Sometimes you will have friends on Facebook who want to use games and applications. If you do not go into your settings and turn some things off, these programs, when they look at you (without your consent) can data mine your information without your knowledge. Even if everything is set to "friends" in your privacy settings, 3rd party companies are allowed to data mine for your habits, your personal info, your home address, phone numbers, and interests. Tell them to SOD OFF. Because I strongly oppose underhanded practices such as data mining, you may a) refer to this site and guide and b) link to this article.
Here is how to do so.
Under the account tab, go to privacy settings.
You are going to see this bar near the bottom of the page. Click on the far left one where the arrow is pointing in this snapshot.
Click "edit information accessible through your friends" or something like that.
When the window opens, uncheck everything. By checking these boxes, you authorize Facebook to allow 3rd party data miners to collect information on you. Information that can be purchased by corporations, hackers, thieves, you get the picture.
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