How to Set Your Facebook to Private

How To Set Your Facebook To Private, When you publish on Facebook, you can select who will see that post, as well as all future posts. However, exactly what if you wish to limit who can see all the posts you've made in the past? Facebook has a setting to do just that.

You can restrict the audience for any of the posts on your timeline by clicking the down arrow in the upper-right corner of a post, choosing "Edit Post" from the dropdown menu, and choosing your audience from the popup menu beside the Save button. But that just changes one post, and if you wish to change every single Facebook post you've ever made, that would be really tiresome.

 

How To Set Your Facebook To Private

However, there's a setting that changes all your past posts-- or a minimum of your past "Public" or "Friends of Buddies" posts-- to "Pals" in one click. To change this setting, gain access to your Facebook account in a web browser and click the down arrow beside the Privacy Shortcuts button on the toolbar in the upper-right corner of the web browser window. Click "Settings" on the drop-down menu.

On the Settings page, click "Personal privacy" in the list of options on the left.

The "Privacy Settings and Tools" screen displays. In the "Who can see my things?" section, click in the "Limit the audience for posts you have actually shared with buddies of good friends or Public" section.

The area expands and shows a description of exactly what this setting does. To limit all your past posts to Buddies, click "Limitation Old Posts".

KEEP IN MIND: The Limitation Old Posts setting immediately limits the audience for all your old posts to Pals. If you wish to limit posts to a custom person or group of people, such as Close Buddies, you must alter the audience for each post individually, one at a time, as we discussed earlier in this article.

When you have actually clicked "Limit Old Posts", a confirmation dialog box shows to make sure you actually want to alter the audience for all your old posts without evaluating them.

Make sure you wish to do this, as you can not reverse this action! You would have to alter the audience for each post one at a time if you change your mind later.

Click "Validate" if you decide to go ahead and limit all your old posts to Pals.

Another dialog box displays when the modification is complete. Click "Close".

There are a few things to think about when using the Limit Old Posts setting:.

• If you have actually shared any posts with customized audiences, this setting will not alter the audiences for those previous posts. This setting just changes the audience for posts that are shown good friends of buddies or the general public.


• If you have actually tagged somebody in a past post, that person, along with other individuals that individual included in posts they're tagged in, are still consisted of in the audience for that post after you restrict the audience for all old posts. So, it's wise to be cautious who you tag in posts.


• The Limit Old Posts setting only limits the audience for posts you have actually personally shared. If you were tagged in another person's post, only they can restrict who sees that post. You can make it harder for individuals to tag you in posts by avoiding your name from being recommended when your buddies post pictures that include you.

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