1. FACEBOOK PRIVACY
SETTINGS, PAGES & GROUPS
OCTOBER 5, 2013
Dinica Quesada, OEA Communications Specialist, quesadad@ohea.org

2. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Manage Your Settings
To view and adjust your privacy settings:
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Click
in the upper-right corner of any Facebook page
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Select Privacy Settings from the dropdown menu
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Click on a setting (ex: Who can see your future posts?) to edit it, or use
the left column to view your other settings

3. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Selecting an Audience
How to choose who sees your posts:
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You'll also find an audience selector tool most places you share
status updates, photos and other stuff.
Remember, when you post to another person's timeline, that
person controls what audience can view the post.

4. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
How to choose who sees your posts:
Selecting an Audience

5. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Selecting an Audience
Using lists to share to a specific group of people:
Close Friends: You can add your best friends to this list to see more of them in
your News Feed and get notified each time they post.
Acquaintances: People on your acquaintances list will rarely show up in your News
Feed. You can also choose to exclude these people when you post something, by
choosing Friends except Acquaintances in the audience selector.
Restricted: This list is for people you’ve added as a friend but just don’t want to
share with, like your boss. When you add someone to your Restricted list, they will
only be able to see your Public content or posts of yours that you tag them in.
You can also create custom lists.
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From your home page, scroll down to the Friends section and click More
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Click Create List
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Enter the names of friends you want to add to this list in the Members
section and click Create

6. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Changing Past Posts
When you share something on your timeline, use the audience selector to choose
who it's shared with. If you want to change who you shared something with after
you post it, return to the audience selector and pick a new audience.
You can also adjust the audience of many posts at once.
Some important notes about this tool:
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If you want to undo this action in the future, you'll need to adjust the
audience of each individual post.
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If you have shared a previous post with a Custom audience such as
Friends except Acquaintances or Close Friends, this tool will not change
the audience for those past posts.
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If you tagged someone in the post, the audience of the post will still
include the person you tagged and people they include in posts they're
tagged in.
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This tool only controls the audience for posts you've shared. If you've
been tagged in someone else's post, they control the audience.

7. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Your Activity Log
To get to your activity log to you review and manage what you share on Facebook:
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Click your privacy shortcuts
select Who can see my stuff?
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Click Use Activity Log.
in the upper-right corner of the page and

8. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Your Tag settings:
Tagging

9. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Tagging
Remove a tag from a photo or post you’re tagged in:
Hover over the story, click and select Report/Remove Tag from the
dropdown menu. You can then choose to remove the tag or ask the person
who posted it to take it down.
You can also remove tags from multiple photos at once, Go to your activity log
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Click Photos in the left-hand column
Select the photos you'd like to remove a tag from
Click Report/Remove Tags at the top of the page
Click Untag Photos to confirm
Remember, when you remove a tag, that tag will no longer appear on
the post or photo, but that post or photo is still visible to the audience
it's shared with other places on Facebook, such as in News Feed
and search.

10. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Tagging
What your friends and others share about you:
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Tags can also be added to stories. Anyone can tag you in anything. Once you are
tagged, you and your friends will be able to see it (such as in News Feed or in
search).
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If you do not want someone to tag you, you have to reach out to them and give
them that feedback. If that does not work, you can block them. This will prevent
them from tagging you going forward. You can also report the post.
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If you are tagged in a comment, only the people who can see the comment can
see the tag.

11. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Sharing
The good news: If a person shares your Friends Only post, only your friends will see
the shared post.
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However, when you comment on or "like" someone else's story, or write on
their timeline, that person gets to select the audience. For example, if a friend
posts a Public story and you comment on it, your comment will be Public.
Often, you can see the audience someone selected for their story before you
post a comment; however, the person who posted the story may later change
their audience.
If you do not want someone to tag you, you have to reach out to them and give
them that feedback. If that does not work, you can block them. This will prevent
them from tagging you going forward. You can also report the post.
If you tag someone, that person and their friends can see your story no matter
what audience you selected. The same is true when you approve a tag someone
else adds to your story.
Comments on Pages are always public.
Always think before you post. Just like anything else you post on the
web or send in an email, information you share on Facebook can be
copied or re-shared by anyone who can see it.

12. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
App Settings

13. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS
Visibility & Notifications

14. FACEBOOK PAGES
Create a Page
1. Click Create Page from the More section at the
bottom right of your homepage
2. Choose a Page category

15. FACEBOOK PAGES
Create a Page
1. Click Create Page from the More section at the bottom right of your
homepage
2. Choose a Page category
3. Choose a subcategory and enter the required information, check the
box next to I agree to Facebook Pages Terms and click Get Started

16. FACEBOOK PAGES
Create a Page

17. FACEBOOK PAGES
Create a Group
1. From your home page, go to the Groups section on the left side menu and click
Create Group. members.

18. 1. From your home page, go to the Groups section on the left side menu and click
FACEBOOK PAGES Create a Group
Create Group.
2. A window will appear, where you'll be able to add a group name, add members
and select the privacy setting for your group. Click Create when you're done.
3. Once the group is created, you'll be taken to the group's page. To get
started, click at the top right of the page and select Edit Group
Settings. From here you can add a group description, tags, set a group
email address, add a group picture and manage members.

19. FACEBOOK RESOURCES
Privacy, Pages and Groups
Facebook Privacy Settings and Tools: http://on.Fb.Me/zikhgx
Pages Basics: http://on.fb.me/16H9UNC
Groups Basics: http://on.fb.me/170acZe
Help Center: https://www.facebook.com/help/
What’s New on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1bwOYY3
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