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• If you want to know how much information facebook has about you, simply go to your account setting on your home menu and click “download your facebook data”. • You don’t get to see all the posts made by your friends and only a fraction of your posts will be seen by your friends. Facebook is interested in allowing users to see posts that will keep them on the site for long, hence the posts that receive more comments move up. • Facebook tracks other website you log unto while you are logged into your facebook account and surfing the internet at the same time- facebook tracks those websites containing “like or share” buttons.• Facebook use “Natural language processing” techniques to track your events and special announcements – these will remain in your friends’ news feeds until they log unto their accounts.   • You can get posts from those friends you care about by changing the settings of your news feeds- set your news feeds to sort by “most recent” rather than “top news” and add your favourite people to your “close friends” lists. • Most facebook users don’t admire the timeline but brands like them because it helps them market their products and services more effectively. • You can limit the type and number of people viewing your facebook posts, simply click on the arrow at the lower right hand corner under your status update box and choose from the options. • You will notice that you are having fewer people on your favourite facebook pages because the social network website has been cracking down on phony individuals are company trying to get as many profiles as possible just to book their popularity through the social media network. Facebook recently gave an indication that more than 80 million profiles on its network are fake, though many of such profiles also contain duplicate profiles or pages set by individuals. • Facebook has started the use of its newest feature- GRAPH. This feature allows brands to advertise their products and services based on the information retrieved from activities of facebook users. You will notice that facebook has started suggesting pages you should like- this is made possible with Facebook’s graph. • It is impossible to privatize some contents on your facebook page, these include; your profile and cover pictures, your username, gender and Network. This makes you susceptible to several things, therefore you must be careful when choosing providing these information on your profile.          • Never forget to log out of your facebook account especially if you are using a public computer. Never keep your facebook account logged on your computer even at work , most especially when your co-workers are around. • Be selective in your choice of friends. If you click “Yes” on all friends requests, be rest assured that lots of information will appear in your newsfeeds and most of them are things you will dislike and this will take you some extra time to filter out. • You can simply hit the offline button if you want to hide from all your friends on facebook but if you are hiding from a particular person, simply click on his or her name on the chat window and select “cog” icon at the top right and hit the “go offline” option on the his or her name.