- What's New with Facebook Privacy?
- Sharing Information on Facebook
- Setting Custom Sharing Options
- Hiding Your Information from Other Websites
- Removing Unwanted Fan Pages
Sharing Information on Facebook
You configure most of your important privacy settings directly from the Choose Your Privacy Settings screen. It's the Sharing on Facebook section that's key, as this is where you tell Facebook what information you want to share with whom.
There are nine settings included in this section:
- My status, photos, and posts
- Bio and favorite quotations
- Family and relationships
- Photos and videos I'm tagged in
- Religious and political views
- Birthday
- Can comment on posts
- Email addresses and IM
- Phone number and address
You can choose to share any of these items with everyone on the Facebook site, your friends on Facebook (i.e., friends only), and your friends and their friends (i.e., friends of friends).
To apply the same sharing settings across all these items, select Everyone, Friends of Friends, or Friends Only to the left of the list. Even better, select Recommended and Facebook applies the settings as shown in the following table:
Sharing Option |
Setting |
My status, photos, and posts |
Everyone |
Bio and favorite quotations |
Everyone |
Family and relationships |
Everyone |
Photos and videos I'm tagged in |
Friends of Friends |
Religious and political views |
Friends of Friends |
Birthday |
Friends of Friends |
Can comment on posts |
Friends Only |
Email addresses and IM |
Friends Only |
Phone numbers and address |
Friends Only |