![]() If you’re looking for social media help, The Social Ginger is here to be your partner! Set up a FREE discovery call today.Do you use Facebook? Since over 700 million people do, the odds are pretty high that you fall in this category. This blog post was originally published in February 2020. If you’re concerned about who is seeing your posts on Facebook, occasionally check your settings to make sure nothing has changed.įacebook has multiple other privacy settings, but as the New York Times article mentioned earlier says, “Reviewing the privacy settings of everything you have ever put on Facebook is probably best saved for a stormy weekend when you’re stuck at home.” Someone is always watching what you post. If you’re searching for a job, one of the first places human resources departments look for information about you is on social media. If you’re complaining about something, such as work, even your boss who isn’t in your friends list can see your post if your audience is set to Public. Remember that when you post something as “Public,” Facebook really means public. For example, if you have chosen an audience such as “Friends except Acquaintances,” the tool will not change that setting. It’s also important to note that through this second option, Facebook cannot reverse settings on posts with custom audiences that are more strict. Individual post settings would have to be updated individually after changing all posts from their current settings to whatever new setting you have chosen. In this second option, however, you cannot reverse this action. There’s an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide in Facebook’s Help Center. Facebook has an option in its Privacy Settings that will limit your past posts. Good news! You do not have to change each one individually. However now, you want to change their privacy settings. Editing post privacy with the Facebook audience selector function Editing Privacy Settings for Past Postsīut let’s say that post was Public and ALL of your recent posts have been public. This looks similar to when selecting an audience when initially posting, but there are a few small changes. The image below shows the desktop view on the left and the app view on the right. You’ll then see the multiple options to change the audience setting. In the app, click the three little dots in the upper right-hand corner of the post to select “Edit Privacy.” You can change the individual post settings by clicking on the audience selector next to the date or time on the post on the desktop version of Facebook. Fortunately, you can edit the audience setting without having to delete the post and start at the beginning. You weren’t expecting the millions of people in the world with a Facebook account, or others who could find it through a Google search.Ĭheck that post – if it has a “globe” on it next to the time of your post, it’s Public. Chances are, you just wanted your friends and family to see that photo. So let’s go back to that “first day of school” photo. ![]() While Facebook is notoriously ever-changing, the audience selector tool and the lack of a default option has been in place for several years, as noted in this New York Times article in 2014. Whatever your previous post’s audience selection was automatically becomes the audience for all future posts until you change the setting again. Facebook post privacy selector functionįacebook does not offer a default option. The image below shows an example of a desktop view (left) and a view in the Facebook app when selecting your audience. “Friends except” allows you to exclude certain friends while “Specific Friends” will allow you to select which friends to include, or to choose from lists you can create. This gives you several options including Public, Friends, Friends except …, Specific Friends and Only. Adjusting Your Post Privacy Settings with the Audience Selector Who’s Your Audience?Īny time you post to Facebook – whether a cute puppy pic, a news story or a funny meme – you can choose who see that post by using the audience selector. Even if you know how to change that setting back, it’s possible that old posts are still visible to others outside your network. It’s easy on Facebook to change a setting in which suddenly all of your posts are set to “Public” when you didn’t intend for that to happen. When you post a photo to Facebook of your adorable kids on their first day of school, who is seeing that? Everyone with a Facebook account or just your friends?
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