How much we will allow Facebook to share?

Datalogix is now partner up with Facebook to provide advertiser more control to reach targeted users. But this practice lead to more information sharing with third party company. Mistrust on Facebook is spreading widely. Bit what we over look is the potential of such content sharing.
Facebook is widespread global community, with the idea of keeping services free.

" It's free and always will be"

But still there is a price to pay. You share you private information online and share it with not just your friend's but the people who are in your profile.
Now there is one lill set back, it's not only sharing your private data with the people you never but also with third party applications or websites. This is something that Facebook users are concerned of. Now here many of you may ask what to share with whom. My friend asked me: I have lots of friend's on Facebook but I don't want to share everything on my timeline to everyone. <br>
I answered him it's soo simple boy, you must know that Facebook is based on the view that you should not feel shy in sharing your personal information to people from different community or ethnicity. This is what you sign when you agrees to terms and conditions of Facebook. That means the adds and apps use our data for their purposes.
Now after understanding this that it's not fault of Facebook, you should know that you can keep data private.
First thing to do is to organize your friends and family in lists. Make lists as much as you like or want. There are some auto generated lists by Facebook. If you want much strong privacy then ignore all auto lists. Make your own and enter appropriate friends is list.
Second you should know how to change privacy modes in settings. Goto in top right corner bluebar you will see dropdown arrow button. Click it and you will see your pages and your advert and it has also settings for account and privacy.

Goto account settings, there see your password last change date. Change password time to time and take backups for your Facebook. Many don't know that you can do this on Facebook.

Now goto security settings there keep secure browsing on. Click on login approvals and on it so that each unrecognized location is logged. Add recognized device to your list.

Now you goto notifications and set there settings as required ( will be writing a blog on security. So this will be explained in detail there)
Now in subscriber settings you should change your settings to friends, if you are very private person. The options there are self explanatory. Set them as you like.

After restricting your subscribers you can now move on applications that are using your data. At applications you will see list of all your apps that you have used. Do click an application and you will see what options you have allowed and why the application needs it.

If you see post on your behalf, there you will see who can see your post set it to your liking. I recommend using custom settings and only add people who uses this app so others won't get disturbed by posts of applications.

Many applications are used once so remove such applications that you don't use anymore. You can set your notifications too in the settings.

To really get secure or staying private, You can use your privacy settings or edit your Timeline to control who sees the information/posts there.

 There you will fnd default settings, do click on custom and add lists you want your posts to be shared with and add lists in "Hide this from" to hide posts from. This will manage your posts by default.

To put apps in mode of privacy and to put your other stuff and post shared by your friends see below.

here you will see five or six menu. Click on how you connect and you will see that you can easily manage privacy of your posts. Limit the audience to your liking in last option so that all timeline is not visible.
Now the place comes where we are/ Facebook users are mostly concerned.
On Facebook, your name, profile picture, gender, networks, username and user id (account number) are always publicly available. Now you will see a list of settings go to apps you use and you will see that you have already configured it. Next edit how people option and select appropriate options only. Instant personalization will take you to Facebook video tutorial and it will help you understand alot good features.

Public search and also the settings for adverts can be found here and you can easily manage your data.

Now the big question what about tags and sharing of others on your wall. Goto Timeline and Tagging there you will find options to set how your wall will place activity. Posts you choose not to include on your timeline may still appear elsewhere on Facebook.Now you usecstom option and add list of people whom you like to share the post your tagged in.

So all in all Facebook still doing grate job to provide the privacy needed by user but it got more complex and time taking but once set you will have a great peace of mind.
Regards
Syed Sohaib Jamil