Take a Moment and Change Your Facebook Settings

Have you noticed that your Facebook feed has been looking a little different lately?  Some might even say it looks cluttered and bogged down with things you don’t need (or care) to know about your friends.

Did you know that there was a recent change in Facebook that changed your Facebook recent activities settings?

Your profile is still private, but every time you do something, it will show up in the News Feed for all your friends to read.  Every time you join a group, become a fan, add a friend, or leave a comment on someone’s profile, it includes it in your feed.  This lets all your friends know what you did.

And well, I don’t know about you, but I just don’t think it’s something that we all need to know about each other.  Sadly, we can turn off all those notifications on our end.  But…you can turn off your recent activities settings so at least you won’t be bogging down your friends’ feeds.  And just think, if you spread the word, eventually, everyone will finally get around to adjusting their settings.

To change your settings, you need to do the following:

1.     Log in to Facebook

2.     Click on SETTINGS

3.     Use the pull down menu and click on PRIVACY SETTINGS

4.     Click on NEWS FEED AND WALL

5.     Mark each box that you would like to show up in the News Feed – I leave all mine unchecked

6.     Click on SAVE CHANGES on the bottom

It’s that simple!

And while you’re in your settings, if you haven’t yet adjusted your privacy setting for just how public your profile and photos can be, be sure to do that now as well.