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Jon Russell
Jon Russell was Asia Editor for The Next Web from 2011 to 2014. Originally from the UK, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand. You can find him on T Jon Russell was Asia Editor for The Next Web from 2011 to 2014. Originally from the UK, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand. You can find him on Twitter, Angel List, LinkedIn.
Worried about the security of your data on Facebook as the social network goes into apps overload? Don’t be.
This 30 second chart [click to enlarge] from Jeff Elder, marketing director at Storify and a social media expert in his own right, shows how easy it is manage which of your details apps from friends have access to.
Online privacy is a huge issue of concern for many Internet users and Facebook, as the world’s most popular social network by some distance, is the chief platform over which many angonize over the safety of their, often considerable, amount of personal data.
However, securing your information on Facebook isn’t as difficult as you might think. Thanks to its numerous privacy blow-ups and the FTC breathing down its neck for the next twenty years, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been forced to make its privacy controls more transparent and easier to use.