You Idiot! Your Facebook Profile Still Isn't Private?!

You Idiot! Your

Facebook Still

Isn't Private?!(a how-to from grb.uk.com)

But what about my job interview!

Last night’s photos are up on Facebook

guys…

Yes…set my profile to private

How to keep your Facebook profile private? By www.grb.uk.com

1. Edit your account and Privacy settings

Click on the padlock symbol in top right hand corner and select ‘See More Settings’ to get the full privacy and account setting options

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1. Edit your account and Privacy settings: your visibility

Under ‘Privacy settings and Tools’ make sure future and tagged posts are set to ‘friends’

Decide who you want to be able to look you up and select accordingly



1. Edit your account and Privacy settings: tagging

Under ‘Timeline and Tagging’ make sure only friends can add or see things on your timeline

Manage your tagging preferences



1. Edit your account and Privacy settings: extra settings

In ‘Security Settings’ enable HTTPS ‘Secure browsing’

…and ‘Login Approvals’ to make sure no one can hack your account from another device



Give me all your information!!!

Erm…no?

2. Edit your ‘about’ information: Work and education

Under ‘Work and education’ decide what you want to be visible to the public.

-Do you want potential employers to see your previous work or would you rather it was private?

-Do you want people to see which schools and university you attended?

Edit accordingly



2. Edit your ‘about’ information:Contact

Keep information like a personal mobile number or actual address private.

If you want people to still be able to contact you,set your email address to ‘Public’ or ‘Friends’.



2. Edit your ‘about’ information:Additional categories

Decide what other ‘About’ information you want to be visible, such as your family members, relationship status and your current location

Remember, you can leave some ‘About’ information blank if you want- you don’t have to fill everything in!



Oi! Gary, where’s my next interview!

According to her Facebook status ‘She’s horribly hungover in bed…’

3. Monitor specific posts: Statuses

Before you post a new status make sure it is set to ‘Friends’, not ‘Public’.

Remember, you can go back and change past posts’ visibility at any time by selecting ‘Edit or remove’ to the right of the post.



3. Monitor specific posts: tagged posts

If someone posts something on your wall that you don’t want public, you can set it to ‘Friends’, ‘Only me’, hide it from your timeline or report it as spam.



3. Monitor specific posts: pictures

You can ‘Report/Remove a tag’ or hide pictures from your timeline thatyou have been tagged in by selecting the options at the bottom of the picture and in the right hand side bar.



By night, me time!

4. Keep your personal and professional lives separate

Create a page for your professional information by using the ‘Create a page’ tab on the left hand menu.

Use this to share any posts of a work- related nature and keep personal photos or statuses to your private account. Information on your page can be public to give you more visibility.



Do you think something like THIS makes a difference???



Remember…• Posting a status declaring you have

the copyright to all content means nothing!



Any other tips? Please share with

us in the comments section!

Good Luck!

The Graduate Recruitment Bureau

www.grb.uk.com


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You Idiot! Your Facebook Profile Still Isn't Private?!