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How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Peter L - 03-12-2011
Tired of people seeing your wall, friends, images, or status updates? This will solve it for you. Facebook makes it pretty hard to make your profile 100% private (they've been working on it) so here's a quick tutorial on making it totally private.
Why is this helpful? For example I posted on my wall "heroin is life" and had to get a drug test for heroin. I also took a picture of what someone wrote in a stall of the bathroom and put it on Facebook. I got suspended and blamed. And what most of you fear most; social life being ruined and dox. This will make it so only friends can see your stuff.
Let's begin:
1. First click Account and then Privacy Settings
![[Image: a5e7a4609795791180fd6b97b14ebb31.png]](http://gyazo.com/a5e7a4609795791180fd6b97b14ebb31.png)
These are my privacy settings:
Spoiler (Click to View)
![[Image: 1fbb8f95b4c09eb38431723671aa7f63.png]](http://gyazo.com/1fbb8f95b4c09eb38431723671aa7f63.png)
2. Where it says "Connecting on Facebook" click on view Settings. Make it these settings or something similar:
![[Image: 7bc0b1277abec6f1ef0a325dbcf61f27.png]](http://gyazo.com/7bc0b1277abec6f1ef0a325dbcf61f27.png)
3. Next click Customize settings under "Sharing on Facebook"
3a. Under "Things I share" put these settings
![[Image: 4504c4b6f89080ee46a3968ac9beb881.png]](http://gyazo.com/4504c4b6f89080ee46a3968ac9beb881.png)
3b. Under "Things others share" put these settings
![[Image: 5ba16cc965d9a1f1c81fa6b041f5871e.png]](http://gyazo.com/5ba16cc965d9a1f1c81fa6b041f5871e.png)
But click Edit settings on "Photos and videos I'm tagged in" and make sure it says "Friends Only"
3c. Under "Contact Information" put these settings:
![[Image: cf79961a5a306159ecc02b632f2d00da.png]](http://gyazo.com/cf79961a5a306159ecc02b632f2d00da.png)
To make it say "Only me" click the arrow and click "Customize" and you'll have another choice.
I hope this helped some people beat online privacy!
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Bullet Proof - 03-12-2011
Those are same settings as mine, nice tutorial.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Codad Law - 03-12-2011
Very nice tut, Laugh. I personally won't use this, but it is a well made tut and will help a lot of people.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Eve - 03-13-2011
Good tutorial for the privacy-conscious. It is also worthwhile to check for any new settings or options at each Facebook upgrade.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Fragma - 03-13-2011
Kind of common sense. I think Facebook make it quite easy to make your profile private to be honest.
I use the same settings as you've showed, only I also make it so that people can't search for me.
If somebody want's to add me a friend, they will have to either ask me to add them, or, they'll have to be a friend of a friend of mine.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Peter L - 03-13-2011
(03-13-2011, 08:37 AM)Fragma Wrote: Kind of common sense. I think Facebook make it quite easy to make your profile private to be honest.
I use the same settings as you've showed, only I also make it so that people can't search for me.
If somebody want's to add me a friend, they will have to either ask me to add them, or, they'll have to be a friend of a friend of mine.
Well when I wrote this tutorial it was VERY hard to make everything 100% private. It is a lot easier now, though.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - Eve - 03-13-2011
(03-13-2011, 08:37 AM)Fragma Wrote: Kind of common sense. I think Facebook make it quite easy to make your profile private to be honest.
Profiles are not private by default, and I think many users are unaware or unfamiliar with the options.
(03-13-2011, 08:37 AM)Fragma Wrote: I use the same settings as you've showed, only I also make it so that people can't search for me.
If somebody want's to add me a friend, they will have to either ask me to add them, or, they'll have to be a friend of a friend of mine.
That reminds me: users have the option of opting out from search engines results. It is on a separate page.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - HCrew - 04-13-2011
nice tut man..
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - AceInfinity - 04-13-2011
To add onto this, facebook will revert your privacy settings sometimes upon updates, so you may not notice that they have changed.
RE: How to Make Your Facebook Profile 100% Private - phybeЯ - 04-15-2011
Thanks for the tutorial, this is pretty useful.