Dear Geek,
I recently noticed that when I go to send emails from Outlook, my Facebook photo shows. I sometimes use this email account for my small business, and don’t want my picture showing. How can I stop the photo from showing in my emails.
Signed,
Seeking Anonymity
Dear Anonymous,
Outlook.com can link into some social media accounts, specifically Facebook and Twitter. Once connected, Outlook.com will use your profile picture from the social networking account to help people identify you in emails. Assuming that your Facebook privacy settings allow it, Microsoft allows Facebook users on Outlook.com to send you friend requests. Outlook.com strictly follows the Privacy controls on Facebook and Twitter to determine whether others will see your public social networking info in the ‘People’ pane.
If you would prefer to keep your public and private life separate – you can disallow Outlook.com to connect with your social networks. You can manually change the third-party network settings in Outlook. To do so: 1. Sign into your Outlook.com account. 2. Select “Settings” (gear icon in the upper right corner), and select “More Mail Settings”. 3. Scroll down to “Reading email” and select “Content From Third-party Networks”. 4. Under “Showing Public Content”, select “Don’t Show Public Content From Third-party Networks”.
If you want to alter your Facebook Privacy settings, you’ll need to log into Facebook and do the following: 1. Go to the “Privacy Settings” page. 2. Click “Edit Settings” (next to “How You Connect”). 3. Locate “Who Can Look You Up Using The Email Address Or Phone Number You Provided”. 4. Select “Friends Of Friends” (or just “Friends”), and click “Done”.
If you do the steps above, this should keep Outlook.com from accessing your Facebook or other information.
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