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Please note: Facebook changes privacy features and options periodically. This checklist is a suggested guideline that was updated as of 11/15/2010. Check and revisit your privacy settings regularly and remember to utilize the “Preview My Profile” capability to periodically test your profile.

1. First, preview how your profile can be currently viewed by others. Log in to your Facebook account. In the upper right hand corner, click on “Account” and then “Privacy Settings.”

2. Find Connecting on Facebook & click on “View Settings.”

3. Click on “Preview My Profile.” This is how your profile is currently viewed by others (non-”friends”) on Facebook. If you can see any personal information other than your current profile picture, your real name, and your Facebook url (if you have a username) then follow these steps.

4. Click on “Back To Privacy Settings.”

5. Find Connecting on Facebook & click on “View Settings.”

6. Change See My Friend List, See My Education and Work, See my current city and hometown, and See my interests and other Pages to “Friends Only.”

7. On the top left click on “Back to Privacy”

8. Find “Sharing on Facebook” and change setting to “Friends Only.”

9. UNCHECK the box next to “Share a tagged post with friends of the friend I tag”

10. Click on “Customize Settings.”

11. Change everything to “Friends Only”

12. Make sure the box after “Include me in ‘People Here Now’ after I check in” is UNCHECKED.

13. SUGGESTION: change “Places I check in to” to “Only Me” by selecting “Custom” edit and then “Only Me”

14. On the top left of the page click on “Back to Privacy.”

15. Find Applications and Websites on the bottom left and click on “Edit your settings.”

16. Click “Turn off all platform applications.”

Please note that this will turn off all applications including games. Allowing third party applications to access your profile may pose both privacy and security risks. However, follow these steps if you do not wish to turn off all applications:

• Click on “Edit Settings” next to “Info accessible through your friends” and make sure EACH item is UNCHECKED.
• Change “Game and application activity” to “Friends Only.”
• Click on “Edit Settings” next to “Instant Personalization” and make sure that the box next to “Enable instant personalization on partner websites” is UNCHECKED.

17. Click on “Edit Settings” next to Public Search. Scroll to the bottom of the page and make sure that “Enable Public Search” is UNCHECKED.

18. Go to the top right corner of the page and click on “Profile”

19. Click on the “Info” tab. Then click on “edit” after the “About Me” section.

20. UNCHECK the box shown below.
SUGGESTION: do not show your year of birth in your profile.

Remember to save changes.

21. Go to “Account” (top right of page) then “Privacy Settings,” then “View Settings” and then “Preview My Profile.” This is how your profile looks to most people. The only information visible should be your profile picture and your name. Your Facebook url will also be visible if you have set up a Facebook username.