Facebook privacy: Limit what your friends can share about you

If your friend uses an application that you do not use, you can control what types of information the application can access. Please note that applications will always be able to access your publicly available information (Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages) and information that is visible to Everyone.

  • Personal info (activities, interests, etc.)
  • Status updates
  • Online presence
  • Website
  • Family and relationship status
  • Relationship details (significant other, looking for, etc.)
  • Education and work
  • My videos
  • My links
  • My notes
  • My photos
  • Photos and videos I'm tagged in
  • About me
  • My birthday
  • My hometown
  • My religious and political views

What can your friends share about you? Lots of info.

Facebook now checks most of these boxes by default, meaning that applications your friends install can access much of your profile. Whether or not you have also installed the app.

I prefer a little less sharing, thank you.

Hat tip to Peter Feld for inspiring me to look into this. http://peterfeld.tumblr.com/post/540720403/a-quick-facebook-privacy-cleanse-n...

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