It was not later than few years before when no one even predicted there would be an era that would revolutionize the communication process. This is that “no-predicted” time of technology that every individual around us has become tech-savvy. Facebook was the first addition in communication world that not only proffered entertainment but facilitated conversations a lot as well. Now is the situation that more than 1.6 billion people are the Facebook consumers every week, and the stats are accelerating at an unprecedented pace.
Facebook is a perfect and most popular social media forum to stay connected with friends, peers, families and colleagues far and wide. The free service of Facebook took no time to gather a significant number of communities as its users. Irrespective of age, adults, young, kids, teens and even now the old-aged are addicted to it. Our concern in this post is to highlight the security and privacy concerns that most of the kids don’t know as Facebook as very much complicated privacy options. This no interest in building stable privacy settings gives rise to various threats and security concerns for the parents. We would address all such privacy issues that the teens must be taught about by the parents to let the parents achieve zero-problem.
What Are The Important Facebook Setting That Parents Must Tell Their Teens?
As we already stated, Facebook registration is free, and there are no hard and fast rules to check whether the person creating an account is an adult or a teen unless the user mentions the age after the account has been created. Lack of proper check and balance provokes every kid to use Facebook and spend some real time. The kids must be educated that they might face serious problems in the form of dangers, so setting privacy is inevitable. Here are the few must-know privacy options for the parents and teens as well.
Sharing On Facebook
Sharing on Facebook is a very important aspect, and that grants enhanced exposure to the users. The people who want quick fame share their posts and photos on their Facebook accounts. This sharing lets others view and checks the profile of that particular user. The kids must control their sharing, and it should be strictly limited to the specific audience like friends or close friends or few people. Follow this path to change your sharing setting on the account; Account > Privacy Settings > Sharing on Facebook. Once you are done with the settings, preview your profile to see what others would be able to view.
Personal Information
When a user creates the account, he is supposed to provide correct information, but many people manipulate by creating fake accounts with fake information and details. The kids may add real and true personal information like phone number, address, emails and others so it’s necessary to control these. If you want to edit your privacy setting, go to the SETTING, then PRIVACY SETTINGS and there will be various categories like profile information, contact information, search, and block, etc. Open every category individually and adjust settings to a mode that the parents feel comfortable. The personal information can be kept private by selecting ONLY ME option, and same is the case with other categories.
The parents are recommended to keep every personal information and detail privately. ABOUT section contains everything about the user, and this section must be managed wisely. Contact number, emails, and address must be shared only with the friends on the list. Additionally, CUSTOM option in every privacy section allows the user to build advanced settings like he/she can share the details or posts or information with particular people and can hide from others as well. These privacy options must be utilized to the fullest when it comes to the security of the teens.
Restrict Your Searching
Another option in the SETTING section of account is SEARCH. This lets the user allow people to search them. The tag on SEARCH says “control who can see your search result on Facebook” so it’s very clear that it should not be made publically accessible. The teens’ accounts must use this choice not to let anonymous users find them, contact, communicate and misuse them. When a user cannot even find out the ID of the target, how would he access him/her on the social media?
Restrict Personal Photos
The photos are an integral part of social media sharing, especially Facebook. Millions of photos are sent, received, shared and tagged on Facebook to get increased exposure. The personal pictures of the kids must not be public. The parents got to educate the teens that they should be careful at the time of sharing pictures and photos. The privacy of photos can be done when a user shares the photo on his WALL. Facebook asks the user to set target audience, and the best option is to keep photos only to friends and family members.
Never Go For Tagging
Tagging, regarding Facebook, refers to sharing a certain information or post to a huge number of people by adding all the friends. The tagging leads to the wider spread of that post. When teens tag all the friends, the posts or photos become visible to friends of the friends and even their friends can check as well. This is very much unsafe and might cause serious security challenges. The cyber bullies or others might get active when they find their target on the social media.
Final Thoughts
Facebook is a good source of entertainment, but it provokes culprits, bullies and criminal sort of agents to dig out into anyone’ account and check what they do or share. Owning to all such concerns, parents are directed to reduce the use their kids’ Facebook and in case they are allowed to use, the parents must never forget to build robust privacy settings for their kids. Knowledge is aware, and awareness leads to safer lives. Increase protection of your children on Facebook, secure them, grow them up in sophisticated manners and enjoy a happy life.
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