Facebook Privacy Settings Got You Down? Here's a Guide!

Rik Ferguson: Making the Most Out of Facebook’s Privacy Settings

Facebook’s privacy settings – opaque at best to even the savviest users and constantly changing – can seem like a hurdle even when you’re strongly motivated to lock your account down. Rik Ferguson, Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, has written a helpful guide on how to configure your Facebook account’s privacy settings. His tips include

• keeping snoopers out of your account
• controlling which people and apps can see and use your content
• safeguarding your data from advertisements
• restricting who can post to your timeline
• dividing your friends into lists for different access levels
• managing followers and events

Check out the guide here!