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HOW MUCH DO you know about Facebook’s privacy settings. While it has received (mostly deserved) criticism over certain practices, its own security and privacy settings are quite vast.
However, most users mightn’t be aware of them meaning it’s more important than ever to check your settings and see what you have activated. Here’s what you need to know.
When you click on the privacy button at the top-right hand corner, you will be presented with a number of quick options. They include:
Who can see my stuff?: Whether your status updates are public or not, how your profile looks to friends and strangers, and a list of every action you’ve taken on the site.
Who can contact me?: Control who can message you and send friend requests.
How can I stop someone from bothering me?: Blocking someone essentially.
While these are useful, you want to click on more settings underneath and delve deeper.
Some of the options you saw earlier are covered here, but the ones you want to take note of are as follows:
Limit past posts: Lets you hide all posts from everyone in one fell swoop. If you want to change it, you have to go through each one individually.
Who can find you through your email/mobile no.: Rather self explanatory. For example, if you use your email/mobile for work but don’t want a client to find you, this is how you stop them.
Limit search engines: People can still find your account through Google, Bing or Yahoo. Turning this off stops this from happening although you have to give it a day before it comes into effect.
All of that is useful, but we’re not finishing there. On the toolbar located on the left-hand side, you will see a number of other options. For now, click on security.
The most useful and important section found in settings, it’s recommended to check this every so often. The options available here include:
Login notifications: If someone tries accessing your account through a different smartphone, you can get an email or push notification alerting you.
Login approval: Effectively two-step verification. If you’re logging in from an unknown browser, you will be asked to enter a code from your phone.
Code Generator: Your Facebook app will supply codes for entry whenever there’s a security problem.
Trusted Contacts: If you have trouble accessing your account, you can ask a friend to help verify you and get you back in.
Trusted Browsers: Similarly, you won’t get an alert if you’re logging in from a trusted browser.
Where you logged in: Every device and method you used to log into Facebook is here. Desktop, app, mobile web, and FB messenger is included here.
And we’re not done yet. The next step is to go into apps.
Every app, quiz and random event that required you to sign up is presented here. Chances are your list is longer than you initially realised, especially since logging into apps and sites with Facebook is so popular.
It’s a good idea to go into this regularly and clear out permissions for apps you don’t use any longer.
The fun part, while you can block users, more importantly, you can block app invites, event invitations and apps from your stream. If you’re bombarded by Candy Crush invites, this is what you’re looking for.
There are other settings available and it’s worth checking through them all, but if you go through the ones listed above, you will have very little to worry about from your end.
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Warehouse in Ireland please. Having to wait for parcels to ship from UK is not good enough.
Amazons high tech jobs are based in Dublin. The companies warehouses are based in Britain. It’s cheaper than Ireland.
Yeah that 1 day prime service is shocking! If I order something now I won’t have it until tomorrow ffs!
Amazon consider Ireland as part of the UK geographicaly for business reasons while for delivery reasons they consider NI and The Republic to be the same.I worked there and it used to provide endless hours of fun trying to explain the situation to idiot ‘nationalists and unionists’ who would take offence to this.Then added to that for tax they are registered in Lux.Most likely they will open a hub here at some point but most items will still have to come from the UK. There just isn’t the population here to justify a warehouse system big enough to hold 17m items.
More people out of a job
“hiring 80,000 seasonal workers to meet the coming onslaught of holiday orders.”
are they? some might be out of a job running around the floor picking items. but someone has to look after the robots, repair them and even build them so jobs are created as well.
Simon,that’s a very short term view.
how so. remember back in the 80′s when computers were being brought into the office and work place and we were all supposed to be out of jobs?
Simon, they are doing a physical job that only people could do. You can be very sure that any of these working in these huge spaces will have a very long lifespan unlike anything that will be for sale in the future in PC World etc for the home.
Did you actually read the article?
” They are doing a physical job that only people could do” — bit of a contradiction there
I work in this area (electrical / mechanical IT support) if they have 3000 robots then they need a good load of people to back them up. I would very much doubt that 3000 people were let go to be replaced by 3000 machines.
Machines that run for 24 hours a day need weekly / monthly PM’s. Software upgrades, cleaning and replacing. so while they have a long life span they are continually being looked after unlike your house hold appliances that only get service when they break down,
Support jobs are also much better paid than picking jobs. And at the end of the day, shouldn’t we be using robots and machines to do the more mundane tasks and upgrading our human work force for the better.
Simon the robots will become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th and repair themselves. Only a matter of time.
Jason,Simon. The PEOPLE that did this job last year are highly unlikely to be be servicing these robots. They have most likely been told that there is no work for them. Not everyone has the capacity to up skill. Amazon and those who follow them have not got the welfare of their seasonal workers in mind and are not trying impress ye, they have long term wage bill reductions driving this practice.
Its called progress….
Jesusdittyfcukinchrist they took are jobs !
To help the employees, who are they kidding. To CUT THE WAGE BILL.
PR*cks
Johnny 5
Irish Water is currently drafting up an army of robots in the form of precision electronic meters to “help” distribute something which is of a basic right.
Correction: “help” control something which is of a basic right.
My thoughts exactly.
What are your thoughts, pray tell?
I am thinking he was just missing an ellipses…
His thoughts are centred around precision.
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