How to manage your Facebook

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You may have skipped the step, this is it! You are registered on Facebook. But you still look at the gear of a cautious eye, asking you how much it will be helpful. And most importantly, how all the buttons on the home page work. Not to mention that you are concerned that your privacy offered up to the world.

Facebook is an ideal way with its 220 million users worldwide to find the corresponding friend. It's easy, in fact, that warning on the search network, to become "friends" and share memories, photos and videos via email, the gab, or through the wall (equivalent to the home page).

Think before publishing

The problem of social network is that it combines professional sphere and private sphere. Professional contacts, family and friends are mixed. And we did not necessarily want to share vacation photos with your colleagues or your boss. To avoid sharing everything with everyone, one must know the right privacy settings. Facebook offers ways to limit access to their account and personal data (photos, personal information), but can not be too advise you to be careful what you publish: political views, pictures of what you were doing in the festival, bites can be detrimental to others. We can not, at a time, complain that his privacy over the Internet and publish pictures of your family. Finally, remember that your profile can be accessed by a future employer. Finally, the issue of confidentiality of data is the most worrying in social networks. Without lapsing into paranoia, we can imagine its own data set to the world. How to use the network and avoid this?

First, follow some common sense rules. Then go dig into settings, to set up access to its data. But this is not the absolute parade. To know where you put your feet, dive into the conditions of use.

This is what we find on the confidentiality of data: "Please note that you publish on this website information at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options to limit access to your data, there is no foolproof security system. We do not control the actions of other users with whom you have decided to share your pages and your information. We can therefore in no way guarantee that the content you post on this site will not be seen by unauthorized persons." That says it all! And confirmed the news: security holes are regularly reported, allowing ill-intentioned persons to access private data, even protected

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Properly adjust its "visibility"

1. The cover may take place during registration or after. Obviously, if you want to avoid being spotted, you better hide as soon as possible. For this go in to the Settings menu, and choose Privacy and Research.

2. In Restriction of search section, click in the Visibility field through research. From the dropdown menu, select Customize.

3. Uncheck All members of Facebook and check my friends only. In the Network section, choose None of my networks.

4. Now you are perfectly located. Not only you can not be find in a search, but you are not either in the lists of friends.

5. You can also, in the content area of research results, set that people looking for you can see you. Authorized persons can only access very limited information about you. They do not even have a link to send a message.

6. Finally, if you decide to check the box Create a public profile in the category Public profile, your profile, at least that let you see, then go back in a query with various search engines.

Limiting access to friends and themselves

By default, all registered on Facebook can access your data, information, photos, videos, links. But you can limit access only to your friends, friends of friends, or even customize it by creating blacklists of contacts who among your friends, do not have access to certain data. Here are a few settings to make to control access to your profile and personal information.

1. In the Settings menu, select Privacy and then Profile. The first General tab allows you to determine access to your profile and your information.

2. Choose for each element, the degree of confidentiality. The profile can be seen by all members of Facebook or just your friends. In contrast, for general information, personal status, links, photos and videos in which you are marked, the messages of the wall, the possible information about your education and your job, you can set more accurately and determine who can access to what. Establish and white lists that allow some people, and black lists, which exclude others.

3. In the first case, click Customize, then check some friends. Then make a list of authorized members happy. To hide some information to contacts, appointments at the bottom of this window and complete the fields except the following. To confirm, click OK. Finish by Save Changes.

4. Its the page that can set the parameters of confidentiality of photo albums. But the option appears only when you have already created

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Maintain control over your photo albums and videos

It happens that in your news, photo album someone appears you do not know at all, via a comment left on this album by one of your contacts. How to avoid that friends of friends can see your albums via the comments of friends to you?

Photo albums

Below the field Express yourself, click Attach photos and create an album. Fill options Album name, place, description and determine the degree of confidentiality. If you choose the friends of my friends and everyone, strangers will be informed of the launch of your album and can see if one of your contacts, or one of his friends comments. Click Share.

If this is the first time you download photos, you proposed to install a download tool simplified, to select several pictures at once. Then select the photos and click Send.

You can caption your images and the mark, ie indicate which appears above. For the moment, your album will not be published. You must also choose whether or not you tell your friends about its publication. If you want the info they receive on their wall, click Publish now.

Note that when you are in your photo album, you are given, if you have not already done so, this album share or publish it to your profile. Whatever option is chosen, a window opens. Note that if you choose to publish all your contacts, you will see the cover of your album. If you have limited access to your album, an error page displayed when clicking to see the photos.

To delete an album, go to your profile. Move the cursor to the right of the album. Delete the reference appears, you just have to click it.

Videos

For videos, click the icon in the shape of a camera down the Express yourself. Then choose Download a video of your disk. Click Browse to access the video, then click Open. Finally, click on Share. The download begins. Once complete a message appears, click Close and edit video.

At this point, you can label, tag and caption video, but also determine the same visibility as for the photo albums.

Finish by Save. Note that during the period of time when you set the privacy settings, the video appears on the wall of your contacts, who can quietly watch!

Remove applications or hide them

The applications you have installed are visible on your profile, in the Inserts section. You can always add, but remove those that you consider inappropriate or simply hide them. You do not want your entire network, including business contacts know that you're an alien, your personality tested by drawing a pig and you are a fan of pastis.

To do this, go all the way down to the left of the page (home or profile), and click the Applications tab. A menu shows that you have used recently. Click below on the Edit applications.

For the display, click in the Show field, on Added to the profile. To delete, click the small cross in front of the application. To hide, click Change Settings, then click the Profile tab. Privacy in the field, pull down the menu and select Me only or Custom. In the Permissions tab additional use it to remove the options to access my data even when I do not use the application and publish the recent on my wall.

To control the minimum data that applications install that your friends have access, go to the Settings menu, select Applications, then the Settings tab. Then untick all the information you want the picture to the profile religion. Then click Save Changes.

When you use an application, be careful also not to send an invitation to all your friends, unwittingly, by accidentally clicking on a link. Everything is, indeed, implemented to create some confusion. Some applications do you think you should invite all your contacts book to use. Advertisements for other applications lie also in applications. In particular, please do not click on Go to the application.

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Tchater on Facebook

Facebook can be a substitute for instant messaging. Take a look at the bottom right of your homepage.

1. Click on the eDiscussions tab. A menu appears, pointing to a green dot your contacts that are present and available for tchater. They appear in alphabetical order, but you can create lists, to avoid mixing the records. A list and a second Professional Family list can be created, but it is possible to push the customization one step further.

2. Click on the option list of friends. In the Create a field list, choose a group name, for example colleagues. Then hit enter on your keyboard.

You can either drag and drop the names of people in the newly created groups, or add them manually. To do this, click Edit, next to the name of the group, then select one by one to the contacts listed in the group, or enter their name in the Enter a name.

3. One of the advantages of setting up groups is that you may appear with some visible and invisible to others. Click the small white button on a green background.

4. To not appear as available in your contact list, click Options, then click Go Offline

Easily organize its wall

Your wall, where it displays what your friends write for you. You can not just click delete this information, but limit them. It is also possible to control what appears on your feed, in the home page.

Go to the Settings menu, select Privacy, then News and wall. At this point you can decide what your contacts see your business. If you uncheck all the boxes, you will become a friend very discreet. Your network will not be informed that you have commented on a video link, a picture that you have a new friend, changed status or love. To confirm, click Save Changes.

Clean the wall

On your profile, therefore consulted by those whom you set (everyone, friends only, etc..), We can see all your activity on Facebook, by clicking on the tab inserts. Including all the stupid quiz, the games you've attended, the gifts! You can delete them. Click the small button-shaped pen, and in the drop-down menu, choose Delete inset.

Filter News

Some have a bustle on Facebook. There are those who respond to fifteen quiz a day, others who constantly invite you to join groups and network rewarding their deep thoughts every five minutes. You can choose to hide. On the home page, place the cursor over the contact in question. You see the word Hide. Click it and disappear from your unwelcome newswire.