Topic: Social Enterprise

June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

Summary: June 2011 edition of The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide. Helping you to protect your privacy, your social network security and to manage your network safely.

By Zack Whittaker for iGeneration | June 23, 2011 -- 16:39 GMT (09:39 PDT)

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Note: This guide is now out of date. For the latest guide (September 2011), head on over here.

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It is that time of year again. Before you set off on your summer vacations, festivals and whatnot, take ten minutes out of your day to secure your Facebook account.

The last Facebook Lockdown Guide in January has been deprecated, and many more changes have occurred. Thankfully, on the most part, settings you have changed since then have been vastly kept the same.

Still, it doesn't hurt to check -- does it?

For my 900th post for ZDNet, find four updated guides, each focusing on an intrinsic part of Facebook's privacy and security features, allowing you to work your way through with step by step help in each area.

Gallery guide 1: Secure your profile page

Updated: Updated guide with all your profile securing tools at your disposal. Also included is a new photo album views and some general Facebook tweaks to keep your pages secure.

Gallery guide 2: Secure your account settings

Updated: All the stuff you had before, with added support for encrypted Facebook browsing, updated advertising settings and more support for mobile devices.

Gallery guide 3: Secure your privacy settings

Updated: All of the settings you need to secure your Facebook privacy, and now added support for the iPhone and iPod touch devices.

Gallery guide 4: Secure the miscellaneous bits

Updated: How to secure your miscellaneous Facebook bits, including instant personalisation and how to disable facial recognition features rolled out last month.

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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

I love the fact that FB don't have to tell you they have changed anything. Maybe there should be a 30 day notification rule like they have when a bank changes terms and conditions on an account. But then that brings up the question of regulating social media.

katherine@...
24 June, 2011 00:27

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  @katherine@... how do you get your picture up there?
  
  Ashtonian
  24 June, 2011 08:37
  
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  halilturker
  31 August, 2011 14:34
  
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  Twitter is a bit better, as you do not share as much there, as you do on Facebook.
  
  runeklan
  6 October, 2011 08:38
  
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raabl
24 June, 2011 05:47

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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

Use a nom de plume.
The very nature of the internet and servers means that there cannot be any privacy!

Ashtonian
24 June, 2011 08:36

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  @Ashtonian You are right on mate, there is NO privacy on the internet. Especially with a free social media account. But FB can be especially dangerous (people tracking you and so on) so this guide is definitely useful. <a href="http://www.curefungustoenail.org">Cure Toenail Fungus</a>
  
  Tonybal
  19 October, 2011 09:22
  
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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

I did all of these things, but it still didn't prevent problems. Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a trojan email account that someone attached to my profile? I have had to ask FB to delete my account because someone kept hacking my password. Lockdown is a joke when you can bypass the application itself to get customer service from FB staff.

Peter Malcolm
24 June, 2011 08:49

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my FB lock-down guide

First, jail the CEO, then jail the board, then the next 3 tiers of executives, at each stage offering them the opportunity to remove all of their information scavenging capabilities, or continue to be held in contempt.

Professor8
24 June, 2011 09:10

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  @Professor8
  Jail them for what?
  How about do not use the service and do not expect that thigns you are uploading would not be used against you. No one is forcing anyone to use FB or another social sites.
  
  jahmekan
  24 June, 2011 09:53
  
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    19 October, 2011 09:24
    
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  frizzllefry
  24 June, 2011 17:49
  
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    @frizzllefry giggles
    
    theroselady2000@...
    24 June, 2011 22:16
    
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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

Facebook is bad about opt in privacy. Everyone knows it. It's the plague of social media sites but, it's also the only one worth a damn n ow. If someone could come up with a similar format with opt out privacy I think Facebook would fast become irrelevant based on that feature alone. I do think it is stupid for our society to put as much emphasis on Facebook activities as they do. The fact that employers are even seriously looking at Facebook as a part of the application and screening process boggles my mind.

Str0b0
24 June, 2011 12:27

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  @Str0b0 this is why I use a 30 character password, and I do not use my exact birth name
  
  theroselady2000@...
  24 June, 2011 22:18
  
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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

I have found that when you click on someones profile picture, you sometimes get access to the whole album of pictures by just clicking next. But if you try to go straight to the album it will say, "so and so only shares certain information with the public" This worries me in my account.

isuzu803
25 June, 2011 04:37

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  @isuzu803 I noticed that too. I think it may just be a glitch, because it only happened on a few folk's profiles, and it didn't continue for more than a 30 minutes. But I see what you're saying, I felt the same way. Especially considering photos, in my opinion, are the thing I most want to privacy-protect on my account.
  
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  24 October, 2011 12:59
  
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RE: June 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide

@Zack:
What about your promise several months ago to make this available in pdf? It really is a pain navigating this way...

mutotom@...
25 June, 2011 08:31

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  @muto@... Trust me, I have been trying. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get anything up in PDF format. I've got the PDF ready to go -- I just can't do anything with it.
  
  zwhittaker
  25 June, 2011 09:29
  
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    @zwhittaker "I just can't do anything with it. "
    
    but you are advising us on the ultimate lockdown tips...ok...got it...try this, scroll over to the little "help" sign and find how to "post a link" -- that should help -- or maybe not...
    
    ewerb@...
    19 August, 2011 12:39
    
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