How to Make Your Facebook Account Private
Jun. 27, 2024If you have a public Facebook profile, others can look at your shared photos, videos, and other status updates. While some wouldn’t mind strangers peeking into their profile, others like to keep things private. So if you are someone like this and don’t want unknown users to snoop on your profile, then read this guide to learn all the ways you can make your Facebook profile private.
Method 1: Make Your Facebook Account Private
Facebook does not have a private account option like Instagram. However, the platform does provide privacy options so only people in your existing friends list can view your posts and stories. This can be done by enabling the profile locking option. This is how you can do it on the Facebook app and website.
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If you wish to hide your sensitive information like your phone number, date of birth, or other details from even your friends and wish to make your account as private as possible then you do so from the Privacy Checkup page. Let’s take a look at how it works on the Facebook app and website.
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You can pick betweenPublic,Friends,Specific Friends(selected users that you allow),Friends except…orOnly me.
From here, you can manage which information others can see and which details they can’t. You can change it anytime you want to by visiting this same section.
Let’s say you are too keen on your privacy or just don’t like others to find out about your profile at all, then you can change a single setting that will make your profile disappear. It will prevent search engines like Google from linking to your account. This is how you can turn your profile invisible on the app and desktop.
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Sometimes people will contact your Facebook friends in order to reach out to you. This is quite likely to happen with celebrities and popular figures. However, you can avoid that by hiding your friends list from others so they won’t know whom you are friends with on the app. Let’s take a look at how you can hide your friends.
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If you have a clingy friend or someone who starts texting or annoying you as soon as you come online on Facebook then you would want to disable your active status on the app. Here is how you can do it.
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People have diverse opinions, so when you share a post about your fitness journey, some may appreciate your efforts. At the same time, others will just spam mean comments for no good reason. The good thing is that you can hide such comments on Facebook. Let’s see how.
Now the comment won’t be visible to other people viewing and commenting on the post.
Facebook also lets you hide the likes and reaction counts on your posts, so others can’t see and tell how much engagement your post has received. Follow these steps to make likes private on the Facebook mobile app and website.
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This is how you can private your Facebook profile and its contents and limit your sharing with other users. From its initial days, Facebook has increased user privacy, which was necessary as many people didn’t like that others could see what they were sharing even if they were not on their friends list.
Switching to these settings will help you feel more comfortable when sharing on Facebook. In case you have any queries related to this article, then do reach out to us in the comments below.
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