You can find yourself wide open, that’s Public, on Facebook with your privacy settings by doing this one simple act. This video gives you a good over view of how you can change your post visibility for you next post. If you are not careful, you may intend to post one way and end up posting another way. We are talking visibility, and not everything do you want to be public.
Now I realize that the video shows an older Facebook, but the methodology is still relevant today. If you set your Privacy to “Friends” and then select “Public” visibility in a post , then your next post visibility will be “Public”. If you don’t watch this, your next intended “Friends” post could end up “Public”. This mistake has been done lots before.
Here’s what I am talking about:
If I set my privacy settings to “Friends” only, and then I make a post and set the visibility to “Public”, I have just changed my next post visibility to “Public”. If I don’t watch how I post next, I could be sharing a post to my friends that is “Public”. This might not be a good thing.
So what have we learned? If you set your privacy settings to “Friends” only, you can change that setting when you change the visibility of a post [See image above]. This simple mistake could cost you big time, especially when you post something that should be seen by your friends only. It could be a picture of your kids for example. It you be you sharing with your police buddies. I can only imagine.
Facebook even warns you in their Privacy Settings Page:
For those of us who need a little help reading the fine print, here it is:
Facebook writes… Who can see your future posts? “You can manage the privacy of things you share by using the audience selector right where you post. This control remembers your selection so future posts will be shared with the same audience unless you change it.”
So please be careful out there with your post visibility and privacy settings. If you have this, good. Be an ambassador for your friends and others who may be struggling on getting this right. The photo you save from going Public all across the internet might just be your own.
So have a great day of business out there.
