Look for the little icon next to the time the post was made. How can you tell whether someone else’s post is public? It’s not easy, especially if you are scrolling fast on a smartphone. In fact, Facebook recently introduced a tool that lets people search the text of public posts and comments, and it is also sharing its feed of public posts to third parties like news sites and broadcasters. If you post a comment or a like on a public post - say, an article shared by a news organization - it can be viewed by anyone, with your name attached to it. That’s logical, but a lot of people don’t understand the implications. One of Facebook’s key principles is that the person who posts a piece of content - status update, photo, video - controls the privacy settings around it. And if you want to make all of your previous posts viewable to friends only, you can do it with one click at on.fb.me/M6IS9m.
If you do make a mistake, you can go back and change the audience of a post retroactively or delete it entirely. That way, I’m unlikely to post something personal in a hurry and then realize that I shared it publicly. My own rule of thumb is to keep the audience setting at Friends. So if you choose an audience of Public to share your enthusiasm during the Super Bowl on Sunday, make sure to change it back to Friends or something more restrictive before putting up your daughter’s birthday pictures. That’s because whatever audience you choose for a post automatically becomes the audience for all future posts until you change the setting again.
While this is powerful, it’s also tricky because Facebook makes it easy to accidentally overshare. You can even include or exclude specific people. If you set it to “only me,” no one but you can see it.
#Facebook timeline photo privacy tv#
The “Friends” setting is what you will probably use most of the time.īut if you set it to “Public,” everyone on the web can see it - something you might want to do if you want to publicize your work or give a shout-out to your favorite TV show.
0 kommentar(er)
