Facebook Privacy

If you are into social networking, Facebook is a website where you can get in touch with families and friends even if they are at the other side of the globe. You can easily search for your friends so you would get to exchange messages and share photos in an instant. Usually, Facebook users update their status often so that others will know their feelings and the latest happenings about them. Whenever there is an update on their account, their friends will immediately see it just like a news feed. Because of this, many Facebook users were concerned about their privacy since there is a free access to their information.

Some people said that Facebook can be a great tool for stalking. Even without exerting effort, you can see all the news feeds about your Facebook contacts as soon as you log in your own account. While others are glad to have this feature as it allows them to stay updated with their family and friends, other users think that the news feeds are just giving away so much details about them.

If you are a Facebook user and you don't want most of your information to be seen by your contacts, you can always control your privacy settings. Limit the people who can view your profile, photos, and you can even choose which part of your Facebook profile is viewable. You can choose which part of your profile can be viewed by your family and which details are viewable by your friends.

Recently, Facebook announced that search engines can gain access in a member's profile. But the user has the option whether they would like their names to appear or not by changing their privacy settings.

Thanks to the power of the Intenet, we are now living in a smaller world. There are now different forms of communications so you could get in touch with your friends and families effortlessly. It is just up to you how much information you would like to share and how much you would like to keep as a private detail.