For example, maybe you maintain a public façade of a professional, but you like to party on the weekends and on spring break. This is potentially more useful than the third option below, because it allows you to control your posts on a post-by-post basis. These are not actual Facebook Groups – for posts to be visible to people in your groups, you need to make the post in the group, or have your post visible to the public, or be friends with the person involved. The options for your post include Public, Friends, Friends Except, Specific Friends, Only Me, Custom, and organizational groups that Facebook uses in the background. Keep in mind that they both have different privacy settings, though Stories are by default set to friends only. The News Feed is typically default, but you might have Your Story checked instead or in addition. When you click to make a new post – in the “what’s on your mind” box at the top of your feed – you can write your post, and there’s a drop-down for where you’re publishing the post. You are able to control who can see a post you make when you make it. You will still have to make sure you’ve found the right user, but it’s easier than going to their profile directly if they have something offensive on their cover photo or what have you. You can also go to the settings menu for blocking, found here, and type in the name of a user to block. If they’ve been harassing you or are otherwise worth reporting to Facebook, do that first. They will have an options drop-down below their cover photo, which you can use to block them. As for blocking people, you need to go to the profile of the person you want to block. Skip to option 2 to set up profile privacy. This is a profile-only feature, you can’t do it as a Page, that option was killed off nearly a decade ago. Therefore, you need to set your privacy settings to hide anything from non-friends. However, if that user logs out or creates a secondary Facebook profile, they will be able to see the post.
Even if they are given a direct link, it will simply appear as though the link is broken. They can’t see your posts, and you can’t see theirs, regardless of how the post is shared to them.
This is, however, only part of a comprehensive solution.īlocking someone prevents that person from seeing posts you make, as well as comments you leave on other posts. The first option you have is simply to block people who you don’t want to see your posts. I’m going to dig into both types of profile and show you five different ways, depending on your situation, that you can pick and choose who can see your posts.
Everyone else, using personal profiles, has a few more options. Businesses aren’t allowed to discriminate they make public posts, or they make targeted ads. Now, since my usual audience is thinking about Facebook from a business perspective, I do have to say that there are far fewer ways to restrict visibility of Facebook posts for businesses than there are for personal profiles. There are any number of reasons why you might want to restrict who can see the posts you make, either sharing only to certain people, or restricting certain people. Abusive people can stalk your profile, which can lead to anything from online harassment to assault.Employers can see employees express opinions they don’t agree with and fire you.Employers can see behavior that reflects poorly on their company and fire you.Burglars who know their targets can use Facebook posts to see when residents are out of the home, to use that opportunity to break in.While this doesn’t impact most people, some people find privacy issues to be primary concern. It’s also a massive collection of personal information of all kinds. Facebook is a highly visible platform used by billions of people every month.
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