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Quick Tip: Facebook Privacy Settings
Note: This article was published while I was in my early 20s. I was much younger and dumber. Please don't hold it against me. One of the perils of having a 20+ year old website!
Facebook, at their annual F8 Conference in San Fransisco, announced that they were expanding the reach of social networking to make it easier for 3rd party sites to access your information on Facebook. This sounds awesomely wonderful if you don’t care about the info you put online. A possible plus is full integration between your likes and related sites. Maybe you “Like” a director on Facebook, so IMDB recognizes it and changes it’s homepage to some of his upcoming work for you. However, you may also see that this is big brother horrifying. It’s also opt-out, not in. So today’s Quick Tip is how to opt out.
- Log into Facebook
- Go to this Privacy Page
- Uncheck Allow select partners to instantly personalize their features with my public information when I first arrive on their websites.
- Confirm
After that, you’re good to go.
From the EFF: How to Opt Out of Facebook Instant Personalisation: http://w2.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/how-opt-out-facebook-s-instant-personalization/ (it’s more than just unchecking allow!)