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Monday, June 10, 2013

You Should Probably Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings Right Now

If you’re like most Consumerist readers, you’re probably Internet-savvy enough to carefully screen what you say on Facebook, and to use filters when you have something more colorful and interesting to post. Now that everyone from your grandmother to your niece’s cat are on using Facebook, though, everyone could use a reminder of how to set up your privacy settings, how to change who sees a given post, and how to make sure those settings are still arranged how you want them.
Last year, a study by our data-crunching cousins down the hall at Consumer Reportsestimated that 12 million Americans are happily Facebooking away without ever looking at their privacy settings. Sorry to be rude, but if you’re one of them: what is wrong with you?

If you haven’t checked your privacy settings and don’t know what all of the little globe and pencil icons mean, it’s okay. To help the non-checkers on the Internet, Consumer Reports made this handy video showing you how to check and modify your privacy settings.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boycott Facebook, And go to BING Search Engine.

Anonymous said...

3:05 PM

Why? What do you think that would accomplish?

People have allowed this to happen, and continue to allow it to happen. They even want to HELP the government take other people's rights away.

This government is a reflection of its people.

I am outraged and angry too, but so far all that has happened is words.

I, and everyone else, need to come up with a plan of action and implement it.

The first step is getting rid of those in office, and the ones that follow, that do harm to our country and way of life.

Each of us has to be more politically active and hold those in office accountable.

And punish the law-breakers, not the ones who disclose the law-breaking.