Technology Tip: Time to clean up your facebook!

Technology Tip:

Time to clean up your facebook!

Nearly a billion people log into Facebook daily, and spend about 8 hours per month on the free social networking site. From catching up with friends, to sharing daily activity through status updates and apps, and customizing the look of our Timelines, many of us have invested hours in our online personas.

But how often do you review your account to adjust settings, throw out unused apps, and make necessary changes to reflect the way you presently use Facebook?  It is probably been a while since you did a little cleanup.

Follow these five steps to revamp your Facebook account and give yourself a fresh start on your most frequented social network.

1. Lock down your privacy
The most important step is to first confirm that you're comfortable with the amount of information you're sharing on Facebook--with friends, apps, and the service itself.

2. Unlike, unfriend, and unsubscribe
It is always surprising at those who never review their friend list for potential people to toss out.  No, you should not make a habit of it, but it is important to remember that if you are mostly sharing with "Friends" that is potentially hundreds of people who are getting a peek into your personal life.  A general rule of thumb is that if you would not say "hello" to them in real life, they should not be your "friend."

While you're at it, unlike and unsubscribe from any pages or public figures who may be clogging up your News Feed with information you do not usually find useful or entertaining.  You can quickly find your Subscriptions under the "Interests" header in the sidebar on the home page.

3. Disable (or minimize) e-mail notifications
Because you check Facebook so often, e-mail notifications about who commented on what are just redundant. Besides, e-mail notifications ruin the excitement one gets upon seeing that wonderful red bubble at login.

4. Organize your friends into lists
Over time, as you add friends and subscribe to people and pages, your News Feed can become pretty noisy.  To fix this, Facebook offers Lists, a feature that lets you organize people into lists. Use them to filter your News Feed.  For example, you can have list for high school friends, colleagues, and my club, so that you can catch up on those individuals one group at a time.

5. Update your bio
It is no surprise that employers check out potential workers' Facebook profile as a regular part of the hiring process.  After all, what better way to get an idea of who you are and what you are like?
Since there is nothing you can really do to stop them from creeping on you (except deleting your account), the next best thing is to make your profile shine.

Take the time to update your bio, work history, interests, and any other information you are willing to volunteer.  If you are feeling brave, make that information "Public" so that anyone who visits your profile can immediately get a sense of just how awesome you are.

Have a great weekend!!!

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