Facebook can misuse your data, tips to keep it safe

Lately, Facebook has been garnering a lot of controversy over data breach.

After the disclosure that a data company called Cambridge Analytica get their hands on data from millions of Facebook users without their knowledge, raised concerns about just how private the information people put on Facebook is.

If you’re apprehensive about your data that it might be circulating among companies without your knowledge, here how you can take measures to maintain privacy on Facebook and protect your data.

Download your Facebook data

It stores almost every single contact you`ve had with the social network since the time you joined, including every time you`ve logged in, ads you`ve clicked, events you`ve been invited to, a list of the people you follow, your friends, your hometown, every time you`ve sent or received a message, every single status update and probably everything you don’t even remember doing.

 To see your data stored on Facebook, check here

Change your privacy settings

This is must step, in your settings, select Privacy.

Here, you can be in command of who can see your posts for instance making them public, or viewable only to friends, or friends of friends or only me.

You can also manage who can send you friend requests, view your friends list, and also make a point if a search engines can link to your profile or not.

Change your timeline and tagging settings

On the same lines, you can decide whether or not people can post on your timeline, tag you in posts, and similar things.

Go to Settings, click Timeline and Tagging.

Here, you can choose who should be able to post on your timeline, and who can view those posts.

You can also have the option to review posts that people tag you in, so you can choose whether or not that post appears on your timeline.

Check/delete apps

As per New York Times story on how Cambridge Analytica acquired all that user data, their source was an app.