How to Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity

The extra you employ Facebook alongside third-party apps and web sites, the extra knowledge these apps and web sites share about you to Facebook. If you do not like the thought of apps and websites sharing your information with Facebook, you’ll be able to restrict what knowledge is shared with the platform by utilizing the off-Facebook exercise setting in your Facebook account settings.

What Is Off-Facebook Activity?

Off-Facebook exercise is taken into account to be any interplay you might have with a web site or app (favoriting one thing, commenting, buying, taking a quiz, taking part in a recreation, and many others.) that could possibly be shared with Facebook. With this information, Facebook can then show adverts primarily based on the actions it has realized about you.

For occasion, as an example that you just purchase a blender on a retailer’s web site. Since the retailer makes use of Facebook’s enterprise instruments, it shares the information about you and your buy with Facebook.

Facebook now is aware of which retailer web site you visited and that you just purchased a blender there. As you browse you Facebook, you may discover adverts displaying offers for cookware, flatware, kitchen home equipment, and different associated merchandise.

How to Review and Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity

The following directions are offered for each Facebook.com and the Facebook cellular app, however screenshots are offered for Facebook.com solely.

1. On Facebook.com, choose the down arrow within the high proper nook adopted by Settings from the dropdown checklist.

   On the app, choose the menu icon within the backside (iOS) or high (Android) menu and scroll down the following tab to choose Settings & Privacy > Settings.

   
   

2. On Facebook.com, choose Your Facebook Information within the left vertical menu.

3. On each Facebook.com and the app, choose Off-Facebook Activity.

   
   

4. To view the third-party apps and web sites which might be sharing your off-Facebook exercise with Facebook, choose the assortment of app and web site logos on the high.

   Alternatively, choose Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity, underneath What You Can Do, which brings you to the identical place.

   
   

   You’ll be requested to enter your Facebook password so as to proceed.

5. You can then choose any particular person app or web site to discover out extra, together with what number of interactions you have had with it, what Facebook does along with your knowledge and some actions you’ll be able to take.

   
   

   Select X interactions > Download Activity Details to request a file obtain of your exercise from this explicit app/web site. You also can choose Turn off future exercise from [app/website name] so no additional information is shared to Facebook.

6. If you want to clear your entire off-Facebook historical past from all apps and web sites concurrently, you are able to do so on Facebook.com by choosing the Clear History button on the high.

   
   

7. To do extra along with your off-Facebook exercise, look towards the highest proper column on Facebook.com for More Options or choose the three dots within the high proper nook of the cellular app to see a listing.

   You can choose:

   • Access Your Information: See your Facebook information and information about you by class with an possibility to obtain it.
   • Download Your Information: Request to obtain a file of your Facebook information from a specified date vary.
   • Manage Future Activity: Turn your future off-Facebook exercise setting off throughout all apps and web sites or see the person apps and web sites whose exercise you have turned off.