Are you admin for pages on Facebook? Facebook are advising you to back up your old page insights in preparation for them being phased out from December 15th.
From then the social network will no longer collect data from the old page insights and insights as we know it, will disappear completely on February 15th 2012.
On the old page insights they advise you to back up your information as this will be deleted on February 15th but your data from December 15th will be collected in the new improved insights.
Have you also noticed…. on your personal Facebook page how you can fine tune what you see or what people see of you? If you are tired of seeing what everyone is listening to and reading, change the settings. You now have multiple choices for handling this overload of information in your news feed, by hide,delete,unsubscribe,unfriend, report or block options. The button to the right of a post drops down to give you all these options and a much calmer way to handle the regular (far to regular) postings of some. You can then still decide to visit their feed when you choose rather than your page be overloaded.
You can click to view all updates, or most or only important ones too, so again you can refine individually, what you see according to how much you want to see of friends. Further changes can be made on a friends’ profile where the subscribe button allows you to customise even more precisely. Options are here too, to add friends to particular lists; Places of work,schools,residences and family relationships.
How to hide yourself away…on chat. The follow on from all this privacy and hiding of other people’s posts, leads me to this option. On the chat screen there is a small settings button which gives you the option of, to chat or not to chat, primarily you can see who’s on line and they can see you are available to chat. If you want to refine this, limited availability can be optimised and you can restrict who can communicate with you at any point in time, alternating between your various lists.
Do you need any help with all the things that Facebook keep changing? Email us or telephone Tamara on 0203 468 8594 to find out how to optimise your pages
Facebook changes – privacy settings
Facebook made several significant changes to its privacy settings through the new inline buttons. The obvious changes, inline tag review and sharing buttons, affect much of the information you are likely to share on Facebook. Before the introduction anyone who could see content could actually comment and tag but now all tags can be approved. The new ‘view profile’ button lets you see how your profile appears to others.
The new settings for the sharing button mean you can share with everyone, friends,networks,friends of friends or customise to a select few. You can also choose to hide it from people too.
Tagging You can now tag by location and when tagging people who are not actual Facebook friends you can choose whether the tag shows in your profile or on your wall. Removing a tag has also become clearer with a choice of options, and an ability to remove and then block the tag creator.
Privacy settings
Within the home drop down button settings can be adjusted for how you interact with people. Privacy can be restricted so that only friends can see your posts and you can control your default privacy setting to public friends or custom.
Via the inline audience selector privacy can be controlled for status updates, photos and information, with the ability to use these as you share, or afterwards. It’s worth remembering that people you share information with can then share it with others.
The options are broken down into the following areas:
How you connect – who can -
look up your profile by name or contact info?
send friends requests?
send you Facebook messages?
post on your wall?
see wall posts by others on your profile?
How tags work
Profile review of posts friends tag you in before the appear in your profile. (Be aware they can still show up elsewhere on Facebook.)
Tag review for those that friends want to add to your profile.
Maximum profile visibility of tagged posts once they are on your profile.
Tag suggestions when friends upload look-a-like photos of you.
Friends can check you into Places app.
Apps and websites
Lists all the apps,games and websites you use and then allows you to individually edit all the settings. This allows you the opportunity to do some spring cleaning and clear out those that you no longer use.
Within this space you can edit settings that control how your info is brought by others to the apps they use. Use it to control the categories of the information.
Instant personalisation which allows you to see relevant information about your friend when you visit partner websites.
Public Search which controls whether a preview of your Facebook profile is visible when people search for you using a search engine.
Limit the audience for past posts although you can change this setting it means that any posts you have shared with everyone will be restricted to just friends. Maybe a more selective method is to choose the audience for your individual posts instead.
Blocked People and Apps
Don’t forget that you can run your account within a secure setting by going to account settings, security and enable secure browsing. Keeping your information safe while browsing on Facebook.
Too much information! Have a look around the settings and it’s not so daunting, but if you would like some help email us here, or speak with Tamara on 0203 468 8594.