Facebook Privacy settings - are you sharing too much?

Privacy Settings (updated June 2012)
You set all of your privacy settings here https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy

Control your default privacy - set this to Friends. Or Custom.  This is who can see your status updates, posts, photos, etc, whenever you post to facebook.


How you connect -

• Who can look you up using hte email address or phone number you provided. 
• Do you want anyone who gets hold of your email address to be able to identify you on facebook? If so, set Everyone.  If you're a teacher or someone in the public eye, you might not want this. So perhaps better to have 'friends of friends' - so the person would have to have not only your email address, but be a friend of your existing contacts on fb.
• Who can send you friend requests - same as above really - if you do'nt want to get friend requests from random people, don't set it to everyone. However, bear in mind that you *can* choose to ignore or block friend requests, so even if you do get random ones, you don't have to accept them as friends!
• Who can send you facebook messages? I'd set this to friends of friends....

Timeline and Tagging

• Who can see your timeline ? FRIENDS. Only. Nobody else.
• Who can see what others post on your timeline? FRIENDS. Only. Nobody else.
• Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline? ON - switch this on. If it's off, it means other people can tag you in a post and that will appear on your wall. You might not want that!
• Who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline? FRIENDS. Only. No-one else.
• Review tags frinds add to your own posts on facebook? ON - switch it on, same as above
• Who sees tag suggstions when photos that look like you are uploaded. Set to No-One. You really don't want this. Honestly.

Apps, Games and Websites

• Basicaly, here, go through every setting and link, and set everything to No, Disabled, No Thanks, and No-one.

All of these settings relate to "Can we share your information from your account with other third party advertisers, websites, applications, and other people". I honestly don't know why anybody would agree to letting a company like facebook share their personal information with any third parties.
 You DO have to go through all of the links on this page to eventually get to the settings, to disable them (everything is enabled or ticked by default) - but it's well worth making hte effort to do so.

Facebook - email addresses and face recognition

Email addresses - Facebook has changed yours to be <something>@facebook.com
Facebook recently made some changes to change your primary email address to be <yourname>@facebook.com, and relegated your normal email address down the list.  It also made this new facebook.com email address visible on your profile to everyone. The problem with this is that if any of your friends with smartphones synchronise their smartphone addressbooks with facebook, this will mean that they now have the new @facebook.com email address for you, instead of your real email address. Not great.
 
Here's how to get rid of the @facebook.com email address from your profile.

• Click on the "About" tab on your profile
• Go to the section marked "Contact info" and click"Edit"

• Click the padlock to change the settings on each email address to specify if it is displayed on your profile or not, and who can see it.
• Press "Save".

Stop Facebook from suggesting your name as appearing in others' photos

• Go to your Facebook account's privacy settings. https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
• Go to "Timeline and tagging" and click on "Edit settings".
• Choose "Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?".
• Select "No one" if you don't want Facebook to tell your friends when it has recognised your face in a photo they have uploaded
• Press "OK".