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How To Make Your Facebook Completely Private
Hey everyone. In this video, I wanted to show you how to make your Facebook account completely private, your Facebook profile, completely private, and there are multiple steps that you need to take to make sure it's completely private or show you all of them in this video. If it's your first time here, I make it easy to follow social media and take videos every single day.
So please consider subscribing. So here I'm on my profile page. You could access the settings page from this page or the main Facebook page. You want to click this down arrow here and go to settings. The reason why I'm showing you this on a browser is that you get a lot more options here than the mobile app.
So I'm going to go to settings here. And the first place where we want to change things is under the privacy tab on the side. So if you land here, go to privacy and we want to change a few things who can see your future posts. First, we want to edit that, but you don't want the public to see the future posts that we want friends, friends of friends, or just me.
So if you want it to be completely private, only me is the option. If you want to, just to be two friends, It's going to be just your friends. You could also do this every time you post a new post. It has a dropdown menu. Next, the next thing you want to change is to limit the audience. You also want to make sure that you review all the posts you're tagged in.
So make sure that setting is like mine limit posts past posts. Let me click that. This basically takes your old post and just shares it with friends. So not with friends of friends or public. So I do want to do that. I'm going to go ahead and press that. Let's close that next. Who can send me a friend request edit again?
If you want it to be completely private, you want to do friends of friends. These are your options who can see your friends list. Go ahead and edit that and you could just change this to only meet, or you could just change it to friends. If you want it to be for your friends. In this case, I'm just going to change it to only me close that who can look you up using your email address.
Again, is everyone right now. You want to change this to friends and who can look you up using your phone number again, change this to friends and this is very important. Do you want search engines like Google to find you I'm going to edit that and you could just check this off and this will turn this off?
So now you can't even be searched using Google being or other search engines. So those are the things on there. The privacy tab that you need to change, but we're not done yet. We're going to go to the timeline and tagging next and here who could post on your timelines, go ahead and edit that and you could just, if you want it to be completely private, the only you, this kind of defeats the purpose of Facebook for me.
So I'm going to leave it off to friends here who can see your post on timelines. Mine is only said to friends, but again, it could be set to only me. To make it even more completely private allow posting to stories is on. You could disable and enable that if you want, don't want to use Facebook stories, hide comments, containing certain wards.
So you could do that and filter out that way, who can see posts that you're tagged in. You could change this to be again, only me or friends, same thing. You could change this to friends and only me. Any of these, if you want it to be completely private, do only me. But it will take a lot of the functionalities of Facebook being a social media platform, review posts you're tagged in before they appear.
So you could turn this on, so you have to review them. I showed you this on the other page. So go ahead and set that to on. So they don't just randomly up here without you knowing review tags. People add to your posts again, I'm going to turn that on and those are everything you need to do on their timeline and tagging next.
We want to jump to public posts, go ahead and click that, and here is an important thing that you need to change. Who can't follow me? People could actually follow you that are not your friends is different than being your friend. So you could change this to friends. So now only friends could follow you and not just anyone in the public. This is one setting people don't usually change when making their Facebook completely private. Make sure you change that here. Who can comment on your public posts? You could edit that friends. Any of these, you could just change again. You could change this to nobody even I'm going to leave it out friends of friends, public profile info. Go ahead. Who can see that? So maybe just friends could see that now this is, even more, private and everything else. I'm going to leave off. Okay, next. We want to go to face recognition here and it says, do you want Facebook to be able to recognize you in photos and videos so you could change this to be no and that Facebook can recognize you by using facial recognition and if you really want to give people a hard time in finding you go to general here and go ahead and edit your name. So a lot of people just take their last name. And make that their middle name. So this, you could only do once every 60 days, but this will make it even harder for people not to be able to use your real name, to find you here and one last thing I wanted to show you, go to your profile page here and go to the about section on your Facebook here and you could go to contact them basic info and you could go ahead and edit and make sure your phone number is completely private. So the only me option is the one selected here. You could do this with all your different settings.
So again, you could change your date of birth to be only you. Everything here could be selected to be only you, including your email here and that's the last thing you need to do to make your Facebook completely private. So again, go through all the items. I mentioned, make sure you make this completely private based on your preferences.
So some of it could be on you. Some could be friends, so Facebook could still be somewhat usable allowing people to post. I hope you found this video useful. Please give it a like, and subscribe to this channel for daily tech videos, and I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching.