Many consider leaving Facebook because of all the problems of privacy around you. If you are not ready to take it this far, here is how to avoid privacy violations without losing your account and contact your friends completely.
We've all had a friend who deactivated his Facebook account and never heard from them, because they could not be contacted. Like the telephone, email, and instant messaging had never been invented, many people are lost when communicating with others if your Facebook is just a click away. Although the situation is not so serious, Facebook continues to be the medium where people connect and break this relationship completely that can be difficult.
But now, with the issue of privacy many people have legitimate reasons to leave Facebook. It is the same question: Still worth having Facebook or is better to avoid future violations of privacy?
Luckily, there is another alternative media. That is not a tutorial on how to change privacy settings. This is a tutorial on how to create a Facebook profile minimalistic as possible,with as little information about you as possible, in order to be used only to communicate with their friends. You can not do much on the site, you probably do not even visit the site often, but that's the idea. This is not for people who want to continue using Facebook, is for people who are ready to leave Facebook, but did not want to miss the opportunity of the next party just because they care about your privacy. So if you are really willing to give up wall posts, comments, requests, Farmville fan pages and here's how to proceed without disappearing from the face of the Earth.
Most people probably already have an email address disposable. The idea is that if you create a second email address for free and use it to register "suspicious" sites, you will not have to deal with spam in your main account later. Facebook has undoubtedly become one of the sites you might call suspicious with all the mistakes and blunders of privacy violation.
You can also configure message notifications and invitations to events and access e-mail (without having to check Facebook), and even re-send the information to your primary email account. This way, you will have to check this apart, but if something happens, like if Facebook makes public his email for 30 minutes (which has happened), you can remove the extra mail address, create a new one, and link it to Facebook, without having to deal with spam for eternity.
You can use any service to do this, such as creating a new Gmail address separate from your regular account of Google (or any service), and access it using the private browsing mode (to avoid having to leave the interface of Gmail), just set the forwarding filters and ready. (To set up forwarding, just log into your account, click Create Filter and set the filter to send any email from Facebook to your main account, you can always turn off the filter, in case something happens).
Technically, this part is optional, but may also have the greatest impact on the rest of your experience. You can simply edit all the information on your account now, but if you create a new and erases the previous have a completely clean canvas. You will not have any publications out there, there will be no personal information at risk and there will be others to tag photos. Also, this is the time to get rid of all your friends that you do not need.
This process is quite simple, especially since you already have a new email address created in step one. Quit Facebook and create a new account using that email address. Do not enter any information, and do not add new friends, for now, save your old profile (need to friend your account for this to work smoothly). Now enjoy a clean profile, no personal information, then log back into your old account and accept the friend request with the new. Or, open a second browser and use one for your old account and one for your new account, you will be alternating between the two, but only for this process.
Well, Facebook will ask you to suggest friends to your new account. This is part of the process that can transfer more friends and at one stroke, without spending hours sending individual requests. Go to your friends list and check those that want to keep. It will not take as much as you may think. Click Submit and then go to your new account. All these suggestions are pending friend requests why can quickly and add everyone as a friend (again, looks like a tedious process, but it should not take long) and will have all your friends.
Fine if you want to keep your old account during the transition, but the point is to create a new delete all the old stuff, so when you are ready, go ahead and delete (not just disable) the old account. Facebook will try to tempt him to change his mind by showing him pictures of your friends, but you can click on Continue without guilt knowing that it will still be there (mostly).
There are some privacy settings to be changed in the new account, so click on the * symbol in the upper right corner and click on Privacy Settings in the drop down menu. Here you have the option to limit their publications and deactivate your wall, so you will not have covered their profile silly things, but only see their news.
Everything else here can stay the same, you need not do anything more private. You will not make posts nor will fill your personal profile information, and will not be uploading photos, so no need to hide. Note that this is not just about privacy, but can also help stop unnecessary activity on Facebook, their privacy settings will not matter much in your new profile. Facebook will disable your settings again after the next redesign, so why bother?
Everyone knows that Facebook may disclose any information, even unintentionally. That's why we created the e- mail earlier this disposable process. List your disposable address, on your new profile, leave everything else blank and down with his registered email address is the privacy settings. Click on it and click Customize . In the drop down menu at the top of the popup select single and click Save . Your email address will be hidden from everyone, including his friends.
If you want, you can leave it visible for those rare occasions when people want to get in touch by email (usually to send something that can not ship via Facebook) because after all it is an email address disposable . At the same time you do not want your friends to think that's his real address, because then you will have a lot more work if you have to delete the entire address and create a new one as mentioned above. The best in keeping it secret.
Unfortunately there is no way to prevent people tag photos of you, for now can only delete photos or videos from the search results and your profile. If you choose this setting, no one can see photos or videos of you on your profile page, but the image can reach by other means (for example, looking at the original album or other person tagged on it) and can still see your name on the picture. Yes, it is a fundamental failure of the privacy features of Facebook, but did not care much. Unfortunately, the responsibility always lies with those friends who are uploading photos. Facebook can never prevent upload a picture of yourself, and you will never stop people who label photos with a name is linked regardless of whether or not a profile. But even if someone does, their profile is completely empty. The only solution to the problem of photo tagging is let them know that is not your preference or look a little more mature friends.
To have some control tagged appearing again on your profile privacy settings and press Biography and labeling . Check the box ? Qiueres check labels before publishing And so at least you can approve or ignore the labels also edit the section Photos and Videos of me like you did in the last step. This will remove the link to photos of you in your profile picture.
You can set the next step to your liking. You probably do not want your profile to appear on Google , but if you want people to find you on Facebook you may want to stay in search results. At the same time, you may want to have complete control and know who is your friend on Facebook, and that's fine too. Go to Privacy Settings , demarcation box Would other search engines you show the link in your bio? order to eliminate public search results.
This is an area where it is recommended to configure everything as private as possible. You never know what those damn applications will do, and while he will not be running to Facebook to install anything, you can never be too careful. I would recommend not even stay connected to Facebook while browsing the Web. Go to Applications in privacy settings and edit and delete all applications and set its visible activity just for you. Again, note that even if the applications were to share information, not really have any information to share, so it is probably safe. The damn things are so annoying it is advisable to block them as they appear.
Also among the notification settings in Account Settings and click Notifications and proceed to disable all notifications that have to do with applications. In fact, you can also delete everything except messages and event invitations, while there. Occasionally, it is a good idea to log in and delete all unnecessary notifications.
This step is optional, may be confined to a Facebook browser separately, eg for Facebook Firefox and Safari for everything else. Do not forget to leave as soon as you are finished and delete cookies . Of course, you need to be sure that your secondary browser does not share cookies with your primary browser.
Although I will say that you will never pay attention to privacy blunders from Facebook, simply is not the case. You want to do a quick scan of any of the privacy settings and policies, with each new design or just have a look and see the new hell breaks Facebook, but overall, no matter what part of your try to share there will be much in this new low profile. There are some things that Facebook will always have you, such as your email and friends list, so these are the important things to check. But if you have nothing in your profile, it is difficult for applications to take personal information, and this is a big plus. And best of all, your friends can not complain that it is "difficult to communicate," nor will miss the next event just because the invitation did not go on Facebook. But nobody says that's what everyone should do, obviously leave everything as is if you have problems with your account. But these are points to consider if you are seriously thinking of leaving Facebook.
Should I leave Facebook completely?
We've all had a friend who deactivated his Facebook account and never heard from them, because they could not be contacted. Like the telephone, email, and instant messaging had never been invented, many people are lost when communicating with others if your Facebook is just a click away. Although the situation is not so serious, Facebook continues to be the medium where people connect and break this relationship completely that can be difficult.
But now, with the issue of privacy many people have legitimate reasons to leave Facebook. It is the same question: Still worth having Facebook or is better to avoid future violations of privacy?
The less extreme alternative
Luckily, there is another alternative media. That is not a tutorial on how to change privacy settings. This is a tutorial on how to create a Facebook profile minimalistic as possible,with as little information about you as possible, in order to be used only to communicate with their friends. You can not do much on the site, you probably do not even visit the site often, but that's the idea. This is not for people who want to continue using Facebook, is for people who are ready to leave Facebook, but did not want to miss the opportunity of the next party just because they care about your privacy. So if you are really willing to give up wall posts, comments, requests, Farmville fan pages and here's how to proceed without disappearing from the face of the Earth.
Create a disposable email address for your account
Most people probably already have an email address disposable. The idea is that if you create a second email address for free and use it to register "suspicious" sites, you will not have to deal with spam in your main account later. Facebook has undoubtedly become one of the sites you might call suspicious with all the mistakes and blunders of privacy violation.
You can also configure message notifications and invitations to events and access e-mail (without having to check Facebook), and even re-send the information to your primary email account. This way, you will have to check this apart, but if something happens, like if Facebook makes public his email for 30 minutes (which has happened), you can remove the extra mail address, create a new one, and link it to Facebook, without having to deal with spam for eternity.
You can use any service to do this, such as creating a new Gmail address separate from your regular account of Google (or any service), and access it using the private browsing mode (to avoid having to leave the interface of Gmail), just set the forwarding filters and ready. (To set up forwarding, just log into your account, click Create Filter and set the filter to send any email from Facebook to your main account, you can always turn off the filter, in case something happens).
Create a new account and transfer your friends
Technically, this part is optional, but may also have the greatest impact on the rest of your experience. You can simply edit all the information on your account now, but if you create a new and erases the previous have a completely clean canvas. You will not have any publications out there, there will be no personal information at risk and there will be others to tag photos. Also, this is the time to get rid of all your friends that you do not need.
This process is quite simple, especially since you already have a new email address created in step one. Quit Facebook and create a new account using that email address. Do not enter any information, and do not add new friends, for now, save your old profile (need to friend your account for this to work smoothly). Now enjoy a clean profile, no personal information, then log back into your old account and accept the friend request with the new. Or, open a second browser and use one for your old account and one for your new account, you will be alternating between the two, but only for this process.
Well, Facebook will ask you to suggest friends to your new account. This is part of the process that can transfer more friends and at one stroke, without spending hours sending individual requests. Go to your friends list and check those that want to keep. It will not take as much as you may think. Click Submit and then go to your new account. All these suggestions are pending friend requests why can quickly and add everyone as a friend (again, looks like a tedious process, but it should not take long) and will have all your friends.
Fine if you want to keep your old account during the transition, but the point is to create a new delete all the old stuff, so when you are ready, go ahead and delete (not just disable) the old account. Facebook will try to tempt him to change his mind by showing him pictures of your friends, but you can click on Continue without guilt knowing that it will still be there (mostly).
Turn on your profile wall
There are some privacy settings to be changed in the new account, so click on the * symbol in the upper right corner and click on Privacy Settings in the drop down menu. Here you have the option to limit their publications and deactivate your wall, so you will not have covered their profile silly things, but only see their news.
Everything else here can stay the same, you need not do anything more private. You will not make posts nor will fill your personal profile information, and will not be uploading photos, so no need to hide. Note that this is not just about privacy, but can also help stop unnecessary activity on Facebook, their privacy settings will not matter much in your new profile. Facebook will disable your settings again after the next redesign, so why bother?
Hide your email
Everyone knows that Facebook may disclose any information, even unintentionally. That's why we created the e- mail earlier this disposable process. List your disposable address, on your new profile, leave everything else blank and down with his registered email address is the privacy settings. Click on it and click Customize . In the drop down menu at the top of the popup select single and click Save . Your email address will be hidden from everyone, including his friends.
If you want, you can leave it visible for those rare occasions when people want to get in touch by email (usually to send something that can not ship via Facebook) because after all it is an email address disposable . At the same time you do not want your friends to think that's his real address, because then you will have a lot more work if you have to delete the entire address and create a new one as mentioned above. The best in keeping it secret.
Hide name tags
Unfortunately there is no way to prevent people tag photos of you, for now can only delete photos or videos from the search results and your profile. If you choose this setting, no one can see photos or videos of you on your profile page, but the image can reach by other means (for example, looking at the original album or other person tagged on it) and can still see your name on the picture. Yes, it is a fundamental failure of the privacy features of Facebook, but did not care much. Unfortunately, the responsibility always lies with those friends who are uploading photos. Facebook can never prevent upload a picture of yourself, and you will never stop people who label photos with a name is linked regardless of whether or not a profile. But even if someone does, their profile is completely empty. The only solution to the problem of photo tagging is let them know that is not your preference or look a little more mature friends.
To have some control tagged appearing again on your profile privacy settings and press Biography and labeling . Check the box ? Qiueres check labels before publishing And so at least you can approve or ignore the labels also edit the section Photos and Videos of me like you did in the last step. This will remove the link to photos of you in your profile picture.
Stash your profile searches Facebook and Google
You can set the next step to your liking. You probably do not want your profile to appear on Google , but if you want people to find you on Facebook you may want to stay in search results. At the same time, you may want to have complete control and know who is your friend on Facebook, and that's fine too. Go to Privacy Settings , demarcation box Would other search engines you show the link in your bio? order to eliminate public search results.
Disable applications
This is an area where it is recommended to configure everything as private as possible. You never know what those damn applications will do, and while he will not be running to Facebook to install anything, you can never be too careful. I would recommend not even stay connected to Facebook while browsing the Web. Go to Applications in privacy settings and edit and delete all applications and set its visible activity just for you. Again, note that even if the applications were to share information, not really have any information to share, so it is probably safe. The damn things are so annoying it is advisable to block them as they appear.
Also among the notification settings in Account Settings and click Notifications and proceed to disable all notifications that have to do with applications. In fact, you can also delete everything except messages and event invitations, while there. Occasionally, it is a good idea to log in and delete all unnecessary notifications.
Use more than one browser
This step is optional, may be confined to a Facebook browser separately, eg for Facebook Firefox and Safari for everything else. Do not forget to leave as soon as you are finished and delete cookies . Of course, you need to be sure that your secondary browser does not share cookies with your primary browser.
Although I will say that you will never pay attention to privacy blunders from Facebook, simply is not the case. You want to do a quick scan of any of the privacy settings and policies, with each new design or just have a look and see the new hell breaks Facebook, but overall, no matter what part of your try to share there will be much in this new low profile. There are some things that Facebook will always have you, such as your email and friends list, so these are the important things to check. But if you have nothing in your profile, it is difficult for applications to take personal information, and this is a big plus. And best of all, your friends can not complain that it is "difficult to communicate," nor will miss the next event just because the invitation did not go on Facebook. But nobody says that's what everyone should do, obviously leave everything as is if you have problems with your account. But these are points to consider if you are seriously thinking of leaving Facebook.
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