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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Your Facebook status shared with the world

If you think that only your friends see what you post to Facebook you might just be wrong.  check out this site www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com  due to a  lack of, with regards to their account privacy settings. People have lost their jobs in the past due to some of the posts they put on Facebook, so maybe this demonstrates why. Efforts have been made to remove any personal data from the results, such as the actual phone numbers, surnames, etc. The data is still easily accessible from the API, the filters have been put in place to protect the site from legal issues. 

So how do you make sure your posts don't end up on this site or some other site just go to https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy and make sure Control Your Default Privacy is not set to "Public". You can set it to "Friends" but for the best privacy it is recommended you choose "Custom" and go through each option to choose who can see what

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