How to Change Facebook Privacy Settings?
Facebook has become a part of our daily life in the digital age. There is no substitute for Facebook these days to share our entire lives and information with people we know. Moreover, Facebook has now become the primary medium to keep in regular contact with friends. But with this, the risk of our information getting into the hands of unwanted people has also increased. Cybercriminals can easily collect this information from your Facebook account or profile to use for malicious purposes. So it is very important to be careful while using Facebook. Also, it is wise to keep control of your data by changing various settings.
You should change your privacy information regularly. Facebook is regularly introducing various new features for the safety of its users. And so to take advantage of these new features, it can be a good practice to check Facebook's privacy settings after a few days. Moreover, as many people are new to using Facebook, it is normal to have no idea about these features.
In our post, we will tell you about changing and using various privacy features of Facebook through smartphones so that you can easily control your personal information.
Access Facebook's Privacy Menu
Facebook has a separate privacy section in the Facebook app from where various settings related to privacy can be changed. To access this settings menu, you can follow the instructions below:
- First, open the Facebook app and login to your Facebook account.
- Now tap on your profile picture minimized under the messenger icon in the top right corner of the app.
- Scroll down and tap on the 'Settings & privacy' section to find the various options in this section.
- From there select the 'Settings' option. The entire settings page will appear in front of you.
- From the list of settings, you will first get the 'Profile settings' option. Tap here.
- Now the privacy section will be in front of you first. Here is a list of several privacy settings.
Here's an idea of what kind of settings a section will contain from this list:
Privacy: In this section you will find the most important settings related to your privacy. Today's post will mainly discuss this section. From here you can fully control who can see your information.
Profile locking: With this feature you can lock your entire profile completely. Turning this on prevents anyone outside of your friends list from seeing any of your profile information. Only your profile picture will be visible.
Profile and tagging: Basically, you can control who can tag or add to your Facebook post from here.
Public posts: From here you can control who can see and comment on your posts and statuses.
Blocking: From here you can control someone after blocking them on Facebook. If you want, you can remove someone's block from here.
Active status: From here you can control whether Facebook will show you as active when you are online.
Privacy Checkup
A good feature for Facebook's privacy is Privacy Checkup. Through this, Facebook itself will guide you to change various privacy settings. Facebook can suggest settings for you on its own. To get this feature:
- Go to the Privacy section following the previous instructions. From here tap on 'Privacy' option.
- On the new page you will first see an option where it will be written 'Check a few important settings'. Tap on this option.
- Now you will see the 'Privacy Checkup' page. Here you can find instructions to change various settings. Once you select the one you want to change, Facebook itself will guide you. You just need to press 'Continue' to proceed.
This option gives you access to almost all privacy settings and features. Moreover, you can change any settings manually separately.
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Other Privacy Settings
In addition to privacy checkup, you can change various settings on the privacy settings page. At the second place in the list you will find the 'Manage your profile' section to change various details of your profile. From here you can change information, control who can see information, delete any information.
In the third position you will get 'Learn more with Privacy Basics'. Through this feature you will get various questions and their answers about all privacy settings of Facebook. This is a great feature for users who are new to Facebook. You will get a complete idea about Facebook's privacy features from here.
After that, you will get a separate section named 'Your' from where you can control who can see your future posts, exclude someone from the post viewing list, control who can see the information of the profiles and pages you follow. Moreover, you can control who can see your story, who can see your reels, what you want to see in the case of reels from here.
The next section is called 'How people find and contact'. Here are some more privacy features. You can easily control who can request you to be a friend, who can see your friend list, who can find you on Facebook using your email address or phone number, whether you can be found on search engines.
In this way, you can easily control your various Facebook information from the Facebook app. Facebook comes up with various privacy features regularly. So it is important to keep yourself safe by checking these settings regularly.
