Facebook is the most popular social networking platform today. Billions of people are sharing their favorite things online. It helps you to maintain a healthy profile. Most of the time people accept friendship of unknown people which later starts spamming on your wall. There are many things which cause issue later on. Facebook is like your real identify online. You have your friends, family and many people whom you know and love to share stuff. So here I am going to give you information of Facebook Privacy settings in detail. It is very important for all of you to know about this. Privacy settings can help to restrict access to your profile content. If sometime is annoying you then you can block him. The settings are easy to understand. You can manage them as per your need so that no one can simply spoil your wall with unwanted stuff. Also it happens a number of time that you are tagged in some photos or post that you don’t like. You can also block that. Before Tag Review was not available. But now you can remove yourself if you are not tagged in some photos or post that you don’t like. So let's check out the entire Privacy section of Facebook.
You can access the Privacy section by clicking on the lock icon at the top right side. A dropdown menu occur from where you have to click on More settings. Once you access the settings you will find a full page of privacy options that you can configure to protect your profile. Let's check each of them one by one.
PRIVACY
Who can see your future posts?
Here you can simply restrict access to your post. this include new updates, images and videos uploaded by you. By default this is configured as public. That means anyone can see your post if they come on your profile page. Many time we keep a few personal photos on FB that we won't like to share. You can restrict that through this settings. at the bottom right you can see public. Click on that and select the option as per your need. Like Friends. If you select this, those who are not in your friend list cannot see your wall post. Only Me and custom allow you more better way of restricting your wall content. While you can click on more option and simple select a group or name of company or school. People who are in that group will be able to see your wall post.
Review all your posts and things you are tagged in
This is the second option through which you can open your Activity Log. In this you can remove yourself if you are tagged in any photo or post. You can also unlike any recent photos or post you had liked. It is good for removing your name from unnecessary post and photos. There is a common habit of many people who keep on tagging people in their post and photos. This update is sent to all who are in your friend list. You can stop that through the second option.
Limit the audience for post you have shared with friends of friends or Public
This part is bit tricky. Through this you can limit the people who are able to see your old Timeline post. when you click on limit old post only your friends and the people who are in their friend list will be able to see this. Along with this those who are tagged in the post. Others will not be able to see any of your old post. This is used to restrict audience of old post.
Who can send you friend requests?
If you do not want anyone to send you friend request or if people are annoying you then you can set the option to Friends of Friend from Everyone. Through Friends of Friend only these who are in the friend list will be able to send you request.
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