How To Change Your Default Privacy Settings
From Facebookstalker Wiki
This should be an obvious tweak but most people ignore it. By default anyone in your networks can see everything you’re doing on Facebook. Click on the My Privacy link to start editing your information. One thing Facebook does very poorly is it always assumes you’re going to want to share all of your information with your global networks for cities, schools and businesses.
HACK: If you don’t join any networks then the default privacy settings aren’t that bad.
[edit] Profile
- Profile defaults to All my networks and all my friends when it should be Only my friends.
- Contact emailsgs like turn off your wall, hide your online status and hide your groups.
- of the options I stopped appearing.
- By default people can see your picture, send you a message, poke you or add you as a friend from the search results.
- Facebook search results now show up in Google search results. These privacy settings will prevent you from showing up.
[edit] News Feed and Mini-feed
This is the most worrisome display of private information on Facebook. Your newsfeed publishes information on everything you are doing on Facebook. I’d turn most if not all of these off. At the very least turn off the Show times in my Mini-feed option — no one needs to know you spent all morning tweaking your profile.
[edit] Poke, Message and Friend Request Settings
Whenever you poke, message or friend request someone they are able to see parts of your profile even though your privacy setting may normally prevent them. Change these to whatever you are comfortable with. They are only shown when you initiate contact with someone.
[edit] Privacy Settings for Friends, Notes, and Facebook Development Platform
- Friends list. By default Everyone can see your friends list. It should be Only my friends.
- Notes are like a mini-blog. By default Everyone can see your notes. It should be Only my friends.
Don’t forget other privacy settings that are hidden in your Edit Profile like displaying your birthday. That’s also where the email notification settings are tucked away.
