Hey everybody, David and David here from payetteforward.com and upphone.com, and in this video, we're
going to tell you about some Facebook Privacy Settings to change.
There's a lot of concern these days about large social media platforms having your data.
These Settings will help you have more privacy on Facebook.
Right.
There is pretty much no better data Gathering platform about you than Facebook.
Every time you like something and then every time one of your friends likes something,
they can build this Network, and it's amazing just how much information they have on us.
The way that we know about it is that when we run ads, we can target people who live
in Oklahoma, who like Shania Twain, who also have a house that's worth $250,000, and on
and on.
So let's get to these Settings.
Right.
Well, so let's open the Facebook app and tap on that little menu in the lower right-hand
corner of the screen, and scroll down to Settings and Privacy.
Then, tap Settings.
Here we go.
Everything we're going to be doing is in this part of the Facebook app.
So let's start with security and login.
First thing I want to talk about is two-factor authentication.
Two-factor authentication just means that somebody needs more than just your password
to be able to log into your account.
It's kind of a pain in the butt sometimes, but it's necessary for personal privacy.
Yes.
I'll tap on that and then select the security method.
They recommend using authentication app.
What do you think?
We should do an app or text message?
I think a text message.
Alright.
I know that the authentication app is supposed to be more secure, but the text message is
easier — perfect — than having to open a separate app every time.
Yes, let's tap continue.
That's my phone number.
Yeah, that's blurred out.
Blur that out.
Yeah, there we go.
Six digit code is being sent to my iPhone.
There it is.
Tap continue enter your password.
There we go.
Two-factor authentication is on; nice and easy.
Yeah, tap done.
So the iPhone is really good at automatically inserting these two-factor authentication
codes to the apps are okay.
I have to use the apps like Authy for some of the applications that we use that require
more security than just a text message, but I'm telling you, the text messages thing is
a lot easier and it still is secure.
Right.
So let's, tap back and, tap.
Again, next we want to talk about is facial recognition.
We want to turn off Facebook's ability to recognize your face.
They should just call it "Book".
Yeah.
So it'll scroll out of privacy and tap face recognition.
Do you want Facebook people to recognize you in photos and videos?
I don't!
I do not want Facebook collecting data about my face.
Yeah, and then using that data for who knows what?
Yeah, there's actually a lot of privacy concerns these days about facial recognition software;
some new bills being passed in Congress are being proposed anyway — to actually ban
this because of the security risks.
I mean, just just imagine how much data they have on us if they can analyze every photo
that everyone is uploading, not just from ourselves.
And then figure out where you've been.
It'd be so easy for people that take pictures to be identified.
Even the people that don't want to be.
Yep.
So we'll tap No.
There we go.
Nice and easy; facial recognition is off.
Next thing is Location Services.
We're gonna go back to the main page the Settings here and tap on location/ First thing, Location
Services.
We're going to set this to never.
So we have to actually go to the Settings app for this, huh?
Yep.
It'll take you to the Settings app.
Tap on location; set to never.
Now Facebook isn't going to track your location where you are all the time.
It's also can save battery life, too.
Yeah, and if you do want Facebook to be able to know where you are, because sometimes people
do want that, then definitely choose "While using this app" and don't choose "Always"
because Facebook does not need to know where you are when you're not using the app.
Yep.
That's sort of the creepy one.
So either never or while using this app.
Great.
So I'll go back to the Facebook app, go back to Settings.
And then I'll just open the app switcher by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Yep.
Next thing here Facebook Settings for this account.
My location history is on this is kind of like significant locations on the iPhone where
to saves a list of every place you've been I wonder how many apps are actually doing
this probably quite all over the place.
Yep.
I'm just gonna go ahead and turn that switch off.
I don't want Facebook saving a list of places that I've been.
Right.
Why do they need to know that?
I don't know.
I know where I've been.
The next thing we're going to do is turn off Facebook's ability to send you exclusive.
Extremely targeted ads Based on data that they've collected about you.
So how do we do that?
Now?
Let's go back to the main page and Settings here and we're going to scroll down to add
preferences here your Facebook ad preferences going to, tap on add Settings too bad.
You can't just say none.
Yeah, and then, tape, tap on ads Based on data from partners, and advertisers, app developers,
and Publishers, but your activity and Facebook's helpless show you relevant ad relevant and
useful ads and includes your use of partner websites and where those like every single
website.
So, like, here we go: PayetteForward.com uses the Facebook pixel.
The Facebook pixel runs in the background of pretty much every website that you visit
because it allows people that run ads to Target you.
So imagine if you went to Travelocity then you're on Facebook travelocity11.
So know who was already on their website and what pages they looked at so that they can
pay more money to put ads for Cancun or whatever for that person.
That's why you see ads this is going to turn off their ability to do that.
Yep.
So to turn this off, tap continue in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and then just
turn off this switch next to allowed now.
It is not allowed.
Right.
They really don't want you to do this one.
They say that turning it off is going to still show you the same number of ads maybe maybe
because advertisers aren't going to pay to put ads in front of you if you're not worth
it, right.
So maybe you might see fewer ads to be honest.
Yeah, and the last thing is just, tap save lower right-hand corner of the screen.
Your choice has been saved, tap done while we're here in the ads Settings.
Let's just go ahead and, tap on ads based on your activity on Facebook Company products.
You see elsewhere kind of the same thing as what we just turned off just go ahead and,
tap on that scroll down and select no.
Done easily go blessing want to talk about is the internet research agency.
That was the Russia linked troll farm for lack of a better term that created a bunch
of fake Facebook pages and try to interfere with the u.s.
Elections in 2016.
Facebook has a way to see if you actually accidentally liked one of those pages and
we can accidentally we can drop a link to that in the description section below.
And basically if you go to this page, you'll say hey here are a list of the internet research
agency accounts that you've liked or followed or whatever.
Yeah, just go ahead and I'm like them.
Yeah, they should call it the sucker page gotcha.
So to check out that page make sure you're not you're not following any of these Ira.
Well, I guess I hadn't liked her followed any of them.
Yeah.
I haven't either I was a good.
Yeah, I mean, I don't really use Facebook that much anyway, but when I was making this
video is very realize that it all these Settings turned on.
Yeah, and I was well, it's on by default.
Yeah, they just turn everything on you hit agree to their terms and conditions and you've
given your life away if you've used Facebook for a while and you just didn't ever went
into this part of the Facebook app.
I mean all this stuff is probably on — it's been on for years.
Those are some Facebook Privacy Settings to change now.
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