How to Hide Yourself on Facebook (Hide on Facebook)
While delivering an internet privacy keynote presentation for a large organization that was very interested in best practices for business, I was asked a very interesting question:
Can I use Facebook to log in to other sites and to keep track of friends without allowing the social network to share my information the other direction?
In reality, it’s difficult to just up and quit Facebook completely, but it’s not that difficult to hide on Facebook. Many users want to mine the social network like the proverbial fly on the wall. They want to watch what is going on in other people’s lives without them seeing or commenting on what is going on in yours. You might use your Facebook login credentials to centralize access to other sites (e.g., log in to Twitter with your Facebook credentials). Or you may want to keep it open so that your username isn’t made available to someone else. So how do you drop off of the Facebook radar without completely closing your account? The steps below are the closest approximation we’ve come up with to going underground.
