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Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings for Teens
10 Settings That Every User Should Know

The key to using Facebook safely is understanding how to set all the privacy settings, having your own criteria for who is a 'friend' and limiting the information and photos that are you post. Here are some articles and videos that will help you understand these features:

New Privacy Settings In Facebook
How To Scan Your Privacy Settings: In this episode learn how to view your Facebook privacy settings and see what your defaults are set to!
Customizing Your Privacy Settings
Checking Your Privacy Settings
Completely Customize Your Privacy Settings
More Videos about understanding the privacy settings on Facebook
How Do I Use Facebook's Privacy Page
Privacy Settings
A Guide to Privacy on facebook
How to edit your Facebook wall
How to remove your birth date from Facebook
How to delete your Face Book account
Face book does not delete photos when you do it.
Remove a friend
Face book privacy profile
Limited Profile settings
Hide parts of your Facebook profile from friends using lists
Track who is viewing your private profile
How to delete a friends list
Teaching Children Social Network Safety

High Risk Areas on Facebook

1. Third party apps- Videos:
Understanding Facebook Applications and Your Privacy
Once installed, Facebook applications will have access to your entire account if the privacy settings are set to public, so be careful what you install!
Sharing with Applications on Facebook
Many Facebook applications will request access to your account. Some may not and will only be able to access the parts of the profile that you have made public. If you want to keep your profile information secure the best idea may be to deny access to the application or not to install it all.
Protecting Your Information from Facebook Applications
There is a way to protect your information from Facebook applications, which we'll show you in this episode!
Protecting Your Information from Facebook Advertisements
There is a way that Facebook can use your name and other information in advertisements, but you can prevent that by following these simple steps.

2. Form spring
Anonymous questions and answers on Facebook, now moving to video answers:
Video Response

3. Chat on Facebook (high risk area for bullying)

1. Restrict your privacy and profile settings. Click here for details and to watch a video:
Customizing Your Privacy Settings
Checking Your Privacy Settings
Completely Customize Your Privacy Settings
2. Don't accept just anyone as a friend you haven't met- filter requests
3. Remember what is on the Internet is permanent and public
4. Writing on your wall should only involve what you want made public
5. Be careful about what Facebook groups you join, they may not always be what they appear and you don't know the other members, yet they can contact you. For example: Club Mafia Wars is not a good example/model for a teachers to set.

Take Away Message

Our students are digital natives and are constantly online. Much of their social life is online, they have a need to be constantly in touch. This is all going on unmonitored, in the background and spills over into the classroom. There are many privacy settings on Facebook and we should all be very aware of the settings we are using for all Facebook's features.