In April 2010 Facebook began a pilot program opening their API and allowing Facebook identities to be ported across the web to sites like Yelp and Pandora. Just in case you or someone you know wants to know how to disable this and other profile-sharing features this guide explains it all!

1. 360° Digital Influence Privacy and Account Basics Your Facebook Profile April/May 2010

3. Control who sees what on your profile . . 13

4. Stop getting so many emails/ texts. . . 10

5. Stop your name from appearing in ads. . 11

6. Block someone from finding you. . . 13

7. Block silly application invites. . . . 15

8. NEW-Turn off auto-login on other sites. . 15-16

10. How and Why to Create Friend Lists . . 6

12. Birthday will automatically show up on your profile (but can easily be removed)

14. Step 5- Adding Interests connects you to other users or to brands you like. You can search for interests like “cooking” or brands such as “Yankees” or “Lakers.”

17. Add a name to help you organize friends (e.g. family, school, Ogilvy, networking)

18. Add friends to lists when you send/accept a request at anytime. They won’t know they’ve been added to a list

20. In Privacy and Account settings you can control which friend lists can or can not see certain information or photos and updates.

23. A few that aren’t:

24. Username- This will create a personalized URL for you such as Facebook.com/MyName.

25. Linked Accounts- This will automatically log you into Facebook if you’re in these other accounts. Great for power users.

27. These emails will come to your primary email address.

28. Just check or uncheck boxes to change settings.

30. To turn this off completely or limit it to certain friends use this drop down.

32. Finding the Most Important Settings: Privacy Privacy: Home Profile-Customize who can see your Profile and Contact information (Details- Slide 14) Applications and Websites-Control where your name and information appears in Applications and other websites like Yelp.com (Details- Slide 15) Search-Control when your name and picture will appear on Facebook Search and Search Engines. Block List-Block specific names and emails from seeing your profile or contacting you.

34. Use Friend Lists to Customize what your friends, family, or work contacts can see (Slide 7 for details).

35. When you choose My Networks it will allow others from your school or workplace to see the information even if you are not friends with them.

36. When you choose Everyone it will let ANY Facebook user or browser see the information even if you aren’t friends with them.

37. Turn On or Off your Wall here.Preview Your Profile-Curious what this will look like to each group? Click Preview My Profile to see the default and Customize views.

39. If you get too many Application invitations from a particular friend block that friend’s request or all requests here.

42. To delete an application, visit this page and click the X next to the Application.

43. Remember Friend Lists? Here you can Customize which lists can see what.Profile Control who can see this application and where it lives on your Profile. Bookmark This will make a bookmark of the application on the left-hand side of your Home. Permissions Control individual Application permissions.

44. Things to Remember When Using Facebook…. Always watch out for updates to Facebook. Generally, Facebook will alert you on your Homepage about new updates to Account and Privacy settings. Pay attention. If you have concerns about Privacy and Account updates keep up with Facebook’s blog where they regularly preview and collect comments on upcoming changes. http://blog.facebook.com/ Facebook is your friend. This is supposed to be a fun, useful tool and Facebook makes money by selling your attention to advertisers so they want you to be happy. Facebook is a service and if at any point you don’t like it anymore, just turn it off. Don’t forget about the Help Center (see next slide).

45. The Facebook Help Center http://www.facebook.com/help/