Controlling Facebook applications

Controlling Facebook applications
Facebook is home to many applications or little software programs that work
within the service. Apps can be games, information services, quizzes or almost
anything else that can be programmed on a computer. It’s important to know
that app developers can sometimes have access to your Facebook information,
and there are some games that are able to share some of that information
with your friends or others who play the game. But, as with other aspects of
Facebook, you have control over what information they can access.
You can get to the Applications, Games and Websites setting page by clicking
Edit your settings just below Applications and Websites at the bottom of the
Privacy Settings page.
At this point, you’ll see a page that allows you to adjust the overall settings for
Applications, Games and Websites as well as the setting for each individual
application.
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For example, you can adjust what information is available to applications when
your friends use them. Facebook says, “The more info you share, the more
social the experience,” but the other side of that is that the more you share,
the more information you’re giving out about yourself. It’s a good idea to think
about what information you want your children to share and be sure they limit
it accordingly.
The types of information you can allow – or disallow – apps, games, and websites to
share about you when friends use them.