The 10 Facebook Privacy Settings You Need To Know

And how to change them.

Rio Weber
riow
2 min readOct 8, 2020

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1. Face Recognition

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec
  • Turn off Facial Recognition!

2. Remove Yourself From Google

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy
  • Prevent search engines from finding your profile.

3. Location History

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=location
  • Turn location tracking “Off”.

4. Off-Facebook Activity

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity
  • Facebook tracks you ALL over the internet. Clear it.

5. Review posts you’re tagged in before the post appears on your timeline?

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=timeline&section=timeline_review&view

6. Who can see posts you’re tagged in on your timeline?

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=timeline&section=tagging&view
  • Set who can see photos you’re tagged in after you approve them.

7. How People Find and Contact You

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy
  • Who can see your friends?
  • Who can find you using your email address?
  • Who can find you using your phone number?

8. Your Ad Preferences

9. Your Interests

  • Click the “Remove” button on every item listed.

10. Ad Settings

  • Not allowed
  • Not allowed
  • No One

10.5. Ad Topics

  • You can control what topics to less of by clicking the “See Fewer” of.

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