There has never been a better time to tweak your Facebook privacy settings
Facebook and privacy are not words you tend to find together in the same sentence -- at least not in a positive sense. Just a few days ago, the social network announced that all public posts were to be made searchable -- although it wasn't really billed as such.
You might not be entirely happy with this. While you may now be careful that you only share posts with your friends, a huge number of historic posts have now been made searchable. If you'd prefer to keep your content private, now is the time to act.
In fact, there are a couple of things you need to do -- limit the audience that can access everything you post from this point forward, and limit the audience that can access your past posts. Quite why this could not be covered by a single setting is anyone's guess, but that's just the way it is. Here's what you need to do.
- Fire up your web browser and pay a visit to Facebook.
- Click the padlock symbol in the blue bar at the top of the page, and then click Who can see my stuff?
- From the dropdown menu labelled Who can see my future posts?, select Friends -- or anything other than Public.
- Now click the See More Settings link at the bottom of the Privacy Shortcuts menu.
- Click Limit Past Posts and you can restrict all of your past posts so they can only be seen by people on your friend list.
- Click the Limit Old Post button followed by Confirm, and you're done.
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