Is Facebook safe? Yes, if you use the new Facebook privacy controls. Facebook is a perfect vehicle for networking with your friends. You can share personal information with people you trust. However, without Facebook’s necessary privacy controls, all private data will be accessible. Someone can simply find your Facebook account by Googling your name. Fortunately, Facebook’s privacy controls have introduced settings to give you more control over what information is accessible.

You may think that simply giving your information to trusted friends will be enough to ensure that private information is secure. However, this is a mistake. Your Facebook profile is registered with search engines, making it available to millions. Even your updates are public information. Facebook’s privacy controls are a big step in the right direction. This article hopes to help you keep your Facebook data private.

How to make Facebook safe:

Step 1: Use Shared Control

1. Click on the Account menu located at the top right.
2.Click View Settings
3. Personalize access by setting access controls
4. Select the level of privacy options from the dropdown menus
5.Save settings

You will have access levels of everyone, friends only, friends of friends, and anyone in your network. You can choose to use more custom settings. However, friends only is the most secure setting and is the friends only option. To return to the first menu, click “Back to Privacy” at the top left.

Step 2: Protect your album

One of the most sensitive items to share is photos. To protect your photos from public view. Follow the instructions below

1. In the privacy settings window, click on custom
2. Choose Customize settings.
3. Choose Edit Album Privacy
4. Select the privacy option to control who has access to your photos

Step 3: Hide your contact information

Their contact information can be easily found on Facebook and in search engines. All someone has to do is enter your name into a search engine to find you and your Facebook page. You can stop this by using the public search option.

1. Under Contact Information, select the option from the dropdown menus for “just me”
2. Go back to Privacy, click Back to Privacy
3. Click Edit your settings, under Apps & website, uncheck public search

Remember to treat your personal data as a precious asset. Your information can be mined and sold to the highest bidder or simply stolen and exploited by spammers. Using Facebook’s privacy controls should give you a whole new level of security.