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

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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