Half of my feeds is about Facebook<\/a> and their privacy policy<\/a>. A complete case of propaganda built up by the blogo-journalistic cartel. Few thousands of top self proclaimed internet right activists<\/em> are trying to convince 300 Million users that their life is \u2018exposed\u2019 by Facebook voluntary exploitation of public data.<\/p>\n

Facebook offers a wide selection of options to protect your info and we will go through those steps a bit later. But let\u2019s not be hypocrite here, if you want to keep your life private you need to stay away from social networks. Permanently.<\/p>\n

Those attacks<\/a> are becoming more targeted against Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> like an attempt to stop the ascension of a giant. The worst is to come after I read the upcoming release of a movie describing<\/a> Facebook\u2019s founder as a drunk billionaire geek who is a sex-mad “borderline-autistic” conniver.<\/p>\n

Mike Arrington wrote an excellent note<\/a> on the subject but personally I think Zuck will have to face the same hatred Jobs and Gates faced decades ago. Hopefully genius will prevail.<\/p>\n

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Now here is how you can simply protect some level of privacy on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Simply login to your account and head to \u2018Privacy Settings\u2019<\/p>\n

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Once you get there click on \u2018Personal Information and Posts\u2019<\/p>\n

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This will give you access to a set of customizable features. For best protection chose \u2019only friends\u2019 to all options.<\/p>\n

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I personally do not accept wall posts. If a friend has something to say he can:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 send me a message or \u2013 comment one of my entries.<\/p>\n

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Finally you can opt-out from public searches meaning search engines will not display your Facebook profile<\/p>\n

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One last recommendation \u2013 be sure to set privacy settings on applications and games. You surely don\u2019t want to share your recent activity across the board:<\/p>\n

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Be curious and explore those pages. You will find lots of useful information.<\/p>\n

The only valid reproach we can aim at Facebook is the lack of universal control of privacy [windows way for security<\/a>] where user can set level of data sharing from None to Public in one click.<\/p>\n

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