Facebook Privacy Loophole - Who's looking at your pictures?
Here's how it works: When you post pics, only people who are your friends can see them. However, if I am friends with "Jane" and Jane comments on "Sam's" picture, this comment (and Sam's picture) get posted for ME to see. And I've never met Sam in my life. Not only that, but I can click on the picture and see the whole album of all Sam's pictures. Just the one album though. So, poor Sam is getting his pictures looked at by every single person who is Jane's friends. And, the same goes for anyone else who comments on his picture.
Imagine that, all your friends friends can look through your entire album every time that friend comments on a picture. So until Facebook closes this privacy loophole you might want to protect your friends privacy, by not commenting on pictures. Imagine what parents, coworkers, and others think when they see pictures of you that you don't want them to see!
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However If someone tags me in a photo I have no control of who can see that photo whilst I am tagged as being in the photo. I can untag myself but by this point people who I don't want to see the photo may have already seen it and depending on the circumstances involved this could have major consequences. i.e. getting the sack.
1) Make a friends list of people that u want to limit
2) Go to your photo album page
3) Click on Album Privacy
4) You should see a drop down list of "Who can see this?" - now open the list and click CUSTOMIZE
5) At the bottom of the "Edit Photo Album Privacy" window you should see "Except These People"
6) Add the friends list of Limited Friends that you made in step 1 to the "Except These People" list
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Now everyone except those in your limited list can see the pics!
Done!
if u don't know the privacy settings... then don't post pictures
.. and what I've been hearing from a lot of people: I don't want my business contacts on my FaceBook. Personal friends and business friends are two different things entirely, and I think most people have two different faces they show in the different profiles. Unless FaceBook can come up with some smart way to have separate social networks (with separate profiles) under the same login, I don't think LinkedIn has too much to worry about.
I happened to visit a group where a picture of someone was posted. Another member wrote, "Isn't that [Name Omitted]?" The author responded, "Yes. He doesn't know, but I don't think he'll mind." It was perfectly innocuous in this case, but Name Omitted might prefer not to have a photo posted in a network that is accessible to millions of people.
http://www.facebookunmasked.com
- Go to the account drop down (top right) and select "privacy settings"
- Click "customize settings"
- In the drop down for "photos and videos I'm tagged in" select "custom" and "edit", then select "make visible to these people" and only select the people who you want it to be visible to.
The thing is, you don't appear to be able to edit who can see comments, so by commenting you *may* have created a link back that everyone can see. I'm not really sure, to be honest. If this is the case then it's certainly a privacy issue, albeit a minor one.
You can also "untag" yourself in the photo, so that it wont show up in searches for you.