- Hey everybody, thanks for checking out the video.
My name's Larry Snow.
In today's video we're gonna be taking a look
at privacy settings on Facebook.
So let's get started.
The first question you're probably asking
is how the heck do I get to my privacy settings on Facebook?
Well, you click this tiny little upsidedown triangle
or I call it a down arrow, and you can go
all the way down to Settings.
You click on that page, you get to the page I'm on.
I'm also on the desktop, so it might be looking
a little differently on mobile.
The first tab we have is General,
feel free to take a look at that,
make sure everything matches the way you want it.
I'm not going to be talking about that in this video.
We're gonna get to the meat and potatoes here.
This is Security and Login.
First thing you want to do,
and it's recommended by Facebook,
is make sure you have up to three to five friends
that can help you get your account unlocked, or unblocked
for whatever reason, very important.
Next stop, also very important, is to make sure
that these devices that are connected
to your Facebook account are actually yours.
If they're not, contact Facebook.
Next one is Login, feel free, you can change
your password here.
And I've also opted in for this
login with your profile picture,
I have not yet seen it in action.
And then, the next important part here,
is setting up extra security.
Get alerts by unrecognized logins.
This has only happened to me once,
and I contacted Facebook immediately
and whoever it was, no one bothered
to try to get into my account.
But this will set up an email alert
whenever someone's trying to log into your account
that isn't you.
The next one, also very important.
Use two-factor authentication.
So what that means is, you will get
an notification from Facebook saying
you're trying to log in.
Well, here is a code, and if it's you,
we're gonna send a code to your SMS, your phone,
in text message.
You take that text message and you put it
into the field that's provided by Facebook
and there you go, you can get access to your website.
I have that setup on all my browsers,
mobile, wherever that is, I have that set up,
it's very important.
Next tab we're gonna take a look at is Privacy.
So the first tab, Security Login deals just with that,
making sure your account is secure,
making sure your login is secure,
and verifying all the information, right?
The next one is about your privacy
about what you are sharing, and what you want to see,
and who can contact you, and that type of thing.
So let's get started.
Who can see your future posts.
Right now, everyone in the past, they can see it the public,
but if I changed it to me, then going forward,
I would see the posts.
Here in Activity Log, you can review
all of the posts that you are tagged in.
If you missed it, and said, who's the guy
that tagged me in that post?
You can go to this activity log
and you can find out who it was,
if you missed it.
Alright, next, who can contact me.
I have it set to Friends of Friends,
but if you click the Edit button,
you can select Friends of Friends or Everyone.
Who can look you up using your email.
I have it set to Friends of Friends.
If I clicked on Everyone, or just Friends,
perhaps that might be a better setting,
but if I clicked on Everyone,
Everyone, since I'm a public profile,
everyone would be able to email me,
so that's why I only have it to Friends of Friends.
Same thing with your phone number,
I have it set to Friends of Friends.
Now, since because I have a public profile,
I have also said that my public profile
can be found in search engines.
You can also turn that off.
Let's go down to Timeline and Tagging.
So your Timeline is your own personal newsfeed
that shows up on your profile.
I have it set to Friends, so friends can actually post
on my Timeline.
And then I also have the ability to review that
if I so choose.
Here you have the ability to see
what your Timeline looks like to your friends.
You can do a View As.
This does not change anything,
you're just simply looking at your profile
as if you are a friend.
It's a good way to see, once you have these settings set up
that they actually change and they're working for you.
The next one here is how can I manage tags?
People add and tagging suggestions.
I have that off, but if you click the Edit button,
I can turn on Tag Review,
so I can enable it.
Anytime anyone tags me in a photo or post,
I'll get a notification, which I can review it,
and then I can approve it.
So that's Timeline and Tagging.
You can also manage people to block them if you so choose.
You can even block messages, block app invites,
and I've actually blocked a few.
And then you have this wonderful thing
with blocking apps now.
It's not so much now with the new versions
of Facebook this year, but years past,
I would always get invites for gaming apps.
And so as you can see, I've blocked quite a few here
and it's been very helpful to clean up my newsfeed.
I recommend that if you're getting a lot
of spam invites from people you don't even know.
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and I'll see you in the next video.