There may come a time when you wish to keep some of the moments that you share on Facebook
private, and in that case, you need to know how to make things appear only to you and nobody else.
In this video I'm going to be exploring how to make photos and videos that you post to
Facebook private so that only you can see them and share them with whomever you choose.
So first I need to do is go to my timeline.
In order to do that I'll just click on my name in the top left corner.
I'll then go to my Photos right here and that takes me to all of my photos and videos that I have.
If I wish to make something private, I need to find the photo first.
So let's say that I wanted this picture of my wife and I to be private.
I'll click on this album and then I'll select the photo.
Once I have the photo open, I can go to the Edit button, and that takes me to all of the
information about the photo, and I can then change the visibility of it.
Right now it's Public facing.
If I wish to make his private, I'll click down and I'll go down to Only Me.
Then I'll click Done Editing.
Now this photo is only available to me.
Nobody else will be able to see this photo unless I go back and change the visibility.
I can hit Escape or click the X to close out, and I can do the same thing for my videos.
Let's go back to my timeline, I'll click Photos again, choose Videos, then I'll find the video here.
At the bottom of this video you can see the drop-down menu, and I'll choose Only Me.
So now that little lock icon indicates that I am the only one that's allowed to see this video.
I can go back to my timeline at anytime by clicking on my name, and it takes me back to
my timeline like so.
Another way to change your privacy settings for the media that you post is to go to your
Account Settings.
You can do that from this tab right here, click, and choose Privacy Settings.
We will cover these settings in-depth a little bit later on, but you can see here that you
have several options for how you connect with people, Timeline and Tagging, Ads, Apps, and
Websites, Limit the Audience for Past Posts, and Blocked People and Apps.
So basically, the ones that I'd pay attention to here are Limit the Audience for Past Posts
and Timeline and Tagging.
So, Limiting the Audience for Past Posts.
When you click on this, this actually limits the audience of the old posts that you've already
posted to Facebook.
So if you want every old post that you posted to Facebook to be specific to one group or
completely make it private, you can do that now.
Now it warns you here that if you use this to content that you've shared on your timeline
with Friends of Friends or with the Public, will change to Only Friends.
Basically, this means that anything that you've been public about so far on Facebook is now
going to be limited to only your Friends list.
It tells you that you also have the option to Individually change the audience of your
posts by just going to the post you want to change and choosing a different audience.
So this is the one fell swoop approach.
If you wanted individually go back and change things, you can do so like I showed you earlier in this movie.
In this case, I'm not going to limit my post.
I am just going to click Cancel, but I wanted to show you that option in case you wanted
to go back and do that.
You can also edit the settings for Timeline and Tagging.
So if you're concerned about people tagging in your photographs, you can choose Edit Settings
and you can change any of the settings that are associated with Timeline and Tagging,
especially with photographs.
Now like said, we'll cover this in its own specific movie later on.
I just wanted to point out where it is in this movie.
So if you needed to control that right away, you know where to find it.
I'll click Done, and now I can go back to my timeline by clicking my name in the top right
and it takes me right back.
Anytime you need to change the privacy setting for a photo or video, simply navigate to the
Photo or Video and find the visibility icon, click it, and change it so that you can control
who sees what and when all the time here on Facebook.