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Messages providing privacy warnings and purported solutions for stopping hackers from invading your Facebook profile, seemingly circulate every time that social media network rolls out a new feature: These messages were spread widely after the introduction of the Facebook Timeline, after the introduction of the Facebook Ticker, and again after the introduction of the Facebook Graph Search. Each time, the warnings advocated users implement a proffered solution (e.g., unclicking Comments and Likes under the Subscribed box) in order to prevent friends of your Facebook friends (who may be strangers to you) from seeing your Facebook likes and comments activities (and vice-versa) and limit hackers from invading your profile. As Sophos noted of the earliest such message, the proposed solution was time-consuming and didn't address the real issue of whether other people could see your activity on Facebook: The advice offered in a second example for eliminating Facebook eavesdropping by friends of friends (i.e., altering the settings associated with your friends to uncheck Comments and Likes in the What types of updates area) was closer to the mark. Sophos also advised that:
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