You have configured your photographs, privacy settings, and your lists. Does that mean your profile is out of danger and prying reach? No. We still have one loose end: applications. These programs with which we interact with, can have access to all our information that we share in our personal profile, and can even publish on our behalf.
Which Applications Can View My Facebook Profile
Contests, games, promotions… there are thousands of applications available on Facebook, to which many of us we get daily. Most of these applications are developed by companies or brands to boost social presence, win more fans, and to obtain certain data about their followers.
To access these applications normally, we accept the transfer of certain information such as name, age, photos, contacts…
It may be that we do not think it’s important for the company or brand in question get this information; however we must know that we have the option, once the game is used or the promotion is terminated, to remove the access of this app to our data.
To do this, one will have to go to Privacy Settings/Applications/Show All Applications. Then all our applications who have been receiving access to our data will appear. From here, we can configure the access to our data.
Another option that we control is the “applications that others use“, designed primarily for applications created by other companies. Here we can limit the information that cannot be disclosed by Facebook to these other companies.
Once this section is closed, we will have controlled our Facebook profile settings. The key steps are:
1. How to set up lists of friends on Facebook
2. How to control the privacy of photographs shared on Facebook
3. Who can interact with the information we share on Facebook and with our profile
4. Which applications can view our Facebook profiles
We encourage you to spend an afternoon setting these parameters. The image we give of ourselves in social networks is becoming more important and has more weight in the employment screening process.
Do you think that Facebook complicates and hinders access to this type of configuration to avoid users from restricting the information that we share?
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I absolutely believe that facebook does everything they can to make it difficult to find where and how to put limits on how user information is accessed and used by third parties. I think they also do everything possible to minimize how important it is to tighten up access portals. They encourage users to “join, join, join” but then they make it nearly impossible to find out how to unjoin something. Games are rigged so you have to acquire as many “friends” as possible in order to play and then once you get along in the game you have to start spending endless sums just to try to keep up. I do very little with facebook any more……
Hi Kandi,
Thanks for reading us! You´re right, that´s why we should control our privacy on Facebook. 🙂
Thanks!