The album should not be able to be seen by anyone else other than my friends.
In this test, I change the setting to only allow a certain album to be viewed by friends of mine. I did a few tests to see how controlled the privacy settings on albums actually were and here are my results. On the face of it, this all looks great and people using Facebook would feel secure in knowing that their images will only be seen by the people they have selected, but looking into this in more detail highlighted some fundamental flaws. This allows you to have a little more control over who sees your images. If you choose the Custom option, you can specify people or lists with whom you wish to share an album. Custom (You can get more specific and control who sees your photos).
#FACEBOOK PHOTO PRIVACY 2013 PLUS#
Yourself (You plus anyone tagged in photos can see the photos).Friends (Your friends and friends of those tagged can see your photos).The public (anyone that visits Facebook can see your photos).When you create an individual photo album, the settings appear at the bottom of the screen, and gives you the option of sharing your photo album with: You can see that in my top level settings I have opted to share future posts with ‘Friends’ There is a shortcut to this which I have shown in the screenshot below. A lot of Facebook users are not even aware of this and the default setting is to share your photos with everyone. Within the main privacy settings you can control the top level of sharing so that this defaults to either Friends or Public. What Are The Photo Album Privacy Settings? In this post, I am going to talk through some of the potential issues that I have seen along the way and also share a few alternative platforms for sharing images online. The more I started looking into this, the more my concerns over Facebook security and privacy began to surface. Going back to the beginning of this post, the reason I started looking into all this was to see how I am going to share photos of our new baby with family and friends. A previous post that I have written looks into this in more detail. Over the years working in this industry, there have been countless times when Facebook has been under scrutiny for issues with their security settings, sometimes meaning that once private updates and photos may have been accessible by the public community.Īdditionally, there is the on-going issue that there are unethical groups and pages being created and left to run without Facebook acting quickly and shutting them down. Now, those numbers are very significant and they are continuing to rise, meaning that Facebook is easily dominating the social media world.Īs good as this is for Facebook, it also brings a lot of potential dangers and threats as the number of users continues to increase. Active mobile users now stand at 751 million, which was a huge jump compared to Q4 2012 which had 680 million users. It is reported that Facebook now have 665 million daily active users and 1.1 billion monthly active users. Looking at what my friends and family do was really interesting and it got me thinking about what I will do when the baby is born and whether I would share my photos across my Facebook network.Įarlier this month, Facebook announced their Q1 earnings and engagement statistics. It wasn’t until I found out that I was expecting my first child towards the end of 2012 that I really started looking at how photos get shared on Facebook. Now it’s time for number 8, originally posted on May 21 2013, a post by Sam Noble. Except for on Christmas and New Years day, each day you can read the best articles again, going from number 15 back to number 1. During the holiday weeks we will be showing you the 15 best read posts of 2013.
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