How to Make Facebook Photos Private

Facebook is an extremely popular place to share photos with friends and family. Unfortunately, if you don't adjust your privacy settings, you may also be sharing them with the rest of the Internet as well. This simple tutorial will show you how to control who can see your Facebook photos. You can share them with your friends, with your friends' friends, or just with a small group of people. And you can set different permissions on each folder, so that you can share pictures of your office party with co-workers, and pictures of your kids with just your relatives.

1. Your first step is to make sure you're logged into your Facebook account.
2. Click on the "Account" link on the upper right hand side of the page.
3. Click "Privacy Settings" in the drop-down box.

This is a general page for setting your privacy in Facebook. You can choose to allow "Everyone" to see everything about your (and this means everyone), "Friends of Friends" (this is anyone who is a friend of anyone you're a friend with on Facebook - you have no control over who these people are), "Friends Only" and then there are finer controls. For some reason, Facebook recommends that all of your status updates, photos, etc., are viewable to the entire world. For the purpose of making your photos private, click on the "Custom" option, and then click, "Customize Settings."

 

This page is where you customize of your privacy settings. The "Posts by me" setting will be the default for any future photo albums. Set it at the strictest setting possible if you don't want to worry about individual photo albums. This is also a good time adjust the other settings to meet your needs. For example, you may want everyone to be able to see your website for networking purposes, but only friends to see your personal info like Family and Relationships.
Once you've finished editing this page, click on "Edit privacy settings for existing photo albums and videos". This will allow you to edit the settings for any albums you have already created.

Now you can fine tune the settings for each album. You can adjust them so that they are visible to everyone, friends of friends, or just friends. You can also make a custom setting that allows you to block specific people from viewing your photos.
Here are some suggestions for determining who should be able to see your photos:

• If you're afraid of pictures being stolen, set privacy to only friends and use a digital watermark.
• For pictures of nature, buildings and other generic images, consider sharing with everyone unless you're concerned about your copyright.
• For pictures of friends, especially those in public situations, share with friends or friends of friends.
• When posting pictures of children, especially if they aren't your own (please ask permission before posting!), share with just friends.