Comments on How to Make your Facebook Account Private

Thanks for sharing the information. It's really help ful.

What are the benefits of making an account private?

Thank you so much for such a great information.

This will be a game changer.

Have a look here for better understanding-
You can view and adjust your privacy settings at any time.
Adjust your privacy settings
Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook.
Select Settings & privacy, then click Settings.
Click Privacy in the left column.
For other things that you share on Facebook, you can select the audience before you share. Learn more about basic privacy settings and tools on Facebook.
Some other ways to review and manage your information on Facebook:
Review Facebook Privacy Policies and manage your privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.
Update your Feed preferences to see more content that you're interested in.
You can also hide an ad that isn't interesting or useful to you or review why you're seeing a particular ad.
Walk through Privacy Checkup to make sure that you're sharing your information with who you want.
Visit Access your information to see and manage your Facebook information, or download your Facebook information for review.
Manage some of the content you share on Facebook, such as posts, photos and videos, from the Manage activity section of your activity log.

Tap in the top right of Facebook. Tap Settings & privacy, then tap Settings. Scroll down to Audience and visibility section and tap the option you want to change the privacy for.

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I read this article. I think You put a great deal of exertion to make this article.

I have a stalker who is not a friend. How can I make all my photos, all at once, hidden from them?

Thanks much. Been a FB holdout for a long time. If I know I can keep a profile selective and private, I might sign up, still learning about FB features more before I do

Hey Ian I just seen this awesome piece of information, thank you so much for taking the time to explain all the steps. I have a question too. Let's say I have only one contact and then I want to add just one more. Will the two know of eachother through me? Will they meet because I am the common link? I've never had facebook so I don't know how it works. But I wouldn't want one to know about the other. One is my child and the other is a long lost highschool friend.

Hi Ian, I have a rather unusual question. I have a FB account but I do not share it with my husband because he and our son do not speak and he does not want me to have contact with him. Therefore, I just avoid letting him know I even do much in FB. But.....someone told him about FB Marketplace and he loves to look at it, but cannot contact anyone regarding items he is interested in because he doesn't have a FB account himself. I want to set him up with a private one because if not private then he will see all my friends and my posts and know I have had some communication with our son. Strange, I know, but that is life when we choose not to forgive. Do you think that I can set him up with an account and trust that he will not receive friend requests? I really would like him to be able to connect with his old friends and our family too, but I just feel it is too risky at this time. Suggestions please!!!

Hi guys long story short i need to open a new facebook account because i closed my old one to keep the peace my partner was forever asking me who i was talking to or she would say why are you talking to those arse holes you don't even know them that's because i joined the O'Brien clan and most of them live overseas and i would like to keep in touch with them also even though my partner and myself don't live together she comes up once every two weeks and stays for a few days so i would like to set up a facebook account were she cant see or access but i leave my laptop on all the time so if i am up the back yard more often than not when i come in she will be on my laptop looking to see what i have be up to so being a older person i am not that computer literate i don't know how to hide a facebook account or anything like that i hope somebody out there can help me cheers

Suggest also adding two private email addresses which allows you to remove the cell phone number. Also, if you lock down the profile but facebook manages to find friends based on other info while setting up the account (had my phone number at first but removed it later), you can individually remove the friend suggestions from the list of Welcome page, Find Friends or suggested friends. I don't want the app to suggest any friends.

Hi, I've set up a Private Group on Facebook on behalf of my workplace, but as I set it up and am one of the administrators I've been informed that those who have joined the private group can now see my own personal profile and private Facebook page. Obviously I would like only to post/respond anonymously on behalf of management -help!

Hi Ian, I’m trying to set my see your about info to “only me” Can you please help?

Hi Ian thanks for this article, but i have a little challenge i don't know why i am getting friend suggestions from people who are my friends already. And its really annoying is there a way i can stop that? :?: :?:

How do I restrict all my photos in FB? I never created albums, so any category whether it be mobile uploads, I want to make them all private. Can this be done?

I found this very helpful and user friendly. I am now a 105 year old woman with no friends, interests Or likes of any kind!! I needed to join to follow the Faceboook page my voluntary organisation has.
Thanks a lot!

Hello, is it possible to keep your personal page completely (or as much as possible) private but still manage a group page that is public?

Hi Ian. If I set up a Facebook account and do all the things you mentioned in your article, what happens when someone randomly does a search within Facebook for my name? Will they see that I have an account, even though they can't reach out to me?

Hello, thanks for the article. I would like to use the private groups and brows the marketplace but have my profile as inactive to friends and family. Is this possible or will I have to create a secondary secret account for this purpose?

I want to set my privacy so the no one but my friends can look at my profile. I d9nt want strangers to be able to see anything about me..like groups that I like or follow.

Hello
Try as I might I can't post in a group without it ending up on my page for all to see. I have clicked only me in privacy but it keeps showing. I intend to change it back to friends once I have had a response but it's driving me bonkers! Any help would be appreciated.

Hey Ian ? I’ve been trying to create a fb to create fb ads only without having to put any info about me personally... everytime I do fb ends up deactivating the account when they ask for photo verification what should I do?

Hello Ian ,
Thx for the info , I am only interested in selling my stuff : cars , RV, and smalls . Will these settings allow me to use Marketplace Effectively? Market place has devastated all other platforms of sales in my area with the possible exception of Ebay . (CL and Let go are a joke !)

Well, the moment Facebook instructed me to verify my account via phone number (or else not allowing me to use my new account), phone contacts immediately became suggested friends. So I started blocking certain people I do not want to see my profile. Facebook then locked my account after requesting my photo for verification. Ah, I thought I had beat the system haha!

Hi Ian, thank you so much for this article - it was exactly what I needed! I refused to use Facebook until now (lots of reasons) but finally gave in and signed up yesterday because I am doing an online course and wanted to join the private Facebook group of all the students. I followed all your steps and was happy with the result. But Facebook was not. ;-) It seems that protecting your privacy is a very suspicious activity and my account got blocked three hours after I signed up! I received the dreaded (I did not even know this existed!) "photo upload request" - let's see how that goes... not sure what photos they are going to use for comparison? Again, I did everything you mentioned in your article and after that I just uploaded a cover photo and followed two official Facebook pages (an author and a TV series). But it seems that is not considered normal by Facebook! I just wanted to let you know. :-)

Hello Ian, this is a very good article. I would like to present another solution. Sidenet.com is a social website for meeting new people, not for dating. It is specifically focused on data privacy - does not collect any secret data, does not reveal activities to other users, no targeted ads, no tracking.

Thank you!

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Hi Ian, great article!

I worked in digital marketing for two years, specializing in social media, so I guess I know my stuff! I love the detail you went into here; you really covered everything! There are a heck of a lot of blogs out there telling people how to jazz up their profile and get involved, but not nearly so many for people who want to sign up but not get directly/publicly involved. You've filled an important gap in the market!

I do have a question, though. Do you have any problem (morally, I suppose!) with Facebook's advertising methods? You mention here that you don't really mind them, but personally I'm a little uneasy about how they gather users' personal information and effectively sell it to advertisers without explicitly telling users that's what they're doing. Do you have any views on this?

Again, great article. You've got yourself a new regular reader!

Joe

Thanks for this Ian, this is quite useful thing to know! I've shared it with my followers!