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Personal Profile Timeline on Facebook - Adjust Your Privacy Settings

1/2/2012

I recently changed my personal Facebook Profile over to the new Timeline feature, and while I love the appearance of this new format, I decided to check on my Privacy settings. I have always have custom settings for my personal privacy, and while checking on this, I discovered that some previous posts that I had made back in 2007 & 2008 were now viewable to anyone who happenned to click on my profile. After going through and deleting these posts, I discovered this new option which eliminates making these changes individually.

Under Privacy Settings, click on Custom, then go down the page to "Limit the audience for past posts". By clicking on this setting, it will manage your past post visibility and limit unwanted lookers to your page.
I also note that the new cover image that you can upload for your new timeline, will also be on show and unable to be hidden from prying eyes. I strongly suggest making this picture neutral, not one of your children/family or any pictures you wouldn't want strangers viewing. I have seen some gorgeous beach cover backdrops, the options are endless!

7 Comments

Lorraine Salvi link

2/3/2012 04:11:15 am

Hi Judi,

It is interesting to note the changes. I am yet to convert to the new pages layout and am trying to understand how it will affect us.

Kind Regards,

Lorraine Salvi

Judi link

4/3/2012 07:31:16 am

Hi Lorraine,
Thanks for your comment. The new timeline for pages will certainly take a bit to get used to, but I think there are some real positives with this new layout. I have done a couple of posts re this so far, but am in the process of writting others re different features available on the new layouts. If you need any further information, don't hesitate to contact me at Blue Bird Internet Marketing. Thanks again for posting!

Kind Regards

Judi.

Kellie @ Mum PR link

4/3/2012 05:37:59 am

It's one thing that has been missed by many people. Lots of people who had privacy settings in place before are still oblivious to the fact their profiles are now public. A bit scary, really.
Great post, Judi! :)

Judi @ BlueBird IM link

4/3/2012 07:33:47 am

Hi Kellie, You are so right re the privacy changes! A lot of the ways to hide your information are very hidden! I have more posts to come on this topic to help others with their privacy settings. It is a bit of a worry, when most thought their information was private, prior to the change to personal timeline that is! Thanks for posting.

Kind Regards

Judi
Blue Bird Internet Marketing

Alli Price link

10/3/2012 12:21:11 pm

Just more stuff to learn from Facebook! I swear I have spent more time this year learning about FB than anything else - and then they go and change it again!

11/3/2012 11:43:14 pm

I know, they like to keep us on our toes! There are always constant changes. In the last year there has been some major changes for Pages, and i'm sure there will be more to come!

Chris Crowe link

12/3/2012 09:11:08 am

Great post! Thanks for that info - I love the new timeline but didn't realise that about old posts.

I'm off to check my settings now :)
Chris

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Personal Profile Timeline on Facebook - Adjust Your Privacy Settings

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