Facebook is a one-stop-shop when it comes to networking online. Not only can we connect with colleagues, classmates, friends, and family, we can also play games, cross-post to Instagram, join community groups with people who share similar interests, and more.
But how much of what you do on Facebook are you handling with appropriate discretion? You may not be doing anything embarrassing or illegal, but not everyone wants their every move tracked online.
While you can’t control the advertisers and other outside companies Facebook chooses to sell your information to, there are ways to ensure that your activity and profile information on Facebook is limited when it comes to the general public and even those on your friend’s list.
How to make your Facebook private on desktop
1. Go to Facebook.com and log into your account using the email address and password associated with your account.
2. Once on your news feed, which acts as your home screen, navigate to the arrow in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and click on it to reveal a drop-down menu of options.
3. Scroll down until you locate the “Settings” tab and click.
4. On the left-hand side of your screen, you’ll see a long list of menu options. Locate “Privacy,” which should appear as the fourth item down from the top, and click on it to launch your privacy settings on the right-hand side of the screen.
5. Note that Facebook allows you to change your privacy settings for individual website features. This means you can adjust the level of privacy for specific elements of the site such as how you’re found and contacted on the site, who can see your posts, and even retroactively limit the audience of your past posts.
6. To change a particular privacy element, click the “Edit” option to the far right of each section. This will expand the section and allow you to choose who, if anyone, sees the relevant information. To keep anyone from seeing it, click on “Only me” under “Who should see this?”
7. You can make your Facebook even more private by changing who can tag you in posts, who can post on your Timeline, and who can share the posts you make to their own profiles. The options for these can be changed as above, though they’re found under the “Timeline and Tagging” section on the left-hand side of the screen, just below the “Security” option.
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