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- May 04, 2015
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Facebook is a social media platform that is designed to enable people to easily find and contact each other. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you want everyone to have access to all aspects of your online profile. Fortunately, there are several ways that you can tailor the privacy settings of your Facebook profile to limit what information is visible to others. Here are several steps you can take to make your Facebook profile more private.
Privacy shortcuts
There are two ways to access the privacy settings for your Facebook profile. The first is found under the padlock icon located in the upper right hand corner of your Facebook page. Clicking this icon opens a “Privacy Shortcuts” dropdown menu with three headings.
- Who can see my stuff?
- Who can contact me?
- How do I stop someone from bothering me?
- See More Settings
Clicking one of the above headings opens a submenu that provides options for changing the privacy settings related to each of the questions. However, if you want to see all of your privacy setting options at once, you should click the “See More Settings” heading located below the three questions. This will bring you to the full “Privacy Settings and Tools” page.
Alternatively, you can simply click the cogwheel icon located next to the padlock icon in the upper right hand corner of your Facebook page. This will open a dropdown menu that includes a “Privacy Settings” option. Clicking “Privacy Settings” will bring you directly to the full “Privacy Settings and Tools” page.
