Article: It's at the top-right corner of Facebook. This expands the menu. It's toward the bottom of the menu. It's near the top of the left column. This opens your Privacy Settings and Tools. Post privacy options are in the "Your Activity" section at the top of the right panel. The posts you share on Facebook will be visible to the audience you select unless you specify otherwise when posting.  Click Edit next to "Who can see your future posts?" Select an audience from the menu below the sample post box. Click Close to save your changes. Click Use Activity Log to see a list of all of your posts, their corresponding privacy settings, and the posts in which you've been tagged. If you want to change the privacy of all of your posts to Friends Only, click Limit Past Posts at the bottom of the "Your Activity" section, and then click the Limit Past Posts button. The bottom section of the right panel contains all of your options for controlling how people can look you up, add you to their friends lists, and send you messages.  Click Edit next to "Who can send you friend requests?" to restrict friend requests from anyone who is not a friend-or-friend. To manage who can see who is on your friends list, click Edit next to "Who can see your friends list?" and select an option from the menu. Click Edit next to "Who can look you up using the email address you provided?" and "Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?" to manage your preferences. Click Edit next to "Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile?" to control whether people can find your Facebook profile by searching your name on Google. It's in the menu that runs along the left side of the page. This is where you can control what appears on your timeline and who can see what you're tagged in. All of your friends can post to your timeline by default.  If you want to be the only one who can post to your timeline, click Edit next to "Who can post on your timeline?" and select Only me. If you just want to restrict posts that contain certain words or phrases, click Edit next to "Hide comments containing certain words from your timeline" instead. To manage whether people can share your posts on in their stories, click Edit next to "Allow others to share your posts to their stories?" If someone tags you in a post or video, it'll be posted to your timeline by default. The "Tagging" and "Review" sections in the right panel allow you to choose what happens when someone tags you in a post or video.  To change who sees the posts you're tagged in on your timeline, click Edit next to "Who can see posts you're tagged in on your timeline?" If you don't want tags to appear on your timeline without your approval, click Edit next to "Review posts you're tagged in before the post appears on your timeline?" If you turn this feature On, you must approve tags before they will appear on your profile. If you have facial recognition enabled, friends who share photos of you will be prompted to tag you in their posts. To manage your preferences for this option, click Face Recognition in the left column. A list of apps and websites that you log into with Facebook appears on this page. You can modify your privacy preferences for each app by clicking View and edit below the app. This option is at the bottom of the left column. Facebook uses your private info to show you relevant ads. This section gives you some control over how that info is used.  Click Your Interests to view and edit the information Facebook has collected about things you like. Click Advertisers and Businesses to hide or unhide ads from businesses who have your contact information.  Click Your Information to manage which of your personal details Facebook can use to show you relevant ads. Click Ad Settings to adjust your preferences for how ads are displayed. Now that you've gone through most of your privacy settings, the last step is to control out which parts of your profile are visible to others. Here's how:  Click the small version of your profile photo in the blue bar at the top of the page. Click About in the row of links below your cover photo. In the "About" section at the top of the page, click through each of the links in the left side of the box (Work and Education, Places You've Lived, etc.) to see which information you've provided Facebook. To adjust who can see each bit of information, hover your cursor over the info until a small icon of a lock, globe, or two overlapping gray heads appears. Click the small icon to bring up the audience options and then make your selection.
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Click the upside-down triangle ▼. Click Settings. Click Privacy. Choose who can see your posts. Manage who can find and contact you on Facebook. Click Timeline and Tagging. Manage your Timeline privacy. Adjust how tags work. Click Apps and Websites to control your data shared with other apps. Click Ads to manage your ad preferences. Control who can view your profile.