11 April 2013

Facebook Favorites Privacy

After pulling my hair out and nearly deciding to quit Facebook altogether, I finally came across this post that helped explain how to control the privacy of your "Favorites."

For example, I was doing my regular check-up on my online presence, and I found that Facebook was sharing with the world several new "Favorites" of mine, such as music, books, and other... well, private things. I was confounded because to my knowledge I had set "Friends of Friends" as pretty much the circle of privacy for everything.

So to a solution:

  1. View your profile
  2. Click "Likes" under the "Apps" section
  3. There you will find the section labelled, "Favorites"
    (seriously, monkeys are doing FB's semantic design)
  4. Click "Edit" and finally you may discover like I did, that all this is still Public
To be fair, I don't think I ever edited these privacy settings because I never added anything to my "Favorites." But what I've learned is that "Liking" things automatically adds those things to my "Favorites."

Can someone inform FB that there is a world of difference between "Liking" something and calling something my "Favorite?"

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