Without a doubt, Facebook is still one of the most popular social networks globally with 3.5 billion users worldwide as of 2023.
Facebook is used by people globally to share their updates about life and keep up their connections with their friends, family, and colleagues.
However, we need to learn that there are many potential privacy risks associated with it.
If you’re not careful about your privacy on this social media, you’re paving the way for hackers, con artists, thieves, and child predators to access your personal data and cause you harm.
Of course, all social media platforms carry these risks, so it’s vital to be well aware of the importance of privacy, and most importantly, how to protect your privacy and that of your loved ones!
How to Keep Your Privacy Private on Facebook: 13 Things to Delete from Your Facebook Account
- Photos from your kids
Avoid sharing photos from your kids or kids of your relatives or friends on Facebook and any other social media.
This is because all photos online can be accessed by hackers and child predators.
- Your relationship status
Not everyone needs to know every detail of your personal life, especially about your romantic relationships.
So, always share aspects of your life with a dose of reservation and keep the personal information for the closest people in your life.
- Information about your child’s school location
The internet is full of child predators.
So, be careful when sharing information like the location of your kid’s school. This information could be abused for easier access to your child.
- Information about your credit cards
This is a definite no! If you’re using the card to pay for Facebook ads, always go back and clear up the information about the card to prevent potential abuse from hackers!
- Where you vacation
If you constantly share photos from a vacation or share your plans to travel, you may be exposing yourself to thieves.
Thieves may use the information you shared to learn whether you’re at home or not.
- Your location
Make sure you turn off the location settings in your Facebook account.
By constantly sharing updates of your location, you’re revealing to the potential thieves that your home is empty!
Also, sharing your location is not a good idea if you don’t want people to find you at a given moment.
- Your phone
If you put in your phone number on Facebook, you’re easing the stealing of your information!
Avoid giving your number easily because it’s your phone number and it’s in no way a piece of public information that everyone should have.
- Tagged-in posts
If your friend or relative tags you in a Facebook post, be careful about what it is! If you approve these tagged photos, they’ll also be visible if someone searches your name on social media.
If you think a photo or a post that you’re tagged in may represent you in a bad light, remove the tag.
- Your birthday
It can be really lovely to receive an abundance of messages for your birthday on your day.
But, putting in your birth information on this social platform may make things easier for identity thieves, so, be careful!
- Your travel itinerary
It may be really exciting to share your travel tickets or your travel itinerary with your Facebook friends, but this could potentially become information that robbers could abuse to break into your home!
- Your supervisor or manager
Avoid sharing photos or posts that could compromise you in front of your manager or supervisor.
If you can, it’s always best to avoid having your supervisors on your private social media platforms so that you can freely express any opinion you have or want to, without risking losing your job!
- People you don’t know personally
Nowadays, Facebook has turned into a contest for popularity: the more friends you have, the cooler you are.
But, collecting friends who aren’t actually your real-life friends or acquaintances is pointless because you could never know who’s really on the other side because you haven’t met this person.
Knowing this, avoid accepting friend requests from people you don’t have any friends in common.
- Questionable photos
Social media platforms like Facebook may be great for connecting with friends and family, but nowadays, it’s also used by HR managers looking for employers. So, if your profile contains photos where you’re under the influence, it’s best to remove them to prevent looking unprofessional.
Sources: