{"id":2188,"date":"2011-01-14T18:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/an-easy-guide-to-setting-up-your-privacy-settings-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:05:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:05:47","slug":"an-easy-guide-to-setting-up-your-privacy-settings-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/an-easy-guide-to-setting-up-your-privacy-settings-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Guide to Setting Up Your Privacy Settings on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eyeinthekeyhole\"<\/a> After all the issues with Facebook<\/a> and their privacy settings issues, I thought I would share with everyone how you can set your privacy settings<\/a> and block those from seeing your private information or even filter out what status updates and images you add by setting up friend lists.<\/p>\n

Why Would You Want Privacy On Facebook<\/h2>\n

When I first started using Facebook, I had everything set for private, but as Facebook made changes, they changed or removed certain privacy settings. When this happens, your social stream is open to world. In most cases, social media networks are set to be public and you have set it to private. The theory of having everything open so your friends, family and those that following on other networks can easily find you (stock you) and know what you are doing on those sites is convenient, that\u2019s if you want to share everything. But in general, not everyone wants to know about everything you do online.<\/p>\n

Having your profiles open is a great idea, but if you share things, that you wouldn\u2019t your parents or your boss to see, then its not such a great idea. With how easy it is to find people on Facebook or other social media sites, companies are starting to monitor their employee\u2019s social media usage. A lot of times, companies will use Facebook as a way to see if a new applicant is what they want in an employee.<\/p>\n

If employer sees you puking your guts out at a party, every picture you have of yourself has a beer in your hand, or you are mouthing off about your job or someone else, then you might get fired or you might not get that job of a lifetime. So if you are sharing these things, make sure you lock your account down and make sure every sharing feature is set to private or share only with your trusted friends.<\/p>\n

If your friends share something that is compromising of you, tell them its not cool and have them remove it. Then in the future not to tag you in any images or status a employer might not like. If you think you are locked down, run a scan on your profile by using Reclaim Your Privacy<\/a>. (Check out my review<\/a> of this tool.) If you need to make changes and not sure how, keep on reading, its a quick an easy walk through that shows you how to set your privacy settings.<\/p>\n

How to Set Your Privacy Settings<\/h2>\n

With the recent updates to Facebook, setting up your privacy settings is easy, but Facebook didn\u2019t really make it easy for us to find, or how to set them properly. The first thing you need to do is click on your account menu in the top right corner then select Privacy Setting from the drop down menu. Once in your privacy settings you can see how everything is configured. To change these settings, Facebook has an option where you can quickly set everything to options such as everyone, friends of friends, friends only, recommended and custom settings. If you are comfortable with the predefined settings then just click on the one you want and click on Apply These Settings.<\/p>\n

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What If I Only Want Share Things With Certain People?<\/h2>\n

When I first started using facebook, it was mostly used for friends, family, and work friends. But after starting Evolutionary Designs, I started using Facebook for not only private use but also for business and blogging friends use. Because of this, I figured there were some personal friends on my list that wouldn\u2019t care about some of my updates and some I wouldn\u2019t want to share with everyone else. To keep things separated, I started filtering my Facebook feed;<\/p>\n

First thing I did was create lists for my friends. My Lists are:<\/p>\n