By Paige and Josh

How to stay safe on Facebook!

Facebook is a social networking service, it allows anyone from

the age of 13 upwards to chat, poke, bug their friends, remember

peoples birthdays or just simply to play games.

Since it was launched February 2004 Facebook has become the

worlds most used social website. Today it has over 800 million

users and counting.

Users must register before using the site, after which they may

create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and

exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they

update their profile.

What is

Facebook?

Getting on to Facebook is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Go onto your internet browser.

2, type Facebook into the Google Tool Bar and press enter.

3, once loaded click on the first suggestion at the top.

How to get on

Facebook

How to create an

account

Creating a Facebook

Account is straight forward

and simple. Simply fill in

the required slots. At the

right bottom corner.

Just fill in your name, your

birthday, your email

address, your required

password etc.

If you already have a

Facebook account

just sign in at the top

right hand side.

Privacy SettingsWhere can you find

your Privacy

Settings? To find your privacy settings,

click the account menu button

shown above and chose

„Privacy Settings‟ This will

appear at the top of every

Facebook page once signed in.

This contains a group of general

controls for your Facebook

account.

Privacy when

sharing.On Facebook you can

now control who can

see what your are

sharing. You can click

the “audience

selector” to chose

who views what on

your profile. The

audience selector

looks something

along the lines of this.

Controlling who can

send

you messages A new addition to Facebook

is that you can control who

sends you messages.

Controlling who can send

you messages is important

because you do not have to

be on a friends list to be

Privacy

Settings TaggingA tag links a person, page, or

place to something you post,

like a status update or a photo.

For example, you can tag a

photo to say who‟s in the

photo or post a status update

and say who you‟re with.

If you don‟t want to be tagged

in anything on your profile then

the following steps will help

you do so;

Go to the menu at the top right

hand corner > Privacy Settings

> How Tags Work > Tag

Suggestions.

Controlling who can

add as friendYou can control who can

add you on Facebook.

Reporting

Abuse

A block on Facebook prevents

specific people from viewing

your profile, meaning any

connections you had with them

will no longer be there.

Blocking people is completely

confidential and the person will

not be notified that he or she

has been blocked.

Here‟s some steps on how to block people on

Facebook; Click the account menu at the top right of any

Facebook page and choose Privacy Settings.

Find the Block Lists section and click Manage Block

Lists.

Enter the name or email address of the person you

want to block and click Block. If you can‟t find

someone using this method, try going to the

person‟s profile and selecting Report/Block This

Person. This method is shown below.

PasswordsWhen setting up a Facebook making sure that you have a secure password is important. Make sure that you consider the following things;

• Your password is kept to yourself and only yourself!

•Use complex passwords - Consider (upper/lower case, numbers and symbols)

• Make sure they are more than 8 characters long

•Don’t reuse the same password for all of your account uses

•Make sure to change your password often, this gives you more guarantee of keeping safe.

Forgetting your passwordIf you have forgotten your Facebook password there is one way of recovering and getting it changed. Below the Facebook login, you can click ‘Forgotten your password?’ You will be redirected to a page which will ask you to identify your account. Once you fill in all your personal information you will be able to send for a new password.

Application

sFacebook now allows you to play games

and apps. Apps on Facebook allow you to

play social games with your friends,

remember friends' birthdays, share your

taste in movies, send gifts to friends, and

much more.

You can now control who can

see the activity of the apps you

use. Below is some steps on

how to use the App controller;

•Click the menu in the right

hand corner.

•From the menu in the left

column, select “Apps”. From

here, you can manage settings

for each individual app you've

added.

Controlling

applications.