Facebook Educator Guide

If you're concerned about using your full name on Facebook, privacy tools can help you manage information and control what other people can see about you.

What is public information?
Public information can be seen by anyone, anywhere. This includes people who aren’t your friends and people without their own Facebook accounts, and such information can be used in media such as print, broadcasting (ex: television), and other websites on the Internet. For example, if you make a real-time public comment on a television show’s page, the comment may appear on the show itself or somewhere else on Facebook.

What information is public?
Certain pieces of information are always public on Facebook, such as your age range, language, and country. Facebook also uses part of your profile, called your Public Profile, to help connect you with friends and family. Your Public Profile includes your name, gender, username, and user ID (account number), profile picture, cover photo, and networks.

How does this information help connect me with friends and family?

• Your name, profile picture and cover photo help people recognize your profile.
• Listing your gender tells Facebook how to identify you (ex: "Add her as a friend")
• Listing your networks (ex: school, workplace) allows others to find you more easily.
• Your username and user ID (ex: your account number) are in the URL of your profile, which everyone can see.
• Your age range helps Facebook provide you with age-appropriate content recommendations.
• Your language and country help Facebook show you content relevant to your area, in your language of choice.

Who can see things I mark public?
When you choose to share something with Public audiences (ex: when you select Public from the audience selector), it is now considered public information. If you share a piece of content, and you don’t see an audience selector or any other privacy setting options, please be aware that the information is then considered public.
Learn more about using the audience selector to control who can see the content you post to Facebook.

Who can see content that friends share about me?
Posts on friends’ feeds: If other people share information about you, even if it’s something you shared privately with them, they can choose to make that content public when they share or comment on it. Also, when you comment on public posts, please be aware that your comment is public as well.

Posts on Facebook Pages or public groups: Facebook Pages and public groups are public spaces. Anyone who can see the Page or group can see your post or comment. Generally, when you post or comment on a Page or in a public group, a story can be published in your News Feed as well as other places on or off Facebook (in accordance with the info on public posts listed above).

Remember that public information can:

• Be associated with you, even off Facebook.
• Show up when someone does a search related to you on Facebook or on another search engine.
• Be accessed by Facebook-integrated games, applications, and websites that you and your friends use.
• Be accessed to anyone who uses Facebook APIs, such as our Graph API.

Who can look me up? Your settings control how your mobile phone number or email can be used when friends try to find you on Facebook. These settings can affect how Facebook suggests or recommends people to connect with, and they control how people can look you up in certain ways, such as how friends can find you on Facebook after uploading their contact information.

If someone searches for your email or mobile phone number using Facebook search, the search results won't include your profile. However, if someone searches for your email and your email address includes your full name, the search results may include your profile.
You can choose whether friends, friends of friends, or everyone (public) can find you on Facebook using your email or mobile phone number.

To control who can search for you using your email or phone number:

1. At the top right of any Facebook feed, select Settings.
2. Select the Privacy option in the left column.
3. Scroll down to the How People Find and Contact You section, and you'll see a setting for your email and a setting for your phone number.
4. Use the dropdown menu next to each setting to select who can search for you using that info.

Keep in mind that you control who can see your mobile phone number or email on your profile through a separate set of settings, and if you're sharing your phone number or email on your profile with your friends, they can see it.
Learn how to adjust who you share your email or mobile phone number with here.
Note: People can also search you by phone number in the Messenger app.

https://www.facebook.com/help/273948399619967/?helpref=hc_fnav

To change who can add you as a friend:

1. At the top right of any Facebook page, click Settings.
2. Select the privacy option in the left column.
3. Scroll down to Who can send you friend requests? And select “edit”.
4. From the dropdown menu, select who you want to allow to add you: Everyone or Friends of Friends.

To make it easier for your friends to find you on Facebook:

• Use your real first and last name.
• If people know you by a different name (example: nickname, maiden name), you can add another name to your account.
• Fill out your basic info.

Here are some of the ways we are working to better protect your privacy and reduce the amount of misleading information on Facebook.

Protecting Your Privacy
Facebook is taking action on potential past abuse and putting stronger protections in place to prevent future abuse of our platform. We’re adding tighter controls that allow you to manage the apps that can access your data, and if we remove an app for misusing data, we warn everyone who used that app. If you haven't used an app within the last 3 months, we automatically remove the app's access to your information. We're also changing the way Facebook Login works to reduce the data an app can request.
Learn more about how we're working to prevent platform abuse.
Clickbait and Spam
We're making changes to how we rank posts in News Feed so you will see more stories from friends, family, and the people who matter to you most. Posts that we identify as clickbait and spam are posts that are designed to grab your attention and get you to click on links or interact with the post in a specific way. This includes misleading headlines or pieces of information that intentionally leave out important details or exaggerate information. We're working to place these stories lower in News Feed.
Learn what you can do if you see spam on Facebook.
Fake Accounts
Fake accounts are closely related to the spread of misleading content. We block millions of attempts to register fake accounts every day, but some still get through our systems. Machine learning technology helps us identify behaviors unique to fake accounts so we can better detect and deactivate them. Our priority is to remove fake accounts that have a high amount of activity and reach a lot of people in order to combat the spread of false news, spam, and clickbait.
You can always report a profile if you think it doesn't represent a real person.
False News
We are committed to reducing the spread of false news on Facebook. We remove fake accounts and disrupt economic incentives for people and Pages that share misinformation. We also use signals, like feedback from our community, to identify stories that may be false. In countries where we work with independent third-party fact-checkers, stories rated as false by those fact-checkers are shown lower in News Feed. If Pages or domains repeatedly create or share misinformation, we significantly reduce their distribution and remove their advertising rights. We're also working to empower people to decide for themselves what to read, trust, and share by giving them more context on stories with tools like Related Articles.
Learn more about how we're working to reduce the spread of false news.

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When you create a group, you can choose 2 privacy settings: Public or Closed. The table below shows who can join these groups and what people can see about them.

Depending on the group’s settings, all groups require member approval by either an admin or group member. If you're a group admin, learn how to change your group’s privacy settings and how to change your member approval settings.
People not logged into Facebook may see the names and descriptions of public and closed groups. They may also see posts in public groups.
Note: Select rights owners may be able to search sale group posts to prevent the misuse of intellectual property on Facebook.

Click here https://www.facebook.com/help/238318146535333/?helpref=hc_fnav for more information on privacy and safety.