by Catherine L. Tully
I heard some information from a fellow writer, Cynthia Clampitt that I thought I would pass along for Freelance-Zone readers…
She said that FB is allowing third party advertisers to use photos that you post on the social networking site. I didn’t research this to see if it was true because you should really be protecting your privacy anyway. Do you know what your privacy settings are on FB? Can everyone see what you post? Careful…I’ve warned before about how this can work against you as a freelance writer. If you don’t want to mix your professional and personal life, take the following steps to protect your photos from other people using them without your permission:
- Go to settings
- Go to privacy
- Go to newsfeeds & wall
- Got to Facebook ads
- Select no one
- Save
Many thanks to Cynthia for bringing this to light!
FACEBOOK has posted the following alert when you go to your settings page
Worried about privacy? Your photos are safe.
There have been misleading rumors recently about the use of your photos in ads. Don’t believe them. These rumors were related to third-party applications, and not ads shown by Facebook. Get the whole story at the Facebook Blog, or check out the Help Center.
That may be the case in terms of third party advertisers, but when I went to check this out, my default setting was not the most private one…I still would recommend that those who do not want their photos used on FB check off the “no one” option…
Personally, I’m a privacy freak. ; )