How to review your Facebook Data Settings

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Hi everyone! With the latest Facebook scandal about Cambridge Analytica and
all the questions surrounding data privacy I thought I would create a video
that shows you how you can see which apps are currently connected to your
account and possibly accessing your data, how you can download an archive of the
data that Facebook has on you, how you can deactivate your account and
ultimately how you can delete your account if that is something that you'd
like to do. I hope you find the information helpful.
So, the first thing you want to do
is go to the top right corner and click the little arrow
then scroll down to settings and this will take you to your general account
settings page. If you want to download a copy of your facebook data simply click
on the link here that says download a copy and it will take you to the
download page. I've already requested my archive - if you haven't you'll click the
button to save request an archive and they will send you an email when it's
ready for you to download and then you can download it either from the email or
you can click this button to download it. To see the apps that are currently
connected to your account you want to go back to your general account settings
page and click on Apps. From this page you can see all of the apps that are
currently connected to your account that you are either currently using or you've
given permission to use at any time since you've had an active Facebook
account. This will show you just a quick preview of a few so what you want to do
is click show all and if you've used quite a lot of apps over the years
you'll see that this list is very very long. Unfortunately, in order to delete or
disconnect the apps you have to do them one by one so if you have a lot of apps
it might be quite a long process. What you do to remove them from your account
is you tick the box and then you tick remove and this will come up asking you
if you definitely want to remove it. If you remove an app from your account it
will delete any information on your Facebook profile that is connected to
that app so just make sure it's definitely what you want to do. Tick the
box and click remove and then it confirms
that that app was removed and disconnected. So, as I said you'll need to
go through that process for every one of the apps connected to your account. The
next thing that is worth checking is scrolling down to the bottom of the page
and view whether or not you want to continue allowing this top left box to
be switched on. Now, this box is the section that gives permission from
websites and games to use your Facebook account to log in so for instance it
might be Netflix or any other website that you can log into using your
Facebook account. If you want to continue doing that you don't have to change this
if it's switched on but if you don't want to do that
you can click here to turn it off just noting that if you do turn it off you
probably won't be able to log into websites anymore using your Facebook
account. Once you have gone through those steps you may decide that you would like
to either deactivate your account or completely delete your account. If you
want to deactivate your account you go to the left-hand menu and select general
then manage account and scroll down to deactivate your account. Deactivating
your account will disable your profile as it says here and remove your name and
photo for most things but it may still appear in things like searches or your
friends lists so it's not permanently getting rid of your account. If you want
to do that you click deactivate your account. If you've decided that you've
had enough of Facebook and you definitely want to delete your account
there isn't actually an option to do it from the menu. What you need to do is go
to https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account and that
will give you the option to permanently delete your account. I obviously don't
want to delete my account so I'm not going to click the button and go through
the steps but if you wanted to do that this is where you would do it. I hope you
find this information helpful. if anything you can now keep much better
track of the data that you are sharing with Facebook which is important for
all of us to do. Thanks for watching.
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How to review your Facebook Data Settings

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