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"I probably shouldn&amp;#039;t admit this, given that I&amp;#039;ll be posting the link to this blog post on Facebook, but I&amp;#039;m very careful about what I allow people to see or say on my profile. It&amp;#039;s not that I have anything to hide, or that I don&amp;#039;t trust my friends to be thoughtful about what they post (OK, maybe there are a few friends...), it&amp;#039;s that, in this age of Internet-enabled over-sharing, I want to be in as much control as possible of the info that&amp;#039;s out there about me. For starters, I&amp;#039;ve limited my public profile (what anyone can view) to the absolute minimum, so you won&amp;#039;t see anything other than my photo, name, and gender unless I accept your friend request. Here, some other tricks I&amp;#039;ve learned for protecting privacy on Facebook:  Organize Your Friends Facebook has a nifty feature that lets you sort your contacts into lists: Say, family, coworkers, college buddies, etc.  To make a list, click on the &amp;quot;Account&amp;quot; tab, then &amp;quot;Edit Friends.&amp;quot; You can use these lists to target info, photo albums, or links to specific groups -- for example, only give access to reunion photos to your family.   By clicking on the little lock icon abve the &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s On Your Mind?&amp;quot; box, you can customize whom the status update will reach (see photo).  Take Stock of Photos It&amp;#039;s easy enough to control which pictures or videos you post and with whom you share them by altering the options when you upload. That said, always remember that once a photo has been posted in cyberspace, it&amp;#039;s part of the public domain, so it&amp;#039;s probably best to consider first if it passes the &amp;quot;would I want my Grandma (or my boss) to see this?&amp;quot; test. There are also ways to limit who sees photos in which others have tagged you.  Consider untagging yourself entirely from an album, even if there are some shots you like. Why? If someone&amp;#039;s flipping through because they saw you in one pic, they&amp;#039;ll certainly recognize you in the less-than-attractive ones. Or, simply ask the album&amp;#039;s owner (who&amp;#039;s presumably a friend) to take down any images you find really objectionable.   You can prevent people from seeing any photos or videos in which you&amp;#039;re tagged by adjusting your privacy settings. That way, you won&amp;#039;t be rushing to untag yourself the moment you get that alert e-mail.   Patrol Your Wall Depending on your preference, you can limit people from posting on your wall at all, making comments on posts, or seeing posts that others place on your wall.  To modify your wall preferences, go into &amp;quot;Account&amp;quot; Menu -&amp;amp;gt; Privacy Settings -&amp;amp;gt; Customize settings (see photo).  Do a Security Check Not sure if your settings took effect? Facebook lets you see what your profile looks like to others.  On the top right of the &amp;quot;Customize settings&amp;quot; screen, there&amp;#039;s a button labeled &amp;quot;Preview My Profile.&amp;quot; Click there, then enter the name of a person to whom you&amp;#039;ve granted limited access, and view your page through his or her virtual eyes.  Become a Fan of Good Housekeeping on Facebook! Learn some tips for keeping kids safe on Facebook in this video.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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