Facebook privacy settings

Understanding Facebook privacy

It is extremely important that you understand the privacy settings on Facebook. Should you choose to share e.g. photos publicly on Facebook, this means that everybody (not only your friends) is able to see this information. Ensure that your posts are just shared privately (i.e. with your friends). It is also advisable not to share personal information like your contact numbers and physical address on Facebook. Third party persons and web sites are able to access public Facebook information so ensure that you check your privacy settings before proceeding.

Review the tutorial below on understanding Facebook's privacy settings.

To make it easy for you, follow this step by step process to ensure your online privacy on Facebook:

• Generally, you should only accept friend requests from people that you know
  
• Only provide information on Facebook that you are comfortable with your friends knowing
  
• The 'privacy settings' on Facebook will allow you to decide how much information people can see, you can access this by clicking on this arrow: 
  

• On the left side of the page, click here:

• Now you are able to change your settings.