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How to Make Your Facebook Account Completely Private – My Media Social

How to Make Your Facebook Account Completely Private

How to Make Facebook Account Completely Private

If you have a Facebook account and you are concern on your privacy, there are options on Facebook to make your Facebook profile and feed to be completely private. This also includes limiting the information from the public and selected friends can see from your post and profile.

Here we are going to show you how to make your Facebook account private and therefore not being able to be seen by strangers that you do not know.

WHY MAKE YOUR ACCOUNT PRIVATE?

There are many reasons why you should make your Facebook profile private, here are some of the top reasons

  1. TO KEEP YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT TO YOURSELF ONLY –  There are many reasons people open up a Facebook account. And one of them is to keep all the photos and memories in there for their viewing only. If you are one of those Facebook users and you do not want to share your photos and memories with others, it is better to make your account private.
  2. TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS – Some Facebook users do not want to be recognized in their social media. Therefore, by keeping your information such as telephone, email and photos of yourself hidden, it would keep their anonymity while they can still use Facebook

So, if you are interested to learn how to make these settings, here are the steps

HOW TO MAKE PRIVATE SETTINGS

Step 1

In your Facebook profile, tap at the arrow down icon to bring down a menu

Tap at “Settings”

Step 2

At Settings, click at “Privacy”

Step 3

Go to the “Privacy Settings and Tools”

At “Who can see your future posts”, click “Edit”

A menu will be shown. Click at “Only me” so that all your future post will not be seen by anyone

You still have the option of limiting your future post to be seen by limited friends that you can select there

You can also block the public from seeing your past posts in your timeline by clicking at “Limit Past Posts”

You can also set so that the public could not see the friend’s list that you have at your Facebook profile

Click at “Only me” to set the settings

You can also disable the public from seeing the email address that you use on Facebook

Click at “Only me” for the setting

You can also hide your Facebook profile from search engine result

Remove the right tick there to disallow search engine to link to your Facebook profile

HOW TO SEE IF THE SETTINGS WORK

You can see the result of the setting on how your Facebook account can be seen from a public view

In your Facebook profile, you can click at the three-dot icon there and click at “View As”

You will be shown your Facebook account but as how the public will view it.

So, there you have it – Simple steps on how you can make your Facebook account private. Please leave us a comment below on what other settings that you use to safeguard your Facebook account from being seen by strangers.

Please also read our previous article on how to block and unblock people on Facebook.