So the next thing is time-line and tagging.
Just to explain the terminology briefly, time-line -your time line is what was previously known
as your wall - essentially your personal area.
It's timeline now because it shows a record of your online activity in the time period
since you've been on Facebook
So the first one - who can add things to my timeline.There are only two options here - friends
or only me.
Now you would only select only me if you didn't want anyone to post on your wall or even comment
on anything you do on Facebook which when you think about it really goes against the
purpose of being on Facebook in the first place so most of the time you would just leave
that as friends.
Now there are two options around something called tagging.
Tagging is where someone mentions your name in one of their posts, they put the @ character
in front of it or you are in a picture and they tag your name in it . And this would
mean that it could appear on your timeline as well as their own timeline.
So you have an option here - to review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your
timeline.
So you get some control about what gets displayed on your wall.
So I would suggest it is worth doing that enabling it particularly where you find a
particular friend tags you in a lot of posts and it fills up your own wall and you can't
even see your own posts.
There is another option further down here -How can I manage tags people add - review
tags people add to your own posts .
So you've written something and then they tag you which could be shared elsewhere further
afield.
so again I would recommend that you also enable that review option.
Who can see things on my timeline ? And this is your chance to see how your timeline looks
to other people.
So you click on view as - this is how someone , a member of the public would see it . One
thing to note is there's no add friend or friend request button Privacy settings are
such that you would have to send a message to be in contact with the person.
So if you view it as a specific person - I'll just show you somebody who's already a friend
- you can see a slightly different viewpoint.
The friend can actually see the posts that are on there and there's a suggest friends
button where they could recommend other friends to this person.
So its part of the trusted network thing,and its a useful thing to review what it is that
you've got publicly displayed at any given time.
Particularly as we'll mention , Facebook from time to time can adjust the security settings
, you will be notified about it but its always good to check on these things.
OK so back in timeline and tagging who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline?
- thats set to everyone by default I would recommend reducing it to just friends.
And similarly who can see what others post on your timeline - I would also change from
everyone to friends as it is here.
One final option - When you are tagged in a post who do you want to add to the audience
if they aren't already in it?
- you could just suggest only me, as the most limited option.
Do you want to spread the messages around or do you want to retain control.
So those are my recommendations.
Remember privacy settings, these are best practices and can vary over time depending
on your comfort factor with how you've got things set up, But from the outset try to
put practical limits in place, see how they work and then you can enable things, rather
than the other way round where everything's open and you go from that into an unmanageable
situation.
So this is you taking full control.