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When your Facebook profile is open to the public, you are not only making your photos public, you are also exposing your records, your employer, your city, your family members and even your likes and interests! Facebook is a hot spot for cybercriminals looking to carry out phishing scams and collect user data. After all, for many of us, it's a time capsule of private information like old email addresses, dates of birth, maiden names, the list goes on! If you distribute enough private information, it can unfortunately be used for a number of malicious acts.
This is why it is important to review your Facebook profile settings to protect your profile from unintended glances and limit the personal information you share with the vast web.
Change your Facebook privacy settings via a web browser or mobile app:
So, the first step you can take to protect your valuable information on Facebook is to customize your privacy settings. This is the step where you can change who sees your future posts, see items you've already been tagged in, who can send you a friend request, etc. via the web browser. Now, if you want to change your privacy settings using the mobile app, it's a simple process. Similar to the browsers process, you have the ability to customize the audience for your future posts, view items in which you have already been tagged, who can send you a friend request, etc. via the mobile application.
How to make your friends list private via web browser or mobile app:
So, making your Facebook friends list publicly available is not such a good idea. Not only can this open your profile to phishing scams, but in general it's nice to have control over who can view your personal connections. You can even change “how people find and contact you,” allowing you to block spam messages or phishing attacks from non-Facebook friends. If you want to do this on the mobile app, luckily, you can! Here you can make your friends list available to "public", "friends", "specific friends" or "only me". If you want to keep your friends list hidden from prying eyes, it's probably a good idea to choose: "friends", "specific friends" or "only me".
How to hide your birthday via web browser or mobile app:
There are many reasons why you would want to hide your birthday: security, privacy and generally who needs to know that you are 30 for the third year in a row, this can be done either on your web browser or on your mobile. application!
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