Managing Your Privacy with Facebook’s New News Feed

JRViejo · Mar 8, 2013

One of the biggest changes is the placement of the privacy settings. Originally on the top right of your screen when you log in, the new privacy settings have since moved to the top left of the new News Feed, next to your name. It’s now an icon of a lock, as shown above.

By clicking on that little lock, you’ll be able to access the same basic privacy features as you did before.

There are a couple reasons to manage your privacy settings, the largest of which is that Facebook is also rolling out its new search engine, Graph Search. That makes it easier to find out more information about you — assuming you’ve shared it publicly. You’ll want to manage the information you share only with your friends, and what’s publicly available.
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Wall Street Journal Blog Article by Matthew Lynley.

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