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How to Set Up Snapchat Ghost Mode

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How to Set Up Snapchat Ghost Mode for the Snapchat map

If you are using the Snapchat maps (or maybe you didn’t know you are contributing to it) you may be surprised to find how frighteningly accurate Snapchat is at sharing your location. If you open the app and look at the Snapchat map, you’ll see that not only can you see where your friends are, you may be able to see exactly which hallway or section of a public building they are in.

For some, this may be acceptable, but for many, it’s creepy. Plus it is a huge privacy concern!

If you want more privacy on Snapchat – at least some of the time – then go into ghost mode or stop using the map all together. We know that internet giants like Google and Facebook are tracking our movement and preferences and then sell that data (albeit anonymously) to advertisers. Snapchat has an advertising platform too. So, don’t be naive and think the Snapchat map was developed entirely for fun. Data mining for advertising dollars is big business!

Enabling Host Mode by turning off the Snapchat’s location sharing is easy and takes less than a minute. You can choose who you share your location with, like just friends for example, or turn it off completely for three to 24 hours. Just go to your settings, under the gear icon. Select location data. After you tap Ghost Mode you will be able to control who is seeing your location and for how long.

Watch the video on how to change some of your Snapchat privacy settings and stop sharing your precise location with everyone.

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How to Edit Facebook Privacy Settings

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How to Edit Your Facebook Privacy Settings

It is important to check on your Facebook settings and make sure the information you want to be private, stays private! Although you can hide information from the public, you cannot hide from Facebook itself! Facebook mines data to sell it anonymously to advertisers too. Facebook can predict what you like based on your activity on the social media channel.

To edit your Facebook privacy settings, go to:
https://www.facebook.com/settings

On the mobile app tap the mobile menu in the upper right corner of the app, scroll all the way down and tap Account Settings. Then select Privacy.

I limit who can see my posts and photos to those who are Facebook friends with me. That means, the general public cannot see my photos. This does cause some inconvenient limitations. For example, if I post a work photo on my personal Facebook, I cannot share it to my brand’s page.

I also recommend setting who can send you friend requests. On LinkedIn, I’m wide open. I let anyone send me a connection because that’s a business-to-business networking channel. My Facebook profile is private. Although I am friends with many of my clients and vendors, that’s because we are truly friends! I do have a Facebook public figure page for business “friends.” Which is open to the public.

There are other reasons for limiting who sees your information on Facebook. Personal information can be used in social engineering cyber attacks. Although things such as hometown, schools you attended, and birthday can help you find friends and connect, they can also be used in social engineering attacks. Kids names, the names of your pets, and hometown are the common password reset questions! If your email is exposed on Facebook or LinkedIn, then this is all a good start at hacking into your email account and then resetting a password to something more valuable like a bank account or credit card!

Learn more about social engineering hacks and cyber security in this blog post:

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