Facebook Privacy Setting Recommendations

BEFORE AND AFTER Option-  See your PUBLIC profile
MOST WILL BE SURPRISED AT HOW MUCH THE PUBLIC CAN SEE/KNOW ABOUT THEM
Just for fun, before you change any settings, you can go to your PUBLIC profile by  A. clicking on your photo or name,  B. choosing on the far left column   "Edit Profile".  That will take you to a page where C. in the bottom of your cover photo (big picture) on the far right there are three little dots in a box.   D. Choose that box and open the dropdown and pick VIEW AS...  FB will show you your PUBLIC profile in this mode by default.  Click on the About tab and all that information is PUBLIC.  (or you can choose a specific person (like your boss or your parents) and you can see what they will see. )

2. CHOOSE DROP DOWN ARROW

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3. CHOOSE SETTINGS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DROP DOWN

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4. CLICK ON PRIVACY SETTINGS

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5. 6. 7. CHANGE SETTINGS TO FRIENDS

8.9. 10. CHANGE SETTINGS

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Desktop Method to change Privacy Settings:
1. Log into Facebook, click on your photo or your name to get to your own page
2. Choose the little drop down arrow to the right of the question mark in the blue bar- at the top, all the way to the right (red circle).
3. Choose settings at the bottom of the drop down menu -it will take you to a new page.
4. Click on Privacy Settings in the new left hand column. 
5. Settings  "Who can See my Stuff"

• A. future posts to Friends.  (Friends of Friends enables thousands of people to see your posts).  You can choose this setting or public for specific posts that you want lots of people to share, but generally this should be on FRIENDS.  
• B.  If you want to review your activity log and make posts private you can. 
• C .  Limit Past posts is a GLOBAL setting. You can change all of your prior posts to FRIENDS.  I recommend you do this, but be aware that any public links or mentions of your posts will disappear and they won't be visible to friends of friends.

6. Who can contact me?   Set to Friends or Friends of Friends depending on your level of privacy.
7. Who can look me up?

• A.  using email  (recommend you set this to only me, or friends)
• B. using phone (recommend only me or friends)
• C. Search engines outside of FB to link to you.  Recommend NO. 

8. Next we'll change your timeline and tagging Privacy. Click on Timeline and Tagging (right below privacy settings in the left column). ​
9. Who can add things to my timeline?

• Friends or only me​
• Review Posts friends tag you in  ON

​10. Who can see things on my timeline

• If you want to see how much is visible on your profile to a specific person use "View As"  -and play around. You'll be amazed at how public you are.
• Who can See Posts you've been tagged in? FRIENDS
• Who can see what others post? FRIENDS​

(Note:  Advanced:  in the screenshot mine looks different. "Friends except Acquaintances" Since I have work colleagues connected on FB, I have put them in a list  that I called "acquaintenances", and have used a different setting) to learn how to do this go here
​11. How can I manage tags?

• Review Tags ON
• When tagged who do want to have see it? Friends
• Auto Tagging suggestions No One  (this is creepy FB face recognition stuff and could ID you anywhere on Facebook)

Have Fun, Be Safe, and Know FACEBOOK IS USEFUL, BUT NOT PRIVATE