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Legal Marketing: Protect your Facebook from unwanted intruders

Guest post by: Tom Matte

Article Overview: Many legal marketers are beginning to use their Facebook page to post legal industry news and stay connected with co-workers and clients, but make sure your Facebook page is protected from spam and other unwanted issues.

Legal Marketing: Protect your Facebook from unwanted intruders

Many legal marketers are beginning to use their Facebook page to post legal industry news and stay connected with co-workers and clients, but make sure your Facebook page is protected from spam and other unwanted issues.

Facebook is a wonderful social media tool, but it does come with its challenges as well. One such issue that many aren’t aware of is photo tagging. Facebook accounts default to allow photo tagging, which is one of the common entry points for spammers. Photo tagging is when one of your friends uploads a photo and “tags” your image in that shot. Most people allow friends to tag them in photos, without realizing the downside. But by accepting photo tagging, you also allow other applications to gain access to your profile, which in turn can result in spam on your page and your friends’ pages as well.

Here are the steps you need to take to disable photo tagging in Facebook.

1. Go to the top right of your Facebook page and click on “Account.”
2. Then click on “Privacy Settings.”
3. Next, click on “Apps and Websites,” then “edit settings” on the bottom left.
4. Now that you’re in “Apps and Websites,” click on the “edit settings” button next to “Info accessible through your friends.”
5. This will pull up a pop-up window which will allows you to click on the items you want accessible to your friends. To disable photo tagging, uncheck, “photos and videos I am tagged in.”

The next step is to opt out of suggested photo tagging. This is when Facebook recognizes your pictures and suggests that others tag you.

1. Once again, go to “Account” in the right hand corner of your Facebook page and click on “Privacy Settings.”
2. Then click on “Customize Settings,” and scroll down to the middle of the page where you will find “Things Others Share.”
3. Click “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
4. This will open up a pop-up. Click on “enabled” in the right hand corner and change it to “disabled.”

These are just two small steps you can take to maintain more control of your Facebook page and reduce its exposure to spam.

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