7 Steps to a makeover Facebook Privacy Policy

If you want to share too much information on Facebook without realizing it?

Facebook has never said, "Hey, you know what, you have too much oversharing about yourself." In contrast, seems to encourage the big blue FB share as much as possible, your location and current state of mind.

Maybe it is time to take stock of all these flavors, photos, check-ins and status updates, and the number of people (and climbing), who have access to them. Maybe it's time for a makeover of Facebook privacy.

Here are 7 steps you can take to take a Facebook Privacy Makeover:

Step # 1 - "Public" Your Old Stuff

You probably already long on Facebook, which means that you have many years worth of content: status updates, photos, videos, etc.

A portion of this material may to "publicly" visible, depending on how you set your privacy settings, if you published. You can globally everything you have written on "Public" or "Friends of Friends" and change it to "Only Friends". This is from the Facebook-> Privacy> "Shortcuts" menu "View Settings" under the option "Limit latest posts".

Once this change is made, it is not canceled, all old messages are "just friends" are replaced by and you have to change what you go manually to want to switch to something other than "just friends" back

Step # 2 - Set the default offset

You may have somehow accidentally set a standard for future positions of "public" or something other than what I wanted to set display. To change this, go to online privacy facebook Direct Access and change the setting for "Who can see posts."

Step 3 - Activate the license plate

Are you, are identified tired of tagging friends in posts and photos that you do not want? You can review and approve it before it in your calendar, you will be transferred by "mounting and labeling" under "Display Settings" at the bottom of the abbreviations "confidentiality" tags the menu.

Step # 4 - Limit your profile data

Sometimes you can have your profile confidential information in it. Check out our article on 5 things you need to your Facebook profile to some things that you probably want to have to delete to delete.

Step # 5 - determine who you can contact

If you restrict who may wish to publish to Facebook, you can "Who can contact me" change menu this setting from the "privacy link">. You can use "filter support" or "strict filtering", to further reduce can contact you.

Step # 6 - Revision privacy settings application

To love Facebook apps that have access to information in your profile, for various reasons, but some of these reasons may not be in your interest. You must go through your application and see the information that you allow them to get out of your profile. Access to their friend lists, photos, etc? Do they need this kind of access? Are you still, most of these applications?

If you have an app is not used in a long time, consider having access to your data. If you think that the application has access to and they really have to consider reducing the information that you access.

You can change the privacy settings of the applications in the "Applications" in the "Facebook Privacy Settings & Tools" page change (keyboard shortcuts available "confidentiality"> "Display Settings")

Step 7 - Test the display settings of your profile as a foreign

Once you have created your profile and privacy settings timeline as you want, you should try to see if they work as intended.

You can test the user profile "Public" go under "Privacy shortcut"> "Who can see my stuff"> "What people see my calendar"> "View As." You can also opt for a particular person, if you on what want to see the contents of his own, which people have access.