This is all that Facebook knows about you and how you can avoid it

We have all heard about that friend of a friend who lost the job opportunity of his life by posting an inappropriate photo on Facebook, who discovered the company that was going to hire him.A type of event which can help to become aware of the consequences that certain publications could have on the platform, and of the need to act with caution.

An issue to which, however, we overlook another problem: the impressive amount of information that the platform is capable of storing about us.Data that goes beyond those offered during the creation of the profile and that contemplate from the likes to the advertisements in which we have clicked and the time in which this action has taken place.Today we analyze all this information and tell you how to delete it or, at least, mitigate the consequences.

How to know what Facebook knows about you

To know what Facebook knows about us We have several options .The first, oldest, is found in the general configuration panel, at the bottom, where you can read " Download a copy of your information ".service used to create a copy of everything we have shared on the platform.We must click on "Create my file" and enter the password again.

After a few minutes and some notices and pop-up windows, we will receive the file in our email through a link with "expiration date".This link will take us to the configuration page from the that will let us download the content.That said, this is perhaps one of the options that best show the amount of data that we have just given to this community.And that is in this history every step is captured, I like every , etc..Everything organized by folders.

This is all that Facebook knows about you and how you can avoid it

Another way to see it is entering the Activity Log , from the dropdown where the configuration is located, access to the profile, etc.It is a specific option in which, to At a glance, we observe from the songs heard through Spotify (if we have it associated), the searches, shared links; and with a detail that scares. With the date and even the exact time .

How to avoid it

After checking the amount of data that we dump-innocently and almost without realizing it-on the social network, it is worth asking: Is there a way to avoid it? Unfortunately and whenever we carry out the actions mentioned, will be stored on the platform , unless we delete them later or, directly, delete our profile .

Last is very simple: just go to the " General " section and choose the last option: "Manage account".From that section we will have the possibility to deactivate it or eliminate it in a couple of clicks.When choosing the first option, what will happen is that the profile will be deactivated, and that our name and photo will be deleted; but some people may continue to see certain information -like the messages we have sent or our name in a contact's friends list-.

This is all that Facebook knows about you and how you can avoid it

Completing it completely is the most "radical" and also the most effective option.Such is why Facebook only considers it if we die and have not wanted to leave a legacy person, it is say, to someone who manages our account after our death.The process is a bit tedious, because it asks us repeatedly if we are safe and even lets us restore it to its original state within 14 days.

On the other hand, to delete the saved activity , you will have to go to the « Activity Log » (from the drop-down in the upper right corner). delete them individually .For searches, we will click on the "more" text that appears in the left column and then search.

Act with caution, fundamental

Another thing we can do is avoid certain behaviors, data and configure the privacy parameters , which we will discuss in more detail in the following point.And although the first ones are quite evident-no extol terrorist acts, defame, insult, or offer political opinions that harm us in the future-, the latter are not so much.

This is the case of the telephone number, a very personal contact that has no real utility in this context (also this question was linked to a great controversy when the company stated that it would cross the information coming from WhatsApp).Interestingly, Facebook even has a messaging system that alerts you via SMS of changes in the social network, friend requests, publications and status updates of your friends.Something very intrusive and a utility that also Search for phone numbers of other users.

The age and date of your birthday, the location, and if we have a partner or lack it, are other issues that anyone who claims to be our friend should know without having to consult online.Also, is it any use? Saving cards and pre-established payment methods is another bad idea .

Configure privacy parameters, password

This is all that Facebook knows about you and how you can avoid it

As we said, setting the privacy parameters will be key , not to prevent Facebook from knowing more about us than we want, but for other people to do it or, failing that, those "we don't feel so" contacts.At this point we have a wide range of possibilities, which will be accessible through the sections of Privacy , Biography and labeling, Locks and Applications-present in the Configuration menu-, each of which offers its own options.

That is, if we seek to restrict the content to a certain number of users or prevent others from seeing it, we will enter the first of the tabs and establish if we want to be public, visible to friends or certain people, areas specific geographies, concrete lists , and more.The lists are precisely one of the most interesting parts of the platform, a section that is possible to customize and that we find in the general view of Facebook, in the left column and in "friend lists".

This is all that Facebook knows about you and how you can avoid it

Another option provided by this section ( Privacy ) is to establish who can send you friend requests , look for you and determine that you do not want to appear in the engine results of quest.Lastoultimo is very interesting for some professional profiles.

In Biography and Labeling we can avoid unwanted tags and comments, establish how we want to manage them, veto specific "friends", and more.A "no" box appears share with "quite clarifying.We can also prevent certain people from seeing some content.The blocks, below, are more specific and contemplate the veto for applications, games, groups and more.In the Applications section, to finish, we will manage the permissions of the apps linked to Facebook .

Other considerations

Finally, we could not fail to comment that there are applications that, beyond the mere advertising purpose, use all the information referred to for totally different purposes and very curious.This is the case, for example, of Predictive World, which we already talked about in previous articles and that uses them to "predict the future".

Actually, what it does is select those that reflect our life habits, personal relationships, those of our relationship and others, and cross them with demographic data.The result? A personalized profile with percentages of probability: of death, of getting married and a long etcetera easy to imagine and that never ceases to surprise us.

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