How to make Your Facebook Profile Private?

I'm going to show you how to make your facebook profile private.

I don't want to use the term 100% private here because facebook doesn't allow you to do so.

Click on this little drop down arrow at the top and go to settings

From the left hand navigation click on Privacy

facebook has divided privacy into three parts

Let's deal with the first who can see your future posts?

Under who can see my stuff?

Click on edit

click on this drop down

You can choose friends or only me depending upon the level of privacy you need for who

can see your future posts.

I'm clicking on friends

Close this

Go to limit the audience for posts you have shared with friends of friends or public

Click on limit past posts

Limit old posts

Read this - you are about to limit old posts on your timeline without reviewing them. Note

this global change can't be undone in one click.

This is important

If you change your mind later you'll need to change the audience for each of these posts

at a time

You should know that

Click on confirm

There are 2-3 more important things you should note while you click on this option

People who are tagged and their friends may see these posts even after changing the privacy

settings

Another important thing is if you have used custom audience in your posts then this setting

does not impact such posts

Click on confirm

close

Ok

Let's now move to who can contact me?

Who can send you friends requests?

Change this from everyone to friends of friends

beyond this you will to individually block the one that you don't want

Close

Who can look you up using the email address you provided?

Click on edit

change this to friends

Close

Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?

Click on edit

Change this option from everyone to friends

That's the max you can do.

Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline?

Which you don't want

Let other search engines link to your timeline

uncheck this box

confirm

and close this box

So, you are done with the privacy part

Let's now go to timeline and tagging

Who can see things to my timeline

Who can post on your timeline

Edit this

and make it only me

If you want to review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline

edit this option and enable this

close

Who can see things on my timeline?

You can leave this

Who can see posts you've been tagged in your timeline?

You can either keep it at friends or only me depending upon the kind of privacy you

need for this particular question.

Close

Who can see what other post on your timeline?

You can edit this and again choose the option that you wish to choose

Only me

close

these three points are with the regard to tagging that people do

It doesn't impact your facebook profile

I'm ignoring these

You can still go and explore them

Next go to public posts

Look at the first option who can follow me

You can change this option if it's on everybody

you can make it friends

then go to apps

if you use facebook login for other social media they will appear here

click on them

go to this option and choose only me

save it

Pinterest

Choose

Select only me

save

Older version of facebook for mobile

this setting control the privacy of things you post using facebook mobile apps

that do not have the inline audience selector

such as outdated version of facebook for blackberry

select only me

and move on

let's now go and edit who can see your friends list

Click on your name at the top

click on friends

Click on this little edit pencil next to find friends button

Edit privacy

Who can see your friends list

Click on only me

So only you will be able to see your friends list

You can also go and edit this option

and set it to only me

which means the people or the companies that you are following only you can see

Close

Let me now show you how to hide your personal information

Click on about

Click on contact and basic info

Birth date

You can hide

set it to only me

Year of birth also you can hide

Save changes

You can't hide gender

similarly you can go to other options and hide whatever you want to hide.

Let's now make the facebook profile picture unclickable

Click on your facebook profile picture

Click on this globe shape icon

select only me

So this makes your facebook profile picture unclickable

Let me now show you how to make your photos private

Click on photos

Click on albums

Can you see this globe shaped icon next to the album name

Click on it

and choose the only me option

go the next album

choose only me option

these are timeline photos you can't make them private by clicking here

Click on the photo

Click on the photograph

Click on this drop down option and edit post privacy

The privacy of the complete post in which this photograph was there will get private

Click on this and choose only me

Similarly you can change the privacy settings of all your timeline photographs individually.

Let me now show you how to delete the add friend button so that people who don't know

you can't send the friend request.

Click on this locked shape icon

Go to who can contact me

Who can send me friend request

it's currently set to everyone

make it friends of friends

so people who don't know you can't send the friend request

Let me show you how to check that out.

Click on your name

Click on these three dotted lines next to view activity log

Click on view as

So, there is no add friend button here

This is how your profile will appear to someone who doesn't know you.

This is what your timeline looks like to be in public

Cancel this

That was all about making your facebook profile private.

Facebook doesn't allow you to hide your cover photo or your picture from others

So you can't make them private

If you wish to delete your facebook account permanently, or you want to deactivate it

for temporary period