The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Privacy Settings

Facebook Privacy Settings GuideFacebook offers truly detailed privacy settings which are rarely harnessed by users. I’ve recently learned of these numerous settings and have applied them with great success to my profile. I suggest that everyone use Facebook’s privacy options, but I recognize their complexity and that they can take a long time to apply. I recommend doing so for several reasons (and many more not listed here):

  • With stories of online abuse flooding the news, boosting your privacy protects you against that.
  • You can customize what certain friends and groups of friends can see about you. By doing so you can separate your professional contacts from your close friends.
  • You can show or hide information from the public.
  • By creating specific privacy settings, you’ll be able to add as friends even people you don’t know with the ability to hide as much information from them as you’d like.

I will here outline the steps that you should take to customize the privacy of your Facebook profile. Other similar guides make recommendations for settings you should apply; I will only be explaining what the preferences consist of and how to apply your own customization. This process will have five major steps. None is essential, however, and any can be skipped. I certainly recommend doing all five and in order, though. With that, we begin!