There has been an erroneous post circulated for months now on here tthat has been misinforming everyone about their Facebook privacy settings. Here is some interesting reading from snopes an internet site aimed at debunking urban legend and misinformation. You may want to copy the content and repost it on your own Facebook wall: The advice offered in the second example for eliminating Facebook eavesdropping by friends of friends (i.e., altering the settings associated with your friends to uncheck Comments and Likes in the What types of updates area) is closer to the mark. Sophos also advises that:The appalling enforced eavesdropping in the ticker (your friend said something to someone youve never heard of) is the result of the lax or non-existent settings of your friends, so heres the deal. What happens is this: 1. You have friends of friends or public as the privacy setting for your posts. 2. One of your Facebook friends comments on your post, or clicks Like. 3. As well as all the people commenting on the thread seeing what has been posted (this much is normal), Facebook also tells all *their* friends what was said. 4. Your friends settings *cannot* stop this from happening, *your* settings can protect your friends privacy, in this instance.So, do this - and make your friends do it too: * Stop using the Friends of friends setting. This is what is broadcasting so widely. * If you use the Public setting, explain that you are doing so. Then people can decide if they want *all* of their friends to be informed of their comments. * Limit all previous posts you have made via the privacy settings (unless you had friends only or specific lists already) - this will change everything to friends only and will stop people you deleted but did not block, people who sent you friend requests that you ignored, and friends of friends from seeing your activity (yes they can, if you are not on Friends or lists). * Use lists to decide who you want to see things (use the privacy controls in the top right of your posts).* Encourage your friends to restrict their setting to friends or custom lists too. This is the important bit. * Inform strangers or the connecting friend when strangers show up in your feed. It is their settings that made them show up. This will illustrate to them why they also need to change their settings. The problem is complicated to explain, but the solution is simple. If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do, you and your friends need to change your privacy settings to Friends or custom lists. Thats it. The hard part is getting your friends to do it. If you find your friends arent understanding the issue, forget about explaining the details and copy and paste this to your status: If you dont want your actions broadcast to everyone via the ticker/News Feed please set your privacy to Friends and ask your friends to do the same. Pass it on.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:23:59 +0000
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