91% keep their Phones within 3 feet of themselves
84% say they couldn’t go a single day without their mobile device
data via Morgan Stanley & TIME mobility poll
Posted by Wong Ching Ya
More changes in 2013?
It’s common for Facebook to undergo drastic (or silent) changes whether the users like it or not. The real question is, how ready are you when Facebook is determined to make the world more open and connected’? Have you made full use of the privacy and account settings to your advantage?
Also, if you’ve been observant enough you should’ve discovered several improvements on the existing features to make them more visible and user friendly. Why not give this list a run-through and see if you missed any.
Privacy Settings:
#1 To Pre-set Your Future Posts
You can predetermine the audience selector for your next status update besides doing it right below your status box before publishing. Otherwise, this setting is fixed upon your last status update.
#2 To Review Tagged Posts and Photos
Your Activity Log had gone through a complete makeover. It’s now easier to scan through your tagged posts or photos and you can set so to be notified when tagged by friends, anyone or friends of friends.
#3 To Control Who Can Look You Up
It’s almost impossible to hide on Facebook. However, you can control who can look you up based on the email address or phone number you provided on Facebook.
Your timeline can be opted-out of search engine results. To do this, simply untick the checkbox. Of course, Facebook will persuade you to reconsider but the decision is yours.
If you prefer to gain followers (formerly known as ‘Subscribers’) for your personal Timeline, then I’d recommend you to keep the box ticked for extra visibility.
Mobile Settings:
#4 To Log Out from Your Missing Phone
When you lose your phone, two critical things you must do to immediately: remove your phone number from your Facebook account and click the ‘Lose your phone’ link to log out from your Facebook mobile app completely.
Managing Notifications:
#5 To Set Notifications for All Your Groups
You can now easily set how you’d like to receive notifications for ALL your groups – including those you’ve joined: to allow all posts, friends’ posts or turn them off completely. How convenient!
There are a few other types of notifications worth exploring, especially if you wish to reduce the noise sent to your emails etc:
- Facebook notifications– you can choose to turn off follow-up alerts by clicking ‘unfollow’ in the notification bar.
- Email notifications- to set so all or only certain notifications reach you via email.
- Mobile notifications– You can choose to receive notifications when someone commented, sent you a request or even from selected friends only. Also, you can set to receive notifications via text messages at the selected time frame.
- Notifications for ‘Close Friends activity’ – to either receive them on facebook, email or none.
- Notifications for Your ‘Followers’ – people who are not your friends but you can set to be notified (or not) about their reactions to your public posts.
- Pages you manage – to set notifications for selected pages you are managing.
