Facebook security best practices
Protect your privacy and identity on Facebook
ID fraudsters target to harvest information about you. Here's how we recommend you set your Facebook privacy Facebook and other social networking sitescy options to protect against online identity theft.How to adjust your settings
This guide walks you through Sophos-recommended privacy settings in Facebook, and shows you how to set more secure levels of privacy and reduce the chance of becoming a victim of online identity theft.General security tips for Facebook
Adjust Facebook privacy settings to help protect your identity
Unlike some other social networking sites, Facebook has provided some powerful options to protect you online—but it's up to you to use them!Read the Facebook Guide to Privacy
At the very bottom of every page on Facebook, there's a link that reads "Privacy." The linked page is "A guide to privacy on Facebook," which contains the latest privacy functions and policies. For example, with the latest changes in May 2010, Facebook discloses information that it sets as visible to everyone and that you cannot make private. This information includes sensitive information like your name, profile picture, gender and networks.When in doubt, use the "Preview my profile" button on any privacy settings page to check how your information appears to others.