5 Facebook Privacy Settings School Nutrition Professionals Should Know

You’ve probably already joined Facebook, or have at least considered joining.  One of the most common concerns with social media is privacy – no one wants everyone to see the smallest details of their life, and we’re afraid that by signing up, we’ll lose control of our information – strangers and co-workers will suddenly be able to see pictures of our vacation and read comments made by our families.  One of the many reasons people use Facebook is to share all that is happening in their life, like pictures, videos, comments, and events.  But how can you control who sees what?  Well, one of the reasons Facebook is as popular as it is relates directly to privacy: Facebook gives you nearly complete control over the information you share and the information you receive.  There are many things you can do to protect yourself from sharing sensitive or personal information. We’ve created a list of the top five things you need to know to protect your information on Facebook:

I Don’t Want My Co-Workers to Know About My Personal Life

• Problem: How do you separate your personal connections with those of your professional network?
• Privacy Setting: Facebook allows you to create “lists,” which, in essence, categorizes your Facebook friends into groups. This allows you to differentiate the information that your professional network can access compared to your personal network.
• Where can I learn more?
  
  1. Here is a detailed video of how to separate “lists” inside of Facebook
     

I Don’t Want Everyone to See My Pictures

• Problem: What if someone takes an embarrassing picture of me and has tagged me in the photo for all to see? I don’t want my co-workers to know about my personal life.
• Privacy Setting: Facebook allows you to control and monitor what pictures are available to your friends. 
• Example: I want everyone to see the pictures of our family Christmas card, but I only want my family to see the album of our recent vacation.
• Where can I learn more?
  
  1. Facebook explains how to protect your pictures here.

I Don’t Want to Share My Contact Information with Everyone

• Problem: Facebook is asking for my personal contact information like phone and email.
• Privacy Setting: Facebook allows you to make your contact information private. By editing this setting, you have the ability to individualize who can see what specific contact information you have posted.
• Example: I want to share my email address with co-workers, but want my phone number restricted to close family and friends.
• Where can I learn more?
  
  1. Facebook explains how to protect your contact information here.

I Don’t Want Inappropriate Comments Linked to My Profile

• Problem: Facebook allows other people to write on my wall. I don’t want people to write inappropriate comments on my profile.
• Privacy Setting: Facebook gives you control to monitor and restrict permission for who can write comments on your wall.
• Example: I want to post how happy I am for the working week to be over, but I don’t want my boss to read it.
• Where can I learn more?
  
  1. Facebook explains how to moderate comments.

I Don’t Want to Know Everything That Some of My Friends Post

• Problem: Some friends spend too much time on Facebook. They continually post time wasting links and information. But, I don’t want to unfriend them/
• Privacy Setting: Facebook allows you to “hide” people, events, topics, and links that show in your news feed.
• Example: My cousin is always posting quiz results. I’ve “hidden” his comments and no longer see those posts.
• Where can I learn more?
  1. Facebook explains how to do this here.

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