Do you have private pictures of yourself or your family on Facebook
which you don't want the entire world to see? This guide will help you
change your Facebook privacy settings to only allow your friends or
people you know to see your Facebook photos (and everything else you
do). You can even customize the privacy settings of individual albums to
share them with a small group of people like your co-workers or
relatives.
There
are three ways in which you can do this. Either, you can customize each
wall post's or photo's settings individually, or set the preferences
for specific albums or use a general setting for all posts and photos
you have.
1: Choosing an individual wall post's or photo's privacy settings
While
posting your photo or post, click on the down arrow left to the post
button. Select Custom from the drop-down menu. Using the pop-up, select
who you wish to make a post visible to. You can select if you wish to
show a post to friends, friends of friends or specific people or a
specific list of people.
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| Select Custom Privacy Options |
You can even hide a photo from specific people or a list
of people. This will be especially useful in situations where you don't
want your colleagues to see a certain picture that makes fun of them or
something similar. Normally, when someone is tagged in a photo, every
friend of that
Facebook
user gets to know about it. So, if you chose to make a photo visible to
friends and someone is tagged in that picture, all their friends will
see that image. To prevent this, uncheck the Friends of those tagged
checkmark.
2: Limiting the Audience for an entire album
This is much
similar to setting the audience for an individual picture. Just go to
your albums, click on the Settings icon on the bottom right of the album
whose privacy settings you wish to customize. Then select Custom from
the drop down menu. The options
Facebook offers are almost the same as those for an individual photo, however there is one difference.
All those people who are tagged and their friends would still be able to
see the photos in your album. To prevent this, you will have to change
the privacy settings of each individual photo.
3: Making all your Photos and Posts Private
This is the
permanent solution against worrying about your Facebook content.
However, it doesn't offer much customization options and should only be
used if you are sure how you will
use Facebook. This is a 2 step process and involves customizing the audience for your past posts as well as those you will make in future.
Step 1: Limiting Past Posts & Photos
Go to your Privacy Settings, and then go to "Limit the audience for
posts you've shared with friends of friends or Public?." Then click on
the "Limit Old Posts" button. In the pop-up, click Confirm. This is a
permanent change and cannot be undone. However, all those tagged and
their friends would still be able to see your posts. To prevent this,
you will have to change each post's settings individually.
Step 2: Limiting Future Posts and Photos
While in the privacy center, click on "Who can see your future posts?"
This will open a non-functional status update box. However, the privacy
options that open when clicking on the down arrow right next to the post
button are functional and act as global defaults for the content you
post on Facebook in the future. Make sure to select friends if you only
wish to share content with your friends. You can however, change this
according to your needs; but for most people, friends would be the best
option. You can further improve your privacy by selecting Custom and
then unchecking the check box that appears next to "Friends of those
tagged". This will customize your Facebook settings to show your
Facebook activity only to your friends and those tagged.
You can also select who gets tagged in your content to further prevent
your content from appearing in front of unwanted eyes. To do this, go to
your Privacy Settings from the Settings icon located at the top right
of the blue Facebook bar. Then, in Privacy Settings, click on Timeline
and Tagging. Then under, "How can I manage tags people add and tagging
suggestions?", select Enabled to
review tags that friends add to your posts.
Facebook's privacy settings take some time to adjust but once you are
done, you will never have to worry about your content ending up in front
of unwanted users.
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