privacy-settings/Privacy Settings/Facebook.md

# Facebook Privacy Settings

Login to [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com) from browser.

Click dropdown arrow on top right and go to Settings & Privacy > Settings



## General

#### Contact
- Allow friends to include my email address in "Download Your Information": Off
- Remove phone number if added



## Security and login

#### Setting up extra security
- Get alerts about unrecognized logins: select Get Notifications and Get Emails



## Your Facebook information

#### Off-Facebook activity
- Clear history > Clear History
- More Options > Manage Future Activity > Manage Future Activity > Future Off-Facebook Activity > Turn Off



## Privacy

#### Your activity
- Who can see your future posts?: Friends
- Who can see the people, Pages and lists you follow?: Friends

#### How people can find and contact you
- Who can see your friends list?: Friends or Only me
- Who can look you up using the email address you provided?: Only me
- Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?: Only me
- Do you want search engines outside Facebook to link to your profile? > Allow search engines outside of Facebook to link to your Profile > Turn Off



## Profile and tagging

#### Profile
- Who can see what others post on your profile?: Friends

#### Tagging
- Who can see posts that you're tagged in on your profile?: Friends

#### Reviewing
- Review posts that you're tagged in before the post appears on your profile: On
- Review tags that people add to your posts before the tags appear on Facebook?: On



## Location

#### Location History
- Turn on Location History for your mobile devices?: Off



## Apps and websites
Remove anything you don't use



## Ads

#### Advertisers
If any advertisers shown, click Hide Ads

#### Ad topics
Click See Fewer for all of them

#### Ad settings
- Data about your activity from partners > Use Data from Partners: Off
- Categories used to reach you > Turn Off all
- Categories used to reach you > Interest Categories and Other Categories. For both > Remove all (if too many, remove as many as you can, or do it over a period of few days)
- Ads shown off of Facebook > Off
- Social Interactions > Only me



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Remove any personally identifiable info like phone numbers, email, location etc from your Facebook bio.