how to set your privacy settings on facebook by kymberley choo
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It will direct you to a general account setting page. On the left side of your Facebook page, click on “Privacy”.
In your privacy settings page, you can set your privacy by who can see my stuff?, who can contact me? And who can look me up?
Here you can set your audience of your future post. You have a option of Public, Friends, and if you click on more options
A pop out will appear and you can select audience you would like to share or do not share your post with.
You can select your audience by typing their names individually. After your done, click on “save changes”.
Here are all your recent post and pictures / post that you are tagged in. To change the viewing audience of your post, click on the earth icon on the right.
Lets move on to the next one, which is limit the audience for post you’ve shared with friends of friends or public. Click on “limit past post”.
As you can see in the description. This settings enables all your post to be changed to friends. If you would like that, click on “limit old post”.
Then, we will move on to who can contact me?. The first setting is who can send you a friend request? Click on “edit” to change the settings.
Next is whose message do I want filtered into my Inbox? As you can see my settings is basic filtering. Click on “edit” to change it.
The recommended is basic filtering where all friends and people you may know filtered in your inbox, whereas strict filtering mostly see messages from friends. Messages from others might go to another folder.
Then, we look into who can look me up? First who can look you up using the email address you provided? Click on “edit”.
You can choose everyone , friends of friends or friends that can look you up using the email address you given.
Next is who can look you up using the phone number you provided? I don’t know about you, but I am the kind of person that would keep numbers on privacy. So to change it, click on “edit”.
This settings allows others to search link to your timeline easily. Therefore, you can click on “let other search engine link to your timeline” to change your settings.