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How to access Privacy Settings 

This page is on how to access account settings. Facebook is changing the way things work daily so this may nor may not apply to you. However hopefully it will be close enough to help you.

To access settings do the following

  1. On the top right of Facebook by your name, click on the spiked wheel

   
  1. Click on Privacy Settings

   
  1. Click Privacy

   

 

 There is three sections see note below

 

Who can see my stuff

Who can see my stuff? Who can see your future posts? Public Edit
  Review all your posts and things you're tagged in   Use Activity Log
  Limit the audience to posts you've shared with friends of friends or public?   Limit Past Posts

Who can contact me?

Who can contact me? Who can send you friend requests? Everyone Edit
  Whose messages do I want filtered into my Inbox? Basic Filtering Edit

 

Who can look me up?

Who can look me up? Who can look you up using the email address you provided? Everyone Edit
  Who can look you up using the phone number you provided? Everyone Edit
  Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline? Yes Edit

Privacy settings are as follows

  • Public

    • Anyone on or off Facebook can see your posts

  • Friends

    • Only your friends can see your posts

  • Only Me

    • No one can see your post except the owner of the account

If you have your privacy set to Friends, then only ones that will see your posts and pictures will be your friends. If a friend on your friends list tries to share a post or a picture from your account to someone that is not on your friend's list, the person will see the following (or similar message depending on what was being shared)

   

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NOTE

Facebook keeps changing the features and cannot guarantee this help page will be accurate because of this.

 

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