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The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1421730000&en=3377c52164e5c387&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/20/20readwriteweb-the-3-facebook-settings-every-user-should-c-29287.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(' In December, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fa'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('technology'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Technology'); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb '); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('January 20, 2010'); } Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb Published: January 20, 2010 In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter. Skip to next paragraph More News From ReadWriteWeb 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Phones Why Facebook Is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important Nexus One and Android 2.1: Apple Better Watch Out Open Thread: Should Tech Get a Turn-Off? How The Web Is Transforming Personal Finance Those of you who edited your privacy settings prior to December's change have nothing to worry about - that is, assuming you elected to keep your personalized settings when prompted by Facebook's "transition tool." The tool, a dialog box explaining the changes, appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. Unfortunately, most Facebook users likely opted for the recommended settings without really understanding what they were agreeing to. If you did so, you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how.

The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1421730000&en=3377c52164e5c387&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/20/20readwriteweb-the-3-facebook-settings-every-user-should-c-29287.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(' In December, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fa'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('technology'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Technology'); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb '); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('January 20, 2010'); } Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb Published: January 20, 2010 In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter. Skip to next paragraph More News From ReadWriteWeb 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Phones Why Facebook Is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important Nexus One and Android 2.1: Apple Better Watch Out Open Thread: Should Tech Get a Turn-Off? How The Web Is Transforming Personal Finance Those of you who edited your privacy settings prior to December's change have nothing to worry about - that is, assuming you elected to keep your personalized settings when prompted by Facebook's "transition tool." The tool, a dialog box explaining the changes, appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. Unfortunately, most Facebook users likely opted for the recommended settings without really understanding what they were agreeing to. If you did so, you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how.

You can find this feature by clicking on “Settings” (gear icon) in the HootSuite dashboard and selecting “RSS/Atom”. Clicking the plus sign will allow you to enter your feed URL and set the parameters of how RSS feed items get posted to your social networks.

One cool feature of using RSS feeds with HootSuite is that it allows you to prepend your social media updates with text. That means you can automatically have “New Post” or “Update” inserted in front of your article title. You can take the possibilities with this anywhere. Perhaps you have a hashtag associated with your website. With this feature, you will be able to automatically have that hashtag prepended in your post.

Once you click “Save Feed” you will be all ready to go. Next time you post an article on your blog or website, wait a few hours and check your sent messages in HootSuite. You will see that your blog title and a link are automatically sent to the social network that you designated. This means you should be very careful when creating titles for your articles. You want to be concise and favor keywords at the beginning of the article title (you should be doing this for SEO purposes anyway).