It won’t get rid of them, but it will stop people from finding them through your profile.įacebook’s privacy settings have historically been an absolute nightmare. You should also un-tag yourself from any bad photos. If there’s more than one or two, you can change the privacy on all your past posts quickly or use a Chrome extension to delete them fully. I’ve been using Facebook’s On This Day feature to slowly remove the worst of them but if you’ve got some potentially personal or compromising posts in your history, you should go through and remove them. I know I’ve changed a lot in the last ten years and that there are some very embarrassing posts in my history. Why share personal details with people you don’t know or like? Limit or Delete Your Past Postsįacebook has been around for over a decade. While you can limit your Facebook posts to certain people, if you have no intention of speaking to a person again, it’s pointless to remain friends with them. If you really don’t like them and think they might wish you ill, you should block them too. On the subject of large friends lists, if there are a lot of people you don’t know-or don’t like-on yours, you should go through and unfriend them. Unfriend or Block People You Don’t Know or Like If you wouldn’t tell them where you live or give them your phone number when you see them, you should make sure that you don’t accidentally give it to them on Facebook. While it can feel like you only interact with your closest friends on Facebook, you’re probably also friends with a load of casual acquaintances. A photo outside the front of your house combined with regular check-ins nearby could reveal where you live. For example, a photo of a college acceptance letter could give away things like your address, date of birth, and SSN. It’s easy to let personal information slip out. This one probably goes without saying, but you should consider carefully what you post on Facebook.
It’s also worth noting that you can clean up your Facebook apps on the website there just isn’t a simple wizard like there is in the mobile app. This is how Cambridge Analytica (and many, many other companies) got data from millions of Facebook users, so it’s worth going through and removing any apps you don’t use just in case. To do that, tap the “X” and then tap the “Delete app” button.
You can change who can see your activity in those apps on Facebook and, if you want, delete an app and block it from accessing your data again. I didn’t realize so many of my old email addresses were visible to any of my 1500 friends, so I changed a few of them to Only Me.įinally, you will see a list of all the apps and websites you’ve given permission to access your data. Next, you’ll see a list of all the information on your profile and who it’s currently shared with. For example, if your default is to only share posts with friends, you could still share a particular post publicly if you wanted to. Of course, whatever default you set here, you can override when you make an actual post. First, you select the default setting for who can see your posts when you share them-Public, Friends, Friends Except, and Only Me.
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