How to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Settings

Just follow these step-by-step directions to protect yourself.

1. Click the
down arrow on the far right at the top of the page.

2. Click
Settings from the drop-down menu.

3. Click
Security from the menu on the left. Make sure Secure Browsing is enabled.

4. Click
Privacy from the menu on the left.

5. Click
Edit next to "Who can see your future posts?" and set to Friends.

6. Click
Limit Past Posts next to "Limit the audience for posts you've shared with friends of friends or public?". Click Limit Past Posts.

7. Click
Edit next to "Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided" and "Who can look up your timeline by name." Select the setting you want from the drop-down menu.

8. Click
Use Activity Log next to "Review all your posts and things you're tagged in" to look at every piece of content to do with you on Facebook one post at a time.

9. Go
back. Then click Timeline and Tagging from the menu on the left.

10. Click
Edit next to "Who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline". Select Friends, or even Only Me if you really want to lock things down.

11. Click
Edit next to " Who can see what others post on your timeline." Select Friends or even Only Me.

12. Click
Edit next to "Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?" Set the drop down menu to No One to prevent Facebook from auto suggesting you be tagged in photos.

13. Check your work by clicking
View As next to "Review what other people see on your timeline."

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