{"id":13578,"date":"2016-12-09T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=13578"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T11:26:03","slug":"facebook-privacy-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/facebook-privacy-settings\/13578\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook privacy settings: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook\u2019s settings are a moving target. Over the past few years, the company has changed various settings several times, adding, moving, even removing options. Now it\u2019s really easy to get lost among all these functions. So, once again, we\u2019re here to explain how to fortify your Facebook privacy. For more on Facebook security, check out our post, Everything you need to know about Facebook security settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s settings tabs contain quite a range of options. We\u2019ll structure our tutorial the way Facebook organizes its settings \u2014 at least, for now.<\/p>\n

The Privacy tab<\/h3>\n

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Who can see my stuff?<\/b> This tab has three interesting settings.<\/p>\n

1. Who can see your future posts?<\/em> No mystery here: Use this setting to specify who will see your new posts: your Facebook friends, friends of your friends, all Internet users or a certain set of people. Note that this option does not change access settings for your old posts, only for new ones. If you want to hide old posts, see point three.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also noteworthy that you don\u2019t need to delve into the settings to find this option \u2014 if all you want to do is set up who can see a new post, use the button below the new post field, to the left of the Post button.<\/p>\n

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2. Review all your posts and things you are tagged in<\/em>. Clicking this link brings you to your Activity Log. When you like a post, leave a comment under a friend\u2019s post, or tag somebody in a picture, that action appears on this page. Check the Comments tab if you want to find all your comments; the Likes tab contains everything you ever \u201cliked\u201d; and wouldn\u2019t you know it, Posts You\u2019re Tagged In shows the posts in which you were tagged.<\/p>\n

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3. Limit the audience for posts you\u2019ve shared with friends of friends or Public?<\/em>. This setting lets you hide old posts from friends of your friends or Internet users in general. Even if you activate it, your friends will still have access. Be careful: If you want to undo this action in the future, you\u2019ll need to adjust the audience of each individual post. You can learn more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Remember, you can change access rights for a particular post anytime. Just choose Edit Post, then click the button with access rights (to the left of the Save button) and choose its audience from the drop-down list.<\/p>\n

Who can contact me?<\/b> \u2014 here you can choose who can send you friend requests: everybody or only friends of your friends.<\/p>\n

Who can look me up?<\/b> \u2014 People can use Facebook to search for other people by phone numbers and e-mail. Use this setting to allow or forbid the social network to show your account to people who try to find you using this data.<\/p>\n

Here you can also hide your Facebook account from Google, Yahoo, and other search engines.<\/p>\n

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