook Won’t Tell You.... 1. Want to know how much Facebook knows about you? Go to Account Settings in the Home menu and click “Download a copy of your Facebook data.” 2. You may not want to share your updates and other personal information with the whole world. But Facebook has kept the default setting as Public. It’s better for us if you share more, and we’re assuming that most of you aren’t going to bother changing your privacy settings. 3. You may not see every post from your friends, and only a fraction of your friends may see all your updates. Facebook wants users to see posts that will keep them on the site the longest, so it moves up the posts that are the most liked, shared, and commented on. 4. If you are signed in to Facebook, we track you while you surf the Internet. Anytime you visit a page that has a Facebook Like or Share button, we log that information 5. Posting big news like your engagement, the birth of a baby, or your acceptance to grad school? Facebook will know. We target those types of announcements by using something called natural language processing, and then we make sure they stick around in your friends’ news feeds until the next time they log on. 6. Not seeing enough posts from friends you care about—and too many from those you don’t? Set your news feed to sort by Most Recent, rather than Top News. Then add your favorite people to your Close Friends list and unsubscribe from any friends whose updates you’re not interesting in receiving. 7. You can limit your posts to Facebook friends who live in your city, those who went to your college, or those you work with. You can even choose to allow everyone to view a post except your boss. Click the arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the status update box, and you’ll see all the options. 8. Some information can’t be made private on Facebook. Your name, profile picture, cover picture, network, gender, and username are always publicly available. 9. Noticed fewer fans on your favorite Facebook pages? That’s probably because the company has recently been cracking down on phony profiles created en masse by shady companies to boost a page’s Facebook popularity. In a recent filing, Facebook estimated that as many as 83 million of its profiles are fake, though some are duplicate pages set up by real people. 10. Watch when you Like a company, or post about a product. Your interaction might be shown to your friends as an ad for that company.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:30:00 +0000
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