The guides have been published to Facebook’s Privacy Basics portal. Writing on the Facebook company blog, product manager Melissa Luu-Van said: “Since last November, millions of people have visited Facebook Privacy Basics, a dedicated resource that gives people a simpler way to find and use our privacy controls. After seeing how interested people are in material like this, we discovered that they also had questions about our security tools.”
The new articles cover topics including how to identify suspicious activity on your account and how to avoid potentially dangerous people online alongside tips on simple things like setting a secure password. Step-by-step methods to protect yourself are suggested alongside background information about the company’s attitudes to privacy.
The guides are available in 40 different languages. There are a total of 11 guides focusing on the tools available to help with account security, steps taken by Facebook to protect your data and ways of recognising and avoiding compromising information.
Luu-Van said: “Online threats are a growing concern for people, and our hope is that this helps people better understand how to stay safe and secure on Facebook.”
Facebook has come under fire in the past few years over its complicated privacy settings that were often unintelligible to users. The company has been steadily improving the situation recently though to make the options more transparent and accessible to even the less technically-savvy people.
