What to Know
- Go to Settings & Privateness > Settings > Privateness > Who Can See Your Posts and alter Public to a different choice.
- To make your Buddies listing non-public, go to Privateness > Who can see your pals listing and choose Buddies or Solely Me.
- To make your profile non-public, go to your profile and choose Edit Particulars. Toggle off the data you wish to hold non-public.
- This text explains change your Fb privateness settings to make your posts, Buddies listing, profile data, and albums non-public.
Directions are particular to Fb on the desktop.
- Change the Sharing Default Utilizing Privateness Settings and Instruments
- One fast strategy to lock down every part you submit transferring ahead is to set your default sharing choice to Buddies and never Public. If you make this transformation, solely your pals see your posts.
- To get to the Fb Privateness Settings and Instruments display:
- Choose the arrow within the upper-right nook of any Fb display.
The Account icon on Fb
- Choose Settings & Privateness within the drop-down menu.
- Settings & Privateness in Fb
- Select Settings.
- Settings on Fb
- Choose Privateness within the left pane.
The Privateness tab in Settings
The primary merchandise listed is Who can see your future posts. If it says Public, choose Edit and select Buddies from the drop-down menu.
The Edit hyperlink subsequent to “Who can see your future posts?” on Fb
Choose Shut to avoid wasting the change.
You can even change the viewers for earlier posts on this display. Search for an space labeled Restrict the viewers for posts you have shared with associates of associates or Public. Choose Restrict Previous Posts, then choose Restrict Previous Posts once more.
This setting modifications your earlier posts that have been marked Buddies of Buddies or Public to Buddies. You’ll be able to override the default privateness setting on particular person posts everytime you need.
The “Restrict Previous Posts” button
Make Your Fb Buddies Listing Personal
Fb makes your pals listing public by default, which suggests everybody can see it, whether or not they’re your good friend or not. You’ll be able to change your preferences from the Fb settings or in your profile web page.
On the Settings and Privateness display, choose Edit subsequent to Who can see your pals listing.
The Edit button subsequent to “Who can see your pals listing” on Fb
Choose both Buddies or Solely me to maintain your pals listing non-public.
You can even customise who can see your pals listing by selecting Particular Buddies or Buddies Besides. Particular Buddies solely consists of folks you designate, and Buddies Besides excludes particular folks in your listing.
Who can see your pals listing? settings in Fb
Alternatively, go to your Fb profile web page. Go to the Buddies tab beneath your cowl photograph.
Choose your identify from any web page on Fb to get to your profile web page.
The Buddies tab on Fb
Choose the three-dot menu within the upper-right nook of the Buddies display and select Edit Privateness.
- The Extra button and Edit Privateness command on Fb
- Choose an viewers subsequent to Buddies Listing and Following.
- The Edit Privateness display for Fb associates
- Choose the X icon to avoid wasting the modifications and shut the window.
- Overview Your Profile Privateness Settings
- Your Fb profile is public by default, which suggests it’s listed by Google and different serps and viewable by anybody.
Privateness specialists advocate you assessment the settings for every merchandise in your Fb profile.
Choose your identify on the prime of any Fb display to go to your profile.
Choose Edit Particulars within the left pane of your profile web page. The Customise Your Intro field opens.
Flip off the toggle subsequent to the knowledge you wish to stay non-public. This consists of bins subsequent to schooling, your present metropolis, your hometown, and different private data you added to Fb.
- To edit an merchandise as an alternative, choose the pencil icon.
- A toggle change on the Edit Particulars display on Fb
- Make Your Profile Invisible to Search Engines
- You’ll be able to block your profile from exhibiting up in serps. Here is what to do.
- Choose the arrow within the upper-right nook of any Fb display.
The Account icon on Fb
- Choose Settings & Privateness within the drop-down menu.
- Settings & Privateness in Fb
- Select Settings.
- Settings on Fb
- Choose Privateness within the left pane.
The Privateness tab in Settings
Subsequent to Would you like serps exterior of Fb to hyperlink to your profile, choose Edit and clear the test field that enables serps to see you on Fb.
The Edit choice subsequent to “Would you like serps exterior of Fb to hyperlink to your profile” on Fb
Use Fb’s Inline Viewers Selector
Fb supplies viewers selectors to allow you to set totally different sharing choices for each bit of content material you submit to the social community.
If you open a standing display to make a submit, you see the privateness setting you selected to function the default on the backside of the display. Sometimes, you would possibly wish to change this.
Choose the button with the privateness setting within the standing field and choose an viewers for a particular submit. Choices embrace Public, Buddies, and Solely Me, together with Buddies besides, and Particular associates.
With the brand new viewers chosen, write your submit and choose Put up to ship it to the chosen viewers.
Change Privateness Settings on Picture Albums
If you add images, you’ll be able to change your Fb photograph privateness settings by album or by particular person picture.
To edit the privateness setting for an album of images:
- Go to your profile and choose Photographs.
- The Photographs tab on a Fb profile
- Choose the Extra menu subsequent to the album you wish to change and select Edit album.
- The Edit Album command on Fb
- Use the viewers selector to set the privateness setting for the album.
- Some albums have viewers selectors on every photograph, which lets you choose a particular viewers for every photograph.