I recently found a great article and tutorial on using your Facebook privacy settings and thought it would be a valuable topic to review.

The article comes from a site called AllFacebook.  It’s not a new resource, but I found their article entitled, “10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know“, highly informative and easy to follow. Facebook is probably the easiest space to get confused when it comes to personal and business messaging.  It’s the place where all your worlds collide – friends, family, colleagues, old love interests – you name it, they are all there.  Facebook offers a bevy of privacy settings that make it easy for you to fully manage the interface.  You can show as much or as little as you like of your personal space.  Here’s an overview, visit the article link above for complete details on how to achieve each task:

1. Use your friend lists - Create groupings of friends based on personal preferences
2. Remove yourself from Facebook Search Results- Remove your profile page from publicly showing in the Facebook search results
3. Remove yourself from Google - Remove your personal profile from displaying in the search engines
4. Avoid getting tagged in photos and videos - Define who can see tagged photos of you
5. Protect your photo albums - Hide photos on an album by album basis
6. Prevent your relationship status from being viewed - Control who can see your basic information
7. Protect against published application stories - Take back control from your installed applications
8. Make your contact information private - Choose who can see full details
9. Avoid embarrassing wall posts - Control who can see your posts and who can post to your wall
10. Keep your friendships private - Turn off your friends visibility to others

While these settings will keep you fairly protected, there is no way to keep all photos or videos from being visible if posted by your friends.  Your best call in the world of Facebook is to use good judgement.  Don’t forget you are creating a public profile and a history for all future employers and clients to scrutinize if they so choose!

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