Facebook is one of the most popular sites on the Internet and people are posting everything from baby pictures to their uttermost thoughts. Unfortunately, the privacy settings on the popular networking site change often and are confusing. Often people are sharing what they think is private and have protected information meant to share. Learn how the Facebook privacy settings work and how to explain them to users. Virtual Trainer: Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services

1. Facebook and Privacy: A
Librarian Toolkit
Diana Silveira, Novare Library Services

2. Today’s Goal
Understand Facebook’s
privacy options, privacy
concerns and be able to
explain them to users

3. Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy

4. Golden Rules
Don’t publish what you
don’t want others to know.
There is no true “Privacy”
on the web.

5. What Facebook knows about you

6. Required at Sign Up
 Name
 Email
 Birthday
 Gender

7. Always Public
 Name
This helps your friends and family find you. If you are uncomfortable sharing
your real name, you can always deactivateor delete your account.
 Profile Pictures
This helps your friends and family recognize you. If you are uncomfortable
making your profile picture public, you can always delete it by hovering over
your photo and clicking "Change Picture."
 Network
This helps you see whom you will be sharing information with before you
choose "Friends and Networks" as a custom audience. If you are
uncomfortable making your network public, you can leave the network.
 Username and User ID
These allow you to give out a custom link to your profile or Page, receive
email at your Facebook email address, and help make Facebook Platform
possible. Learn more.

8. What we optionally share
 Status
 Photos
 Comments
 Our “Likes”
 Our Friends

9. What does your profile look like to
others?

10. New Timeline
 When you launch it, take some time to review your timeline
 Delete the embarrassing, awkward and other moments you want to forget.

12. Status and Picture Settings
 “As a general rule, you should assume that if you do not see
a sharing icon, the information will be publicly available.”
 Default is “Public”
Your lists

13. When you share
information with
others, they can
also choose to
make it public.

14. Who is accessing your info?
Tip: You can remove certain permissions without removing entire app

15. What can companies compile on you?
 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

16. Facebook Cookies

17. Oops! Who was caught
 Cookies - tracking when not logged into Facebook
 Profiles for nonmembers
 Deleting from view - but not really deleting

18. Safety/Privacy and Hijacking
 Change your password regularly
 Do not use: kid name, pets name, birthdate
 Use: Numbers, Symbols, multiple words,
 Use different passwords for different sites – so one hack doesn’t
give someone access to everything

19. What about other social networks?
Twitter
Google+
LinkedIn
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20. Contact Me
Diana Silveira
diana@novarelibrary.com
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Novare Library Services 877-816-9638