10 Facebook Settings To Enhance Your Privacy

The current generation is hooked on to social media, as it takes over divergent age groups across the globe. Facebook is the most popular social media site among others with more than a billion users across the world, reports TOI.

A common practice of bunking classes gets busted if you update your status or opt for check-in status, hence you want to keep it incognito and stay out of the radar. So here are the tricks that would help you to stay invisible on social media.

# Posts Visibility

Usually after a fight with a loved one we want to update our status that showcases the state of our mind and heart, but are skeptical as it might be visible. To achieve this, go to setting on the log out tab, select ‘see more setting’, this will take you to another page - ‘Privacy Settings and Tools’. Under this tab you can find many options but select ‘who can see your future posts?’ where you can choose and assign who can see your posts in the future.

 

 

# Limit Visibility and Random Friend Requests

Next option shows how to ‘Limit Past Post.’ This limits the user’s post to be forecasted only to his friends rather than everyone.

Followed by the above option, ‘Who can contact me?’ tab will give you options such as ‘friends of friends’ and ‘everyone’. By default, it will be set to ‘everyone’ this means any user on Facebook can send a friend request to you. While, ‘friends of friends’ option will only allow the friends of friends to send you a request this will cut down the random friends requests you receive daily.

# Filter Contacts

Under the ‘Who can contact me?’ tab, we can also set a filter who can inbox us. Changing this setting will allow only friends to contact you privately instead of everyone. To stricken the filter, select ‘Whose messages do I want filtered into my inbox’ from ’Basic’ to ‘Strict’ filtering.

 # Who Can Look Me Up

The next option will prevent people from finding you with your Facebook email when you alter the setting from ‘everyone’ to ‘friends’. Followed by this, another option also similar to the earlier one but this will prevent people from finding you with your phone number. Again you have to change the setting from ‘everyone’ to ‘friends’ in order to hike up your privacy.

# No Access to Search Engine

This option is important to block the non-Facebook users to access your Timeline when your name is Googled. To achieve this, uncheck the small box adjacent to ‘Do you want other search engines to link to your Timeline?’

 # Only Me

On the left hand side, select the next tab, ‘Timeline and Tagging Settings’. This tab will provide options to cap who can post and see stuff on your Timeline. To avoid all the unwanted posts from your annoying friends to land on your Timeline.

So, change it to ‘Only Me’ for all options such as ‘Who can post on your timeline?’ ‘Who can see posts you're tagged in on your timeline?’ ‘Who can see what others post on your timeline?’ and ‘When you're tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren’t already in it?’

# Review

Are you tired of your friends tagging you in their picture where you don’t relate to it at all? Here is a solution, by enabling the options, ‘Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?’ and ‘Review tags people add to your own posts before the tags appear on Facebook?’ So that you can review the post before it lands on your Timeline.

Then also change, ‘Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?’ option to ‘No one’ in order to avoid false tagging of your lookalike friends, automatically by Facebook.

 # Who Can Follow Me

Facebook allows users to follow your post without being a friend; they can only see things that are publically shared contents on your Timeline. From another tab dedicated for ‘Followers’, change the setting from ‘Everybody’ to ‘Friends’ under ‘Who can follow me’

# Apps

On the left hand menu followed by ‘Followers’, click on ‘Apps’ tab and disable the setting under ‘Apps, Websites, and Plug-Ins’ this will forbid the apps to access to your personal information that are found on Facebook. As soon as you disable, ‘Apps others use’ it will be disabled from the apps to not show your information to other app users.

 # No Advertisements

Right beneath the ‘Apps’ tab an ‘Ads’ tab is there which provides settings for advertisements, in this, under ‘Third Party Sites’, edit  and set it to ‘No one’ after that save changes. This will block the advertisements on Facebook to use your name below it showing your association with the website.

Same goes with ‘Ads and Friends’ option, setting it to ‘No one’ will prevent your name showing that you have liked the particular ad to your friends.