Understanding Facebook applications and your privacy

Pt. 8 of 11 | 1:08 |

Understanding the Facebook community and your privacy settings

Wednesday July 28, 2010

If you've

installed applications

when you're

using facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook

then you may be unaware that you've been

sharing information with those applications

. That includes all of your

profile information

that you might have thought was private. We'll tell you more in this tutorial.

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Show Notes

- Every time you install an application on Facebook, whether it's Scrabble or Farmville or whatever, you agree to share your information with that application.

- That means that even though you think your profile is private, you've just agreed to share all of your profile information, photos, videos and everything else with the application.

- That means that whoever developed the application now has access to your private info.

- We would recommend reading application descriptions and reviews from now on before deciding to install them and share your privacy.

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