After the unveiling of the Timeline and new sharing features, both companies and users alike are a bit worried about Facebook privacy issues.  I wouldn’t call it paranoia either, with your entire life connected to the internet, Facebook wants to share your entire history with everyone you know as well as with corporations.  Sure this might be great news for marketers, because now whenever someone decides to watch a piece of media its pretty transparent to their entire network.  If you’re worried about Facebook privacy issues, please have no fear, we are going to take you through steps to ensure that you’re sharing only what you wish to share with the rest of the online world.

Facebook Privacy Issues | Blocking The Media You View

You may or may not know that Facebook recently partnered with many other companies so that you can easily read articles, watch tv and movies, and listen to music, all without even leaving your NewsFeed.  Some of the most predominate partnerships include Spotify, Netflix, and The Washington Post.  Let’s take a look at Mashable’s rundown of The Washington Post app and the Facebook privacy issues that we can customize to our liking:

How you can opt out: While many of these apps have not yet been released, the good news is that those that have been released seem to provide sufficient opt-out mechanisms. With the Washington Post‘s social reader, for instance, there’s a “Mark as Unread” button at the end of each article that will remove it from all streams.

You can also go to Facebook’s settings page for apps and edit settings specific to that app. You can set the option, “Who can see posts and activity from this app?” to either public; friends of friends and networks; friends and networks; friends of friends; friends; specific people; or just yourself.

Since this has information has already been released about The Washington Post app, I imagine that the rest of the apps will have similar customizations to assure your privacy is safe.

Facebook Privacy Issues | Apps Will Share Without Asking

Here are other Facebook privacy issues that you’ll probably love as a marketer, but also need to be weary of and educated about in order to protect your content.  Prior to the f8 conference, it was pretty much common knowledge that an app would need permission before posting content to a user’s wall, well that’s the past.

Now thanks to the Facebook Open Graph, when you download an app, you’ll be notified instantly about what will be posted at first and after agreeing to the terms the app will update your wall with posts in the future.

Kobo’s reading app will share what books you are currently reading and Nike+ will share your running habits.

The best way to deal with these Facebook privacy issues is to simply go to the app setting page and let the app know who it is allowed to share this particular information with: public; friends of friends and networks; friends and networks; friends of friends; friends; specific people; or just yourself.

Facebook Privacy Issues | To Be Continued

As time goes on, and more of these new features are actually launched, the more Facebook privacy issues we will see.  Don’t worry we will be here with all of your solutions for Facebook privacy issues, as a matter of fact, check back soon for another article centered solely around Timeline, its settings, and the Facebook privacy issues you’ll be coming across.

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