Facebook Privacy Setting

How Do I Tweak My Facebook Security Settings?

by Ken Brand, Sales Manager - Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors / The Woodlands TX / Cell: 832-797-1779 on May 13, 2010

I keep my Facebook Setting wide open.  In the real estate business, sharing with as many people as possible is positive.  Basically, I don’t post anything that I’d like to keep private.  Some say, and I’m inclined to agree, that privacy on the internet is a myth.

If you like to keep your Facebook stuff semi private, you can tweak your personal Facebook Settings.  The New York Times has created a pretty cool chart illustrating  the 50 Facebook Security Settings you can tweak and your 170 options.

Published: May 12, 2010

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options

To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet

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Cheers.

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How To Block Certain Facebook Friends From Seeing Your Wall Posts and Other Facebook Privacy Tips

by Ken Brand, Sales Manager - Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors / The Woodlands TX / Cell: 832-797-1779 on February 17, 2010

For Real Estate Agents, Facebook is a Destiny Accelerator.

What I mean is, the broadcast power of Facebook to influence, entertain, educate, converse, share and connect with friends will accelerate your destiny.

If you do stupid things, you face-plant failure will happen faster.  If you’re cool, interesting and trustworthy, your success will fast forward.

Professional ~vs~ Casual

I believe you can do both on Facebook. Bottom line, be yourself and beam trustworthy.  That doesn’t mean that there are some things you’ll want to post that might not be perceived as “cool” with some of your friends.

No problem, Lincoln told us a long time ago, “You can please some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but, you can’t please all the people all the time.”  Crackerjacks at Facebook understand the concept and have some super-easy to implement privacy settings.  Well, at least they’re easy if you know about them.

I found this great blog post, written by Greg Finn.  The title is How To Keep Your Facebook Wall Posts (&Info) Private. In his article Greg shares  simple step by step instructions, plus screen shot examples of how to do it.  Now we both know about them.

In Finn’s post he shares why you might want privacy:

  • Keep your work & industry related posts from your friends.
  • Block specific users (or lists of users) from ever seeing a post.  This can be great when looking to block competitive companies or workers from seeing your posts.
  • Deliver more targeted messaging to your segmented groups of friends.  You could write a social media oriented wall post and send to a social media list, and dial the copy down when just posting to a general internet marketing list.  Having targeted posts can help boost click-throughs by increasing relevancy.
  • Block personal posts (and content) from co-workers and other colleagues in your industry

Here’s what he covers:

  1. How To Apply Privacy To Your Wall Posts
  2. How To Apply Privacy Setting To Other Facebook Info

To read Greg’s Article, CLICK HERE.

Good luck friends.

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