Facebook has accompanied the changes with new tools and has encouraged users to examine their account settings.
Go into the account settings and change the signature on his emails.
Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.
We are rolling this out slowly over the next few weeks, but you will be able to turn this feature on in your Account Settings soon.
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The option will show up on the "account settings" page for some of Facebook's 800 million users during the next few weeks, the company said in a statement.
Mr. Moffat said he built the site to pressure Facebook to switch its account settings so that such updates are private by default and wouldn't be accessible to developers like himself.
Look in your account and privacy settings, and you see a lot of information on social ads and Sponsored Stories, including the possibility that you can appear in them.
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Account and security settings also make it easy for you to control digital pan, tilt and zoom of cameras, set up motion zones for individual cameras, and create and manage e-mail and mobile-phone motion alerts or desktop notifications of important events.
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Consider a Facebook account with loose privacy settings that reveals that a candidate is a heavy smoker or is 62 years old or is a single father responsible for the daily care of eight children.
Before we filmed with her, she had no privacy settings on her Facebook account.
Lisa's daughter Talia already had privacy settings on her Facebook account but her jaw dropped at what Tom found on her Twitter account.
But along with people-oriented updates about projects you are collaborating on or new portfolio samples posted to Behance by designers you are following, the CC app also includes the status of your apps, assets and settings stored in your Creative Cloud account.
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The new delta.com design features a new My Delta section which consolidates trip summaries, account details, personal preferences, payment information and travel settings in a single location.
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At the bottom you'll find refresh on the left and settings on the right, though you won't find many opportunities to take advantage of it -- settings offers the ability to sign into a different account and view the obligatory legal and privacy docs.
Also, you can use the Social Settings screen to link your NOOK Color to your Facebook account and your Twitter account.
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By default, it works with your Apple ID e-mail address, but you can add as many as you'd like from the settings application after verifying that you do indeed own the account.
For some of its functions, like email and the calendar, you can control how much data it stores by going into settings and specifying how many messages it should show from each account, or how far back in time its calendar should sync with the calendar service it uses.
You go to your Privacy settings page (link is at the top right corner of your Facebook account page).
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Additionally, new privacy settings will allow users to determine and adjust the link between their Google account and social media profiles.
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If you've got an S3 account of your own, now would be an excellent time to double check your own settings.
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We were also pleased to see our settings restored and all of our apps downloaded and installed after logging into our Google account, something that never appears to work properly on the myriad Android devices we regularly get our hands on.
An optional Linksys Smart Wi-Fi account can be created following the set-up process to provide easy control of the home network, including settings, connected devices and Smart Wi-Fi tools on virtually any device, anytime, anywhere.
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