For my actual presentation, I put the images in my presentation but these are All Rights Reserved so I took them out in order to post this to the web. I put them in the presentation due to problems with Internet Access – I typically show them from the web.

Turn off all of the options to allow your pictures to be used in ads.

Review how these should be set and what that means for people being able to find you if they want to add you as a friend. Students don’t want to make these Friends Only because people can’t find them on Facebook if they do.

Talk about why these should be Friends Only and also review how to post photos. Never post photos of anyone without their permission. Let people tag themselves in your photos rather than tagging them yourself. I try to go through these in detail to make sure the students understand what each setting means in regards to their privacy.

Talk about phishing Apps and what to wary of: Links to videos that appear to be inappropriate, Apps that promise you can see who visited your profile, etc. Talk about hovering over links to see if they look real – for example, if a video link isn’t to YouTube or Vimeo, should you click it? Talk about turning off things accessible through friends! Pubic Search – if students signed up with their correct birthdate (or the date they entered shows that they are under 18) supposedly their profile can not show in public searches until they are 18. I stress turning this off anyway so that if Facebook’s policy changes or if they “accidentally” said they were older than they are, they won’t show in searches outside of Facebook.

I went on Facebook and tried to find my students. I had slides following with this one with some of what I found: 2 examples of students with good privacy settings and 2 with not so good privacy settings. Before I showed the examples, everyone was groaning and saying “I hope you don’t show my page” but after I showed these every student wanted me to look up their profile so they could see what I can see about them.

I ended with a recap of what I could see for all of the students in the class (found all of them that had accounts on Facebook) and talked about the issues of having your friend’s list public, allowing others to see your photos and/or wall. One fairly new thing on Facebook are the “questions” and I reminded them to be careful not to answer any that would reveal personal information because these are always public. I pointed out that someone who votes for California as their favorite state and lists all of the amusement parks in Southern California as the amusement parks they’ve been to has pretty much let people know they probably live in Southern California even if that information on their profile is set to friends only.

Facebook Privacy Nuts & Bolts

Evolution of Facebook Privacy Review Infographic on http://www.mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Set to No One Set to No One

Friends Only Or Only Me!

Do This!! Turn off Everything! Turn Off! Turn Off!

Can I See You? Investigating YOUR Facebook Privacy

Who Could I See? Profiles: Found 13 of you! Friends List: Visible for 6 of you (This meant I could find people in the class I didn’t find in search) Photos: Could see at least some for 5 of you Wall: This was visible for 4 of you! Facebook Questions: 5 of you have answered some of these