Make sure only your friends can see your profile on facebook

You wouldn’t just go up to a stranger in the street and start telling them about your life, so why would you want them to see your Facebook profile?

Click on the cog icon that you see in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then click Privacy Settings.

Click Privacy – the third option down in the left hand pane.

You are now in the Privacy Settings and Tools area of Facebook. From here you can control ‘Who can see my stuff?

By editing ‘Who can see your future posts?’ you will be able to choose exactly who gets to see your future updates.

Choose from:

• Public (which obviously means everyone)
• Friends
• Only you
• Custom (which allows you to limit some of your friends from seeing your posts)

Pick what’s best for you, but make sure ‘Public’ isn’t selected. Whatever you choose will then become the default every time you post an update (though you still have the option of selectively changing this for each individual update you post in the future).

If you want to limit old posts that you may have made available to everyone or friends of friends then you can do this individually in the Activity Log, or you can choose to ‘Limit the audience for old posts on your timeline’. This will change everything you’ve ever posted to only be seen by your friends.