Posting a status update will not protect your Facebook privacy

Every few months, a chain letter-type status update makes the rounds on Facebook, declaring that the user’s data and content are off-limits for advertising or other uses.

Posting these updates do not, in any way, change your Facebook profile’s level of protection. Many of these status update chains may have started in response to Facebook updating its privacy policy, announced recently. Facebook has been notifying users of the updated terms and conditions in a notification.

But posting a status update does not change how Facebook governs data.

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