<p>I have no interest in becoming a member of said social network community—just not my thing. Guess it’s just so popular, I feel the need to understand how it works, just a bit… I don’t see how future employers/school ad coms, etc, etc can use FB as a source of potentially incriminating information if they haven’t been ‘friended’. Not sure what that really means, but believe if you don’t welcome a new friend into your circle, he/she can’t get in to see your facebook information…Yes? If I google you and you are a member of FB, I won’t necessarily get a FB ‘hit’ on you…Yes? …because it’s a 'closed community???</p>
<p>Initially, all information is open to all members of Facebook.
One must take active precautionary steps, specify which groups can and cannot view certain parts of one’s profile.</p>
<p>Actually, the default setting, at least when I joined this summer, was to be closed to all but friends. Privacy can be set further than that, but I have never viewed the pages of anyone I’m not “friends” with.</p>
<p>If the settings are correct you can only view the profile picture of someone you are not friends with. Good reason to make sure your profile picture is suitable for the general public.
You can also view comments posted by those who aren’t your friends on your friends page. Say my friend Alice posts something and then her friend Susie posts something. I can read Susie’s posts even if we are not friends.<br>
So make sure profile picture is suitable for the general public and make sure comments are suitable for the general public.</p>
<p>It’s highly adjustable to be as private as you want from people you don’t know and as specific as you want within those people that you do know.</p>
<p>And it’s the future.</p>
<p>i know people who have made their privacy settings so that no one can find their profile or even know it exists really. its all about being smart, so if you’re careful you wont have problems</p>
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<p>Not unless you allow this in the settings, something I did not realize myself until recently. I believe Cross0328 is correct - you can set it so that not even friends of friends can see your profile picture or even find your account. Mutual friends will, however still see your wall posts - not sure if there’s a way to restrict that aside from sending the equivalent of a PM. </p>
<p>I have what my D jokingly refers to as my old “stalker” account (from when I used it to monitor when they were younger). My only friends on it were the kids. It used to be under a screenname for privacy reasons , but now that the controls are better, I use my own. As far as I know, nobody can search for it or know it exists, including the kids’ friends (who have my kids as mutual friends).</p>
<p>One thing re: photos to watch out for:</p>
<p>A is friends with B, but not C.
B is friends with A and C.
C posts photos and tags B. A is able to see those photos and any others in that album, simply by clicking on the newsfeed item that states that B was tagged in an album. So, it’s not just your friends who may see what photos you’re posting but also any/every friend of the friends you tag.</p>
<p>^and D- a large bong or alcoholic beverage- or a RED PLASTIC CUP (same thing in the eyes of anyone that would scour photo albums- is in there. That’s when the trouble begins.</p>
<p>^^Moral of alwaysamom’s story: Don’t mug for photos with drinks or illegal substances in your hands.</p>
<p>People that hunt through facebook albums for incriminating photos don’t get into heaven. They may get to not hire you for a job, but they lose in the long run.</p>
<p>I just bought a computer to keep recipes in. Can I use them right in Windows, or do I need to use the Google for that? And do I insert the recipe cards face-up or face-down?</p>
<p>People don’t have to hunt through. Other people do that for them, print them or e-mail them, and the media have a heyday. Think Michael Phelps.</p>
<p>MS–I have no idea about your recipe question.</p>
<p>So what privacy settings do you all use and why? </p>
<p>I recently joined Facebook for networking reasons and had set it available to “everyone”. But it’s hard to keep the personal out, I’m finding, and am thinking of changing to either “friends” or “friends of friends”.</p>
<p>Obviously, I don’t have an incriminating photos to worry about since I lead a fairly tame life these days (no red cups), but now my S and D are my “friends”, so maybe I should start restricting access. Am I right in assuming that if my “friends” are not also friends with D, they will only be able to see her profile page (if they click on her icon if she comments on my profile page, for example)? She posts a lot of personal photos that I wouldn’t want strangers perusing.</p>
<p>You can customize the settings. I have a pretty open profile so that it comes up on a Google search professionally, along with my LinkedIn profile. But mostly I use it to keep up with family and find old friends so the rest is closed. People can find me and read the profile but cannot see anything else unless I let them in. For photos, I post that only friends can see them. I put people in groups and when I put up photos I specify that only the group can see them but not friends of friends. Nothing incriminating there, just the general public does not need to peruse family photos. If you are already on FB, go to the settings tab and really read through everything there.</p>
<p>Mantori–you insert the recipe cards through that cupholder on the front of your computer (on the side if it’s a laptop.)</p>
<p>I often open photos to friends of friends, because I don’t mind if my nieces and nephews see them, but I’m only friends with their parents. Some of my less serious artwork I have open to everyone. Everything else I limit to friends. My profile doesn’t show up in a google search. I actually think I could make myself a little easier to find.</p>
<p>One word of warning: having old friends find you on Facebook can be a mixed blessing!</p>
<p>The other thing is whether your name is a common or uncommon one. My real name (no, it’s not pizzagirl, lol) is a reasonably common one and there are quite a few people with the same name in both Facebook and LinkedIn, thus making a search that more difficult. If you have a very unique name, it’s easier to be found. I know that if you were to google my real name, you’d have to go quite deep to find the “real me.”</p>
<p>One thing to note- there is a setting that lets everyone in your “network” see your profile. That means, for example, if “Boston” is your primary location network, anyone who is also in the “Boston” network can see your profile and wall unless you change that setting. Same for your college network.</p>