Blerim Rexha, a professor of computer science at the University of Prishtina told K2.0 that in Kosovo there had been a few cases of families sharing posts about ongoing vacations that burglars found out about, and used to their advantage. In 2012, a British man on trial for assault on a friend’s father bragged prematurely on Facebook to his friend that he “thought he got away with it tbh.” The exchange was printed off on Facebook and delivered to court as evidence, forcing him to plead guilty.īut criminals don’t just use Facebook to inadvertently confess to their crimes. Oversharing on Facebook has even got people in trouble with the law. The main outlet for people leaking all sorts of sensitive information to the web is Facebook. Posting something to the web is essentially publishing it, making it available to anyone with an internet connection, which in Kosovo is over 76 percent of the population. Politeness demands you reveal this information with a willing smile, but whilst sharing all this information is less of a risk in the street, on the bus or outside a cafe, online it can pose real dangers. Everyone you meet wants to know who you are, where you’re from, what you do, whether you’re married, which school your father went to, what color your childhood dog’s eyes were etc. There’s a catch, though – Timeline Review can only control what appears on your own timeline, not in people’s News Feed or search results.Keeping personal information to yourself can be a challenge in Kosovo. You can also use this section to review tags before they’re applied to you. Head to Facebook’s Settings section, then click 'Timeline and tagging' on the left in the Review section, click Edit next to 'Review posts you're tagged in before the post appears on your timeline?'. To do this for things before they’re posted on your page, turn on Timeline Review. This won’t delete the picture, just your name from it. On a post, click the … button in the top right, then click 'Remove tag'. On a photo, hover over it and click Options, then click 'Remove tag'. If a friend has tagged you in a post or picture that you’d rather not be associated with, there are ways to remove your name from it. Extricate yourself from other people’s Facebook posts If you want a bit more control, just click 'Create List' and start adding friends to a new custom list. The Restricted list is for people you really don’t want to share everything with – like your boss – and these people will only see your public content and anything they’re tagged in. When creating a post, you can choose to share with 'Friends except acquaintances' to exclude them. The Acquaintances list is for people you only share with occasionally, perhaps like your colleagues. Each starts empty, allowing you to add people as needed. You’ll see three lists: Close friends, Acquaintances and Restricted. From your home page, click 'Friend lists' in the Explore section on the left-hand side (it may be hidden under 'See more…'). Helpfully, Facebook creates a few lists for you. This also protects your privacy by not oversharing with people who are not the intended audience. While you could select individual friends one by one, it’s much easier to create a list and share directly with those people. Sometimes, you just want to share something with a specific group of friends. It’s buried pretty deep, but it’s the option to go for if you want the most control. This gives you the most control over your post, allowing you to include certain people and lists, exclude others, and choose whether friends of tagged people can see it too. At the bottom of this list of options is a 'See all' button click this and you can set custom rules for your post. If you click 'More…' you get options to share the post with a handful of specific friends, or to only allow yourself to see it. Three options are displayed by default: 'Public', 'Friends' and 'Friends except…', the latter of which allows you to exclude certain friends from seeing your post. Each has a dropdown menu on the right allowing you to choose who will see the post. Underneath the options for tagging friends, attaching photos and setting an activity, there are two toggles: News Feed and Your story. When you make a post on Facebook, you can choose who should be able to see it.
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