This article explains how to change your Facebook privacy settings to make your posts, Friends list, profile information, and albums private. Instructions are specific to Facebook on the desktop. One quick way to lock down everything you post moving forward is to set your default sharing option to Friends and not Public. When you make this change, only your friends see your posts. To get to the Facebook Privacy Settings and Tools screen:
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Facebook provides audience selectors to let you set different sharing options for each piece of content you post to the social network. When you open a status screen to make a post, you see the privacy setting you chose to serve as the default at the bottom of the screen. Occasionally, you might want to change this. Select the button with the privacy setting in the status box and select an audience for a specific post. Options include Public, Friends, and Only Me, along with Friends except, and Specific friends. With the new audience selected, write your post and select Post to send it to the chosen audience. When you upload photos, you can change your Facebook photo privacy settings by album or by individual image. To edit the privacy setting for an album of photos:
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