Avoid irony situations on Facebook

Christopher Null

Network administrators - Ignoring Facebook's privacy options can cause users to experience jokes and jokes.

Ignoring some of Facebook's privacy options can cause users to encounter many irony situations in some cases. This is a problem that Facebook users should know. It should be noted that the situations in this article are for example only, not for bad purposes.

Do not share too much information with the boss

Situation : An employee who wants to escape from work to hang out, take the sick reason and the time she spends every day in that vacation is sunbathing and updating Facebook status whenever she is free. The next day after going to work, she had a bad cry, her boss thought she was not really ill with very clear evidence.

Solution: In this day and age, digital life between work and individuals is often intertwined, but Facebook can reduce that pressure for you. You may forget that your boss is the same person as your other best friends on Facebook and that he also has access to your stories on it like many other friends. However that may change.

Using Facebook's Lists settings can change the situation of the employee. Lists are one of the new features of Facebook, which allows users to organize people into different groups, then assign each group a level of access to their information on Facebook.

Lists also allow users to set who can see what on your profile. For example, if you added someone who was a friend but didn't dare to be sure about them, then you could put them in a "Limited Profile" list, which is what the list will limit. that person can view your profile and interact with it. You can also create lists for specific jobs, schools, projects, or any list, but by default lists don't change the way your profile is displayed.

To work with Lists, click the Friends button (top bar) and + Create in the left column below Lists, or just put people in any list using the ' Add to list ' menu. next to their name.

Next, you need to specify the amount of information that each listing can view on your Facebook page. To do so, go to the Privacy Settings page (click the ' Settings ' link at the top right of the screen and click Privacy Settings ; otherwise you can access www.facebook.com/privacy ), then select Profile . Here, select Customize . from the drop-down menu next to any part you like, type the name of the list in the box below ' Except These People '. With the staff in the example above, she should put all her colleagues in a 'Job' list and set the group's access to a minimum to avoid such problems. In particular, change the ' Status and Links ' setting to exclude the 'Limited Profile' list. (Note, updates to your profile from third-party applications are generally not locked by these privacy settings.)

With Facebook's newly announced status update (currently in beta), users will (or soon) see an option (locking gray with a drop-down menu) that allows users to control who sees get these updates on a private basis. With full notifications, "Everyone" will allow the whole world (including in Google and non-Facebook applications) to see the user's upgrade. With more sensitive information, users can change the setting to "Friends" - or use the control via the "Custom" option so that this information is only available to some people on certain lists. .

Others know where you are

Situation: For some reason the girl tells the story away from her ex-boyfriend to move to another place to live and work. She wrote on Facebook her new job and then encountered a situation that embarrassed her. Somehow her ex-boyfriend found her and when asked how he found her, he answered that it was on her friend's Facebook profile.

Solution : All users have specific controls on what is on their Facebook, but very few people use all the advantages of those features.

The controls are found in Privacy Settings under the 'Profile' section, you can access them as described above. Here, you will see a list of 10 items on the profile that you can turn off or on, each of which is enabled for a different group of Facebook users.

'Profile' allows you to choose whether you want to let anyone see anything but the most basic information (name and network) on your profile page, while 'Basic Info' allows you to see the gender, date of birth, relationship status . 'Personal Info' extends the door slightly to the information about yourself, interests and concerns, .; 'Status and Links' controls who can see your latest status upgrade. Most items are transparent (just click on the question mark icon if you need help) and from there can see a lot of details. This has an advantage: if you're like the girl in the story, you probably won't want to show where you work, so you can turn off the details here.

Also, click Save Changes at the bottom of the Facebook settings screen, otherwise the settings will not be updated.

How should you change this setting later? Facebook offers many options for each category: Everyone, My Networks and Friends, Friends of Friends, Only Friends and Customize. Everyone options are too clear, My Networks and Friends is more restrictive, only viewing profiles for friends or with people you share a network with. Friends of Friends give you two open levels instead of one; Only Friends only exactly who are your friends.

The Customize option allows a complete command on your network settings: You can restrict your profile viewing to certain networks, in some cases just subsets of that network. Where our story, this girl's Profile if set to 'Only Friends' will prevent this unwanted meeting.

The problem of sneaking people

Situation: A user is very worried about the messages of some guy she doesn't know but accidentally approves their friend request. Now she really didn't want to cancel her account, she just wanted to eliminate these strangers and make her profile only viewable by some people she allowed.

Solution : First, users should add this stranger to the Limited Profile list as introduced in the previous section. If there is an unwanted stranger like that, you can delete or block them: Go to the profile page of the individual, then click the Remove from Friends option at the bottom of the left column.

If someone continues to make friend requests, you can block this stranger by going to the Privacy page and typing their name in the search box, the 'Block People' area. The search results of Facebook will show up, you just need to click Block Person next to their name, then they will not be able to find you by searching, or viewing any information in your profile. .

With the level of stranger (privacy) in privacy or security mode, you can temporarily "hide" by making your profile hidden. Go to Privacy settings page and click Search. Visibility to Only Friends This will make Facebook not display your profile in general searches.

Search Result Result section allows you to choose whether to display photos or friends lists and links. If you don't want to contact everyone, remove the check marks in both options.

You can also use the Public Search Listing option to allow or not allow your profile to appear in search results for search engines such as Google.

Too much unnecessary mess

Situation: A user has accepted too many Star Wars gifts and now her profile page is "stuffed" with frivolous ingredients. As a result, she did not pass the job test she was applying for. The reason is because the director found her profile page and thought she was not serious enough with the job to hand over.

Solution: Cutting down clutter is not as difficult as cleaning them completely, but it takes a bit of effort to complete the job.

The non-default applications added to the main column on your Info page require a bit more work: Click the Applications button in the lower left part of the screen, then click Edit Applications at the bottom of the list. . On the page that appears, find the application you like to remove. Click Edit Settings, then click remove next to 'Info Section'. You can also remove unwanted tabs this way by clicking remove next to 'Tab'.

Next, notice a little bit about blocking applications, they are allowed to post to your account or not. On the Privacy Settings page, click News Feed and Wall , here you can start cutting down the amount of debris that Facebook uses to automatically locate your recent actions. What to choose here is the issue of personal credit and the amount of space you want your site to appear. Unchecking boxes on this page means there will be fewer items on your profile. These options are very clear, so the adjustment is also simple.

However, just removing an application box on the Profile page is not to remove the application completely from your profile. To do that, you have to go a little deep inside. Click the Applications button at the bottom left of the page, then select Edit Applications . Change 'Show' to 'Authorized', when you see all the applications that you have allowed access to your profile.

First, delete anything you no longer use (or want to use) by clicking on the X icon, then Remove . For applications to keep, you just need to make them more beautiful by clicking Edit Settings . Click Additional Permissions and uncheck the Publish recent activity to my wall option .

It seems to be working

Situation: A user spent almost an hour on playing Flash games on the website when he thought he could hide his manager and still seemed to be working. However, he was discovered - the reason is that the game posted his score on his Facebook profile without him knowing it. That's why the manager saw that score and he received a lecture about wasting the company's resources.

Solution: In this case, the employee was able to avoid that irony by turning off the third-party website's function that could post on his profile, a feature known as Facebook Beacon. .

To disable this feature, you can go to Privacy Settings , then Applications . Click the Settings tab. Find and cancel the "Don't allow Bea websites to post stories to my profile" section , under the Facebook Beacon title.

The center sneaks

Situation: A user broke up with her boyfriend and changed her relationship status to 'not yet loved'. However, there is still a red heart showing her presence to the world. The trouble here is that this is like an advertisement about yourself.

Solution: Rest assured that you can delete anything from your Wall. Just hover over the item you want to remove, and you'll see a 'Remove' button appear on the right side of the item. Click on that button and the item will disappear.

Smiling in front of the camera

Situation: Someone has tagged a user into a photo on Facebook, but he doesn't like the photo because this is a picture taken between a party - his eyes are closed and he's drunk drink alcohol.

Solution : You can't delete someone's photo, but it's easy to remove your own tag from any page, then it will be removed from the 'View Photos of Me 'of Facebook. To do so, simply find the photo you don't like and click the remove tag button next to your name in the header. When the tag is removed, you will not be able to tag back on that photo.

Not advertising

Situation: A user was in awe when he found out that his name was attached to a spam ad to his friends that mink never allowed. What happened?

Solution: Social ads "Social ads" is a Facebook term for the act of putting your name in an ad for a product, then forwarding it to your friends without Your permission. When you don't want to do that, you can turn it off. Go to the Facebook Privacy page and click on News Feed and Wall , then select the Social Ads tab . Change the selection to No one .

Spam Center

Situation: A user wakes up one morning and she discovers that her Facebook friends have been spammed with a message "Check out mygener.at". Although she did not send any messages and that made her worried that her account was hacked.

Indeed, Facebook is becoming a destination for all scammers, phishers and spammers. The typical method used is usually a fake website (with the '.at' tag in the URL) that looks like Facebook to trick you into providing your username and password. Then this site will take control of your account and start spamming your contacts with the fake site's URL in the hope of gaining more login.

Solution: Common security software won't help you much with these types of attacks - anti-forgery add-ons can help in some respects - so using senses is a good thing. Best advice. Keep your password secret, make sure that the site you visit every day is really Facebook, not a fake page containing malicious code.

Use a virtual URL

You should not configure your personal website on an account with a randomly generated URL. Why don't you set up a Facebook page with an unexposed URL instead of an ID number?

The web address (apps.facebook.com/webaddress/) will provide a virtual URL to navigate to your Facebook profile (or any page or group); For example, ' http://profile.to/null ' instead of ' http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=718386140 '. If you like to put your Facebook link on the business card or signature section of the email, this is a very convenient way to significantly reduce bad issues. (You can also use your favorite URL-short service to do the same job.)

Set up Facebook email terms

Facebook considers what it encounters on your Wall and what it emails you almost separately, so you have to visit another part to change what the network sends you via email. You will see these settings by clicking Settings (above the right corner), then the Notifications tab. Be prepared to click because you will have to click a lot of times: The page has over 50 different email settings for the main Facebook application, plus a setting for each of your add-on apps. Switch to the 'Off' option if necessary.