Facebook Professional Tips & Tricks

We have covered 8 steps to regain control of your Facebook Privacy in Part 1 . If you haven’t already, please read it, as we covered privacy basics in search visibility, photos and videos, relationships and contact information. Let us now proceed with the next steps concerning Facebook privacy controls in the context of applications, friends, news feed, wall posts, groups, ads, and quitting Facebook. #9: Control What Your Friends Can Share About You As explained earlier , your Facebook friends can reveal information about you to applications of their choice even if you yourself do not use those applications . A typical example is when your friends use a birthday application that reminds them of your birthday so that they can send you a card or gift. Unfortunately, this also means they reveal your religious, sexual, and political preferences as well as other personal information about you. Birthday information is also misused by financial fraudsters. All of this can b...

When someone searches for your profile on search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.) they’ll hit your public search instance (that includes a thumbnail, your name as recorded on Facebook database, your regional network etc.). You can easily keep your online privacy by avoid having your public search listing crawled (and thus shown) by search engines. Just follow these steps in order to do so: * Login to your Facebook account * Hit Privacy * Hit Search * Now deselect the following statement: “Create a public search listing for me and submit it for search engine indexing.” * Hit Save You have just made sure that your profile won’t be showing up on search engines. Allow a month or so to have it removed from the search engine result pages.

All you have to do is open up your chat icon in the lower right corner of your Facebook display, click on Friend Lists, and create a new list called “BlockList.” Make sure after you create it that it’s configured under “Display these lists in Chat.” Now, all you have to do is either click “edit” and add the friends you want to block, or if they’re already online, just click their name and drag them under this new list. Once you’ve got everyone there who you want to block from see your online status, hover your mouse over the green dot to the right and click on “Go Offline.” Now, you appear offline to only those certain friends.