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This article explains how to change your Facebook privacy settings to make your posts, Friends list, profile information, and albums private. Instructions are specific to Facebook on the desktop. How to Change the Sharing Default Using Privacy Settings and ToolsOne quick way to lock down everything you post moving forward is to set your default sharing option to Friends and not Public. When you make this change, only your friends see your posts. To get to the Facebook Privacy Settings and Tools screen:
How to Make Your Facebook Friends List PrivateFacebook makes your friends list public by default, which means everyone can see it, whether they're your friend or not. You can change your preferences from the Facebook settings or on your profile page.
How to Review Your Profile Privacy SettingsYour Facebook profile is public by default, which means it is indexed by Google and other search engines and viewable by anyone. Privacy experts recommend you review the settings for each item in your Facebook profile.
How to Make Your Profile Invisible to Search EnginesYou can block your profile from showing up in search engines. Here's what to do.
How to Use Facebook's Inline Audience SelectorFacebook provides audience selectors to let you set different sharing options for each piece of content you post to the social network. When you open a status screen to make a post, you see the privacy setting you chose to serve as the default at the bottom of the screen. Occasionally, you might want to change this. Select the button with the privacy setting in the status box and select an audience for a specific post. Options include Public, Friends, and Only Me, along with Friends except, and Specific friends. With the new audience selected, write your post and select Post to send it to the chosen audience. Change Privacy Settings on Photo AlbumsWhen you upload photos, you can change your Facebook photo privacy settings by album or by individual image. To edit the privacy setting for an album of photos:
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Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe How do I stop my Facebook posts being public?Tap in the top-right corner of Facebook, then tap your name. Scroll down to the post that you want to edit. Tap on the post, then tap Edit privacy. Select who can see the post from the options that appear (e.g. Public, Friends, Only me).
Why are all my posts public on Facebook?ANSWER: From time to time, you may post things that your friends want to share publicly which requires you to change the audience setting from "Friends" to "Public." When you do this, every post after that will also be public unless you manually change it back to "Friends."
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